This is the first time I have heard about this project. It looks like this has been a somewhat long-gestating project and the Playbill feature focuses more on what is happening to the Times Square Street theatre .
From an article from Playbill in 2012 -- some details:
www.playbill.com/news/article/160959-Broadways-Times-Square-Theater-Will-Be-Renovated-for-Broadway-Sensation-Film-Show
>>>> The renovation of the Times Square Theater [b]for the new multimedia show — Broadway Sensation — A 4D Musical Spectacular, created by Broadway producer Gary Goddard and Hollywood filmmaker Bryan Singer ("X-Men") [/b]— will meet the historic preservation requirements established by New York State, New York City and The New 42nd Street redevelopment project...
Cora Cahan, president of New 42nd Street, the landlord of seven theatres on the block (Disney owns the New Amsterdam), told Playbill.com on March 21 that she was glad to have a tenant that will maintain the venue as a theatre...
The target date for opening for the new Times Square Theater is "late spring or early summer of 2013."
The film experience will feature "the greatest songs from the greatest Broadway musicals, penned by the most famous songwriters, including Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kander and Ebb, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin as well as many others" and "will be performed by Broadway and Hollywood stars." It's billed as "a spectacular immersive experience."
It was not immediately clear if live actors would be incorporated into the experience, but audiences will be offered a "backstage experience" in which "patrons will enter through the theatre's original stage door, once reserved only for actors and crew, and be treated to a pre-show in an authentically rigged backstage environment."
The façade on 42nd Street will feature "a spectacular 20-by-100-foot technologically advanced marquee."...<<<
Hope the project is now close to opening within the year? Bryan Singer is likely very busy doing post production now for the upcoming release of the new movie XMEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST ( with Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Halle Berry, Jennifer Lawrence, Ellen Paige, among others with Hugh Jackman).
Updated On: 3/2/14 at 08:21 PM
