How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?- Page 6

[Vespertine1228]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 1:27pm

Aside from the houses with long-running tourist shows, I've been to all 40 theaters multiple times. A random sampling of what stands out the most recently from each space:

Ambassador - Chicago
American Airlines - Pajama Game/Importance of Being Earnest/Mrs. Warren's Profession
Brooks Atkinson - Rock of Ages/Hands on a Hardbody/The Odd Couple
Barrymore - Exit the King, Arcadia, Elling
Beaumont - Coast of Utopia trilogy, Ann, South Pacific
Belasco - Women on the Verge, Journey's End, Passing Strange
Booth - Next to Normal, Other Desert Cities, The Pillowman
Broadhurst - Hugh Jackman, Enron, Baby It's You
Broadway - Shrek, Color Purple, Promises Promises
Circle in the Square - Norman Conquests trilogy, Lombardi, Spelling Bee
Cort - Born Yesterday, Stick Fly, Homecoming
Foxwoods - Spiderman, Grinch, Young Frankenstein
Friedman - Mauritius, Good People, An Enemy of the People
Gershwin - Wicked
Golden - Avenue Q, Red, Normal Heart
Helen Heyes - Next Fall, Bridge and Tunnel, Jay Johnson
Hirschfeld - Sweet Charity, Tale of Two Cities, Hair
Imperial - Billy Elliot, August: Osage County, Coram Boy
Jacobs - Frost/Nixon, God of Carnage, Martin Short
Kerr - Seagull, A Little Night Music, Heiress
Longacre - La Cage, Magic/Bird, Boeing Boeing
Lunt-Fontanne - Addams Family, Little Mermaid
Lyceum - Nance, Title of Show, Souvenir
Majestic - Phantom
Marquis - Drowsy Chaperone, Donny and Marie, 9 to 5
Minskoff - Fiddler, multiple Easter Bonnets
Music Box - One Man Two Guvnors, Deuce, Jerusalem
Nederlander - Rent, Guys and Dolls, Million Dollar Quartet
New Amsterdam - Mary Poppins, multiple Gypsy of the Years
O'Neill - Book of Mormon, Fela, Spring Awakening
Palace - Lestat, Legally Blonde, West Side Story
Rodgers - Porgy and Bess, Bengal Tiger, In the Heights
St James - Bring It On, American Idiot, Leap of Faith
Schoenfeld - All My Sons, Chorus Line, Behanding in Spokane
Shubert - Memphis, Spamalot, Blithe Spirit
Neil Simon - Jesus Christ Superstar, Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can
Sondheim - Anything Goes, Pee-Wee Herman Show
Studio 54 - Harvey, People in the Picture, Ritz
August Wilson - Jersey Boys
Winter Garden - Mamma Mia

[theaterfan862]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 3:09pm

Thanks for sharing those beautiful pics with us Smaxie!! Both the Belasco and the New Amsterdam are stunning! I would also add the Golden now that it went through a fabulous transformation. As well as the Booth!

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 6:24pm

22 shows 15 theaters.

First show- Magic Show at the Court in 1977

Latest show- Follies at the Marquis in 2011

I've seen many more shows in LA and Boston, though.

[mormonophobic]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 6:35pm

35/40. I'm only missing August Wilson, Broadhurst, Majestic, Minskoff, and Winter Garden. Trying to tally everything brought back such nice memories. It was mentioned by best12bars earlier in this thread, but I love reading the "At This Theatre" part of the playbill and just imagining all the great actors and shows that played so many years ago.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 6:37pm

When I read the "At This Theater" section, I think of how my great grandparents, grandparents and their siblings were all at that theater at some point in it's history, enjoying a show as I'm about to do. I think of Merman's voice bouncing off the walls, and all the incredible moments that have happened in that house.

[Hairspray0901]

Posted: 8/22/13 at 10:15pm

I've been to 31 / 40 Broadway theatres. Pretty cool to think about!

