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Imperial Theatre
Imperial Theatre, New York, on West 45th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue. Seating 1,452, it opened in 1923 and was intended by the Shuberts for musical shows, among its early successes being Rose-Marie (1924) and Oh, Kay! (1926). In 1936 Leslie Howard appeared there in Hamlet, competing unsuccessfully with the record-breaking production starring Gielgud at the Empire. It then reverted to musicals, Ethel Merman starring in Annie Get Your Gun (1946) and Call Me Madam (1950), which were followed by The Most Happy Fella (1956), Oliver! (1963), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), and Zorba (1968). Two rare straight plays, John Osborne's A Patriot for Me (1969) and Neil Simon's Chapter Two (1977), preceded the musical They're Playing Our Song (1979) for which Simon wrote the book. Later musicals were Dreamgirls (1981) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985), based on Dickens.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Imperial Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Imperial Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-ImperialTheatre1.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Imperial Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-ImperialTheatre1.html |
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Imperial Theatre
Imperial Theatre (New York). The 1,400‐seat musical house on West 45th Street has had only fifty‐seven tenants in its eighty‐year history and rarely has it been empty, testifying to the number of hits that have played here. The playhouse was designed by Herbert J. Krapp with entrances on both 45th and 46th Streets and they have both been needed to handle the crowds for Rose‐Marie (1924), Annie Get Your Gun (1946), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), Pippin (1972), Les Misérables (transferred in 1990), and other smash musicals. The Shuberts built the Imperial and had success with it even during the Depression. It remains a Shubert house.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Imperial Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Imperial Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-ImperialTheatre.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Imperial Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-ImperialTheatre.html |
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