Y’all mofos love singing along to movies, so Tampa Theatre is giving you more of what you want.
Today, the historic downtown Tampa movie house announced a September series of singalong screenings, and it all starts off with The Sound of Music on September 8 and continues with Grease (September 15), The Greatest Showman (September 22) and Mary Poppins (September 29).
All screenings are on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. and will cost moviegoers $13.
“There’s something hypnotic about following that bouncing ball; something freeing about breaking the taboo of talking during a movie; something ebullient about raising your voice in unanimous — if not always on-key — song with hundreds of fellow film-goers,” Tampa Theatre wrote in a release.
The venue’s journey with singalongs started in 2002 when a two-week run of The Sound of Music sold out. In 2014, Tampa Theatre sold so many Mary Poppins tickets that it prompted Disney to call the theatre to make sure the box office report wasn’t a mistake. In the last year, six screenings of sing-along The Greatest Showman have all sold out.
In a phone call with CL, Tampa Theatre’s Jill Witecki said that the theater will continue to book the singalongs as long as fans want them.
“If one sells out, we’ll find a place for more on the calendar,” she said. “It might not be in the immediate vicinity of the existing show, but we’ll find a way.”
Visit tampatheatre.org for more information.
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This article appears in Aug 1-8, 2019.