Movie titles to appear again soon at CitiPlace

At a quick glance, while cruising past on Interstate 10 at 60 mph, the UA CitiPlace Stadium movie theater looks closed, the movie titles absent on its marquee facing the freeway. It has been that way since Hurricane Isaac, says Assistant Manager David Reynard. A CitiPlace employee who used to regularly post movie listings left his job just before the hurricane, and since the storm blew the lettering away, he says, a replacement hire has yet to start work. And if you think it’s a simple job that anyone could do, Reynard says you’d better think again. It takes training to put a movie usher on a motorized lift and let him raise it to the sky, he says. After that, the movie theater has to send a full training report back to its corporate office. But situation is likely to change soon, such that current movie titles again grace the marquee and distract motorists. Reynard says the theater just made a new hire and will have that person in training for the job as soon as Monday. —Adam Pearson