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Christmas Tale

Loew's State Theatre - Providence (Rhode Island) 1955

was the December 8, 1974, in Providence (USA ) in the State of Rhode Island from parts of Boston, was the "Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" now.

That day it snowed so much when, in the afternoon, the snow turned into rain. It rained on the stage, some cracks in the ceiling because it was so stretched out of the roadies on large sheets of cellophane and instruments on stage.
But would not stop raining, and the concert was to begin.

Peter Gabriel, nervous because of the unexpected, was seen walking up and down the hall of the theater all the time smoking cigarettes. In the end it was raining right on center stage, just above his head, with puddles of water everywhere!

Outside Palace Theatre (now called Providence Performing Arts Center, but even before it was called Loew's State Theatre in the '80s and Ocean State Theatre) had gathered nearly two hundred people urged to enter, and also to combat the bitter cold.

front of the theater was (and still is) a kiosk chain Dunkin Donuts, a shop specializing in pastries and coffee.

Peter and the other guys in the band went to that kiosk and ordered 30 200 liters of coffee and sweets and began to distribute to the public that was beginning to enter the lobby of the theater. It was a way to entertain them.
But the show could not start, it was still raining on stage and maybe the concert would never have started.
When around 22 people began to raise the sheets of cellophane and instruments from the stage: the rain had stopped.

"... And The Lamb Lies Down ...." ....

original ticket - Courtesy by Rhode-Island-Rocks-Net

Original poster - Courtesy by Rhode-Island-Rocks-Net

Donuts

The Loew's State Theatre in Providence has been reborn as "Providence Performing Arts Center " means a structure for a variety of live events. But the opening of the Loew's moves in the '20s, exactly October 6, 1928. Downcity In his book of 1950, Carmen Maiocco is a summary of the troubled history of Loew's State Theatre. "To understand the history of Loew's State Theatre, now Providence Performing Arts Center, the number of 220 Weybosset Street , you have to go back to the first decade of the twentieth century, one of the magnates of the era of cinema try's, Marcus Loew . Loew began in 1905 putting up a small screening room. Soon after he began to buy other cinemas, even decidedly bleak, and at the end of World War I. We find that controls about 60 rooms of silent cinema. Not satisfied with the films prioettare makes up her mind that they also want to produce. In the early '20s, Marcus Loew purchased two companies in difficulty, Picture Company and Metro Goldwyn Picture Company, is a merger and assumes a man named Louis B. Mayer to oversee the implementation of the films, and so was born the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , the MGM . By marking his MGM films are screened in almost all the rooms in the U.S., from coast to coast. Meanwhile, Theatres Loew's became one of the largest cinema chain, with over 300 locations. In the mid-'20s , the company decided to build a Loew's Grand Theater in Providence on Weybosset Street. On the day of 'openness, October 6, 1928, over 14,000 people come into the theater to see the building and the ex-Renaissance opulence of the interior, and can attend a screening of the film " Excess Baggage (Excess Baggage) "by William Haines. The Expectations are taken to their seat from 50 stewart in uniform, while in the lobby with huge cages filled with parrots Brazilian noise corridors. Over the next 40 years the Loew's State Theater, with its capacity of 3,200 seats, was the main building of the Cinema in Providence. "

(...)

We jump forward a few decades and here we are at 1970 and things do not seem to go very well for the Loew's Theatre. The theater was hit by a potentially deadly disease. empty seats.

And the jackals business were attentive to the fate of the Loew's.

A businessman of Italian origin ( note: in the state of Rhode Island, which is located a short distance from New York, the community of Italian immigrants was large and very well to the social fabric aggregate), a BA Dario buy the Loew's Theatre in 1971 and he and his family specialize the room (they call Palace Theatre), for some years, as arena for boxing matches and shows rock music. Of course, the theater needs maintenance, ordinary and extraordinary ( the roof of the theater has cracks in several places ) Dario but BA does not spend a single dollar for maintenance. But something did not work, nor the boxing nor rock music and in the mid 70s Dario announces its intention to demolish the building. (Another historic theater, the RKO Albee site Westminster Street was demolished in 1970 shortly after Mr. Dario bought it).

It is said that the wife of Darius, Sylvia, her husband heard the plans for the demolition of the theater, both burst into tears. Those tears have marked the beginning of the salvation of one of the most attractive properties in Providence. Thank you, Dario.

In 1977 Loew Dario sold to a consortium of entrepreneurs ( Outlet Company) led by Bruce Sundlun . The group, aided by the city and Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci Jr. , has renovated the building, and universal acclaim has re open on the evening of October 6, 1978 , exactly fifty years after the inauguration . Thousands have also filled the aisles to hear the singer-actress Ethel Merman . Since then, the Providence Performing Arts Center has enriched the community of Providence much more than words can say.