Friday, September 13•Capitol Theatre•7PM

A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. Upon her arrival in the magical world of Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.

Saturday, September 14 • Capitol Theatre  7:00 pm10:00 pm

Trixter celebrates their 40th Anniversary Tour with Pretty Boy Floyd, Bad Marriage & Band Inc.

A night full of live music turned up to 11!!!

TICKETS

 

Fall is just around the corner, and that means a great line up of events at the Capitol Arts Complex-including the return of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Capitol Theatre.

Check out the great Fall line  up with this link.

Fall brings a great line up of live concerts on stage at the Capitol Theatre. The list of great acts keeps expanding. Stay informed of the latest shows coming this Fall.

Check out the upcoming concerts with this link.

 Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties presents Mohawk Valley Gives for its third year!  Friday, September 20, 2024, is the date when your support will have added benefit for the Capitol!

Check out the details with this link.

Current and Upcoming Movies and Shows

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Thanks to Glenn Erikson for loaning us his storefront for the Capitolfest dealers room this year!

 Dr. Philip Carli accompanying MAN, WOMAN AND SIN

Organists Dr. Philip Carli, David Peckham and Ben Model.

 

Capitolfest 21 has come and gone, and with it attendees from approximately 32 different U.S. states and Canada.

The festival ran from August 9 through August 11, and was preceded by a “pre-glow” on Thursday, August 8, during which the 2024 documentary, Film is Dead, Long Live Film was screened, introduced by its director, Peter Flynn. Also shown on Thursday was the 1928 short comedy, Dad’s Choice, accompanied by Ben Model on the theater’s 1928 Möller organ.

    Capitolfest started in earnest on Friday morning, with David Peckham at the organ accompanying the second entry in the 1922 Leather Pushers series of boxing shorts, “Round Two,” which were successful in catapulting Capitolfest tribute star Reginald Denny  to fame. This was followed immediately by the silent melodrama, Crooked Alley (Universal, 1923), starring Thomas Carrigan as likable professional thief Boston Blackie and a teenaged Laura La Plante as his leading lady. Among the other highlights of this initial session of Capitolfests was a fascinating presentation of nitrate film decomposition by George Willeman, the Nitrate Vault Leader of the Library of Congress Motion Picture and Recorded Sound Division.

Some of the extreme rarities of Capitolfest 21 were 1930’s Fox film, Temple Tower, Hush Money, a Fox gangster melodrama from 1931 with Joan Bennett and a stellar supporting cast that included the likes of Myrna Loy and George Raft, the Reginald Denny farce comedies, Clear the Decks (1929) and I’ll Show You the Town (1925), and, in its American premiere, a new restoration of the 1930 Polish film, Janko Muzykant, courtesy of the National Archive of Warsaw. This last was a major surprise for those of us in attendance (which apparently were many!) that were unfamiliar with the Polish film industry during the early sound era, and who found the 105-minute drama to be enormously compelling.

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Stop by the Capitol and buy a raffle ticket to win a 2024 Jeep Compass. Tickets are $50 and will be available in the Capitol Theatre lobby.

The car raffle is a fundraiser for the Capitol Arts Complex and brought to you by Townsquare Media, WKTV and Victory Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of Rome.

Jeep Compass Information

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Capitol Arts Complex Tornado Relief Fund

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By now, many of you (certainly the Romans, anyway) know about the EF-2 tornado that passed through downtown Rome on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 16. The tornado, which reached speeds of 135 mph, was 300m wide at its widest and its path ran directly over the Capitol’s home on the 200 block of West Dominick Street.

We are very fortunate in many ways.

Our staff — Art, Jon, Rick, AJ, Julie, Joe, Kylie, and of course Jeannine, our theatre cat — are all safe and accounted for.

The main theatre is, generally, in good shape. Amazingly, the marquee is intact. The front administrative office windows were shattered and a wooden plank was driven through the roof. The fire escape was wrenched off on one side. With the help of our staff and many selfless, generous volunteers from the community, the windows were boarded up. The auditorium, and projection booth were unaffected and we will be able to operate again as soon as power is restored (which we are hoping will be very soon).

Capitol Arts Complex • 220 West Dominick Street, Rome, NY 13440 • Phone: 315.337.6277 • Email: [email protected]