Broadway Theatre [New York City]
type: Item
label: The Broadway Theatre @nl
label: Broadway Theatre
description: Theatre building in New York, USA
description: theater in New York, Verenigde Staten van Amerika @nl
EUTA building identifier: 4992
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: USA
City: New York City
opening date: 1924-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wikidata source: Q2925870
GPS: Point(-73.9831 40.7633)
Capacity: 1761
Address: 1681 Broadway (W. 53rd Street)
Web: broadway
architect: Eugene De Rosa
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 1515
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built 1924 as B. S. Moss's Colony Theatre by Eugene DeRosa for B. S. Moss. Opened 25 Dec 1924 with the movie The Thief of Bagdad. Used for vaudeville shows, musical, drama and dance performances, and as a cinema. 1930 renamed B. S. Moss's Broadway Theatre. Subsequently used for musical and drama performances. 1935-1942 used as a cinema. 1939 bought by the Shubert Organization. 1952-1954 again used as a cinema. 1974 auditorium redesign for Harold Prince's production of Leonard Bernstein's musical Candide. Subsequently used for large-scale musicals, e. g. A. L. Webber's Evita (1567 performances), C.-M. Schönberg's Les Misérables (6680 performances at the Broadway Theatre and at the Imperial Theatre), or C.-M. Schönberg's Miss Saigon (4092 performances). Ca. 1990 major exterior rebuilding incorporating the theatre in an office skyscraper by Fox & Fowle. Originally 1890 seats, today 1752 seats.