Nederlander Marquee Before Rent

[musicalmaster703]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 9:46pm

Does anyone have a pic?

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 9:55pm

From ibdb.com, which took it from The Shubert Archive

[Broadway212]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 9:57pm

wow thats cool it looks like a whole different street.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 11:37pm

>wow thats cool it looks like a whole different street.<

Not really. The theatre's facade looks the same. The parking garage is still there and the Herald Tribune building on the far right of the photo is still there. Only the hotel on the far left side of the photo looks different.

Compare that photo above with this one of the street as it looks now.

Updated On: 8/21/08 at 11:37 PM

[Smaxie]

Posted: 8/21/08 at 11:40pm

Anyway, here was the marquee for Wind in the Willows at the Nederlander.

[musicalmaster703]

Posted: 8/22/08 at 6:27am

[WOSQ]

Posted: 8/22/08 at 11:15am

When it was the Billy Rose Theatre the marquee used plastics like all the other marquees, but was shaped and placed like the one for Winesburg, Ohio. The Nederlanders acquired the theatre and named it the Trafalgar for two shows and that is when the current backlit marquee was installed.

The new marquee can be seen better since there were a lot of canopies and other things blocking the view of the old one from 7th Avenue.