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Morosco Theatre
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#100re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/16/07 at 9:15pm
And the Rialto again, years earlier (circa 1947), with a much better marquee.
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Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#101re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/16/07 at 9:46pm
Here's a vintage shot of the Apollo, Times Square, Lyric and Republic (Victory) Theatre marquees, when all were movie houses. The Apollo and Lyric were torn down to build the Ford Center/Hilton, the Republic is now the New Victory, and the Times Square will perhaps someday by the Mark Ecko store which has been under construction for an eternity.
By the way, if any of the images I've posted do not turn up, try right clicking and hitting "view image" and they should appear. I think one of the Rialto shots is not working...
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#102re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/17/07 at 6:14pm
Thanks for the pics!
Look at all the great marquees and light-up billboards even movies used to have! I wish any of the real movie houses were still around, I've never gotten to see a movie in that way. Although I think the "new" Ziegfield is very awesome.
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#103re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/17/07 at 8:45pmI've never seen so many theatres in one little area. I wonder how they're all laid out so that they still have enough room for everyone
#104re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/17/07 at 8:57pmThey varied in capacity and they kind of sat amongst each other like a jigsaw.
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#105re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/17/07 at 9:25pm
The current Ziegfeld Theatre is an imposter. Accept no substitutes. The real Ziegfeld stood on Sixth Avenue at the corner of 54th Street, but was torn down in 1966 to make way for... an office building. The current movie theatre is about half way up the block from where the legit Ziegfeld (original home of Show Boat, Brigadoon, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Kismet) once stood.
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Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#106re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/17/07 at 9:27pm
The spectacular mural walls in the Ziegfeld
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Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#107re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/17/07 at 9:28pm
Another view of the interior.
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#108re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/17/07 at 9:32pm
Wow!
That is beautiful.
I am all for capitalism and free enterprise, I think it is the backbone of the country, Broadway would not exist without it, etc.
But I don't understand how anyone would be able to tear something that beautiful down.
"The current Ziegfeld Theatre is an imposter. Accept no substitutes."
That may be true, but right now a substitute is the best we have.
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#109re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/18/07 at 4:36amIts not even a 'theatre' so it doesnt count at all!
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
#110re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/19/07 at 5:24pmI'm sorry for bumping without comment, but I don't wish for this thread to die just yet.
#111re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/19/07 at 5:31pma little off-topic, but has anyone seen "I Am Legend"? It shows us a glimpse of what TKTS is about to become!
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#112re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/19/07 at 7:46pmI didn't noticed TKTS but I did notice that the Palace Theater had both Lestat and Legally Blonde marquees up.
madlibrarian
Broadway Star Joined: 8/15/06
#113re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/29/07 at 10:37pmBUMP so more people can enjoy this fascinating, colorful thread.
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#114re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/29/07 at 10:57pm
http://www.ibdb.com/VenueImages.asp?Id=1278
That July 2006 picture is pretty sad.
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#115re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 12/29/07 at 11:04pmYeah I was laughing when I saw the Palace with the Legally Blonde and Lestat marquees. I think that was my favorite part of the movie! But wow those theatres were beyond beautiful!
#116re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 5/18/12 at 5:18pmJust came across this and the lovely images that are compiled in here.
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RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#117re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 5/18/12 at 5:44pmI wish Broadway could be back to those gorgeous marquees. Each one is so unique and different. I hate all these crappy metal boring structures. Why would they tear down the gorgeous and unique Music Box marquee only to replace it with that awful metal box one?
#118re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 5/18/12 at 7:07pmlove the threads like this, please keep them going.
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#119re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 5/18/12 at 7:48pm@Ripped Man are talking about marquees like the Walter Kerr, which i think any tennant has to be carful in picking their Marquee Artwork because it can make it seem tacky
#120re: Morosco Theatre
Posted: 5/19/12 at 4:59am
I saw "Da" at that theatre in 1979. Brian Keith had replaced Barbard Hughes and he wasn't particularly good but I did enjoy the play.
I remember thinking that the theatre was smaller than I'd expected, but then the only other BW theatre I'd been in at that point was the Uris (now Gershwin), which is huge. It seemed a bit run down at that point but had a lot of character and "ambience". As a new theater goer, I really got a sense that a lot of theater history had happened in that place, which made the experience all the more memorable. And I recall that marquee right there by the square. It was very exciting to me and I was very disappointed when it was torn down only 2 years later.
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