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Local Theater Paying Tribute To Prince With Screenings Of 'Purple Rain'

DETROIT (WWJ) - Within hours of the news of the death of iconic musical artist and performer Prince - a Detroit theater announces they'll show screenings of the pop artist's 1984 film "Purple Rain."

Cinema Detroit announced on Facebook that they'll pay a special tribute to Prince next week.

With a post echoing the first line of the Prince song 'Let's Go Crazy' Cinema Detroit reached out to friends:

Dearly beloved, we will gather here next week to celebrate this thing called ‪Prince‬'s life... PURPLE RAIN starts Monday, April 25.

The Detroit theater is screening the movie "Purple Rain."  The movie will run at 8 p.m. each night Monday through Friday at the theater on Third Street in midtown.

A central figure of Minnesota culture - the lights on the Lowry Avenue Bridge in his native state will be purple this evening.

Prince Rogers Nelson was found dead on Thursday at his Paisley Park compound in Minnesota. Authorities say that he was found in an elevator and was unresponsive to treatment. Further details about the cause of death were not immediately known. He was 57.

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