Cinema Supper Club: The Real Drama Queens
Amadeus
Luxe at the Legion | Special Events
8:00 PM
January 17, 2008
Gould Theater
Cinema Supper Club: The Real Drama Queens
Thursdays, January 10 through February 14, film at 8:00 p.m.
For a grand outing in one of the city’s most beautiful treasures, enjoy an elegant dinner in the Legion Cafe, then take in a film at the Florence Gould Theater. To complement the exhibition Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles, we are pleased to present a series of films about history’s real queens and “drama queens.” Dinner seatings start at 6 p.m., and the film starts at 8 p.m.
Amadeus (1984, 160 min.)
The satirical sensibilities of writer Peter Shaffer and director Milos Forman were ideally matched in this Oscar-winning movie adaptation of Shaffer's hit play about the rivalry between the official royal composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) and the younger but superior prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), two composers in the court of Austrian Emperor Joseph II (brother of Marie-Antoinette). Salieri secretly loathes Mozart's crude and bratty personality but is astounded by the beauty of his music. That such magnificent music should come from such a vulgar little creature strikes Salieri as one of God's cruelest jokes, and it drives him insane.
Fee Information
Admission for the exhibition and film is $10 for members and $20 for non-members. Entrance for the exhibition only is free for members and $10 for non-members. Dinner is priced separately, and admission is required.
