#1
Posted: 10/22/08 at 10:30pm
Was going thru some boxes and located some photos I took around Broadway sometime in September 1980. I love the grainy late 70's feel to the photos.
This is what the Broadway Theatre looked like when EVITA played there. Patti, Mandy and Bob were still in the show. There was a huge parking lot just south of the theatre.
The Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon Theatre) during the original run of ANNIE. Sarah Jessica Parker had recently ended her run as Annie and now Allison Smith was playing the role (opposite Alice Ghostley and John Schuck). The station wagon on the far left of the photo belonged to Bill Berloni, the dog wrangler of ANNIE:
The southside of the Shubert Theatre during the original run of the Broadway production of A CHORUS LINE:
The enormous ANNIE billboard over the Palace Theatre on Times Square. You can see this sign in the 1979 Alan Parker film FAME:
This is what the Broadway billboards looked like on the eastside of Times Square. OH, CALCUTTA! was still going strong. Note the porno movie theatre on the lower right of the photo. Yesirree... right ON Times Square!
A block south of the ANNIE billboard was this billboard for the brand new film THE BLUES BROTHERS:
Times Square -- south view from Duffy Square. So sparse. So gritty. So different:
Broadway's newest hit:
And a blast from the past: the Pussycat Porno Theatre which was located at 153 W. 49th Street. It was demolished in the late 1980's to make way for the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza. You are still missed:
This is what the Broadway Theatre looked like when EVITA played there. Patti, Mandy and Bob were still in the show. There was a huge parking lot just south of the theatre.
The Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon Theatre) during the original run of ANNIE. Sarah Jessica Parker had recently ended her run as Annie and now Allison Smith was playing the role (opposite Alice Ghostley and John Schuck). The station wagon on the far left of the photo belonged to Bill Berloni, the dog wrangler of ANNIE:
The southside of the Shubert Theatre during the original run of the Broadway production of A CHORUS LINE:
The enormous ANNIE billboard over the Palace Theatre on Times Square. You can see this sign in the 1979 Alan Parker film FAME:
This is what the Broadway billboards looked like on the eastside of Times Square. OH, CALCUTTA! was still going strong. Note the porno movie theatre on the lower right of the photo. Yesirree... right ON Times Square!
A block south of the ANNIE billboard was this billboard for the brand new film THE BLUES BROTHERS:
Times Square -- south view from Duffy Square. So sparse. So gritty. So different:
Broadway's newest hit:
And a blast from the past: the Pussycat Porno Theatre which was located at 153 W. 49th Street. It was demolished in the late 1980's to make way for the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza. You are still missed:
Updated On: 10/23/08 at 10:30 PM
