Your Favorite Broadway Theater- Page 4

[bjh2114]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 4:27pm

Favorites: August Wilson, Marquis, Al Hirschfeld
Least favorites: Neil Simon, Walter Kerr, Richard Rodgers

Posted: 9/14/06 at 4:48pm

the ford theatre in chicago
i saw wicked there ...
and before the show i could look at that place
as long as the show lasted .. it was beautiful
and the wicked set fit well with it .. amazing

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 5:30pm

i love the majestic. and there i've always loved the belasco. it's just so creepy and beautiful at the same time.

[avab802]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 5:48pm

"I really love the Palace. It's history is so interesting. The Judy Garland secret stairway is so much fun."

I worked at the Palace a few years ago when Aida was there. If we're thinking of the same staircase, we used to sit down there & eat on our breaks. (I sold merch.) It's the stairway that goes down to the old side-street box office, left over from when the theater was segregated and black people had to use a seperate entrance and were only allowed to sit in the balcony. Pretty interesting.

[VivaBohemia]

Posted: 9/14/06 at 10:48pm

I've only been in one Theatre on Broadway, and thats the Nederlander. Its adoreable, I just love the fire escapes and the general rundown feeling it has. It has character

But as for favorite Theatres ever, I love the Kennedy Center in DC and he National in DC as well. EVERY show Ive ever seen has been there.

The Hippodrome in Baltimore is nice too.

Posted: 9/15/06 at 11:19am

I love the Hilton Theatre (although I hate its name...too commercial). Any theatre that has many many stalls in the ladies' bathroom is perfect. Large comfortable seats and room between rows. There's nothing worse than paying $100 for a ticket and then being squished between two large people in a theatre with small seats. Seating arranged so that you can see the stage, even if a tall person sits down in front of you.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 9/15/06 at 11:30am

Mark Hellinger

Neil Simon Theater (close 2nd, as it was the first Broadway Theatre I went to [then known as the Alvin])

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 9:46am

Reading about the separate entrance for Black people at the Palace Theatre made me think about the St. James Theatre. There was a separate entrance on 44th Street for the second balcony back in the 1950's when I saw LI'L ABNER there. I never associated that fact with the idea of segregation and I certainly hope that wasn't the reason for a separate entrance, but that could conceivably have been the reason. That entrance no longer exists.The St. James is a beautiful theatre which has had so many hits over the years including OKLAHOMA, THE KING AND I, HELLO DOLLY, and now THE PRODUCERS. It is rarely dark.

Updated On: 9/16/06 at 09:46 AM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 9:56am

Almost all old theaters had separate staircases & balconies.It was a sign of the times

[BDavis0092]

Posted: 4/12/07 at 8:51pm

BUMP for those who didn't notice the link.

Please let the new thread die. It's not needed.

My favorites have to be the Al Hirschfeld and the Broadhurst.

[bandit964]

Posted: 4/13/07 at 6:14pm

i heard that the shoenfeld and the broadhurst are the same theatre, just built opposite of eachother. Is that a rumor? Can someone verify that or tell me it is false?

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 4/13/07 at 6:50pm

St. James

I sit in that theatre and no matter the show, I think.. Oklahoma started here... this is were all modern musicals started.

[mikeyb16]

Posted: 4/14/07 at 6:26am

Lunt Fontanne Theatre - The only one I've ever been in back in July 2001

[EdiSteve]

Posted: 4/14/07 at 7:59am

Coming from Scotland, I have only been to the Al Hirshfeld, so it has to be that. Saw the amazing Christina in Sweet Charity and most recently the amazing David Pierce Hyde in the wonderful Curtains!

[g4rat]

Posted: 4/14/07 at 12:10pm

The Ambassador. There is not one bad seat in the house, and you feel really close to the actors on the stage because the theatre is so intimate.

[bwaygal1]

Posted: 4/14/07 at 12:40pm

For theaters as a whole, I like the Minskoff and Gershwin

But, the front row of the Kerr holds a special place in my heart. There is ample leg room there, and you're not looking up at the stage.
And, out of the 11 times I've seen GG, I've sat in that row 9 times.
Very special place for me. (In fact, the box office people know which seat I'll ask for. On one occasion, the person just printed the ticket as I came in. Very funny!)

[desiree armfeldt]

Posted: 4/14/07 at 12:42pm

studio 54
and the Broadway theater (it's "mine")

[BroadwaySinger2]

Posted: 4/14/07 at 12:47pm

Favorite: New Amsterdam
Least Favorite: St. James

[ElFantasma14]

Posted: 4/14/07 at 1:46pm

Which seat is that, bwaygirl1? I'm not trying to steal it from you, im just curious :P

Updated On: 4/14/07 at 01:46 PM

[obsessedjb]

Posted: 4/14/07 at 2:05pm

August Wilson

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 4/14/07 at 2:14pm

i love studio 54

[StarStruckGB]

Posted: 4/14/07 at 4:16pm

I have a special place in my heart for the intimacy if the Broadhurst.
But I adore places like the Palace and the Majestic with their eerily romantic histories and atmospheres. It's one of my favorite things about theatre.

[dr_jekyll]

Posted: 4/14/07 at 4:18pm

Marriott Marquis

[MerMaggieGalinda]

Posted: 4/14/07 at 4:47pm

I've only been in 2, The Gershwin and the Majestic, and I love the Gershwin. It was very roomy and the chairs were extremely comfortable.

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 4/14/07 at 4:54pm

I've only been to three; Gershwin, Lunt-Fontanne, and Shubert. I really liked the Gershwin and the Shubert, but the Gershwin was the nicest.