What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
levinb
Chorus Member Joined: 2/10/15
#1What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/2/15 at 8:22pm
Including Lincoln Center
Updated On: 12/2/15 at 08:22 PMChorus Member Joined: 12/31/69
Alex M
Broadway Star Joined: 11/16/13
Cupid Boy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/13
#5What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/2/15 at 8:50pm
Circle in the Square is my favorite for its intimacy and its terrific sight lines. I also love being able to so easily see other members of the audience as I enjoy having their reactions complement my own experience.
Updated On: 12/2/15 at 08:50 PM
#6What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/2/15 at 8:52pm
I have to go with the Neil Simon also.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#7What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/2/15 at 8:58pm
What do you guys like about the Neil Simon?
ji813
Swing Joined: 4/23/15
ChiTheaterFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/15
#9What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/2/15 at 9:43pm
Agree with Circle in the Square. It feels so small.
St. James is my favorite to sit in the mezz from those I've sat in the mezz so far. I couldn't believe how close I felt during something rotten!
To be honest, I love most Broadway theaters because most of them feel small and intimate in comparison to the theaters the tours come to in Chicago. If I've been to a lot of shows between New York trips (hasn't happened lately... Thanks work) I'm always pleasantly reminded of how much smaller the theaters feel.... Especially from the mezzanine or balcony. After sitting in the nosebleeds for the color purple, I won't even go to tours unless I can get orchestra or dress circle/front mezz.
Updated On: 12/2/15 at 09:43 PM
levinb
Chorus Member Joined: 2/10/15
#10What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/2/15 at 10:42pm
I should have also asked about your least theatre. Also, why Niel Simon?
#11What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/2/15 at 10:54pm
My favorites are probably the American Airlines (despite the name) and the Music Box. Beautiful theatres and very intimate.
For me, intimacy is key. I tend to judge every theatre by their nosebleeds (if I've sat in them). Because of that, some of my least favorites are:
Broadway, Lunt-Fontanne, Golden (even though it's a small theatre, the rear-mezz feels like miles away), Neil Simon, Richard Rodgers, Studio 54
^Those are all theatres where I've sat in the nosebleeds and felt too far away. On the other hand, there are many theatres where I've sat far away and still felt very close: like the Winter Garden, Circle in the Square, Cort, Schoenfeld, Hayes, Longacre.
Updated On: 12/2/15 at 10:54 PM
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/2/15 at 11:11pm
All the really old ones
New Amsterdam
Belasco
Lyceum
Poster Emeritus
Updated On: 12/3/15 at 11:11 PM
#14What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/2/15 at 11:15pm
Walter Kerr
Circle in the Square
New Amsterdam
#15What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/2/15 at 11:26pm
I love Circle in the Square, for the reasons Cupid listed. I also agree with ChiTheaterFan about the St. James mezz. It felt like the perfect way to see American Idiot (especially with that enormous set).
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#18What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/3/15 at 12:36am
Circle in the Square, the Richard Rodgers, and the Sondheim are my favorites without a doubt.
#19What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/3/15 at 12:50am
Winter Garden is my favorite. I haven't liked many of the shows that have been there in the last couple of years though, sad to say.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
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Featured Actor Joined: 5/5/14
#20What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/3/15 at 12:52am
New Amsterdam
Belasco
Music Box
St. James
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Leading Actor Joined: 9/16/15
#21What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/3/15 at 1:00am
Vivian Beaumont
Broadway
Palace
Circle in the Square
The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)
#22What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/3/15 at 1:04am
My personal rank:
1. Majestic
2. Palace
3. New Amsterdam
4. Imperial
5. Shubert
#23What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/3/15 at 4:19am
American Airlines (mostly because of my backstage experiences there), Cort, Majestic, and Booth.
"Mostly, I loved the size of these people's emotions. Nobody has emotions this size anymore. Outsized emotions. Operatic emotions. Kushemski and Vanda are like Tristan and Isolde, they're Paolo and Francesca. Nobody's in total thrall like this anymore. Nobody's overcome by passion like this, or goes through this kind of rage." Thomas, Venus in Fur
#24What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/3/15 at 5:09am
The Majestic. The Rodgers and Hammerstein house. Think of the shows that played there.
The Neil Simon. Big but intimate. Ditto on the list.
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#25What is your favorite Broadway Theatre?
Posted: 12/3/15 at 8:29am
Faves:
-Friedman (Am I the only one?) The seats are so comfy, and it's so intimate.
-American Airlines
-Belasco (stunning renovation)
-Circle in the Square
-New Amsterdam (how can you not)
Least:
-Ambassador - I hate looking at it from the outside. Give her a bath! (one of the few theatres i haven't been inside.)
-Studio 54 - only because the leg room in the balcony is shin-busting.
-Gershwin - UGLY outside and in
Updated On: 12/3/15 at 08:29 AM
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