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Royale Theatre
Royale Theatre, New York, on West 45th Street, between Broadway and 5th Avenue. Seating 1,059, it opened in 1927 with Piggy, a musical comedy, and later housed Winthrop Ames's productions of Gilbert and Sullivan. Mae West was seen here in her own play Diamond Lil (1928), which ran for nearly a year, and the Theatre Guild put on Maxwell Anderson's Both Your Houses (1933). In 1934 the theatre was renamed the John Golden, presenting a series of moderately successful comedies, but from 1936 to 1940 it was used for broadcasting. It returned to drama under its old name in 1940, successful productions including Fry's The Lady's not for Burning (1950), Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker (1955), a revue entitled La Plume de ma tante (1958), and Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana (1961). Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth (1968) had a good run, but the biggest hit in the theatre's history was the musical Grease, which moved there in 1972 and ran until 1980. A later musical was Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance (1985).
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Royale Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Royale Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-RoyaleTheatre.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Royale Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-RoyaleTheatre.html |
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Royale Theatre
Royale Theatre (New York). With 1,100 seats and plenty of backstage space, the playhouse on West 45th Street has served well for both plays and musicals over the decades. It was designed in a Spanish style by Herbert J. Krapp and built by the Chanin brothers in 1927, though they lost ownership during the Great Depression. For a time in the early 1930s, the house was managed by John Golden, who renamed it after himself, and in the late 1930s it was a radio studio. From Gilbert and Sullivan operettas to such three‐character plays as Art (1998) and Copenhagen (2000), the Royale has been a suitable house for just about every kind of theatre. Today the Shuberts own it.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Royale Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Royale Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-RoyaleTheatre.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Royale Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-RoyaleTheatre.html |
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