Showcase Cinemas Orange

100 Marsh Hill Road,
Orange, CT 06477

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shoeshoe14
shoeshoe14 on November 1, 2007 at 3:23 pm

According to the Milford/Orange City Directory, the Orange 1-2-3 opened under General Cinema in 1966, then became 1-2-3-4-5 in 1975 and became Showcase, then 6 screens in 1980 and 7 in 1983.

ArchStanton007
ArchStanton007 on March 9, 2007 at 11:54 am

And General Cinema only had 4 theaters in the entire state of Connecticut ???

Roger Katz
Roger Katz on March 4, 2007 at 2:12 am

There was a Showcase Cinemas in Derby?!?!?

ArchStanton007
ArchStanton007 on February 27, 2007 at 5:30 am

There is a nice artist rendering of the original triplex at www.fromscripttodvd.com Then click on the list of NY theaters with 70mm. That site also claims this was the most expensive theater ever built in Connecticut back then.

The Cinema 1,2, 3 letters look identical to those used by General Cinema back then.

Appears to have been a superior quality triplex in it’s day…

mcintyro
mcintyro on February 9, 2007 at 4:45 pm

The theatre moved across the street or I-95 because Bayer wanted to move there in it’s place.

mcintyro
mcintyro on February 9, 2007 at 4:45 pm

The theatre moved across the street or I-95 because Bayer wanted to move there in it’s place.

mdmjcc2
mdmjcc2 on June 5, 2006 at 6:29 am

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHEN THE NEW COMPLEX AT 100 MARSH HILL ROAD OPENED?

mdmjcc2
mdmjcc2 on May 31, 2006 at 4:46 am

when did this Triplex close?

mcintyro
mcintyro on September 22, 2005 at 10:16 am

Remember this theater from the early 70’s. It was like movie heaven. Each of the three had a thousand seats. Opened in 1969. Bill was 1) Krakatoa east of java, 2) Lion in Winter 3) Funny Girl. At the time, Orange was not built up with stores or malls, so you had this big theatre complex in the middle of nowhere, but it was quite modern and beautiful â€" think movie heaven. It was one of the first of it’s kind, and showed first rate, first run entertainment like all the road show movies, even though they were of a dying breed.

I remember that during the summer of 1969 they showed, at the same time: Patton, Airport, and Mash. Separately of course. At the time they were big money makers.

In 1973/1974, one of the three was gutted into two, so it became showcase 4. In the summer of 1974, they utilized some of the oversized lobby space and made a fifth theatre, but it was too damn small, almost the size of a giant screen television or one of the mini Criterion theaters in Manhattan.

Around Christmas of 1974, they had all the big disaster films at this theatre before they hit second run houses. The gutted first theater showed Earthquake in one and Airport 75 in the other, the next big theatre showed Godfather Part II, the next big theater showed Towering Inferno, and the small mini showed The Man With The Golden Gun.

joemasher
joemasher on July 30, 2005 at 8:20 am

Yes, it’s a totally different building. The triplex was on the other side of I-95, and was demolished. The property is now part of the Bayer plant.

Roger Katz
Roger Katz on July 29, 2005 at 2:35 am

So this is not thew original triplex building added onto and carved up? It’s a totally different building?

joemasher
joemasher on July 29, 2005 at 1:09 am

This building replaced a triplex that was located on the opposite side of I-95.