| On August 13, 2009 Middletown's Sorg's Opera House Host Movie Madness |
| Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:16:57 AM - Middletown Ohio |
Posted By: Randy Lewis
Beginning on August 13, 2009 and running through August 16, 2009 Middletown’s Sorg’s Opera House located at 57 South Main Street, will be hosting a Back to School Movie Madness event.
The list of movies showing and dates for the event are August 13 - Easter Parade - 3 pm - $3 August 14 - Jungle Book - 3 pm - $3 Double Feature - 7 pm -$3 Mel Brooks and Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety August 15 - Wizard of Oz - 3 pm - $3Triple Feature - 7 pm - $3Texas Chainsaw Massacre I and II
Return of the Living Dead August 16 - Wizard of Oz - 3 pm - $3
The Sorg’s Opera House was built in 1891. It showed opera until 1915, when it switched to movies. In 1985 it was changed back into a stage theater. At some point the second of the two balconies was hidden behind a false ceiling, and remains hidden today.
The theater’s original owner, Paul J. Sorg, a prolific innovator, came to Middletown in 1870, when he was 30; he came to establish the P. J. Sorg Tobacco Co. Middletown's first millionaire was active in tobacco, pumps, farm machinery, bicycles, naval equipment, gas and paper. He brought the Pennsylvania Railroad to Middletown; he served twice as a member of the U. S. Congress (1892). He bought and refurbished the U. S. Hotel, making it a fine meeting place for society; he built the Sorg Opera House and is said to haunt the theater in his 1890s formal clothing. Witnesses who have seen him there identify him by a portrait which hangs in the theater lobby. He was an incredibly wealthy man, locally known as "the last of the robber barons," and he built the theater for his young wife, who was in love with drama and opera. Early on, Bob Hope performed here.
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