Authors: Louis Botto (Editor), Robert Viagas
ISBN-13: 9781557835666, ISBN-10: 1557835667
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers
Date Published: September 2002
Edition: REV
New edition of a history in which Botto (senior editor of Playbill adds coverage of the 18 years since the original 1984 publication, six new chapters covering the Broadway theaters that have been recently renovated, and 100-plus photographs and covers that appeared on Playbill, the magazine program for America's legitimate theaters. He provides facts and stories about each theater's history and heritage, ownerships, producers and directors, playwrights, lyricists and composers, actors, transitions and renewals, and other topics that will interest fans. Heavily illustrated with about 400 b&w and color production photographs and images. Oversize: 9x11.25". Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR
Publisher's Word | v | |
Preface | vii | |
Foreword | ix | |
Introduction | xiii | |
Ford Center | 1 | |
New Amsterdam Theatre | 7 | |
Lyceum Theatre | 19 | |
Belasco Theatre | 27 | |
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre | 35 | |
Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre | 43 | |
Helen Hayes Theatre | 51 | |
Cort Theatre | 57 | |
Palace Theatre | 65 | |
Longacre Theatre | 73 | |
Shubert Theatre | 79 | |
Booth Theatre | 89 | |
Broadhurst Theatre | 99 | |
Plymouth Theatre | 109 | |
American Airlines Theatre | 119 | |
Ambassador Theatre | 125 | |
Walter Kerr Theatre | 131 | |
Nederlander Theatre | 137 | |
Music Box Theatre | 147 | |
Imperial Theatre | 157 | |
Martin Beck Theatre | 167 | |
Richard Rodgers Theatre | 179 | |
Broadway Theatre | 189 | |
Virginia Theatre | 195 | |
Eugene O'Neill Theatre | 205 | |
Biltmore Theatre | 213 | |
Brooks Atkinson Theatre | 221 | |
Royale Theatre | 231 | |
John Golden Theatre | 241 | |
Majestic Theatre | 249 | |
St. James Theatre | 257 | |
Neil Simon Theatre | 267 | |
Ethel Barrymore Theatre | 279 | |
Mark Hellinger Theatre | 291 | |
City Center Theatre | 299 | |
Vivian Beaumont Theatre | 305 | |
Circle in the Square Theatre | 315 | |
Gershwin Theatre | 321 | |
Minskoff Theatre | 329 | |
Marquis Theatre | 335 | |
Index | 339 |