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It’s a Wonderful Life

jill — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 19:43:18 +0000

Watch It’s a Wonderful Life every year, and you’ll see a different message in it every time. On its face, it’s a heartwarmer about treating your fellow man with fairness and love, knowing that they will stand behind you when you need them. But it’s also a political movie about the destructive influence of consolidated wealth (Lionel Barrymore’s Mr. Potter is one of cinema’s great villains); it’s nearly a tragic portrait of a talented dreamer who sacrifices himself completely for others and is almost destroyed by his own frustration; and in the tradition of Dickens’s three Christmas ghosts, it’s a look at the chilling consequences of all the paths not taken in a life. Solemn and sweet but uncompromising, the movie refuses to let George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) off easy. And the key is the title — it may not be the life he wanted, it may not be the life he deserved, it may not always be easy to admit, but it is, truly, a wonderful life.

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Tampa Theatre is partnering with the Junior League of Tampa this holiday season to help the one in three families in the United States who struggle to provide their babies with clean, dry diapers. Guests attending Holiday Classics film screenings are invited to bring in disposable diapers of any type, size or brand, wipes and diaper cream, or help by purchasing items off of the Junior League of Tampa’s Amazon Wishlist.

Opened packages of disposable diapers are acceptable; however, please place them in a plastic zip-top bag, and label them with the size. Many of those in need use public laundry facilities, which do not permit washing cloth diapers for hygiene reasons. Accordingly, this is a disposable diaper collection only. We cannot accept cloth diapers, nor can we accept opened formula or other baby necessities, to ensure the health and safety of our participating families.

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Sing-Along White Christmas

jill — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 19:51:05 +0000

White Christmas is most famous for its namesake song “White Christmas,” which was written for the movie … Holiday Inn. But in the twelve years since that movie came out, it had already become an enormous hit, so setting a new movie around it seemed obvious — and sure enough, White Christmas is a loose thematic remake of Holiday Inn. When you have Irving Berlin ready to write another movie musical for you, you just say yes. Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen are captivating as matched pairs of entertainers caught up in cute misunderstandings as they strive for stardom and travel the road to love. And for the first time, Tampa Theatre is showing the sing-along version, so now you can add your own voices to standards like “Sisters,” “Count Your Blessings,” “Snow” and “White Christmas” itself.

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RENT

jill — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 19:55:13 +0000

At the dawn of the 1990s, New Yorkers Mark (Anthony Rapp), an aspiring filmmaker, and his roommate Roger (Adam Pascal), an HIV-positive musician, scramble for money to pay their landlord and former roommate, Benjamin Coffin III (Taye Diggs), who married for money and has become the opposite of all that the young bohemians stand for. Meanwhile, their friend Tom (Jesse L. Martin), a professor, has fallen for drag queen and street musician Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia), who is slowly dying of AIDS.

Based on Puccini’s opera La Boheme, the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock opera remains one of the most popular musicals of all time. Like the stage versions, the film dives into the lives of the group of young friends struggling with their careers, love lives and the effects of the AIDS epidemic on their community. Set in time between Christmas Eve and New Year’s, RENT genuinely captures the bittersweet hope that comes with the start of each and every new year.

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Sing-Along Frozen

jill — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 20:04:52 +0000

Our audience has told us one thing with resounding clarity in recent years, and that’s that you really, really like singing along to movies. And listen, we are committed to making that happen for you as frequently as we possibly can. But besides that: it’s Frozen. Disney animated features are always a big deal, but Frozen was legitimately a cultural phenomenon. It’s the second-highest grossing animated film of all time (eclipsed only by its own sequel in 2019), it remains the best-selling Blu-Ray of all time, and you are already singing “Let It Go” in your head right now, aren’t you? Luckily it deserves that acclaim. The story of the reconciliation and re-connection of Princess Elsa and her sister Ana is a different kind of love story than the usual princess movie — and it’s one that everyone can connect with. So run through those vocal exercises, dress as your favorite princess, reindeer or snowman, leave your self-doubt at home and come belt one out with a thousand of your closest friends at Sing-Along Frozen.

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