{"id":396593,"date":"2026-09-11T05:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396593\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T05:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:48:21","slug":"featuring-a-spectacular-stairway-to-nowhere-built-for-grand-entrances-this-legendary-5-star-miami-beach-resort-hosted-frank-sinatra-and-starred-in-over-20-hollywood-blockb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396593\/","title":{"rendered":"Featuring a spectacular \u201cStairway to Nowhere\u201d built for grand entrances, this legendary 5-star Miami Beach resort hosted Frank Sinatra \u2014 and starred in over 20 Hollywood blockbusters including \u2018Goldfinger\u2019, \u2018Scarface\u2019 and \u2018The Bodyguard\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Featuring<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBackground: Phillip Pessar via Flickr | Foreground images: Universal PicturesDerivative work: Logovectorizer and MGM via Wikicommons<\/p>\n

Fontainebleau Miami Beach is an iconic Miami institution in many ways. Even if you have never stayed in the legendary 5-star<\/a> oceanfront resort, the landmark has appeared on the big screen in Goldfinger, Scarface and The Bodyguard, while its famously theatrical interiors have their own stories to tell.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But this Halloween, the big-screen drama is coming to life in a different way. Surrounded in the atmospheric glow of candlelight<\/a>, some of the season\u2019s most recognisable classics will come to life, performed by a string quartet. It\u2019s one hell of a spooky night with one of Miami Beach\u2019s most famous backdrops setting the scene.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCandlelight: Halloween Classics\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

A Miami hotel designed for a grand entrance<\/p>\n

\"\"The original \u201cStairway to Nowhere\u201d at Fontainebleau Miami Beach | Sourced from Wikicommons<\/p>\n

When the hotel opened in 1954, architect Morris Lapidus had impressive theatrical plans. The eleven-storey resort was designed around sweeping curves and dramatic spaces, and its original ballroom could accommodate around 3,000 guests.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most famous example is the \u201cStairway to Nowhere\u201d, which leads guests upwards to a small cloakroom before bringing them back down into the lobby. It was designed to give guests the chance to make a grand entrance and show off their evening attire, very much in keeping with Fontainebleau Miami Beach\u2019s reputation for spectacle.<\/p>\n

From James Bond to Sinatra, Fontainebleau has a Hollywood history<\/p>\n

Fontainebleau Miami Beach\u2019s guestbook reads like a roll call of entertainment history. Frank Sinatra became a regular, while Elvis Presley, Jerry Lewis, Paul Anka and Sammy Davis Jr. were among the performers who appeared at the hotel.<\/p>\n

The hotel\u2019s connection to Hollywood is just as impressive. Fontainebleau Miami Beach appeared prominently in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, and went on to feature in films including Tony Rome, Scarface, The Bodyguard and Analyze This. According to the hotel, it has appeared in more than 20 films and television shows over the years.<\/p>\n

So while Halloween might bring ghosts and monsters to mind, Fontainebleau Miami Beach already has plenty of stories from its decades in the spotlight. This October, the setting gets a new soundtrack.<\/p>\n

A legendary venue for a concert this Halloween<\/p>\n

And this is where Fontainebleau Miami Beach\u2019s flair for drama comes into play. Candlelight: Halloween Classics will bring the Listeso String Quartet into the resort, with thousands of candles surrounding a programme packed with music that has been making audiences uneasy for decades.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all about sinister tricks in the music\u2019s composition. Saint-Sa\u00ebns\u2019 \u201cDanse Macabre\u201d uses the historically \u201cdiabolical\u201d tritone to announce Death, while the uneven 7\/8 rhythm of the Tubular Bells passage from The Exorcist never quite settles. Shostakovich\u2019s Eighth String Quartet builds tension through insistent strings and dissonance, while the repeating figure in the Stranger Things theme gradually takes on a darker quality.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pexels | Konstantin Mishchenko<\/p>\n

Alongside these pieces, the programme includes John Carpenter\u2019s Halloween theme, Bernard Herrmann\u2019s Psycho Prelude, the Beetlejuice theme, \u201cNight on Bald Mountain\u201d and \u201cIn the Hall of the Mountain King.\u201d<\/p>\n

And thankfully, Halloween isn\u2019t all ominous strings. \u201cThriller,\u201d \u201cGhostbusters,\u201d The Addams Family theme and a medley from The Nightmare Before Christmas bring some more playful energy to the evening.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also another chance to catch Candlelight\u2019s Halloween programme at Scottish Rite Temple MIA<\/a>, giving Miami audiences two iconic settings to choose from for a night of spooky music and classic Halloween anthems.<\/p>\n

For a Halloween celebration away from the usual party chaos, this concert offers an evening of music inside a venue with years of stories behind it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCandlelight: Halloween Classics\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCandlelight: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Fontainebleau may not have a resident ghost, but its history is hardly short on drama. From James Bond\u2019s deadly encounter in Goldfinger to decades of late-night celebrity revelry, the hotel has plenty of stories lurking in its past. Time to add yours to it this Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Background: Phillip Pessar via Flickr | Foreground images: Universal PicturesDerivative work: Logovectorizer and MGM via Wikicommons Fontainebleau Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-396593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}