How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To? — Page 5

ALL OF 'EM + SOME TORN DOWN NOW (old Helen Hayes, Morosco, Rialto, New Apollo) or made into something else (Mark Hellinger, Century/Paramount), Edison.) The theatre that I haven't had a return visit to for the longest time? Lunt-Fontanne (since early 90's).

Updated On: 12/16/14 at 11:18 PM

The New Victory was built as a Broadway house and is in fact the oldest standing one-time Broadway theater, but it has since been a burlesque house, a movie house, and is currently an off-Broadway children's/family theater. It has not been a legit Broadway house since 1930.

According to IBDb, there were two Bijou theaters, both long since demolished.

Just a guess, the map at Joe Allen's is probably missing either the Sondheim, since it just reopened a couple years ago, or the Beaumont, since it is left off many maps due to its location.

Use this site: http://www.broadwayleague.com/index.php?url_identifier=broadway-theatres-in-nyc-1

That lists all currently operating Broadway theaters, with links to their IBDb pages so you can see all the shows that have played there.

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I've been to all 40.

Both my daughter and I have been to 38 out of the current 40.

But get this: our remaining pairs are different. She hasn't been to either the American Airlines or the Longacre, and I haven't been to either the Broadway or the New Amsterdam.

I went with a friend to Chinglish and The Big Knife, and she went with her mom to Shrek and Mary Poppins. Almost everything else we've seen together.

Update: We saw Violet and First Date last season so my daughter has now been to all 40 theaters. I think I'll go see Cinderella when Judy Kaye goes in, but that still leaves the New Amsterdam unvisited on my list.

a list of Broadway Theatres in NYC

Updated On: 8/11/14 at 05:33 PM

22 of 40--
Brooks Atkinson-Hands on a Hardbody
Ethel Barrymore-An Evening with Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin
Vivian Beaumont-South Pacific & WarHorse
Booth-Next to Normal
Broadway-Promises, Promises & Sister Act
Foxwoods-Young Frankenstein & Spiderman-Turn Off the Dark (twice)
Gershwin-Wicked
Al Hirschfeld- Curtains; Hair; How to Succeed (twice-Radcliffe & Jonas)
Imperial-Billy Elliot (twice) & Nice Work (twice)
Walter Kerr-A Little Night Music; Lysistrata Jones; & The Heiress
Longacre-La Cage Aux Folles
Lunt-Fontanne-The Addams Family & Ghost the Musical (twice)
Marquis-Follies (twice) & Evita
Music Box-One Man,Two Guvnors & Pippin (twice)
Nederlander-Newsies
New Amsterdam-Mary Poppins
Eugene O’Neill-Book of Mormon
Palace-Legally Blonde & Priscilla (14 times)
Richard Rogers-Porgy & Bess
St James –Gypsy & On a Clear Day
Stephen Soundheim-Bye,Bye, Birdie & Anything Goes
Studio 54-Harvey & Drood

Thanks to this posting I finally figured out the 3 theatres that got torn down with the building of the Marriott Marquee. The old Helen Hayes which used to be across from the Lunt Fontaine & the Bijou & Morosco which sat next to the Music Box & across the street from the Booth, right? I feel very fortunate to have seen shows at every theatre except the Bijou which I only remember from their Mummunchanz marquee. "Happy New Year" Cole Porter revival at Morosco & "Strider" at the old Helen Hayes. I also remember seeing "Blues in the Night" at the old Rialto (the old cinema space that last had the World Wrestling Foundation & Criss Angel's Mindfreak before he headed W. to greater pastures in Las Vegas.) I'm sure most of this thread is based on when we moved here or began becoming a theatre geek, right? I first visited in 78 & moved here in 81.

everyone but the New Amsterdam

I actually made a map of the theater district that hangs on my wall, and with every show I check off the theater till I get to all 40. Still have 26 to go, but have just recently moved to the city, so it should go a lot faster now. I love seeing each new theater. It's a great part of the experience.

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BUMP!!! Since I went to see Soul Doctor Tuesday (really liked the show) I now only need the Cort to complete my goal of going to all forty theaters!!!

Finally did the math and I have six to go:

Ethel Barrymore
Belasco
Circle in the Square
Majestic
August Wilson
Winter Garden

I was surprised at the houses that were my most frequented - Marquis, St. James, Palace, and Studio 54.

I've been to all 40 but I have no idea where the original Fiddler with Zero Mostel and the original Hair. Can anyone help?

Fiddler played at the Imperial then moved to the Majestic in 67, and finally the Broadway in 70

Hair played at the Biltmore (now the Samuel Friedman)

I'd encourage the many here who haven't been to the New Amsterdam or the Belasco to do whatever they can to attend a show at either of those theatres. I'd place both of them, along with the (hopefully not lost forever?) Hellinger, at the top of the list of Broadway's most beautiful theatres. There's a sense of grandeur and wonder about them, with a recognition of the fact that the act of stepping into a theatre is as much a part of the experience as whatever is playing on stage. Since the New Amsterdam and the Belasco are of approximately the same era (1903 and 1907 respectively), they are as close an approximation as it must have been like to attend a show at the turn of the 20th century. Both theatres make some of the plain jane vintage theatres look spartan by comparison, not to say anything of the antiseptic experience of seeing a show at the joyless, soulless modern monstrosities, the Gershwin, Minskoff and the Marquis.

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Belasco:






(c) Whitney Cox

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Updated On: 8/22/13 at 01:12 PM