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#101

Prettiest/Ugliest Broadway theaters

Posted: 11/1/12 at 4:34pm

Favs: New Amsterdam, Belasco, Hirschfeld/Martin Beck
Least Favs: Golden(gymnasium), Gershwin/Uris (concrete car-park almost ruined my 1st attending Bway experience), Marquis (hotel hell of a lobby & of all the StUpId places to put FOLLIES!)

It's not easy to really assess this kinda thing since long-running shows keep you from checking out the various theaters AE: (Majestic/Phantom, Winter Garden)

Also, what with various shows strong scenic designs, your sense of the space can always be different (Nederlander/Rent, Winter Garden/Cats.)

Most missed: The Mark Hellinger (but ironically, the easiest of the grand old theaters to checkout inside: ON SUNDAY if you can tolerate the religious folk.)

Updated On: 11/1/12 at 04:34 PM

#102

Prettiest/Ugliest Broadway theaters

Posted: 11/2/12 at 11:54am

I was recently in the Ambassador (never a thing I do unless I have to) and good god is that theater ugly. Impressionless marble slabs and a thoroughly uneasy white-and-blue decor. But what offends me the most is something that doesn't come up on these threads: asymmetry! There isn't a single section of that theatre that corresponds logically to another one. The mezzanine access is a maze of stairs and hallways that make little sense.

I find symmetry, along with ornate beauty and gorgeous detail, to be an important factor in making theatres like the Broadway and the Music Box so attractive.

Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

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