Booth Theater overhaul

[Ryguy7]

Booth Theater overhaul#1

Posted: 4/30/11 at 10:47am

Did a quick search, couldn't find anyone posting about this yet. I walked by the Booth theater yesterday to find them ripping out the seats and throwing them in a trash compactor..

Looks like the theater is getting a renovation. Probably be a good thing - I know lots of people found those seats uncomfortable..

[bwayfan7000]

Booth Theater overhaul#2

Posted: 4/30/11 at 11:06am

Wow! This is surprising to me. I found the Booth to be one of the most comfortable theatres on Broadway...

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim

[madlibrarian]

Booth Theater overhaul#2

Posted: 4/30/11 at 12:38pm

Wow. They are probably installing new narrower seats in tighter rows to increase seating capacity. Sightlines and comfort being unimportant, of course.

On a side note, if the Booth is under renovation, we lack one theater appropriate to Peter and the Starcatchers or You Can't Take It With You or a re-opening of Scottsboro Boys or ....

[Bettyboy72]

Booth Theater overhaul#3

Posted: 4/30/11 at 12:59pm

I love the layout of the Booth. I love the center aisle. I imagine they will take that out As for the seats though, they did feel like sitting on cement slabs.

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

[Jordan Catalano]

Booth Theater overhaul#4

Posted: 4/30/11 at 1:32pm

The Broadhurst needs to do this next in the next month or so as well to give more than 2 1/2 inches of leg room.

[everythingtaboo]

Booth Theater overhaul#5

Posted: 4/30/11 at 1:53pm

The seats are roomy but not the most comfortable. I'm sure the new seats will be so tiny Susan Lucci would find it a tight squeeze.

The seating the Broadhurst is an embarrassment.

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[Smaxie]

Booth Theater overhaul#6

Posted: 4/30/11 at 1:56pm

I hope the Booth is getting a full face lift, like the Shubert, Music Box, Winter Garden, Longacre and Belasco Theaters have received. The Booth appears to be one of the victims of the mushroom soup beige and baby diaper brown color scheme pogroms that the Shuberts inflicted on many of their theatres in the 60s and 70s.

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[madlibrarian]

Booth Theater overhaul#7

Posted: 4/30/11 at 2:51pm

Come to think of it: isn't it odd to have scheduled and begun an overhaul less than a week after High bombed?

[aasjb4ever]

Booth Theater overhaul#8

Posted: 4/30/11 at 8:24pm

I assume the Shubert Organization was already planning on renovating the theatre, and they were going to carry it out once the current tenant closed.

[aasjb4ever]

Booth Theater overhaul#9

Posted: 5/20/11 at 11:44pm

Bumpers. Any news on the renovation?