Asbury Park’s oceanfront Paramount Theater is teaming with the adjacent North Eats Food Truck Park to bring you the second annual Backstage Music Series.
The four-event series reverses the usual concert configuration. The stage is set with 220 white, padded folding chairs facing out towards the beautifully renovated theater, but the musician–standing at the foot of the stage–faces inward with his back to the empty theater.
“The view is amazing because you are looking at this artist and you’ve got the whole Paramount Theatre behind. We have the lighting just right to show the architectural details of the room,” explains Judi Yaccarino, the venue’s director of marketing. “It’s a very intimate performance.”
Performing inside the Paramount Theater to an audience onstage. Photo: Richard Hoynes
Ticket holders can enter through the stage door and receive their laminated backstage pass one hour before the show and enjoy the atmosphere, onstage bar and snack shack.
The 2016 line-up includes:
- Livingston Taylor – July 9 ($42.50)
- J. Croce – July 23 ($36.00)
- Peter Yarrow – August 6 ($40.50)
- John Sebastian – August 20 ($40.50)
Those looking for more than snacks can stroll around the North Eats Food Truck Park, which features up to seven trucks in residence and picnic tables in the sand under strands of twinkling lights that are just feet from the lapping waves. The trucks, depending on which ones are in, offer everything from pork roll to Peruvian cuisine and have featured organic pizzas, Korean tacos and Southern barbecue.
The theater is connected to historic Convention Hall, built in 1928 as an exhibition center. It includes a grand arcade where showgoers can dine at the Asbury Oyster Bar, which includes a raw bar and cocktails, and the Anchor’s Bend, an oceanfront bar and grill.
Picnic tables outside the Anchor’s Bend next to Convention Hall and the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park. Photo: Courtesy Paramount Theater
This summer‘s additional full-theater events at the Paramount will include Glen Burtnik’s British Invasion, the Happy Together Tour, and Darlene Love with La Bamba and The Hubcaps.
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