Tickets go on sale to Hollywood Theatre Members on Wednesday 10/21 at noon, and to the general public on Thursday 10/22 at noon.
In the winter of 1963, the most epic comedy ever made had its Pacific Northwest premiere in Cinerama right here at the Hollywood Theatre, where it ran for a record 44 weeks. Now, for one night only and for the first time in more than sixty years, IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD returns to the Hollywood in wide, wide, wide, wide 70mm Ultra Panavision!
They don’t make them like this anymore. A cast of basically every comedian alive at the time, plus cameos from comedy legends past and future. A near-three-hour runtime that isn’t a minute too long, with an overture and an intermission. Old-school stunts and spectacular wreckage, captured on a scale no studio would bankroll today.
When a dying crook tells a group of strangers that $350,000 is buried under “the Big W,” the race is on. Ordinary, seemingly decent people lie, cheat, crash, and blow up everything in their path across Southern California to get to the money first. Producer-director Stanley Kramer spent his career using popular movies to make audiences face the country’s hardest truths. So when he set out to make the comedy to end all comedies, Kramer did what he did best, only this time for laughs.
Relentlessly funny and gloriously unhinged, IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD is the film that inspired Comedy 101, the Hollywood Theatre’s signature series on foundational and iconic comedy films. Limited edition MAD WORLD posters will be for sale in the lobby after the show, along with posters from select past Comedy 101 featured films.