Minskoff – The Lion King
Neil Simon – The Music Man / Hairspray / Ragtime / Scandalous
St. James – The Producers / Gypsy / American Idiot
Gershwin - Wicked
Helen Hayes - Xanadu
Palace – Legally Blonde /West Side Story/ Priscilla / Annie
Eugene O’neill – Spring Awakening
Studio 54 – Sunday In The Park With George / Pal joey / The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Circle In The Square – Glory Days / Godspell
August Wilson – Jersey Boys
Nederlander – Rent / Newsies
Brooks Atkinson – Grease / Rock of Ages / Peter & The Starcatcher
Lyceum – title of show
John Golden – Avenue Q
Broadway – Blast / Shrek / Promises Promises / Sister Act / Cinderella
Booth – Next To Normal / Other Desert Cities
Al Hirschfeld – Hair / Elf / How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Marquis – 9 to 5
Richard Rogers – In The Heights / Bengal Tiger At The Baghdad Zoo
Henry Miller’s (Stephen Sondheim) – Bye Bye Birdie / Anything Goes
Shubert - Memphis
Imperial – Billy Elliot / Nice Work If You Can Get It
Lunt Fontanne – The Addams Family / Ghost
Foxwoods - Spiderman
Ambassador - Chicago
Samuel J Friedman – Good People
Vivienne Beaumont – War Horse
Schoendeld – Bonnie & Clyde / The Best Man
Jacobs - Once
Barrymore - Chaplin
American Airlines - Picnic

MISSING – BELASCO , BROADHURST, CORT, WALTER KERR, LONGACRE, MAJESTIC, MUSIC BOX, NEW AMSTERDAM AND WINTER GARDEN

Posted: 8/23/13 at 12:52am

17 theaters/21 shows. I have a long way to go!

Al Hirschfeld - How to Succeed
August Wilson - Jersey Boys
Broadway - Cinderella, Promises, Promises
Gershwin - Wicked
Helen Hayes - Xanadu
Imperial - Nice Work If You Can Get It
Lunt-Fontanne - Beauty and the Beast
Marquis - Evita
Nederlander - Newsies
Neil Simon - Catch Me If You Can, Hairspray
New Amsterdam - Mary Poppins
Palace - Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Richard Rodgers - In the Heights, Tarzan
Shubert - Memphis
Stephen Sondheim - Anything Goes, Bye Bye Birdie
Studio 54 - The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Winter Garden - Mamma Mia

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 8/23/13 at 1:54am

Ambassador - Chicago
American Airlines - Picnic
Broadway - Sister Act
Circle in the Square - Rocky Horror
Gershwin - Oklahoma!
Helen Heyes - Rock of Ages
Hirschfeld - Kinky Boots
Marquis - Millie
O'Neill - Book of Mormon
Schoenfeld - Glengarry Glen Ross
Sondheim - Anything Goes
Studio 54 - Drood
Longacre- First Date (As of Sunday)

[budfrump]

Posted: 8/23/13 at 2:08am

Neil Simon- Catch Me If You Can
Broadway- Sister Act, Cinderella
Lyceum- La Cage Aux Folles
Music Box- Pippin
Nederlander- Newsies
Shubert- Matilda
Al Hirschfeld- How to Succeed

Only 7! All amazing experiences though! I'll eventually get to them all!

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 8/23/13 at 10:28am

Visited 4 more since May, bringing the total to 37 out of 40. Still haven't been to:

Vivian Beaumont
New Amsterdam
Gerard Shoenfeld

I hope to catch Bridges of Madison County at the Shoenfeld next year.

[broadwayghost1]

Posted: 8/24/13 at 12:24pm

17

Alvin (neil simon)
Uris (gershwin)
Broadway
Imperial
Majestic
Helen Hayes
Ford Center (foxwoods)
Barrymoore
Lunt Fontanne
Palace
New Amsterdam
Winter Garden
Long Acre
Martin Beck (Al Hirshfeld)
Shubert
August Wilson
St James

[landryjames2]

Posted: 8/24/13 at 2:51pm

I never thought about this question, but it's interesting. After looking through the list of the theaters, I'm quite certain that I've been to them all. Perhaps minus one.

[Kempster]

Posted: 8/24/13 at 3:26pm

I have been in 37 of the 40 theaters. The 3 I missed are Belasco, Circle in the Square and Stephen Sondheim. I had tickets to Anything Goes at the Sondheim but when we got there all 4 of the stars booked off for the show so we turned in our tixs for a refund

[strawberry]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 12:45am

I've been to 18 so far.

Beaumont: South Pacific
Booth: Next to Normal
Broadhurst: Hugh Jackman
Broadway: Cinderella
Brooks Atkinson: Rock of Ages, Peter and the Starcatcher
Foxwoods: Spiderman
Gershwin: Wicked
Al Hirshfeld: Elf
Imperial: Billy Elliott
Lunt-Fontanne: Ghost, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast
Majestic: Phantom of the Opera
Nederlander: Newsies
New Amsterdam: Lion King
Richard Rodgers: In The Heights
Schubert: Memphis
Neil Simon: Catch Me If You Can, Hairspray
August Wilson: Jersey Boys
Winter Garden: Mamma Mia

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 1:44am

Smaxie, those photos are BEAUTIFUL. Thanks for sharing.

