First season in Mount Pony Theater draws to a close

The Mount Pony Theater concludes the 2008 season, its first ever, with the final movies of the year this weekend.

Both shows are already fully reserved, but arrive in the lobby early to get on stand-by. All outstanding reservations will be awarded to those with stand-by tickets 10 minutes prior to show time. Here’s what on the bill:

*Tonight at 7:30 it wouldn’t be Christmas without A Christmas Story (1983) and little Ralphie. Relive the days when kids actu-ally got BB guns from Santa, or did they? You’ll shoot your eye out you know.

*Saturday at 2 p.m. it’s magic a la Macy’s with Miracle on 34th Street with Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle and Natalie Wood as the little girl who believes.

The Mount Pony Theater will be closed the rest of the year in observance of the holidays, re-opening:

Friday, January 2 with Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967).

The New Year ushers in more movies in remembrance of stars who died in 2008. Here’s a peek at what’s coming:
*Saturday, January 3
Heath Ledger in Ten Things I Hate About You (1999)

*Tuesday, January 6
Richard Widmark in Pick Up on South Street (1953)

*Friday, January 9
Roy Scheider in All that Jazz (1979)

*Saturday, January 10
Suzanne Pleshette in The Adventures of Bullwhip Grif-fin (1967)

*Tuesday, January 13
Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes (1968)

*Friday, January 16
Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon (1953)

*Saturday, January 17
Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Showtimes: Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7:30 pm., Saturday 2 p.m.

RESERVATIONS: (540) 827-1079 x79994 –or- (202) 707-9994 one week prior to the movie.

A big appreciative Seasons Greetings to all the Library of Congress folks up on Mount Pony (programmers, projectionists, ticket takers, preservationists, security guards, cleaning crew, house managers, brochure makers, prop donators, and reservation line takers) who helped bring free culture to Culpeper this year. See ya in ’09.