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Somerville Theatre Tickets Information
Somerville Theatre
Somerville Theatre is a fabulous movie theatre and concert venue in Davis Square, located just outside of Boston, Massachusetts, in the small suburb of Somerville in the United States of America and has a lot of populairyt in the area owing to its vicinity to Tufts University and the low ticket prices. It has hosted many significant concerts in the past, together with the first of the two Last Dispatch concerts, and two extraordinary shows by Bruce Springsteen in 2003. Commonly recognized for running second-run movies at lesser prices, the theatre has of late been showing first run movies at the same time as preserving a ticket price in the range of $5 - $7. Bands that have played at the Somerville theatre lately embrace Cursive, Norah Jones, Joan Baez, and the John Butler Trio.
According to the official website, The Somerville Theatre and the Hobbs Building were built in 1914 by Joseph Hobbs and designed by the architectural firm of Funk & Wilcox of Boston. Designed for stage shows, vaudeville, opera, and that new fad, motion pictures, the theatre was only one of the tourist attractions of the Hobbs Building, which also enclosed a basement café, basement bowling alley and billiards hall, the theater lobbies and ten storefronts on the ground floor, and the Hobbs Crystal Ballroom, a 700 person dance hall, situated on the second floor. The second and third floors also comprised of office space for rent. In 1915, the Somerville Theatre Players instigated their stock company presentation of weekly play performances. Along with the noteworthy players who came up at the Somerville were Tallulah Bankhead, Kay Corbett, and Francis X. Bushman. Future film director Busby Berkeley who was famous for "42nd Street" and other stylized musicals of the 1930's, directed many shows at the Somerville in the mid 1920's.
In 1926, the Hobbs family rented and consequently sold the theatre to Arthur F. Viano, whose family built and possessed other area theatres such as the Teele Square Theatre, the Broadway Theatre in East Somerville, and the Regent Theatre in Arlington. The Vianos sustained the stock theatre company until, in 1932, the callous economics of the Depression forced them into a 'movies only' policy. All through the 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's, the Somerville lingered as the chief locality movie house. In those days, new films would open at the downtown theatres like the RKO Keiths – currently, the Opera House - the Paramount, the Metropolitan – presently, the Wang Theatre, and the Loew's Orpheum – currently, a concert hall. After playing downtown, the pictures made their way, week by week, often two and three per week, to the neighborhood houses like the Somerville Theatre. Like all Viano Theatres, the Somerville was renowned for fresh popcorn, and also for attention-grabbers like the prize nights. These gift nights commenced in the depression and lasted at the Somerville until the 1970’s. These were certain nights, generally weekdays, where dishware, appliances, and other merchandise was given away to persuade patrons to attend the show. Progressively the Viano family came to operate the Capitol Theatre in Arlington as well, and by the 1970's, the Somerville, Capitol, Regent, and Broadway theatres were foundations of local movie-going. The inauguration of the Sacks Assembly Square Cinema helped to eradicate the Broadway Theatre, and the Fresh Pond Drive-In became a cinema complex, compelling the Cambridge-Somerville-Arlington neighborhood theatres to become strictly second run venues.
In 1982, The Viano family leased the Somerville to Garen Daly, and he turned the theatre into a repertory house, running double features and daily changes, providing independent and unusual fare in the days before video and DVD made it easy to track down such titles. Daly also brought back live performances to the stage for the first time from the time when in the 30's he began programming concerts to harmonize the film programs. During this period, the Hobbs Building was acquired by Chatham Light Realty, whose owners, the Fraiman family, had previously bought and operated the Capitol Theatre in Arlington. In 1989, when Garen Daly’s lease ended, the Fraimans decided to run the Somerville themselves, closing the venue for a chain of necessary renovations. Some in the community were anxious that the original theatre would be subdivided into smaller cinemas, and formed an advanced group to avert such an incidence, but as the owners had never in reality made that decision, the theater was conserved, and reopened in 1990, looking better than ever, and preserving its single screen charm.
On the other hand, Movie attendance had dropped significantly, and a plan had to be developed to keep the theatre competitive. The remainder of the Hobbs Building, with the exemption of a couple of storefronts and the theatre, had been neglected ever since the early 80's. In 1996, renovations instigated extensively. The bowling alleys in the basement and a portion of the first floor retail space were gutted to create modern bathrooms and two new auditoriums. Two more screens were built in the former ballroom space on the second floor. An elevator was mounted in, new windows and a bright elegant exhibition area were added, and the third and second floors became new and modern office space for lease. The theatre lobby was extended by taking over a contiguous storefront, and new comfortable seats were installed in the orchestra seating of the original auditorium. In 2006 further renovations took place and restored the original auditorium interior to a more traditionally precise theme and color scheme while improvements to the stage like new curtains, rigging, and movie screen were also completed.
Nowadays, run by F.E.I. Theatres, the Somerville Theatre continues to amuse public with five screens of second run films and regular music and stage performances. It makes efforts to contend with the giant chain theaters and the local charitable art-houses, remaining, with its sister theatre, the Capitol, among the last of the neighborhood theatres that aren't a charity. It still provides a reasonably priced ticket, lower food prices, fresher popcorn and a funky charm that bigger theaters cannot proffer.
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