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Kings Theatre (Brooklyn)
The Kings Theatre, formerly Loew's Kings Theatre, is a movie palace-type theater in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. Opened in 1929 and closed in 1977, the theater sat empty for decades until a complete renovation was initiated in 2010. The theater reopened to the public on January 23, 2015. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 22, 2012.〔
The lavish theater, located at 1027 Flatbush Avenue near Beverly Road, was designed in the Rapp Brothers' signature French-influenced baroque style. The unusually spacious theater boasts superb sight-lines, with the majority of its seats located on the main floor. Instead of a large balcony, the Kings has only a small mezzanine, allowing the entire elegant design to be viewed from anywhere in the auditorium. It has a sweeping staircase in the lobby that leads to the mezzanine.
==History==
Loew's Kings Theatre was designed by the architectural firm of Rapp and Rapp. The interior decor was designed by Harold W. Rambusch. It was built and operated by the Loew's Theatres chain, and was one of the five "Loew's Wonder Theatres" in the New York metropolitan area. This 3,676 seat house originally presented shows that combined movies and live vaudeville.〔 It opened September 7, 1929 with a program that included the film ''Evangeline'', a live stage show, orchestra and solo pipe organ.〔The film ''Evangeline'' was based on the poem ''Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie'' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.〕 The film's star, Dolores del Rio made a special live appearance. With the decline of vaudeville, however, the theater soon converted to showing feature films only..
On August 30, 1977, the Loew's Kings closed. Its final film was ''Islands in the Stream'' with George C. Scott. After the time of its closing, when its lavish 1929 interior was almost completely intact, the shuttered theater slowly deteriorated. Extensive physical damage was sustained to the Kings's interior as a result of decades of neglect, water damage and vandalism. The roof was belatedly repaired in 2007 to halt further deterioration. It has been owned by the City of New York since 1979.〔Gray, Christopher. ("The Kings Is Dead! Long Live the Kings!" ), ''New York Times'' Accessed March 11, 2007〕 After closing, the theater was subject of a film documentary, ''Memoirs of a Movie Palace''.
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