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The Paramount Theatre
Getting By with Music and Friends
by Dawn Stonebraker C
ommunity is essential to well-being and health, and the Paramount Theatre has had a long history of creat- ing just that. The Paramount was a vaudeville theater
that showed silent films in the 1920s and was then known as the Huntington Theatre. As the film business changed and Cineplex overtook the smaller movie houses, it sat unused for many years. Finally in 1983, the Inter-Media Arts Cen- ter, a nonprofit performing arts center took over the space and refurbished it so that they could reopen in 1984. In 2009, the cost of operations became too great and the space closed. When local Long Islanders, with mixed entertainment backgrounds, heard about the pending closing of the Nassau Coliseum concert arena slated for 2015, they took action. The result was the opening of the arts space as an intimate entertainment venue renamed the Paramount in 2011. They further reconceived the space to restore its 1920s ambience. The Paramount, which was ranked by Billboard as the 23rd hottest club in 2014, offers an expansive variety of acts, many of them Grammy Award winners, including Billy Joel (who calls it the best club that he has ever been to on Long Island), Rod Stewart, Don Henley, Ed Sheeran (who considers it the best performance venue in the world) and Shawn Mendez. The theater’s programming includes a
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variety of artists and acts that appeal to a broad community from ages 8 to 80, including rock, jazz, the very best tribute bands, and groups that cross musical genres. The Paramount management team works hard to book acts that appeal to the wide variety of interests among its audience members. These include the family-friendly Legends Series, featuring arena-level stars that enjoy the intimacy of a smaller space, and its Comedy Series, which creates an NYC comedy club experience and features some of the world’s most successful comedians, including Kevin Hart, Whoopi Goldberg, Dana Carvey and Dennis Miller, among many others. Addition- ally, the venue features a variety of Broadway acts. For those interested in discovering new and upcoming talent, the Paramount has much to offer. For example, the venue hosted 21 Pilots, a music duo, in its early days that now sells out Madison Square Garden. Next year, the Paramount looks forward to hosting magi-
cian Michael Carbonaro, of True TV’s The Carbonaro Effect. The Chippendale dancers, one the venue’s most popular shows, will be returning from Las Vegas in February. Jonas Brother fans can see the band formed by Joe Jonas, DNCE (whose 2015 hit Cake By The Ocean was number 9 on Billboard’s Hot 100), on February 8. New acts are booked frequently and tickets sell quickly, so sign up for their free e-newsletter (see web address below) to know early about available tickets. The most
memorable experi- ences come with a VIP Founder’s membership, which includes opportu- nities to meet the artists in the exclu- sive VIP Founder’s Room and offers priority seating for the shows, reduced prices on food and beverages, a place to relax between sets, and the opportunity to attend special hosted events throughout the season. It is also available to rent for special occasions.
Paramount Theatre’s VIP Founder’s Room
The Paramount Theatre is located at 370 New York Ave., in Huntington. It is easily accessible from the Huntington LIRR on the Port Jefferson line. For more information, call 631-673-7300 or visit
TheParamountNY.com. See ad on page 3.
Dawn Stonebraker is a marketing manager at Natural Awak- enings Long Island, writer, reader and fervent traveler. She loves writing on topics that focus on health, entertainment and art.
www.NaturalAwakeningsLI.com
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