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Craig Theatre
The Adelphi Theatre (originally the Craig Theatre) was a Broadway theater at 152 West 54th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, with 1,434 seats.Internet Broadway Database''Adelphi Theatre''(Retrieved on November 30, 2007) Opened on December 24, 1928, the theater was taken over by the Federal Theater Project in 1934 and renamed the Adelphi. The theater was renamed the Radiant Center by The Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians in 1940. It was then the Yiddish Arts Theater (1943), and renamed the Adelphi Theater on April 20, 1944, when it was acquired by The Shubert Organization. It became a DuMont Television Network studio, known as the Adelphi Tele-Theatre in the 1950s. The "Classic 39" episodes of ''The Honeymooners'' were filmed in this facility by DuMont using their Electronicam system for broadcast on CBS later during the 1955–56 television season. The theater returned to legitimate use in 1957, was renamed the 54th Street Theater in 1958, and finally the George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
54th Street (Manhattan)
54th Street is a two-mile-long (3.2 km), One-way traffic, one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Notable places, west to east Twelfth Avenue *The route begins at West Side Highway, Twelfth Avenue (New York Route 9A). Opposite the intersection is the New York Passenger Ship Terminal and the Hudson River. This is the only two-way portion of 54th Street; the remainder (east of Eleventh Avenue) is one-way eastbound. *De Witt Clinton Park. The West Side neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, Clinton derives its name from the park. (south) Eleventh Avenue *Clinton Towers Apartments, 39-floor apartment building completed in 1974 (north) *''The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore'' studios *AT&T Switching Center at 811 Tenth Avenue, 21-story, 113 m/370 ft switching station completed in 1964 (south) Tenth Avenue *Sony Music Studios, 460 West 54th (south) *The Hit Factory, 421 West 54th (north) Ninth Avenue *New York City Transit Rapid Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Scene (opera)
''Street Scene'' is an American opera by Kurt Weill (music), Langston Hughes (lyrics), and Elmer Rice (book). Written in 1946 and premiered in Philadelphia that year, ''Street Scene'' is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1929 play of the same name by Rice. It was Weill who referred to the piece as an "American opera", intending it as a groundbreaking synthesis of European traditional opera and American musical theater. He received the inaugural Tony Award for Best Original Score for his work, after the Broadway premiere in 1947. Considered far more an opera than a musical, ''Street Scene'' is regularly produced by professional opera companies and has never been revived on Broadway. Musically and culturally, even dramatically, the work inhabits the mid-ground between Weill's '' Threepenny Opera'' (1928) and Leonard Bernstein's ''West Side Story'' (1957). The score contains operatic arias and ensembles, some of them, such as Anna Maurrant's "Somehow I Never Could Believe" and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Former Theatres In Manhattan
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being used in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose cone to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built until th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Former Broadway Theatres
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being used in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose cone to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gaxton
William Gaxton (né Arthur Anthony Gaxiola; December 2, 1893 – February 2, 1963) was an American actor of vaudeville, film, and theatre. For many years Gaxton was president of The Lambs Club, a theatrical organization in New York City. He and Victor Moore became a popular theatre duo in the 1930s and 1940s; they also appeared in a film together. Biography Gaxton was born as Arthur Anthony Gaxiola,Marriage certificate of Arthur Anthony Gaxiola and Madeline Seitz. Oct. 1919, Certificate No. 0002837. https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/8686933 on December 2, 1893, in San Francisco, California. He was Californio of Spanish ancestry, and a cousin of actor Leo Carrillo. He attended the Boone's Military Academy (or Boone's University School for Boys), and Berkeley High School, in Berkeley, California; and Lowell High School in San Francisco. Gaxton attended Santa Clara College, with classmate Edmund Lowe; and the University of California, Berkeley. He was in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gantry (musical)
''Gantry'' is a musical with a book by Peter Bellwood, lyrics by Fred Tobias, and music by Stanley Lebowsky. Based on the 1927 novel ''Elmer Gantry'' by Sinclair Lewis, it tells the story of a womanizing, self-righteous, self-proclaimed preacher who joins forces with a female evangelist to sell religion to small-town Americans. After 31 previews, the Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Onna White, opened on February 14, 1970 at the George Abbott Theatre, where it closed after one performance. The cast included Robert Shaw, Rita Moreno Rita Moreno (born Rosa Dolores Alverío Marcano; December 11, 1931) is an American actress, dancer, and singer. With a career spanning eight decades she is known for her roles on stage and screen, and is one of the last remaining stars from t ..., Ted Thurston, and Beth Fowler. Song list ;Act I * Wave a Hand * He Was There * Play Ball with the Lord * Katie Jonas * Thanks, Sweet Jesus! * Someone I've Already Foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darling Of The Day (musical)
