What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
#1What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 9:39am
What theater on Broadway do you always enjoy walking into and just staring at until the curtain opens?
I'm going with The Palace. So big. So pretty. So palace-like.
#2re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 9:42am
The Majestic (Maybe for sentimental reasons)
The St James (Again maybe for sentimental reasons)
The Gershwin
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#3re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 9:47am
St. James
Scoenfeld(Sentimental Reasons)
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#4re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 9:48amI'm gonna go with the new Biltmore...perfect for intimate theater. Just don't sit on the far sides.
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#6re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 9:57am
Schoenfeld (sentimental reasons)
Richard Rodgers
New Amsterdam
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#7re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 10:04am
Studio 54. It's such a dump, but such a sense of history in that place.
The Gerswhin is so comfortable -- I like that.
Love the interior of the St. James. I still laugh when I remember that they put blindfolds on all the busts for A Funny Thing Happened. . .
#8re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 10:32am54 is a dump? When was the last time you went in? I think it looks fabulous.
#9re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 11:35amThe Virginia... sorry, The August Wilson.
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#10re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 11:40amI really like the Lyceum. All of that beautiful woodwork!
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#11re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 11:43am
I adore Studio 54, it's goregous inside.
(...but it's hard for me not to like the place where SITPWG is playing! I saw a local production of it in an art gallery - beautiful!)
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#12re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 12:43pm
The Palace... I just love that place
The Richard Rogers
The Nederlander it was the first place I ever saw a Broadway show.
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#13re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 12:47pm
Studio 54 definitely
I also like the Hirschfeld.
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#14re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 12:48pm
I love the Booth just because some of the shows I just absolutely loved played there. Same goes for the Lyceum.
I also love the Eugene O'Neill, sort of for the same reason, and sort of because I think it's so pretty inside. The Brooks Atkinson, too.
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#15re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 12:49pmThe Longacre is gorgeous. I also love the Walter Kerr, St. James, and Hirschfeld.
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#16re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 12:54pm
Majestic for sentimental reasons.
But for physical reasons
New Amsterdam
Winter Garden (it's such an odd auditorium, so wide and low)
and I actually like the Minskoff and the Gershwin, although i prefer the Minskoff's interior
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#17re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 12:56pm
The Mark Hellinger!
I just know that one day we will all be able to walk in there again and see a Broadway show in the most sublime surroundings!
Some of the Tony award clips on the DVD collection, 'Broadways Lost Treasures' are filmed in this gorgeous cathedral!
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#18re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 1:00pmThe New Amsterdam is absolutely beautiful. Too bad there will never be a non-Disney show there.
#19re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 1:09pm
The Hirschfeld because it's so intimate and comfortable.
The Neil Simon mostly for sentimental reasons.
New Amsterdam because it so beautiful.
I love The Minskoff because it is so comfortable, even though the interior of the actual theatre is very bleak and plain. I love walking around the "lobby" and looking down at Times Square during intermission.
The St. James because of the historical value of it.
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#20re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 1:12pmi love the artistic feeling of the nederlander. i could look at the mosaics around the stage and throughout the lobby forever.
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#21re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 1:25pmI liked the Winter Garden Theater.
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#22re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 1:28pm
Interior- New Amsterdam
Exterior- Richard Rodgers (I just can't explain why it captivates me)
#23re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 1:37pm
Hirschfeld, for its intimacy, beauty, and for sentimental reasons.
New Amsterdam for its beauty and personal reasons.
I also like the Barrymore and O'Neill for different reasons, probably the shows I saw and the experience.
Also, the Beaumont is nice for the stadium style seating, the stage, and of course some of the amazing shows they have done there.
#24re: What's Your Favorite Broadway Theater?
Posted: 6/5/08 at 1:47pmHands down the Minskoff has the best lobby on Broadway
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