Forty-Fourth Street Theatre
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Forty-Fourth Street Theatre, New York, on West 44th Street. It opened in 1912 as the New Weber and Fields Music-Hall, seating 1,463, and was taken over a year later by the
Shuberts, who staged there a successful musical revival,
The Geisha. In 1915 there was a season of classical repertory, but later the theatre reverted to light opera and musicals. The Marx Brothers had a long run in
Animal Crackers (1928), and the outstanding production of 1930 was an adaptation of
Aristophanes' Lysistrata. Highlights of the 1930s were J. B.
Priestley's The Good Companions (1931), a four-week season by Walter
Hampden in 1935, and the short-lived but memorable
Johnny Johnson (1936) by Paul
Green with incidental music by Kurt Weill. One of the last productions was Moss
Hart's musical documentary on aviation
Winged Victory (1943). The theatre was demolished in 1945.
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