FREE MEMBER EXCLUSIVE EVENT

We asked, you answered! The votes are in: your 2026 Annual Member Party film is Clue (1985)!

Join us in a celebration of YOU and your impact on Tampa Theatre. Whether you just stop in, or stay the whole day, we have a fun-filled afternoon planned just for you. Admission for this exclusive event is FREE for all members, plus a guest. Please RSVP by Friday, October 9.

Not yet a member? You still have time to sign up for an annual membership and join us at the party! Learn more about our membership program.

SCHEDULE:

1:30pm 

• Be among the very first to set foot in the newly restored Duncan Auditorium – no hard hat required this time
• Pop into the John T. Taylor Screening Room to catch a short film. Shorts will screen on loop for you to come and go as you please.
• Sample a CLUE-themed cocktail.
• Take a mini tour of the completed restoration work, or explore the majestic building on your own.
• Games, prizes, and the kind of mingling that starts with popcorn and ends with new friends.
• Complimentary soda, popcorn, coffee and water at the concessions stand (until 3:30pm).

2:10pm    

• Q&A on stage with Tampa Theatre President & CEO George Levesque.

3:00pm   

• Your Member pick feature film, CLUE.

FILM SYNOPSIS:

CLUE (1985)

There’s kind of a lot going on in Clue. Certainly more than you’d expect from a movie based, rather faithfully, on an old board game. It’s a tightly scripted screwball comedy pulling from influences like Howard Hawks and the Marx Brothers. But like the game it’s also sort of an Agatha-Christie-style drawing room murder mystery, with each of the characters taking their turns playing (inept) detective and concealing their own motive. On top of all that it’s an ensemble piece — Madeline Kahn, Tim Curry, Christopher Lloyd and a whole 1980s roll-call of funny character actors all show up. There’s even a story credit by John Landis!

Most famously there’s also the incredibly ambitious attempt at an interactive and multi-threaded series of endings that let the audience decide what happened and drove the movie from being a failure at the cinema to a cult success on TV.  Turns out people were more frustrated with than fascinated by the experience of not seeing the same film as everyone else.

We’re very happy to return Clue to our big screen, in gratitude to our members for their vital and generous support and in remembrance of Tim Curry, who spent an incredible career entertaining us across decades and dozens of characters.

This screening is held in the Historic Duncan Auditorium. This space utilizes open seating for this event, seat selection is not required.