New Amsterdam Theater

Exterior of the theater in 1985 prior to 42nd Street renovation.

The New Amsterdam Theater is a Broadway theater in Manhattan , New York City . Located on 214 West 42nd Street , it is one of the oldest operating houses on Broadway. Since its reopening in 1997, musicals from Disney Theatrical Productions have mainly been played.

history

The 1,702-seat theater was designed by architects Henry Beaumont Herts and Hugh Tallent and opened on October 26, 1903. The New York Times praised the design in Beaux Arts and French Art Nouveau forms as "The House Beautiful".

From 1913 to 1927 New Amsterdam was the venue for the famous Ziegfeld Follies revues . In 1937 the theater was converted into a cinema and remained in operation in this form until 1982. Except for a modified facade and minor changes inside, it remained largely intact and was added to the New York Monuments List in 1979. In 1980 it was included in the National Register of Historic Places .

From 1982 the building was owned for ten years by the Nederlander Organization, an organization that maintains a large number of theaters and venues in New York and other major cities in the United States. During this time, inadequate security measures were taken and the Art Nouveau interior was left to decay. After New York State took ownership in 1992, New Amsterdam was sold to the Walt Disney Company in 1994 . By 1997 the theater could be renovated true to the original according to plans by the architecture firm Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer and celebrated its reopening on May 18, 1997.

Productions (selection)

1903: A Midsummer Night's Dream , comedy by William Shakespeare ; Opening piece
1997: The Lion King , musical; until 2006
2006: Mary Poppins , musical; until 2013
2014: Aladdin , musical; current

Web links

Commons : New Amsterdam Theater - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Christopher Gray: Streetscapes: The New Amsterdam Theater; A Landmark Mired In Bureaucracy . In: The New York Times . February 10, 1991, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 2, 2019]).
^ David W. Dunlap: State Acquires Landmark Theater To Salvage While It Still Can . In: The New York Times . September 10, 1992, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 2, 2019]).
↑ Rick Lyman: With Its Glory Restored, Theater Is Itself a Star . In: The New York Times . May 20, 1997, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 2, 2019]).

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[1] Christopher Gray: Streetscapes: The New Amsterdam Theater; A Landmark Mired In Bureaucracy . In: The New York Times . February 10, 1991, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 2, 2019]).

[2] David W. Dunlap: State Acquires Landmark Theater To Salvage While It Still Can . In: The New York Times . September 10, 1992, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 2, 2019]).

[3] Rick Lyman: With Its Glory Restored, Theater Is Itself a Star . In: The New York Times . May 20, 1997, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 2, 2019]).