Sat. Jan. 21 

Doors – 7:00 PM 

Organ Overture – 7:30 PM 

Film – 8:00 PM 

Tickets - $6 

1hr 42min | PG | Romance/Drama | USA 

Presented with Cinema Lamont 

Play it Senate Theater. Play Casablanca. 

Well, here’s looking at you, audience. This winter one of the greatest films of all time starring two of the greatest Hollywood actors of all time is playing at one of the greatest theaters of all Michigan Avenue. Indelibly woven into the pop-cultural fabric of America, this is a film that has endured for over eighty years and will continue to as time goes by. 

A torrid romance set against the life-and-death drama of World War II, Casablanca is teeming with tension, passion, and intrigue. It follows Rick, (Humphrey Bogart) a bitter and cynical American expatriate running a nightclub in Vichy France-controlled Casablanca. Once a soldier for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, he is now content to watch the collection of desperate refugees, shady characters, Nazis, and corrupt French officials pass through Rick’s Café. But then his past walks into his gin joint, and he is confronted with the choice between rekindling his relationship with ex-lover, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) or rejoining the fight against fascism. 

Trust us. If you miss your chance to see this classic on the big screen, you’ll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life. So, make sure you round up the usual suspects and get down to the Senate this January for Casablanca! 

The Senate Theater and The Detroit Theater Organ Society is supported by The Michigan Arts and Culture Council and The National Endowment for the Arts.