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Longacre Theatre
Longacre Theatre, New York, on West 48th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue. With a seating capacity of 1,115, it opened in 1913 and was used mainly for musical comedy, though Kaufman's farce The Butter and Egg Man (1925) had a long run. Later the theatre housed short runs of several notable plays, among them G. B. Stern's The Matriarch (1930) and Obey's Noé (1935) with Pierre Fresnay. Several plays by Odets were produced under the auspices of the Group Theatre, but in 1944 the building was taken over for broadcasting. It returned to use as a theatre in 1953, Lillian Hellman's adaptation of Anouilh's The Lark being staged there in 1955 with Julie Harris as Joan of Arc. Emlyn Williams was seen as Dylan Thomas in A Boy Growing Up (1957), and Zero Mostel starred in Ionesco's Rhinoceros (1961). Robert Anderson's I Never Sang for My Father (1968) was followed in the 1970s by Julie Harris's solo performance as Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst and Gielgud and Richardson in Pinter's No Man's Land (both 1976); a musical tribute to Fats Waller, Ain't Misbehavin' (1978); and John Guare's Bosoms and Neglect (1979). Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God was a big success in 1980, and two plays by Peter Nichols were seen: Passion (1983; Passion Play in London) and a revival of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg as Joe Egg (1985).
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Longacre Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Longacre Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-LongacreTheatre.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Longacre Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-LongacreTheatre.html |
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Longacre Theatre
Longacre Theatre (New York). Named after nearby Longacre Square, this theatre on West 48th Street retained the name even after the crossroads area was changed to Times Square. The 1,400‐seat playhouse was built by entrepreneur H. H. Frazee in 1913, and the Henry Herts– designed house seemed very intimate for its seating capacity. Over the years the auditorium has lost three hundred seats to make it more comfortable, but the Longacre is still a compact house ideal for plays and small musicals. The Shuberts acquired the theatre from Frazee during the Great Depression and still own it. The space was converted to a radio (and later television) studio between 1944 and 1953 but soon returned to legitimate status and quickly found tenants once again. The theatre's longest‐running tenant was the musical revue Ain't Misbehavin' (1978).
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Longacre Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Longacre Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-LongacreTheatre.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Longacre Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-LongacreTheatre.html |
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