[beensince1987]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 3:02am

Here are mine, and first shows I saw in these theatres...

Ambassador - Dreamgirls
American Airlines - Design For Living
Brooks Atkinson - Death And The Maiden
Barrymore - Lettice And Lovage
Beaumont - Six Degrees Of Separation
Belasco - Hamlet
Booth - Tru
Broadhurst - Aspects Of Love
Broadway - Les Miserables
Circle In The Square - Garden District
Cort - Two Shakespearean Actors
Foxwoods - Ragtime
Friedman - Sight Unseen
Gershwin - Showboat
Golden - Falsettos
Hayes - Prelude To A Kiss
Hirshfeld - Grand Hotel
Imperial - Jerome Robbins' Broadway
Jacobs - Lend Me A Tenor
Kerr - Angels In America: Millennium Approaches
Longacre - The Young Man From Atlanta
Lunt-Fontanne - An Evening With Harry Connick, Jr.
Lyceum - The Gin Game
Majestic - The Phantom Of The Opera
Marquis - Gypsy
Minskoff - Cabaret
Music Box - A Few Good Man
Nederlander - Rent
New Amsterdam - The Lion King
O'Neill - Grease!
Palace - La Cage Aux Folles
Rogers - The Merchant Of Venice
St. James - The Secret Garden
Schoenfeld - The Heidi Chronicles
Shubert - A Chorus Line
Simon - Kenny Loggins On Broadway
Sondheim - Anything Goes
Studio 54 - Cabaret
Wilson - City Of Angels
Winter Garden - Cats

Criterion Center Stage Right - A Month In The Country

[Libby1209]

Posted: 8/27/13 at 6:38am

I'm at 28 out of 40, which is more than I thought. (Not listing out all of the shows...)

[theaterfan862]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:19am

BUMP!!!!

Sunday I attended the opening night of No Mans Land/Waiting For Godot at the Cort so therefore my quest to go to all 40 theaters on Broadway is now complete!!! It was great that for my last remaining theater I got to see Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart on stage together!!!Have any of you checked a few theaters of your list since you last posted this thread?

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:23am

Lunt-Fontanne
August Wilson
Brooks Atkinson
Neil Simon
Shubert
Winter Garden
Imperial
Al Hirschfeld
Stephen Sondheim
Palace

Bonus:
Gershwin-Wicked Backstage Tour
Music Box-Stage Doored Pippin

[gstrus2]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:39am

Broadway- Sister Act, Cinderella
Gershwin- Wicked (x2)
Richard Rogers- Porgy and Bess, Romeo and Juliet
Foxwoods- Spiderman
Eugene O'Neill- Book of Mormon (x2)
St. James- Bring It On (x2)
August Wilson- Jersey Boys
Imperial- Nice Work (x2)
Nederlander- Newsies (x2)
Marquis- Evita, Jekyll and Hyde
New Amsterdam- Mary Poppins
Brooks Atkinson- Peter and the Starcatcher, Hands on a Hardbody
Barrymore- Chaplin (x2), Macbeth
Longacre- The Performers, First Date (x2)
Al Hirschfeld- Elf, Kinky Boots (x2)
Studio 54- Drood (x2)
Helen Hayes- Rock of Ages (x2)
Palace- Annie (x2)
Ambassador- Chicago
Neil Simon- Scandalous (x2), Big Fish
Lunt Fontanne- A Christmas Story, Motown
Bernard Jacobs- Once
Majestic- Phantom
Shubert- Matilda (x3)
Music Box- Pippin (x2)
Booth- I'll Eat You Last, Glass Menagerie
Golden- Vanya Sonia Masha and Spike
Schoenfeld- Orphans
Sondheim- Trip to Bountiful
Lyceum- Nance
Broadhurst- Lucky Guy
Winter Garden- Mamma Mia
Minskoff- Lion King

Soon: Walter Kerr (Gentleman's Guide in December), American Airlines (Violet in Spring), Cort (If Rumoured Realistic Jonses goes there), Belasco (Hedwig in April).

