history of broadway theaters in nyc
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Broadway Theatre (53rd Street) The Broadway Theatre (formerly Universal's Colony Theatre, B.S. Moss' Broadway Theatre, Earl Carroll's Broadway Theatre, and Ciné Roma) is a Broadway theatre located in midtown Manhattan. It has a large seating capacity of 1,761, and unlike most Broadway theaters, it is actually located on Broadway, at number 1681.
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Orpheum Theatre (Boston) Boston Music Hall, Empire Theatre, Aquarius. Address. The Orpheum Theatre is a music venue located at 1 Hamilton Place in Boston, Massachusetts. One of the oldest theaters in the United States, it was built in 1852 and was originally known as the Boston Music Hall, the original home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The concert hall was converted for use as a vaudeville theater in 1900. It was renamed the Orpheum Theatre in 1906.
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Broadway theatre This article is about the type of theatre called Broadway. For the street for which it is named, see Broadway (Manhattan). For the individual theatre of this name, see Broadway Theatre (53rd Street). The Golden Theatre, Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre and Booth Theatre on West 45th Street in Manhattan's Theater District.
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- Broadway Hotel 2 stars. 230 West 101 Street, Upper West Side, New York City, NY 10023, United States of America – Show map. After booking, all of the property’s details, including telephone and address, are provided in your booking confirmation and your account.
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- Created as part of the John D Rockefeller III-led urban regeneration project for the Lincoln Square area, the development was constructed in the years between 1959 and 1966 and houses 30 of NYC's most famous arts and cultural centers of excellence. 1  Alice Tully Hall. 2  Allen Room.
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- 42nd Street. The quintessential backstage musical comedy classic, 42nd Street is a song and dance fable of Broadway with an American Dream story that includes some of the greatest songs ever written, such as “We’re In The Money”, “Lullaby of Broadway”, “Shuffle Off To Buffalo”, “I Only Have Eyes For You” and of course “42nd Street”.
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âGreaseâ Facts And Trivia Before The Live Fox Musical Event The part ended up going to Frankie Avalon. 3. Broadway: People automatically associate “Grease” with the 1978 film, but it was a musical before it became a hit film. It was first performed in Chicago in 1971, and had two Broadway revivals in 1994 and 2007. It’s one of the longest-running shows on Broadway.
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New York (state) The Broadway Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City. According to The Broadway League, Broadway shows sold a record US$1.36 billion worth of tickets in 2014, an increase of 14% over the previous year. Attendance in 2014 stood at 13.13 million, a 13% increase over 2013.
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It's in NYC (of course), but the other reasons for its success aren't so obvious: there are no special tricks (gourmet meals aren't here), lots of unusual choices (art films!), and a commando-like operation. Most of the patrons walking into the Empire also have no idea of its history. In the lobby, they are actually standing inside the shell of the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre, which opened Sept. 11, 1912, and was named in honor of the most popular female impersonator of the time, Julian Eltinge.
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ContactLog In0888-602-7328 18th Century. The origins of Broadway history in New York did not begin until 1750 when Thomas Kean and Walter Murray opened a theater company on Nassau Street. This theater was large enough to hold 280 patrons and typically put on Shakespearian plays and ballad operas.
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Theater fans, rejoice: New site will let you stream Broadway shows to all of your devices 2015-10-26 12:30:41 UTC. Movies has Netflix, TV has Hulu, and now the theater world is joining the streaming game. Starting today, BroadwayHD is launching an on-demand streaming service for theatrical productions. Founded by veteran, Tony-award winning Broadway producers Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley, BroadwayHD follows a long tradition of in-cinema and network-partnered stage-to-screen events.
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- Founded in 1824 on Broadway and Houston Street, it burned down in 1851 and was quickly rebuilt by 1852. A beautiful 1837 painting by George Harvey entitled Nightfall, St. Thomas Church, Broadway, New York, depicts the original church, and is on display at the Museum of the City of New York.
