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What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
MamasDoin'Fine
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/28/08
#100re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 9:57am
The Victory.
As it looked in the late 1980s.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#101re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:04amThere's also a little bit of the Rialto Theatre building on the right in your Victory Theatre photo, Mama.
MamasDoin'Fine
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/28/08
#102re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:06amI go cold when i see all this stuff!
MamasDoin'Fine
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#103re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:07am
The Broadway Theatre.
Broadway and 41st St
1888-1928
MamasDoin'Fine
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#104re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:12am
The Empire Theatre
Now demolished.
MamasDoin'Fine
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#105re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:15am
The Paramount Theatre, Times Sq.
The housing of the huge auditorium can be seen down the side street to the left.
MamasDoin'Fine
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MamasDoin'Fine
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#108re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:24am
Just waiting to be Disneyfied!
MamasDoin'Fine
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#109re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:30am
Madison Square Theatre.
1877- 1908
MamasDoin'Fine
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#110re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:34am
What's playing at The Roxy???
MamasDoin'Fine
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#111re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:42am
The Cosmopolitan Theatre.
Columbus Circle.
Demolished totally 2000.
Staged the first musical version of 'The Wizard Of Oz'
Updated On: 11/26/08 at 10:42 AM
MamasDoin'Fine
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#112re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:49am
The New York Theatre
44th and 45th
Smaxie
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#113re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:49am
Here's a surviving piece of the facade from the Ziegfeld Theatre. Apparently, this piece is still kicking around Manhattan somewhere.
MamasDoin'Fine
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#116re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:57am
The Rivoli
49th and Broadway
#117re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 10:59am
And don't forget the John Street Theater at 15 John Street, a few blocks north of Wall Street, where the Hallam family played for 3 decades, from 1767 to 1797:
THEN:
NOW:
MamasDoin'Fine
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#118re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 11:03am
The Variety Arts Theatre
Built 1918 Demolished 2005
Home of 'Annie Warbucks'
#119re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 11:11amI lived in the East Village for 15 years. It broke my heart they tore down the Variety Arts.
MamasDoin'Fine
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/28/08
#120re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 11:23amIt was a great little venue. I saw 'Annie Warbucks' there tree times and a few other great shows.
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#121re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 11:40am
These photos are just fabulous. You realize I'm going to have to fill a few disks with all these photos, don't you?
I think the reason these places have such a strong hold on our hearts is because of the imagination, artistry, and effort that went into their design and creation. Then once built, the range of emotions that resulted from the performances that went on there. Today's glass and steel boxes are built without heart and soul and would never, EVER, hold those ghosts of the past.
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Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#122re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 12:13pmI've been wondering whether any of the new buildings going up on Eighth Avenue have plans to include a Broadway theatre? I'm particularly curious about the lot that has been cleared between 45th and 46th Streets, next to the Imperial... Even the rotten charmless new theatres built in the last 30 years have become invaluable.
#123re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 12:35pm
There has been a great deal of interest in the Liberty Theatre on this fascinating thread. 8 to 10 years ago I was walking down West 41st Street and stopped at the enormous red brick exterior of the rear of the Liberty. There were construction workers around and the stage door was open. I asked a worker if I could take a look inside and he said "Sure"! I entered the stage door and walked across the stage, noting the old lighting board still in position. I then walked into the auditorium with its tattered seats and thought about the many performers who played there, including Abbott and Costello. When I left, the construction foreman yelled at me, but it was worth it being inside this old theatre.
If it were to be used as a theatre again, it would need a complete restoration. It apparently is owned by the Hilton Hotel which has a few photographs of the interior in the hallway between 41st and 42nd street. And, as has been noted, it was used in the "Angel Project" several years ago.
#124re: What Times Square Area Buildings Use To Be Theaters?
Posted: 11/26/08 at 12:35pm
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