Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The Beatles’ First American Concert Coming To The Big Screen

The first full concert staged by The Beatles in the U.S. will be screened in movie theaters next month.

As reported by Deadline Hollywood, The Beatles: The Lost Concert will be shown in select venues on May 17 and May 22. In addition, a special premiere, with two showings, will take place on May 6 at the historic Ziegfield Theater in Manhattan.

The concert, which lasted just over a half-hour, took place at the Washington Coliseum in Washington, D.C. The Beatles performed a 12-song set for an audience of 8,092.

The show was filmed by an eight-man camera crew and broadcast a month later via closed-circuit to movie theaters across America.

The new presentation will be preceded by a 92-minute documentary charting the rise of Beatlemania. Among those offering commentary in the documentary are Chuck Berry and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry.

For more information, go to www.lostbeatlesconcert.com.

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