Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre
99 Monmouth Street,
Red Bank,
NJ
07701
99 Monmouth Street,
Red Bank,
NJ
07701
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Todays Star Ledger had a full page story with a great shot of the auditorium, and about events leading up to this friday’s re-opening.
The theatre is looking great. Its amazing what they did in a little over 3 months.
Great stuff. I would have bought the theater to be there that night.
E Street minus one. RIP Danny Federici.
Anybody want to loan me 2K for a ticket?
Bruce Springsteen will be playing a benefit concert tonight in support of the upcoming 4 month renovation project at the theater:
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Boy, that brand spanking new print of “The Big Lebowski” looked great last night. I was the first to project it, in good old 35MM, I might add (the way it SHOULD be). And the intro by “The Dude” whom the movie was loosely based on was also great. What a fun night. And the sound was awesome.
Hi, “Legal”. Please re-write your posts so that we may understand you better. Thanks.
Again, it appears that the current series (none of us are talking about anything else) at Count Basie is completely licensed and correct. If they have booked their theatrical showings through the studios – since these are shows where they are charging admission, that would be the correct procedure – they do not need your “Umbrella License” service.
Ah, I meant “plague”
Legal, you answered my question by failing to identify yourself and continuing to write in such a fashion that nobody can understand. Merely because you can plaque a theater page from a community theater does not mean you should do so.
True Peter. By the way, how is Nelson, and how are your festivals up in the Layfayette going? Great I hope. Now if someday, I can figure out a way to get the owners of the Ritz in Elizabeth, N.J. to do something, there would be another Cinema Treasure showing ‘movies the way they were meant to be’.
Perhaps “Legal” doesn’t realize that most of the major studios (Warner, Paramount, Fox, & Sony; I don’t know about Universal) have recently been granting theatrical booking contracts that allows the exhibition of a DVD to the public in repertory situations.
This is the part of the above comment that sounds like babble:
This venue has been in violation of wrongful advertisment of product as non-profit organization exhibition conflict ad pages Two Rivers Times.flyers/etc in 1992.
Ah, I meant to ask “If you are not involved in an official capacity….”
“Legal” what on earth???
I don’t understand your 1st sentence and those movie titles. 1992? Are those films shown at this theater?
Are you legal counsel or representative for an entity involved? If so, can you please state YOUR name and position?
If you involved in an official capacity, who are you to state who’s in violation of what?
And, if you are, this website might not be the appropriate forum for such posts.
I’m not involved in any way as an attorney at law in this matter.
I ran “Wizard of Oz” today in 35MM, to a crowd of almost 1400. What a great day it was to see this great old palace filled up with people watching an all time great movie. Give me this anytime over what the future will be…digital projection, or big screen T.V. at your local cinema.
Bruce played the Carlton on 8/14/74. It’s the last show on the page. I think Clarence Clemons is from Red Bank. He used to have a band called the Red Bank Rockers.
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Upcoming Movie Festival statrs Tuesday Feb 27, 2008. Most will be 35MM, some will be DVD.
Feb 27 5:00 P.M. Casablanca
March 2 2:00 P.M. Wizard of Oz
March 27 7:30 P.M. Godfather (1972)
April 8 7:30 P.M. Unforgiven
April 17 8:00 P.M. Breakfast at Tiffany's
April 20 2:00 P.M. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
May 4 2:00 P.M. Singin in the Rain
May 4 7:00 P.M. Woodstock
May 6 7:30 P.M. Ray
From what I understand, the movies are being presented Free.
I know that the theater showed movies into the 1980’s. I think the last one I saw there was “Romancing the Stone” with Michael Douglas & Kathleen Turner (and a young Danny DeVito).
In July of 2006, I saw a concert by Dion at the Count Basie. That day it was a record 100 or 101 degrees, and when we got to the theater, a large crowd was outside – the AC was on the blink, working at about 25% of normal. They offered for everyone to watch the opening act & see how it (the temp, not the act) was, and you could get a refund anytime up until 9PM. I was in the balcony near the A/C outlet so it was tolerable. The people in the orchestra were much warmer. It turned out most people stayed for the whole show.
I saw Count Basie and his orchestra at the theater a week before he died. I briefly met him after the show. He was great! The theater used to have a large chandelier which fell down one night when the theater was empty. During the 1950’s, the lobby had a large Dumont TV built into the wall. I found the TV in an unused room in the 1980’s. During the 1920’s the ticket booth was out in the sidewalk.
Listed as part of Music Makers Theatres, Inc. in the 1976 International Motion Picture Almanac.
Just noticed that on TC’s Smithsonian photo above, it has the name ‘State’ on the facade. This was the projected name of the theatre, then it was changed to Red Bank Theatre and it was promised that the name ‘State’ on the facade would be removed. Red Bank was then dropped in favour of Carlton and it opened as the Carlton Theatre, but obviously they never got round to removing the ‘State’ name.
Here is a nice night photo:
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In case anyone is interested, I found this photo of the restroom:
http://www.artisannj.com/work_countbasie.html
Old program from July 22, 1927:
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