Movies at the Palace Membership
4140 Broadway, New York, NY 10033
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MOVIES AT THE PALACE MEMBERSHIP
Movies at the Palace Memberships (discounted to $65 after our February 22 birthday celebration), offer access to all regularly priced UP-produced screenings for our entire 95th anniversary year.
The year is themed "The Season of Community" and features titles selected by the United Palace ($10 tickets) and our friend, neighbor, and patron Lin-Manuel Miranda (FREE tickets). Mr. Miranda's selections celebrate the 10-year anniverary of Hamilton and feature movies starring the musical's original cast members, who will join Mr. Miranda for talk-backs after each screening.
The partial schedule of movies is below.
Membership benefits include:
- One (1) free ticket to all UP-produced screenings that are regularly priced at $10 (at least 8 in 2025)
- Two (2) early access tickets to all free Movies at the Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda screenings (at least 4 in 2025)
- Priority seating to all above screenings (as available)
- Priority access to special activations (as available)
- One (1) free bag of popcorn at each screening you attend
- One (1) free raffle ticket for fun movie swag at each screening you attend
- One (1) vote for a "member's choice screening" for a film you would like to see on the big screen
- Your name in lights on the screen before each movie
- Special access to other UP programs and activities throughout the year
- The knowledge that your support is helping to maintain the movie program at the largest, largest, most over-the-top cinema in New York City
Memberships are available through Tuesday, March 11.
Partial Schedule for the Season of Community
- February 22 - 95th Anniversary Celebration and Star Wars Triple-Feature
- March 10 - Satisfied (2024): A documentary about Renée Elise Goldsberry’s journey navigating motherhood and her Tony Award-winning role as Angelica Schuyler in the groundbreaking musical Hamilton, presented by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
- April 28 - West Side Story (2021): Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the classic 1957 musical co-starring Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose, an original Hamilton ensemble member who also played “The Bullet,” as Anita, presented by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
- May 5 - TBD
- June 2 - One Night in Miami (2020): A fictionalized account of a real meeting in 1964 between Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke, portrayed by Leslie Odom Jr., the Tony Award-winning originator of the role of Aaron Burr in Hamilton, presented by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
- June 7 - Paris is Burning (1990)
- July - Monsters Inc. (2001)
- August - TBD
- September - TBD
- October - TBD
- November - Movies at the Palace Members Choice
- December - It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
UNITED PALACE HISTORY
The ornate United Palace opened in 1930 as the Loew's 175th Street Theatre, a deluxe movie theater and vaudeville house, the last of the five Wonder Theaters in New York City and New Jersey. Its first act as a movie theater ended in April 1969 with a screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey .
With a groundswell of community support and our good friend, patron, and neighbor Lin-Manuel Miranda, movies returned to the United Palace in 2013. Since then we have screened over 100 feature films, from world premieres ( In the Heights and Halftime and as part of the Tribeca Festival) to all-time classics ( It's A Wonderful Life ), to community favorites (the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom about local school children winning a citywide dance contest).
Our goal is to have the cinematic experience come alive for audiences too used to watching movies on their phones or TVs.
One of our highest compliments came from Robert DeNiro who, speaking before a 50th anniversary screening of The Godfather , described watching a movie at the United Palace as: “The moviegoing experience doesn't get any better.”