On Wednesday, 15 Front Range movie theaters will carry a live simulcast of “The Christmas Sweater,” a theater production in Charleston, S.C.
Those 15 theaters will be among 420 throughout the U.S. carrying the simulcast on Wednesday and showing the recorded performance on Thursday. It is the first production of conservative author Glenn Beck’s new novel about a boy who learns a traumatic lesson about the distinction between wanting and giving.
Tickets to simulcasts in Ohio and Utah sold out last week, said Dan Diamond, vice president of Fathom Events, the Centennial-based business that specializes in event-style simulcasts.
Diamond didn’t know whether people will arrive for the simulcast wearing Christmas sweaters, as “Star Trek” fans dressed in character for a Fathom Events presentation of the pilot and first episode of the iconic television show.
“I hope so,” he said.
“It’s always a pleasant surprise when fans get so excited about coming to an event that people dress up like KISS for a KISS concert, or an anime character for an anime festival. It turns theaters into what I’d envisioned at the beginning as an opportunity to bring great alternative programs to movie theaters, and make theaters into the community event centers that they used to be.”
“The Christmas Sweater” will be simulcast at 6 p.m. Wednesday, with a repeat screening at 6 p.m. Thursday, at movie theaters in Aurora, Boulder, Castle Rock, Colorado Springs, Denver, Englewood, Fort Collins, Greeley, Highlands Ranch, Lakewood, Westminster and Pueblo. For details, go to . Claire Martin
