The AMC building was the Eltinge - the only Broadway theatre named for a female impersonator (Julian Eltinge)! It later was a movie theatre called the Empire. The facade was beautifully restored, but the interior was pretty much stripped down of most of its detail work.
The Times Square Theatre, also on 42nd Street, is supposed to be becoming an Ecko store, but nothing much seems to be happening with that project.
There is a red brick building on 41st Street. That's the back of the Liberty Theatre. The Liberty's auditorium is still standing and is hidden behind a wall in the Applebee's complex, when you exit the AMC theatres.
The Hudson on 44th Street has been beautifully restored, but is part of the Millenium Broadway hotel.
The building where the Hard Rock Cafe is once housed the Paramount, a very large, very grand movie/concert venue. That marquee for the Hard Rock is a facsimile of the original.
The Ed Sullivan Theatre was briefly a Broadway theatre called Hammerstein's (for Oscar I, grandfather of the lyricist, Oscar II).
Downstairs at the Paramount Hotel on 46th Street, I think the remains of Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe may still be around. It was a nightclub, but also a small Broadway theatre called the Century which was used in the 1970s and early 80s.
The Supper Club, which I think is now called the Edison Ballroom, was the Edison Theatre for many years. It spent most of its Broadway career housing Oh, Calcutta!, but it had a few other mostly unsuccessful shows.
The Lamb's Theatre, a beautiful little theatre on 44th Street, was a very much in demand Off-Broadway house, but as Off-Broadway failed, that building has been stripped and is being converted into a boutique hotel.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Updated On: 11/17/08 at 09:05 PM
