This will be one of those threads that probably won't go anywhere but I am headed to the Fox Theatre tomorrow night. My 14 year-old and her BFF are going to go see the Canadian wunderkind Shawn Mendes and we bought the tickets back in a time where Prince still walked among us. To have the Fox play such a significant role in the end days and to see it up close is going to bring some amount of emotion. Maybe its not a big deal at all, it's just a building right. Those of you from the Atlanta area probably pass it daily. But it's only been 3 months, just feels freaking weird.

GottaLetitgo said:

This will be one of those threads that probably won't go anywhere but I am headed to the Fox Theatre tomorrow night. My 14 year-old and her BFF are going to go see the Canadian wunderkind Shawn Mendes and we bought the tickets back in a time where Prince still walked among us. To have the Fox play such a significant role in the end days and to see it up close is going to bring some amount of emotion. Maybe its not a big deal at all, it's just a building right. Those of you from the Atlanta area probably pass it daily. But it's only been 3 months, just feels freaking weird.

njoy the show! it's a very beautiful building. hard for me 2 imagine going back there any time soon.

PURplEMaPLeSyrup said:

GottaLetitgo said:

This will be one of those threads that probably won't go anywhere but I am headed to the Fox Theatre tomorrow night. My 14 year-old and her BFF are going to go see the Canadian wunderkind Shawn Mendes and we bought the tickets back in a time where Prince still walked among us. To have the Fox play such a significant role in the end days and to see it up close is going to bring some amount of emotion. Maybe its not a big deal at all, it's just a building right. Those of you from the Atlanta area probably pass it daily. But it's only been 3 months, just feels freaking weird.

njoy the show! it's a very beautiful building. hard for me 2 imagine going back there any time soon.

The thing is we don't even get to go inside, we are going to be right outside because only my daughter and her friend have tickets. My wife keeps thinking there is some type of lobby or something we can wait at but I don't think so. I may decide to but a real cheap ticket to watch over my daughter and make sure she's okay but also to see what the inside of the building is like. But as to the latter, for what purpose? It was just a building (a very historical one) before and it is a building now. It is only the significant because of the details of the last few weeks of Prince's life.

GottaLetitgo said:

PURplEMaPLeSyrup said:

njoy the show! it's a very beautiful building. hard for me 2 imagine going back there any time soon.

The thing is we don't even get to go inside, we are going to be right outside because only my daughter and her friend have tickets. My wife keeps thinking there is some type of lobby or something we can wait at but I don't think so. I may decide to but a real cheap ticket to watch over my daughter and make sure she's okay but also to see what the inside of the building is like. But as to the latter, for what purpose? It was just a building (a very historical one) before and it is a building now. It is only the significant because of the details of the last few weeks of Prince's life.

even the outside is really cool, and the entrance is a long covered corridor i think anyone can access. they do give tours of the building, but probably just during the day. Herban Fix is a good restaurant nearby. I thought it was strange that on April 7, the original concert date, the phantom of the fox, this organist who used to also live inside the fox, passed away. if a purple phantom ever shows up at the fox, i'm going back there Either way, I hope u have fun

PURplEMaPLeSyrup said:

GottaLetitgo said:

The thing is we don't even get to go inside, we are going to be right outside because only my daughter and her friend have tickets. My wife keeps thinking there is some type of lobby or something we can wait at but I don't think so. I may decide to but a real cheap ticket to watch over my daughter and make sure she's okay but also to see what the inside of the building is like. But as to the latter, for what purpose? It was just a building (a very historical one) before and it is a building now. It is only the significant because of the details of the last few weeks of Prince's life.

even the outside is really cool, and the entrance is a long covered corridor i think anyone can access. they do give tours of the building, but probably just during the day. Herban Fix is a good restaurant nearby. I thought it was strange that on April 7, the original concert date, the phantom of the fox, this organist who used to also live inside the fox, passed away. if a purple phantom ever shows up at the fox, i'm going back there Either way, I hope u have fun

Thanks, this all helps. Odd about the phantom! We were looking for a place to eat while Shawn does his thing. Atlanta has so much history, so many significant buildings. The Fox Theatre doesn't deserve the stigma of being the last place Prince played. But it will have it. By so many accounts it was such a beautiful performance, just impossible to untangle it from the immediate and eventual aftermath. Being three hours away, I wish I could have scraped the money together to be there but I know so many of us do. It is unlikely I will get to Paisley park any time soon (and by the time I do, who knows what function it will serve) so this will have to do, I guess.

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Absolutely beautiful theater on the outside. My daughter and her friend went inside and I'm sure witnessed a great show by Mr. Mendes (my daughter said it it was her favorite concert ever and apparantly surpasses the Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana concert she saw whe she was 7). We walked up and down the street for three hours, at one point eating at a restaurant where a very loud gentleman came in an started screaming at all of us that we were all going to burn in Hell and a lot of other stuff too profane to go into. When we were picking up our daughter we were in the corrider and you could hear music from the stage and all I could imagine is what that last Prince concert must have been like. It was such an eerie feeling and just hammered home again, for the thousandth time, that the shows are over.

Thanks 4 the report -- glad they had fun & u survived that loud guy yeah the 1st show was in progress when we picked up our tickets for the 2nd show, so got 2 hear part of show 1 thru the wood doors of the theatre

I have this awesome concert from Bruce Springsteen, recorded in Atlanta in 1980, on "The River" tour. In it, he tells this story of the first time he played the Fox Theater:

"We wasn't too well-known back then. I remember there was this one guy, he rushed up to the stage where Steve was, and he was yelling something. So I went over there to see what he was yelling and he was yelling 'Go Bruce! Get em!' And I said, 'No, no. That's Steve. I'm Bruce'!"

PURplEMaPLeSyrup said:

Thanks 4 the report -- glad they had fun & u survived that loud guy yeah the 1st show was in progress when we picked up our tickets for the 2nd show, so got 2 hear part of show 1 thru the wood doors of the theatre

I sat outside the doors with a few other fans during the first show too we may have been singing along together!

pinkeekeen said:

PURplEMaPLeSyrup said:

Thanks 4 the report -- glad they had fun & u survived that loud guy yeah the 1st show was in progress when we picked up our tickets for the 2nd show, so got 2 hear part of show 1 thru the wood doors of the theatre

I sat outside the doors with a few other fans during the first show too we may have been singing along together!

sweet! it was a good day.