Lyceum Theater (Broadway)
| Lyceum Theater | |
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| Address: | 149 West 45th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues |
| City: | New York, NY 10036 |
| Coordinates: | 40 ° 45 '28 " N , 73 ° 59' 5" W |
| Architecture and history | |
| Construction time: | -1903 |
| Opened: | November 2, 1903 |
| Spectator: | 922 seats |
| Architects: | Henry Beaumont Herts , Hugh Tallant |
The Lyceum Theater is a Broadway theater and is located at 149 West 45th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues, in Midtown Manhattan . The current venue opened over 100 years ago, making it the oldest surviving theater in New York City that is still in use.
history
The first Lyceum Theater opened on Fourth Avenue in 1885. The then building was demolished in 1902 and the theater moved to the new venue on Broadway designed by architects Herts & Tallant . It was opened on November 2, 1903. The theater, initially called the New Lyceum , was operated by the Lyceum Theater Company under the direction of Daniel Frohman .
In 1974 the entire building complex inside and outside was listed as a historical monument.
Key data
The Lyceum Theater has space for 922 spectators, 398 in the stalls , 287 on the tier and 210 on the balcony.
The proscenium opening is 10 m wide and 9.6 m high.
The stage is approx. 10 m deep and also has a 10 m deep front stage.
Productions
Notable productions in the new Broadway venue in the early years were The Proud Prince (1903), The Admirable Crichton (1903), The Other Girl (1904) with Lionel Barrymore , A Doll's House (1906) with Ethel Barrymore and The Thief (1907) ) with Margaret Illington . Other stars of the Lyceum's early years included Fanny Brice , Billie Burke , Humphrey Bogart , Walter Huston , Judith Anderson , Leslie Howard and Bette Davis .
The comedy Born Yesterday (1946) with Judy Holliday , which opened in 1946, was the greatest success in the history of theater with 1,642 performances. The Country Girl (1950) with Uta Hagen , A Hatful of Rain (1955) with Shelley Winters , The Happiest Millionaire (1956) with Walter Pidgeon , John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1957) with Alan Bates , were also successful in the post-war period . Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey (1960) with Angela Lansbury and Joan Plowright , Harold Pinters The Caretaker (1961) with Alan Bates, Robert Shaw and Donald Pleasance , You Can't Take It With You (1965), The School for Scandal ( 1966) and The Cherry Orchard (1968).
Successful one-person pieces have also been played at the Lyceum since the 1980s with Whoopi Goldberg (1984, revived 2004), Ian McKellen ( A Knight Out at the Lyceum , 1994), Julia Sweeney ( God Said "Ha!" , 1996) , Mandy Patinkin ( In Concert , 1997) and Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife (2003), based on the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf , which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award.
More recent, well-received productions at the Lyceum were:
- Athol Fugard : Master Harold ... and the Boys (1982) with Danny Glover
- Harvey Fierstein : Safe Sex (1987)
- Our Town (1988)
- Martin McDonagh : The Lonesome West (1999)
- Rose (2000) with Olympia Dukakis
- The Invention of Love (2001)
- Mornings at Seven (2002, second revival)
- Inherit the Wind (2007) with Brian Dennehy and Christopher Plummer
- Mark Twain : Is He Dead? (2007)
- Neil LaBute : Reasons to Be Pretty (2009)
Web links
- Lyceum Broadway Theater , New York Show Tickets (English)
- Lyceum Theater , NewYorkTheatreGuide.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lyceum Theater , IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive, IBDB.com (English)
- ↑ The Lyceum Theater ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Shubert Organization (English)