''Darling of the Day'' is a musical with a book by Nunnally Johnson, lyrics by E. Y. Harburg, and music by Jule Styne. It is based on Arnold Bennett's novel ''Buried Alive'' and his play '' The Great Adventure''. Patricia Routledge won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in the 1968 Broadway production. Synopsis In 1905 London, Priam Farll is an artist, brilliant, unconventional and shy, although he can be violently outspoken. He once offended Queen Victoria and was exiled to the South Pacific (shades of Gauguin), but Edward VII has succeeded to the throne, and Farll has been recalled to London to receive a knighthood. Appalled by "society's" expectations of its "darling of the day" (a common Victorian/Edwardian term meaning something like " fashionable celebrity") Farll seizes the chance to "get out of the world alive" when his faithful butler Henry Leek suddenly dies, and their identities are confused by an official. Instead of correcting the erro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wait Until Dark
''Wait Until Dark'' is a play by Frederick Knott, first performed on Broadway in 1966 and often revived since then. A film adaptation was released in 1967, and the play was published in the same year. Synopsis Susy Hendrix is a blind Greenwich Village housewife who becomes the target of three con-men searching for the heroin hidden in a doll, which her husband Sam unwittingly transported from Canada as a favor to a woman who has since been murdered. "Roat" leads his companions into thinking that they are going to be rich and will get the heroin soon enough, but in the end he murders all of his partners after they outlive their usefulness. The trio tries to convince Susy that her husband will be suspected of murdering the woman, and the only way to protect him is to give them the doll, which connects him to her. Little do the men know that Gloria, a little girl in the upstairs apartment, has stolen the doll after finding out it was not a gift for her. One of the men poses as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Any Wednesday (play)
''Any Wednesday'' is a 1964 American stage play by Muriel Resnik. It ran for 983 performances from 1964 to 1966, making it one of the most successful comedies on Broadway in the 1960s,"Any Wednesday" on the and was turned into a feature film of the same name in 1966. The play's star, , won a for her pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Makes Sammy Run? (musical)
''What Makes Sammy Run?'' is a musical with music and lyrics written by Ervin Drake and a book by Budd Schulberg and Stuart Schulberg. The story, based on Budd Schulberg's 1941 novel of the same name, centers on a ruthlessly ambitious young man who schemes his way to the top of the Hollywood studio food chain in the 1930s, betraying friends and lovers in his wake. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1964 at the 54th Street Theater. Productions The show played on Broadway from February 15, 1964 to June 12, 1965 at the 54th Street Theater, running for 540 performances. It was directed by Abe Burrows. Steve Lawrence starred as Sammy Glick, with Robert Alda as studio boss Al Manheim and Sally Ann Howes as Sammy's love interest, Kit Sargent. Graciela Daniele played Rio Rita. The production was estimated to have lost $285,000 on a $400,000 investment. At the 18th Tony Awards, Lawrence was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. A cast album was released on March 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Strings
''No Strings'' is a musical drama with book by Samuel A. Taylor and words and music by Richard Rodgers. ''No Strings'' is the only Broadway score for which Rodgers wrote both lyrics and music, and the first musical he composed after the death of his long-time collaborator, Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical opened on Broadway in 1962 and ran for 580 performances. It received six Tony Award nominations, winning three, for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, Best Original Score and Best Choreography. Productions The world premiere of ''No Strings'' was at the O'Keefe Centre (now Meridian Hall) in Toronto. The U.S. premiere was at the Fisher Theater in Detroit, where the show ran from January 15 to February 3, 1962. The musical opened on March 15, 1962, at the 54th Street Theatre in New York. It ran for slightly more than six months before transferring to the Broadhurst Theatre, where it continued until August of the following year, for a total of 580 performances and one previe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
13 Daughters
''13 Daughters'' was a short-lived Broadway musical with book, music and lyrics by Eaton Magoon, Jr, starring Don Ameche. It played for 28 performances in 1961. The story was influenced by the life of Magoon's great-grandparents Chun Afong and his wife Julia Fayerweather Afong and their twelve daughters. Plot Set in 19th century Hawaii, the plot involves a Chinese merchant, Chun, and Hawaiian princess, Emmaloa, who wed and have 13 daughters. A prophecy predicts the daughters will not be married until the couple's 13 calabash trees bloom. Tradition dictates the oldest daughter must be the first to marry, but she is more interested in missionary work and no tree has yet blossomed. Soon the daughters' luck will change, however, despite the prophecy.Broadwayworld.com accessed November 17, 2015 Productions ...
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