Chris Cannon posted on November 02, 2011 10:13
The Historic DeSoto Theatre Foundation’s Classic Cinema Series presents Gone With the Wind on Saturday Nov. 12 at 1:30pm and 7pm. Admission is $5 per person. A Special VIP Event: Dinner and a Movie, will accompany the 7pm screening with a "Traditional Southern-Style Dinner" at the Partridge Restaurant at 5:30 p.m. An elegant four-course dinner will be served family style and will include Southern cocktails Mint Juleps and Scarlet O’Haras.
A creative menu incorporates the movie’s characters. It includes Fried Green Tomatoes with Aunt Pittypat’s Remoulade Sauce and Prissy’s Cheese Straws as appetizers, and Big Sam’s Old Time Potato Soup and Confederate Cornbread as starters. Three entrees will be brought to the table: Ashley Wilkes’ Shrimp and Grits, Pork’s Stuffed and Roasted Plantation Pork Loin, and Mammy’s Southern Fried Chicken. Among the vegetables and side dishes are Rhett’s Roasted Red Potatoes, Bonnie Blue Butler’s Broccoli Casserole, Melanie’s Macaroni and Cheese, Yankee Green Beans, and Tara’s Fresh Asparagus. Dessert includes Scarlett’s Red Velvet Cake, Uncle Peter’s Pear Cobbler, and Belle’s Banana Pudding.
VIP Tickets are $75 per person. VIP Guests will enjoy cocktails and dinner at the Partridge Restaurant, a coupon for a downtown Rome carriage ride by Antebellum Carriage Services, reserved seating at the theatre, and wine and beer during movie and intermission. Regular admission guests will be able to purchase wine and beer before the show and during intermission.
Tickets are on now on sale at the Historic DeSoto Theatre Box Office, online at
www.desototickets.com, or by calling (706)295-7171. Season memberships and sponsorships are also still available. All proceeds from the Classic Cinema series and events will support the Foundation's efforts to preserve the Historic DeSoto Theatre.
Gone With the Wind is the 1939 American historical epic film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel. It tells the story of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era from a Southern point of view, featuring film stars Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
Other movies that will be shown from December through March as part of the Classic Cinema Series are:
The Grinch (Dec. 17),
Titanic (Jan 14),
The Wizard of Oz (Feb. 18), and
Saturday Night Fever (March 31).