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used the Lyceum for exteriors.
The various lobby areas of the Minskoff are used in The Turning Point (1977). I am not sure if the interior of the house is used or not.
The interior of The New Amsterdam before renovation when it was severely water damaged from a roof leak is used in all of Vanya on 42nd Street.
Author! Author! (not a good film) also uses 45th Street with fake show plastics and there is snow. I think it is the Golden and the Royale. The snow is equally fake as the shooting happened in some non-winter season. The snow on the ground cost a pretty penny.
In the original Fame, the kid who lives alone in the loft with the Palace Theatre neon sign is actually in the old Palace Theatre office building that was 12 stories high, very narrow except for the 6th floor and either the 5th or 7th floor (That was where the Nederlander offices were and those floors were built over the actual theatre), and it rose over the lobby of the Palace. The office tower was torn down as well as the expanded floors removed when the hotel was built over it in the mid 80s. The theatre was also empty for about 3-4 years during construction.
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