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Middletown, PA: Council Hears Support and Ideas for the Elks Theatre

Posted on Monday, July 25, 2016 11:14 AM


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The Elks Theatre in Middletown, Pennsylvania closed in April 2015, and the Middletown Council heard from those who supported its reopening, as well as ideas for how it can be used and be part of other entertainment efforts underway, at a meeting of the Middletown Borough Council in the MCSO Building on Thursday, July 21st. The Press and Journal published an article about the meeting recently:

Tattered Flag - the partnership converting the Elks Building in downtown Middletown into a combined brewery/distillery/brew pub - now also wants to partner with the nonprofit group Friends of the Elks Theatre to reopen the theater, which has been closed since April 2015.

That announcement came from Mike Dalton with the Friends group during a meeting held by Middletown Borough Council in the MCSO Building on Thursday July 21 to get input from residents on what they want done with the theater.

Coming through loud and clear is that residents want the Elks Theatre re-opened, not just as a theater but as a multi-functioning venue that would also host concerts, comedians, plays and the like.

About 40 residents attended the meeting, which started with a brief tour of the theater which is just down the block from the MCSO on West Emaus Street.

Several speakers noted that the Elks Theatre is the second oldest continuously operating movie theater in the United States, and for that reason alone should be preserved as a theater.

So with the question of what people want to see done with the theater apparently settled, the issue remains how to make that happen.

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