Only 2 left: Vivian Beaumont (Interested in Act One) and Friedman (Interested in Casa Valentina), and Circle in the Square

[dreaming]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 11:47am

If it's just the theaters now present (not the Uris or those which pre-dated my time), then I have indeed been to ALL of them, including the Ambassador (which I didn't KNOW I'd been to):

Ambassador: Hedda Gabler (2001)
August Wilson (also was there when it was the Virginia): Saw Smokey Joe's Cafe when it was the Virginia and Jersey Boys as the Wilson
Belasco: The Dead, among other plays
Booth: Lots of stuff, recently Glass Menagerie and Other Desert Cities
Broadhurst: Mary Stuart, Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway (among others)
Broadway: Cinderella, Sister Act, Les Mis, Miss Saigon
Brooks Atkinson: Peter and the Starcatcher, Grease
Cort: Fences among other plays (The Lyons)
Circle in the Square: Soul Doctor, The Miracle Worker
Foxwoods: Saw Ragtime here when it was the Ford Center, saw Young Frankenstein
Friedman: Saw MTC productions here when it was the Biltmore (LoveMusik), also saw Pitmen Painters after the name was changed, as well as Venus in Fur
Gershwin: Candide, Wicked
Golden: The Normal Heart, Avenue Q
Hayes: Xanadu
Hirschfeld: Saw Kiss Me, Kate when it was the Beck, and I saw Hair and Kinky Boots after it changed over
Imperial: Billy Elliot, Les Mis, August: Osage County
Jacobs: Once
Kerr: The Heiress, Clybourne Park
Longacre - La Cage Aux Follies
Lunt-Fontanne - The Little Mermaid, Ghost
Lyceum - The Nance, Venus in Fur
Majestic - The Phantom Of The Opera
Marquis - Follies, Evita
Minskoff - Sunset Boulevard
Music Box - August: Osage County, Pippin
Nederlander - Rent, Newsies, Million Dollar Quartet
New Amsterdam - The Lion King, Mary Poppins
O'Neill - The Book of Mormon, Spring Awakening (and several plays)
Palace - Liza's at the Palace, Priscilla
Rogers - Romeo and Juliet, In the Heights, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
St. James - The Secret Garden, Gypsy
Schoenfeld - Bonnie and Clyde, Mother with the Hat, The Best Man
Shubert - Chicago, Gypsy (Bernadette Peters), Matilda
Simon - Big Fish, Jesus Christ Superstar
Sondheim - Anything Goes, The Trip to Bountiful
Studio 54 - Pretty much all Roundabout shows (saw Edwin Drood here last season)
Winter Garden - Cats
and Lincoln Center (Beaumont): South Pacific, all three Coast of Utopia plays, War Horse








Updated On: 8/7/14 at 11:47 AM

[carousel94]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 1:00pm

Ok so I am a bit of a list maniac! I love to keep track of what I see on Broadway, and I am currently working on my Off-Broadway master list, but here is what I've got as of Nov 17, 2013. Each theatre is numbered in the order in which I first attended a performance there. The fraction that follows the theatre name is the number of productions above the total performances seen.

1. Palace: 3/5
Beauty and the Beast
- July 1994
Beauty and the Beast
- April 1996
Legally Blonde
- August 2007
Legally Blonde
- August 2007
West Side Story
- June 2010

2. Neil Simon: 3/4
The King and I
- January 1998
Hairspray
- June 2005
Hairspray
- August 2006
Ragtime
- October 2009

3. Lunt-Fontanne: 3/3
Titanic
- March 1999 Final Performance
Beauty and the Beast
- February 2006
The Little Mermaid
- December 2007

4. New Amsterdam: 2/2
The Lion King
- November 2000
Mary Poppins
- September 2007
+++Special Events+++
Hercules
- June 1997 World Premiere
Gypsy of the Year 
- December 2012

5. Richard Rodgers: 4/5
Movin' Out
- December 2003
Tarzan
- May 2006
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
- September 2012
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- December 2012
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- January 2013 Opening Night

6. Majestic: 1/2
The Phantom of the Opera
- December 2003
The Phantom of the Opera
- September 2011

7. Minksoff: 2/4
Fiddler on the Roof
- April 2005
Fiddler on the Roof
- November 2005
The Lion King
- September 2006
The Lion King
- November 2013

8. St. James: 4/7
The Producers
- April 2005
The Producers
- May 2005
The Producers
- December 2005
Gypsy
- April 2008
American Idiot
- April 2011
American Idiot
- April 2011
Bring It On
- September 2012

