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Shubert Theatre
Shubert Theatre, New York, on West 44th Street, seating 1,469, opened in 1913 under the control of Lee and J. J. Shubert. They originally named it the Sam S. Shubert after their dead brother, but it is now usually called the Shubert. It opened with Forbes-Robertson in Hamlet, and the first American play to be seen there was A Thousand Years Ago (1914) by Percy Mackaye. The theatre was intended mainly for musicals, but among its straight successes were a dramatization of Harold Frederic's novel The Copperhead (1918), with Lionel Barrymore, Fagan's And So to Bed (1927), with Yvonne Arnaud, and Sinclair Lewis's Dodsworth (1934). Elisabeth Bergner made her Broadway début there in Margaret Kennedy's Escape Me Never (1935), and the Lunts were seen in Sherwood's Idiot's Delight (1936) and Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38 (1937). Successful musicals included Paint Your Wagon (1951), Stop the World—I Want to Get Off (1962), Promises, Promises (1968), and Sondheim's A Little Night Music (1973). A Chorus Line, which opened in 1975, became the longest running Broadway musical of all time in 1989, closing in 1990.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Shubert Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Shubert Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-ShubertTheatre.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Shubert Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-ShubertTheatre.html |
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Shubert Theatre
Shubert Theatre (New York). Officially the Sam S. Shubert Theatre, the famous West 44th Street playhouse was named after the Shuberts' eldest brother, who got them started in show business. It was designed by Henry B. Herts in the Venetian Renaissance style to be the flagship of the growing Shubert empire. Its structure (with the attached Booth Theatre) stretches a full city block and includes offices above and Shubert Alley below. The theatre opened in 1917 and quickly established itself as a favorite musical house. Its longest tenants have been A Chorus Line (1975) and the 1996 revival of Chicago.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Shubert Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Shubert Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-ShubertTheatre.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Shubert Theatre." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-ShubertTheatre.html |
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