With summer 2020 on its way, but all of the city’s summer festivals either cancelled or postponed, Montrealers are thirsting for any semblance of live entertainment, especially outdoors.
However, thanks to the ingenuity of two veteran Montreal event planners — Lorne Levitt of Total Events and Adam Bultz of C3 Events — Montrealers will finally get a taste of some outdoor live entertainment this summer. With a throwback to the golden age of the drive-in movie theatre, the duo will launch the Royalmount Drive-In Event Theatre, which will open its doors, appropriately enough, on June 21, the first official day of summer.
The theatre is located at the nexus of the Decarie Expressway and Highway 40, on the site of the future Royalmount complex, and is supported by Carbonleo Real Estate Inc., the company that is behind the the development of the complex. During its period of operation, the Royalmount Drive-In Event Theatre will be an open space for a wide variety of events, such as movie nights, live music shows, comedy shows, specialty movie screenings, graduations, televised or live streamed sporting events, corporate events, product launching and other types of public events.
As well, the venue will follow the necessary health and security guidelines to ensure that all attendees will have a fun, safe experience. This will include window service for concessions, individual bathrooms with their own wash stations and a team of employees that will disinfect the facilities after each use, premium audio that will broadcast the sound into into each car’s own sound system, a 30-foot wide stage complete with sounds, lights and a giant LED screen, a security team to direct guests in and out of the site as well as direct traffic flow within the event space, and space to accommodate up to 250 cars per event. It will also be available for rent to schools, companies, show promoters, private groups and charitable organizations as a prime event space.
For more information, go to www.driveinmtl.com.
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