SECRET MOVIE CLUB presents

Part of our MARCH MUSICAL MADNESS & DARING DOCUMENTARY series! Wednesday, March 16, 2022

LOCATION: The Secret Movie Club Theater, 1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90021

*Please note entrance/parking is actually in the back of the building. Make a right on Wilson Street, then a right behind the building. We’re the first set of black steps after the big gate. We’ll have staff to help guide/park you.

730pm ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM RECORDING COMPANY (1970, dir by DA Pennebaker, Janus, 60mns)

845pm SWEENEY TODD (2007, dir by Tim Burton, Paramount, 117mns, 35mm)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

***ALL AUDIENCE will be required to show proof of vaccination at the door. PLEASE HAVE YOUR VIRTUAL OR PHYSICAL VACCINATION CARD READY BEFORE ENTERING THE THEATER. If you have an exemption, please have proof of a negative PCR level COVID test within 3 days of the screening.

***ALL GUESTS WILL BE TAKEN THROUGH PROTOCOLS PRIOR TO ENTERING THEATER SO EVERYONE CAN HAVE A FUN AND SAFE TIME.

***EVERYONE WILL STILL BE REQUIRED TO WEAR MASKS INDOORS WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING CONCESSIONS IN THEIR ASSIGNED SEATS.

HOW TO:

1)PLEASE BRING AND WEAR A PROPER MASK AT ALL TIMES WHEN NOT EATING/DRINKING INSIDE THE THEATER AS A SAFETY PRECAUTION.

2)PRE-ORDER ANY CONCESSIONS OR MOVIE MERCHANDISE you would like from the additional Add-Ons. You can pick up all concessions & merchandise at our tables in our lobby prior to the screening.

We will be able to sell concessions & merchandise at the theater. But it will make everything much quicker and easier if you pre-order!

3)PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANYONE EXHIBITING COVID OR FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS AT THE DOOR, WILL BE OFFERED COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS TO A FUTURE SHOW AND ASKED TO RETURN WHEN HEALTHY. So please, if you’re feeling sick, just write us at community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer your complimentary tickets to a future screening when you’re healthy. Let’s all do our part to beat this thing so we can go back to the complete movie going experience!

Tonight we honor the master Broadway composer/songwriter Stephen Sondheim with a double feature of the maestro at work.

First up is DA Pennebaker's amazing, fly on the wall ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING COMPANY 1 hour documentary. It's custom for the original cast of a Broadway musical to go into the studio to record the ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM of the songs for posterity.

In this doc, we actually get the chance to see Sondheim, Harold Prince, Elaine Stritch, and other amazing 1960's-1970's musical theater luminaries AT WORK on one of Sondheim's most beloved and revived works. It's the chance to see how the sausage is made and just what a workaholic and perfectionist Sondheim was in pursuit of "finishing the hat". He often used this phrase (from the song he wrote for Sunday in the Park with George) to describe the process of working on a creative project down to the very detail to get it right. Because the transcendence is in nailing the details.

We follow this up with Tim Burton's surprisingly dark and powerful adaptation of Sondheim's already dark and powerful Broadway musical Sweeney Todd. Todd tells the story of an exiled Barber (Johnny Depp in full commitment mode), driven mad with grief, because a covetous Judge (the always wonderful Alan Rickman) used his power to try to seduce the Barber's wife who he's told died shortly after Todd was forced into exile by the Judge. When Todd returns to London, he learns that now the Judge wants to seduce the Barber's daughter. Todd joins forces with the somewhat batty Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham-Carter) to get his revenge. Todd kills people and Mrs. Lovett bakes them in her pies. All in the pursuit of getting the Judge to sit in the barber's chair.

What's most surprising here is that Burton seems to rise to the occasion, realizing the material he's been given, to deliver one of his very best movies. Dark, unsettling, just like the source material, all building to a devastating climax.

So come join us for a double dose of the master-Stephen Sondheim-at his very best.

Best always,

Craig Hammill

35mm Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR OUR IN-DOOR THEATER SCREENINGS

REFUNDS:

We can offer refunds up to 24 hours before showtime. Please request a refund through Eventbrite and we will process ASAP. After that, no refunds. Sorry.

However if something last minute comes up and you can’t make the screening, for whatever reason, just write us at: community@secretmovieclub.com and we’ll offer you complimentary tickets to a future screening.

HELPFUL SECRET MOVIE CLUB (1917 Bay Street, 2nd Floor, LA, CA 90021) THEATER PARKING TIPS:

We recommend that you park just outside our theater. Remember our theater is actually in a beautiful street art alleyway in the back of the 1917 Bay Street building. You get to our entrance by taking a right on Wilson, then a right behind the building. We are the first set of black steps on the right after the big gate.

We will have a staff member on duty to monitor all cars parked in the street-art alleyway at our entrance.

There is also a parking lot at the corner of Mateo and Violet Street, just 2 blocks from our theater, which costs $7 per car.

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HOW CAN I CONTACT YOU IF I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS:

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