Early Palace opening for 'Salt'

By STEVE BARNES, Staff writer
Friday, July 9, 2010
ALBANY -- The free Capital Region premiere of the action movie "Salt," starring Angelina Jolie and shot in part in Albany over several weeks in spring 2009, will be held at the Palace Theatre.

The special screening is scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursday, July 22, (doors open at 7 p.m.), the night before the film opens nationwide. Tickets will be available starting at 10 a.m. today at Albany visitors center at Quackenbush Square, at the foot of Clinton Avenue at Broadway; and the City of Albany Office of Special Events, located on the fourth floor of Albany City Hall.
Beginning Monday, tickets also will be available from the Palace box office at 19 Clinton Ave. All tickets must be picked up in person, are general admission and are limited to four per person.

The entryway is being repaired more than two years after a car accident sent a vehicle smashing through the front doors of the historic theater.

A set of eight new doors is being installed across the front of the theater, beneath its marquee. Since the accident, on March 31, 2008, the half of the expanse destroyed in the crash has been covered with wood.