Belasco Theater
The Belasco Theater is a Broadway theater in New York City located at 111 West 44th Street, between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue.
When the playwright David Belasco was planning to leave the Theater Republic (now the New Victory Theater ) leased from Oscar Hammerstein I , he had the theater built a few blocks away by the architect George Keister, which was initially called the Stuyvesant Theater and opened on October 16, 1907 has been.
The building is designed in the style of historicism , from neo-Gothic to neo- Georgian . The interior shows examples of Tiffany glass art . Because Belasco was also a stage master and theater producer, it was important to him to equip it with the most modern stage technology and lighting. An apartment with ten rooms is integrated, which Belasco used as an apartment and office. Three years later the theater was renamed the Belasco Theater. After Belasco's death in 1931, it was rented out several times and bought in 1948 by the Shubert Organization , which still owns it today.
In addition to classics from English theater literature, the program also features melodramas , comedies and musicals. Humphrey Bogart played here in 1929, John Barrymore in 1940 , Marlon Brando in 1946 , Noël Coward in 1957 , Ralph Fiennes (Hamlet) in 1995, Denzel Washington (Julius Caesar) in 2005 . From 1971 the musical Oh! Calcutta! and from 1975 The Rocky Horror Show , Ain't Misbehavin ' followed in 1981 .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Tony Awards, 1995, accessed May 9, 2016