9. Circle in the Square: 1/1
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- May 2005 Final Preview

10. Al Hirschfeld: 4/5
Sweet Charity
- May 2005
Curtains
- April 2007
Curtains
- June 2008
Hair
- June 2009
Elf
- November 2012

11. Virginia/August Wilson: 2/2
Little Women
- May 2005
Jersey Boys
- September 2012

12. Marquis: 4/4
La Cage aux Folles
- June 2005
The Drowsy Chaperone
- April 2006
Irving Berlin's White Christmas
- December 2008
Follies
- November 2011

13. Broadhurst: 3/3
Lennon
- July 2005
Les Misérables
- November 2007
Mary Stuart
- August 2009

14. Gershwin: 1/1
Wicked
- July 2005

15. Hilton: 2/2
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- July 2005
Young Frankenstein
- November 2007

16. Ambassador: 1/2
Chicago
- July 2005
Chicago
- April 2007

17. Brooks Atkinson: 4/5
The Odd Couple
- October 2005 First Preview
The Odd Couple
- October 2005
Peter and the Starcatcher
- June 2012
Hands on a Hardbody
- March 2013 Opening Night
After Midnight
- November 2013

18. Eugene O'Neill: 4/4
Sweeney Todd
- November 2005
Spring Awakening
- April 2007
Fela!
- June 2010
The Book of Mormon
- September 2012

19. Gerald Schoenfeld: 2/3
Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life
- January 2006
A Chorus Line
- December 2007
A Chorus Line
- March 2008

20. Imperial: 3/4
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- April 2006
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- June 2006
Billy Elliot
- November 2011
Nice Work If You Can Get It
- September 2012

21. John Golden: 3/3
Avenue Q
- July 2006
Red
- June 2010
The Normal Heart
- April 2011

22. Nederlander: 3/3
Rent
- August 2006
Guys and Dolls
- March 2009
Newsies
- May 2013

23. Ethel Barrymore: 1/1
Company
- December 2006

24. Walter Kerr: 6/8
Grey Gardens
- April 2007
A Catered Affair
- April 2008
A Little Night Music
- February 2010
A Little Night Music
- October 2010
A Little Night Music
- December 2010
The Heiress
- October 2012
The Testament of Mary
- April 2013
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
- November 2013

25. Shubert: 2/2
Monty Python's Spamalot
- July 2007
Blithe Spirit
- April 2009

26. Studio 54: 3/4
110 in the Shade
- July 2007
Sunday in the Park with George
- January 2008
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- December 2012
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- January 2013

27. Lyceum: 2/3
[title of show]
- September 2008
[title of show]
- September 2008
The Scottsboro Boys
- December 2010

28. The Music Box: 2/2
August: Osage County
- September 2008
Pippin
- May 2013

29. Vivian Beaumont: 3/3
South Pacific
- November 2008
A Free Man of Color
- November 2010
War Horse
- November 2012

30. Winter Garden: 1/1
Mamma Mia!
- October 2009

31. Broadway: 2/2
Promises, Promises
- May 2010
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
- June 2013

32. Booth: 3/3
next to normal
- May 2010
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- November 2012
The Glass Menagerie
- October 2013

33. Belasco: 2/2
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
- December 2010
Golden Boy
- December 2012

34. Longacre: 1/1
La Cage aux Folles
- February 2011

35. Stephen Sondheim: 1/1
Anything Goes
- April 2011

36. Samuel J Friedman: 2/2
The Columnist
- July 2012
The Other Place
- February 2013

37. American Airlines: 1/1
Cyrano de Bergerac
- September 2012

38. Bernard B Jacobs: 1/1
Once
- January 2013


Still To Visit:
Cort
Helen Hayes

Only 2 more to go!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 3:48pm

I was also in the old Helen Hayes and Morosco before they came down.

[MCfan2]

Posted: 11/27/13 at 5:00pm

Fun thread! To the best of my recollection:

Shubert: Crazy for You
Gershwin: Show Boat
Marquis: Thoroughly Modern Millie
Booth: Next to Normal
Schoenfeld: A Steady Rain
Ambassador: Chicago
Studio 54: Edwin Drood
Majestic: Phantom

Got quite a few left to go!

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 11/28/13 at 12:26am

I've been to all except:
American Airlines
Gerald Schoenfeld (going to see Bridges of Madison County soon so I'll have one more down)
Cort
Ethel Barrymore
Samuel J. Friedman
and I'm going to pretend that Tarzan never happened, so the Richard Rodgers as well.