I saw a show in the Broadway Theater for the first time on Saturday the 14th...and I was thinking while walking there with a friend...the theater is placed so awkwardly and not near any other theaters..(besides Wicked and Mamma Mia!)...the theater is gorgeous though. It just took me a bit longer to find it and it kind of annoyed me
coolkid, you really shouldn't discuss the intelligence of anyone on these boards considering the fact that you've got the mental capacity of a cup of yogurt.
I LOVE the Evita marquee. The marquee nowadays is quite small, but you can spot it out because of the obnoxious Shrek green.
I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&.
"Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
Actually, save Phantom, it seems most of the "hits" on Broadway are all uptown of the Times Square area and a little "out of the way" which is why I don't get the arguments against the Belasco and Court Theaters. I think if the tenant is worth it, people will find the theaters regardless.
But I hated the Broadway theater. The mezz is so large and you just feel so away from all the action. It's just an awkwardly spaced theater. I was like row G in the mezz for Shrek, and while it was a good seat, I still felt out of the loop. Like, I felt like I could have had an entire meal and talking with friends and the actors on stage wouldn't have even noticed, nor anyone in the orchestra.
The Craig Theatre, later renamed The George Abbott used to be near The Broadway Theatre. It was demolished in the mid-1960's. The last musical there was Gantry, with Rita Moreno. The Hammerstein Theatre, (now used as a TV Studio for David Letterman and called The Ed Sullivan Theatre), is fairly close to the Broadway Theatre and it too, used to be a Broadway house, and just a few blocks up from there is the Mark Hellinger Theatre which had its' last musical, Legs Diamond, with Peter Allen, and it closed in 1989, to become Times Square Church. Who knows? Maybe someday, these two theatres will be reclaimed as Broadway houses like the ones down on 41st, 42nd, and 43rd Street were. No one ever thought that would be possible but it happened. Amazing things happen on Broadway. Let's hope it can happen with these two theatres and then The Broadway Theatre will have some company.
I personally don't see the Ed Sullivan reverting back to a legit house, but it would be wonderful to have the Hellinger back. It really has some amazing history, to hosting some of the greats of the Golden Age, to a string of flops in its later life. At least we can be thankful that it isn't being demolished, so we still have that hope of reclaiming it someday.
What happened to that new theater they were going to build in place of the Henry Miller? I feel bad Urinetown basically was forced to close because they wanted to build a skyscraper.
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