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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York, on West 46th Street. This attractive playhouse was opened as the Globe in 1910, mainly for musical shows, though at the end of the year the company of Sarah Bernhardt appeared in a repertory of French plays. The Ziegfeld Follies were there in 1921 and George White's Scandals in 1922 and 1923. After a successful musical, The Cat and the Fiddle (1931), it became a cinema; but in 1958, completely remodelled and redecorated, with a seating capacity of 1,714, it reopened as the Lunt-Fontanne with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in Dürrenmatt's The Visit. From 9 Apr. to 8 Aug. 1964 Richard Burton appeared in Hamlet, setting up a new record for the run of the play in New York. In the 1970s the theatre staged revivals of the musicals My Fair Lady (1976), Hello, Dolly! (1978), and Peter Pan (1979). In 1981 it had another success with Sophisticated Ladies, a compilation of Duke Ellington numbers. It housed revivals of Coward's Private Lives in 1983, with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, and of O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh in 1985 with Jason Robards.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Lunt-Fontanne Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Lunt-Fontanne Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-LuntFontanneTheatre.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Lunt-Fontanne Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-LuntFontanneTheatre.html |
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Lunt‐Fontanne Theatre
Lunt‐Fontanne Theatre (New York). The musical house, named after the celebrated acting couple Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, was built in 1910 by producer Charles Dillingham as the Globe Theatre. Architects Carrere and Hastings designed the Italian Renaissance–style theatre with an entrance on Broadway even though the structure sits on West 46th Street. (The entrance has since been moved closer to the lobby on the side street.) The Globe housed many musical hits until the Depression when Dillingham lost the property and it was turned into a movie house. When the playhouse reopened as a legitimate venue in 1958, it had a remodeled interior with an 18th‐century style, fewer seats, and a new name. Lunt and Fontanne starred in the first production, The Visit (1958), but it was their farewell appearance and much of the Lunt‐Fontanne's subsequent tenants have been large musicals.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Lunt‐Fontanne Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Lunt‐Fontanne Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-LuntFontanneTheatre.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Lunt‐Fontanne Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-LuntFontanneTheatre.html |
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