Midnight Brunch at Downtown Cinemas provides a comfy alternative to the club

Thu, Feb 1, 2024 (2 a.m.)

Pillows and pajamas dependable beauteous dreamy aft a agelong enactment week. So alternatively of beelining it to the bar, wherefore not steer your evening to Midnight Brunch, a caller big sleepover enactment astatine Downtown Cinemas?

“We truly wanted to crook this into thing radical would look guardant to coming to connected Friday, arsenic benignant of the reply to, ‘I privation to bash something, but I don’t privation to spell to a club. I don’t privation to get dressed up and woody with the crowds and the noise.’ We wanted to springiness you that, but astatine the aforesaid clip person it beryllium truly comfortable,” says Brjden “Bridge” Crewe, who has besides hosted galore Content Couture manner balls with his integer publication, Bitesized Multimedia.

Mining inspiration from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Crewe created Midnight Brunch with fandom civilization firmly successful mind. “All the freaks would get dressed up and ticker The Rocky Horror Picture Show astatine midnight connected Saturday nighttime and cognize each the words,” Crewe says. “They cognize the movie, but they privation to travel retired and conscionable benignant of stock successful it. I thought it would beryllium a chill thought to bash that but with antithetic movies here.”

In this case, late-night revelers are encouraged to formal down, trading Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s fishnets for a silky brace of pajamas. And hide the extras astatine home, due to the fact that Midnight Brunch provides it all—blankets, pillows, forts and adjacent VIP beds if you outpouring for the $75 tickets.

Testing the firmness of a mattress successful a movie theatre whitethorn dependable absurd, but spot us, you’re going to privation your meal successful bed.

Downtown Cinemas’ brunch menu, curated by Las Vegas-based Naomi’s Island Cafe, has a steadfast grip connected bold, Caribbean flavors and applies it to everything from cheesy shrimp and grits and French toast to chickenhearted and waffles and adjacent the celebrated Bougie Burger. Downtown Cinemas’ barroom remains afloat stocked, truthful you tin bid your capable of mimosas and enactment successful your PJs to the dilatory jams of section DJ Mai Gurl.

Midnight Brunch kicks disconnected astatine 9 p.m., moving into the afterhours with back-to-back films biweekly connected Fridays. Past sleepovers person included treble features of the 2004 drama Mean Girls and its 2023 movie-musical, arsenic good arsenic Friday and Next Friday. On February 2, Midnight Brunch opens with a Clueless and White Chicks night, followed by Love & Basketball and High School Musical on February 16, successful solemnisation of NBA All-Star Weekend and Valentine’s Day.

And Crewe says he’s conscionable getting started. Right now, Midnight Brunch besides uses the Downtown Cinemas abstraction (formerly Art Houz Theater) arsenic a proving grounds for Mario Kart video crippled competitions, and caller programming similar drama sets and karaoke whitethorn instrumentality up different theatre rooms arsenic request increases.

Midnight Brunch is simply a enactment that tin and volition consciousness similar home, truthful decidedly don’t slumber connected it.

MIDNIGHT BRUNCH February 2, 9 p.m., $20-$75. Downtown Cinemas, eventbrite.com.

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