Broadway Billboards corner 47th/7th- Page 2

[CapnHook]

Posted: 3/6/13 at 8:00pm

What were the final shows to be on that billboard? Is there a recent pic?

I know WICKED and PHANTOM were two...

[loliveve]

Posted: 3/6/13 at 8:22pm

I searched "Times Square February 2013" to see if I could find a recent picture, and this this came up as having been posted on Feb. 7, 2013:

[Mrs. Bumbrake]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 7:56am

I was there last Saturday and took a picture of it, mostly because it had Chaplin and Manilow on there and I figured it would change soon. The long one to the left was Chaplin. The four smaller square ones were Jersey Boys, Wicked, Nice Work and Phantom. The big one on 47th was Manilow.
It's so sad this is gone!

[TheaterBoy7777]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 12:49pm

The one ontop of the building was Mamma Mia

[TheaterBoy7777]

Posted: 3/8/13 at 5:01pm

Maybe I haven't noticed this before.But now on the SE corner above The Palace the digital billboard is hosting 4 broadway ads followed by commercials of each. They are 4 of the 6 shows that were on the SW corner building.

[madlibrarian]

Posted: 5/10/13 at 7:46pm

Greetings from out of town. Just thought I'd revive this thread and ask if there have been any more developments at the DeMille Theater corner. Any info appreciated; any photos would be thrillsville.

[TheaterBoy7777]

Posted: 5/10/13 at 8:39pm

I snapped this the other day, everything is now closed and boarded up. The office entrance was still being used and there were people inside.

[madlibrarian]

Posted: 5/10/13 at 9:01pm

Thanks, 7777. No doubt we shall see further developments.

I have a soft spot for that billboard because I'm old enough to remember the DeMille and even saw movies there! That billboard was devoted to movies from the '30s to the '70s. Among the films advertised there were Psycho, Hatari!, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (with a rotating pair of running legs supplementing the Ronald Searle art), the '68 War and Peace, Luv, Underwater, and (if memory serves) both Steve McQueen starrers The Great Escape and Nevada Smith. Or maybe I'm just fantasizing a fifty foot shirtless Steve McQueen.

Already gone are the Capitol, Warner, Criterion, State, Rivoli. The DeMille truly is the last of the Times Square cinema palaces. Pity it too is doomed.