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Classic Cinemas was founded in 1978 by Willis and Shirley Johnson, when after the previous operators of the Tivoli Theater, located in the Tivoli building owned by the Johnsons abandoned the theater, they decided to step in and run the theater themselves after they were unable to find another operator. [2]
The Woodstock Playhouse is an American summer stock theater located at 103 Mill Hill Road in Woodstock, New York.Founded in 1938, the not-for profit theater, which is owned by the Pan American Dance Foundation, hosts theatre, music and other presentations throughout the year.
Built in 1926 as a Paramount Pictures movie palace, the Tampa Theatre showed many different kinds of movies in its life, from studio new releases to B movies, before closing in 1973. Local movie ...
When Willis Johnson got into the movie theater business, “old downtown theaters were out of favor,” remembered son Chris Johnson on Friday. The mall was king, and shoebox multiplexes of zero ...
On August 13, 2006, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performed before 16,000 fans at the new center, 37 years after their historic performance at Woodstock. For their encore, they performed the song "Woodstock". The on-site museum, exploring the 1969 Woodstock festival and the culture of the 1960s, opened in June 2008.
In 1968, the Town Square Players was established. They were incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1973. In 1974, the Woodstock Musical Theatre Company was founded and made the Opera House their home. In 2019, the companies merged to create Theatre 121 and still perform regular seasons at the Opera House every year.
The Tivoli is a rare large one-screen theatre. Most of these older theatres have been "cut up" in order to offer more screens, but the Tivoli is still intact. The building also includes a residential hotel, a bowling alley, and some other store fronts. Owned by Classic Cinemas since 1976, the theatre has an old look but new equipment. [2]
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