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We’ve got Trouble, with a capital “T” and that rhymes with “V” and that stands for Virus!

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Every year we post our New Year’s Day message, a fun way to look both forward and back on all the fun happenings at The Legacy Theatre. Oh, January 2020, had we only known! We started the year with the return of our popular “Mystery Movie Monday” film series, in which the mystery is the movie! From its beginning in 2018, what began as a silly idea has grown into one of our most popular offerings! With nearly a full house on the first Monday of every month (January – May), holders of our MMM pass don’t learn the title of the film they’re about to see until the red curtain parts and the projector flickers to life. It’s always fun to hear the reaction of the crowd as the wave of knowing spreads through the theatre! Each film is followed by a discussion with Andy Egizi, who teaches the course “Hollywood heritage: The Studio Age” at the University of Illinois – Springfield. Right after the premiere of our first film, Elvis was in the building – again – with the return of Joseph Hal...