I am kicking myself that this wasn’t on my radar when it was in Toronto. I need to pay more attention. If anyone is headed to NYC anytime soon please go and report back.

Article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/0...-is-broken-shaw.html

Another article: https://apple.news/AO_uMAxMCQbWRrlC53SV5YQ

Tickets: https://thesharkisbroken.com/

The picture of the outside of the theater in the second link is beautiful.

Good luck.

Dol, if you haven’t seen the stories, this might interest you:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/0...ant=0_pers_engBandit

I've never seen the movie Jaws...

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Originally posted by ShiroKuro:
I've never seen the movie Jaws...

Me neither. We’re unicorns!

Make it three...

Three unicorns!

You’re all missing out!

Though I still am afraid of swimming on a beach so maybe it’s for the best.

I've never seen Jaws.

However, after we graduated from high school, I drove with two of my best friends to Destin, Florida, which was at that time, a tiny little town centered on fishing that really didn't make much of a big deal that it had some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. (This has really, really changed.)

There was a place that rented two-bedroom cabins to fishers--not fancy, but with a kitchen and a bathroom. No phone, though. And no beach, because it was, as I said, a fishing town. It had a dock instead of a beach.

We paid $25 a night for a place that slept all three of us. We ate poptarts for breakfast and peanut-butter-and-jelly for lunch. This left all of our spending money free to go out to discos, (yes, it was 1979), rent mopeds, and to have dinner at places we considered very swanky. One of them was a revolving restaurant where you could eat fresh seafood and watch the sun go down over the gulf.

Anyway. Jaws. It turns out that Jaws 2 was filmed on the dock and waterfront of this shabby little cluster of fishing cabins. To make our reservations for our fancy dinners, we had to go down to the office and use the phone, since we didn't have one in our cabin.

We got to know the ladies who lived and worked there and they told us about the filming and pointed out a shed that the production had built and then left behind for them to use. I believe they said that the filming was at the wrong time of year, so they had to paint the grass green. The pines and palm trees are, of course, cooperatively green year-round.

They showed us their scrapbook from the filming, complete with mechanical shark. Coincidentally, one of the friends who went with me was here to visit this past weekend, and we reminisced about the shark pictures.