Who Deserves a Broadway House Named After Them?

[Phillypinto]

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)

[CindersGolightly]

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.

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 7/29/15 at 5:05am

Tennessee Williams, without a doubt. Edward Albee, Thornton Wilder, Lillian Hellman--all deserving names.

[aj88]

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.

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/29/15 at 7:50am

Ethel Merman

Comden & Green

[LarryD2]

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.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 7/29/15 at 7:59am

The Richard Rodgers theatre should be renamed the richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein theatre.

[tazber]

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

 

[gavyj]

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.

 

 

[fashionguru_23]

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?

[tazber]

Posted: 7/29/15 at 10:10am

The Lupone Theater (with free wifi)

[Gothampc]

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.

[Phillypinto]

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

[The8re phan]

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??!?)

 

 

 

[Fantod]

Posted: 7/29/15 at 10:53am

Tennessee Williams

[mattporter17]

Posted: 7/29/15 at 10:59am

Stephen Schwartz and Oscar Hammerstein

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 7/29/15 at 11:03am

Yes, no Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre, please! All Americans on Broadway, and Brits in the West End.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/29/15 at 11:05am

The Stritch.

[wicked1492]

Posted: 7/29/15 at 11:13am

BRANDY

[GreasedLightning]

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?

[1971FolliesFan]

Posted: 7/29/15 at 11:29am

The Winter Garden Theatre must be named after Dame Angela Lansbury! Like the Sondheim Theatre.

[noradesmond]

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

[Junior Babcock]

Posted: 7/29/15 at 12:08pm

George M Cohan has had his name on two theaters already. 

[AEA AGMA SM]

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.

[RaiseYouUp]

Posted: 7/29/15 at 12:37pm

The Patti LuPone Theatre
The Harvey Feirstein Theatre