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Broadway Theatre (53rd Street) Broadway Theatre (53rd Street) This article is about an individual theatre of this name. For theatre district and the collection of 500+ seat theatres in New York City that are referred to as Broadway, see Broadway theatre. Entrance, showing The Color Purple. The Broadway Theatre during the run of Sister Act, ca. 2011.
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List of Broadway Theaters List of Broadway Theaters. The seating charts and theater information links below will take you to the New York Theater Experience, the internet source for information about the new york city theatre scene (www.nytheatre.com). Ambassador Theater, 219 W. 49th St. (btw. Broadway & 8th Ave.) see seating chart...
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Center Theatre (New York City) The Center Theatre was a theater located at 1230 Sixth Avenue, the southeast corner of West 49th Street in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Seating 3500, it was originally designed as a movie palace in 1932 and later achieved fame as a showcase for live musical ice-skating spectacles.It was demolished in 1954, the only building in the original Rockefeller Center complex to have been torn down.his venture was headed by G.S. Eyssell, executive manager of Rockefeller Center, and Arthur M. Wirtz, of Chicago. An ice stage 100 feet (31 m) wide with a skating surface of 7,000 square feet (663 m²) was built in the theater.
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Minskoff Theatre The Minskoff Theatre is a Broadway theatre, located at 1515 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan. It is currently home to the musical The Lion King, based on the Disney animated film of the same name.
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- At the time of its closing the production will have played a total of 20,672 performances in NYC. After 55 years, off-Broadway's longest-running musical, The Fantasticks, will shutter on May 3. At the time of its closing the production will have played a total of 20,672 performances in NYC: 17,162 at the Sullivan Street Playhouse and 3,510 performances at the Snapple Theater Center. Directed by Tom Jones, The Fantasticks has a book and lyrics by Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt.
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11 Longest-Running Broadway Shows The show opened in October 2001, at a time when the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks left New Yorkers and tourists alike craving upbeat excuses to celebrate the city. With 5,773 performances under its (sequined) belt, the musical made history as Broadway’s eighth longest-running production.
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Broadway theatre Hundreds of musical comedies were staged on Broadway in the 1890s and early 1900s made up of songs written in New York's Tin Pan Alley involving composers such as Gus Edwards, John Walter Bratton, and George M. Cohan (Little Johnny Jones (1904), 45 Minutes From Broadway (1906), and George Washington Jr. (1906)).
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What are the Longest Running Broadway Shows? Several of the longest running shows are still playing today. The Phantom of the Opera. The longest-running show in Broadway history officially opened on January 26, 1988 and is still playing at the Majestic The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical won 7 1988 Tony Awards® including Best Musical.
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- The musical is a reimagining of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet that explores the rivalry between the Sharks and the Jets, two street gangs in 1950s New York. It debuted on Broadway in 1957 and was nominated for five Tony Awards. The 1961 film starring Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer earned a Best Picture Oscar.
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- Here is a list I found online with the top 100 longest running musicals in Broadway history. I'm not sure how up-to-date it is, because number 100 was Annie Get Your Gun from 1999-2000. Of course, number 1 was Phantom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest-running_Broadway_shows. They all call me a troll.
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Off Broadway (band) This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) Off Broadway is an American rock band founded by Paul Darrow, Cliff Johnson, Paul McDermott, John Pazdan and Dan Santercola in 1977 in Oak Park, Illinois.
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Broadway Theatre Map With the exception of one theater (the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Center in the West 60s), all of the New York City theaters designated as Broadway Theaters are located in the Times Square theater district.
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History of NYC Streets: The Great White Way The first true performance space in New York was the Theatre on Nassau Street, which was located just east of Broadway; the theater, which hosted NYC’s first musical production (The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay) on December 3, 1750, was built in 1732 and run by actor-managers Walter Murray and Thomas Kean until it was torn down and replaced by a ...