Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#1
Posted: 7/29/15 at 4:49am
Here would be my picks:
George M. Cohan
Oscar Hammerstein II
Hal Prince
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Jerome Robbins
Bob Fosse
Arthur Miller
Tennesse Williams
Kander and Ebb (together like the Lunt Fontanne)
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#2
Posted: 7/29/15 at 4:53am
Annaleigh Ashford.
No, but for real, "The Fanny Brice Theatre" sounds grand. I'd also love "The Irving Berlin Theatre", among others.
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#3
Posted: 7/29/15 at 5:05am
Tennessee Williams, without a doubt. Edward Albee, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman--all deserving names.
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#4
Posted: 7/29/15 at 7:35am
I feel like if Rodgers got one then so should Hammerstein, especially since he was the one more directly involved in reshaping how a musical could be structured.
I definitely think in terms of playwrights, Albee and Williams are at the top of the list.
Composer wise I would also agree with Irving Berlin.
Perhaps even Julie Harris as well.
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#5
Posted: 7/29/15 at 7:50am
Ethel Merman
Comden & Green
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#6
Posted: 7/29/15 at 7:55am
Arthur Miller
Miller directed that only one theater -- at his alma mater, University of Michigan -- is to bear his name, so there won't ever be an Arthur Miller Theatre on Broadway.
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#7
Posted: 7/29/15 at 7:59am
The Richard Rodgers theatre should be renamed the richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein theatre.
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#8
Posted: 7/29/15 at 8:13am
The Dennis Quaid Theater for Performance Art
The Jan Maxwell Theater (where every show is guaranteed to lose at the Tony Awards)
The Davenport Theater with Tweet Seats
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#9
Posted: 7/29/15 at 9:48am
"Ethel Merman"
Merman is the major influence of contemporary Broadway, and I think she should be given an honor on the scale of a Broadway house.
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#10
Posted: 7/29/15 at 9:53am
While, I agree with some of the ideas, I like all the names on the current Broadway houses. BUT, I don't want some of the famous theatres to get renamed (St. James, Majestic, Palace, Winter Garden). Some of those names are just has deserving as some of those included.
The question also is, why does every theatre need to be named for someone?
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#11
Posted: 7/29/15 at 10:10am
The Lupone Theater (with free wifi)
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#12
Posted: 7/29/15 at 10:10am
The Apple Merman Theater
The Microsoft Comden-Green Theater
The Audra McDonalds Theater
Andrew Lloyd-Webber doesn't deserve a theater named after him. He's rich enough to buy his own like he's done in London.
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#13
Posted: 7/29/15 at 10:25am
ALW is one of the most influential people in theatre of course he deserves one!!
and i agree fashionguru! but if theres ever anymore theaters built lol
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#14
Posted: 7/29/15 at 10:46am
The Bob Fosse
The Michael Bennett
The Chita Rivera
The Jerry Herman
The Garland/Minnelli (see what i did there??!?)
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#16
Posted: 7/29/15 at 10:59am
Stephen Schwartz and Oscar Hammerstein
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#17
Posted: 7/29/15 at 11:03am
Yes, no Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre, please! All Americans on Broadway, and Brits in the West End.
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#18
Posted: 7/29/15 at 11:05am
The Stritch.
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#19
Posted: 7/29/15 at 11:13am
BRANDY
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#20
Posted: 7/29/15 at 11:17am
"The Stritch."
HAHA. Yes.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Music Box once named the Irving Berlin Theatre?
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#21
Posted: 7/29/15 at 11:29am
The Winter Garden Theatre must be named after Dame Angela Lansbury! Like the Sondheim Theatre.
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#22
Posted: 7/29/15 at 11:30am
No one has said Mary Martin.
What about Jerome Kern? Absolutely a major influence along with Hammerstein in developing the modern integrated musical
George Abbott
Agree, sort of, with Irving Berlin but I automatically think of him with the Music Box.
Cole Porter
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#23
Posted: 7/29/15 at 12:08pm
George M Cohan has had his name on two theaters already.
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#24
Posted: 7/29/15 at 12:11pm
""The Stritch."
HAHA. Yes.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Music Box once named the Irving Berlin Theatre?"
It has always been called the Music Box Theatre, but it was constructed by Berlin to house his "Music Box Revues," so some may have called it Berlin's Music Box, especially early in its history when his association with it was still standard knowledge. It was co-owned by his estate and the Shuberts until fairly recently, like in the last five or ten years, when the Shuberts took full control of it.
Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?#25
Posted: 7/29/15 at 12:37pm
The Patti LuPone Theatre
The Harvey Feirstein Theatre
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