Posted on: December 6, 2022, 01:58h.
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Spiegelworld – the eccentric grownup model behind Caesars Palace’s long-running “Absinthe” – introduced immediately that its subsequent undertaking will probably be a equally themed attraction at Caesars Atlantic Metropolis.
“The Hook” – set to be directed by Cal McCrystal, an Olivier Award-nominated director for his work on “One Man, Two Guvnors” – will premiere in June 2023 on the positioning of the historic Warner Theatre on the boardwalk.
A Spiegelworld performer poses in entrance of a projection of Atlantic Metropolis’s Warner Theatre in its early Twentieth-century heyday. Spiegelworld’s ‘The Hook’ will reanimate the previous 4,300-seat film palace as a 400-seat theater inside Caesars Atlantic Metropolis. (Picture: Spiegelworld)
The manufacturing is the fruit of a partnership between Caesars Leisure and Spiegelworld. Introduced final 12 months, its objective is to create new leisure experiences at Caesars properties in Atlantic Metropolis, Las Vegas, and New Orleans. As a part of the deal, Caesars reportedly dedicated $400 million to renovate its Atlantic Metropolis locations.
“A decade in the past, we got here to Vegas and did issues in another way in dwell leisure,” stated Spiegelworld founder Ross Mollison in an announcement. “Now, we’re extremely excited that our friends at Caesars have given us this chance to deliver our get together to the playground of potential that’s Atlantic Metropolis.”
Warner’s Historical past
In-built 1929 for the then-extravagant price of $2.7 million, the 4,300-seat Warner’s Embassy Theatre was Atlantic Metropolis’s grandest film palace. In 1958, it was bought to George Hamid, a theater proprietor who had been reserving stage reveals there. As a situation of the sale, Hamid needed to change the Warner identify. He selected to name it the Warren, in accordance with a 1996 New York Instances article, as a result of that was the least costly means of fixing the marquee.
Hamid closed the theater in 1966 to transformed into the Boardwalk Bowl bowling alley. 4 years later, he bought it to the Howard Johnson’s Boardwalk Regency Lodge, which Caesars acquired in 1977. Although Caesars demolished the center of the outdated theater’s auditorium to transform it into Bally’s On line casino, the theater façade – listed on the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations – was preserved because the boardwalk entrance to Bally’s (now Caesars Atlantic Metropolis).
Caesars has pledged to reanimate the Warner as a 400-seat theater for “The Hook,” which it’s touting as town’s solely everlasting dwell leisure attraction. The theater will even host the primary East Coast location of Superfrico, Spiegelworld’s psychedelic Italian-American restaurant at present open on the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.
“Come to AC,” Mollison’s assertion continued. “We see magnificence. We see brashness. We see the appeal and historical past of the boardwalk. Expertise a present that may be seen nowhere else on the planet. Have an unbelievable cocktail. Have an unbelievable meal. Get caught on ‘The Hook.’”
Tickets to see “The Hook,” starting in June 2023, can be found for $68 via spiegelworld.com/thehook.
