Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This boisterous, creative production of the classic backstage musical wraps up the summer season at Matunuck in high style.
In June 1980, the musical premiered in out-of-town tryouts at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which is located in Washington, D.C. [4] The musical opened on Broadway on August 25, 1980, at the Winter Garden Theatre, [5] and then moved to the Majestic and finally to the St. James, closing on January 8, 1989, after 3,486 performances and 6 previews.
The City at 42nd Street plan was announced in December 1979 as part of a proposal to restore West 42nd Street around Times Square. [50] [51] Under the plan, the old Apollo Theatre would continue to be used as a legitimate theater, operated by Brandt Theatres. The Lyric Theatre's facade would be restored, but the interior would be modified.
42nd Street in 1985 Times Square, showing the Lyric, one of several grindhouses at the time. A grindhouse or action house [1] is an American term for a theatre that mainly shows low-budget horror, splatter, and exploitation films for adults. According to historian David Church, this theater type was named after the "grind policy", a film ...
The Apollo Theatre was a Broadway theatre whose entrance was located at 223 West 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City, while the theatre proper was on 43rd Street.It was demolished in 1996 and provided part of the site for the new Ford Center for the Performing Arts, now known as the Lyric Theatre.
The 42nd Street Company was established in 1961 to operate the Brandts' seven theaters on 42nd Street. [142] [143] By the early 1960s, the surrounding block had decayed, but many of the old theater buildings from the block's heyday remained, including the Times Square. [144] Martin Levine and Richard Brandt took over the 42nd Street Company in ...
The main entrance and lobby are in the New 42nd Street Building on 42nd Street, while the auditorium is on a separate lot to the north on 43rd Street. [3] The New 42nd Street Building occupies a rectangular lot covering around 7,538 sq ft (700.3 m 2 ), with a frontage of 75 ft (23 m) on 42nd Street [ a ] and a depth of 100 ft 5 in (30.61 m).
[58] [59] Patterson said that the 42nd Street location was ideal, as it was on the same street as Times Square, where the rival Times 's headquarters were located. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] The Daily News bought a 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m 2 ) tract facing 41st and 42nd streets, between Second and Third avenues, on February 3, 1928, from the Tishman ...