Shubert's New Broadway Theater- Page 3

[Musical Master]

Posted: 8/24/14 at 6:23pm

Webber.... No.

But Hammerstein? OH YEAH!

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 8/24/14 at 6:28pm

I love the sound of the Hammerstein Theatre.

[undercoveractor]

Posted: 8/25/14 at 1:44am

Iron adornments, delicate but tough as nails adorn an old-fashioned facade...brick perhaps, maybe stone.
As you enter the attractive, but somewhat austere lobby, you are surprised to find a charming, comfortable theatre inside..intimate, yet larger than life.
The acoustics are are such that no actor needs a microphone. Regardless of where you are seated, you feel as if you are part of the show...as if the entire building, seats, and audience are part of performance, both stylized and natural, impromptu and calculated.
The inaugural production is a bold and challenging comedy written by a young new Albee or Sondheim or Coward and the drinks in the lounge at intermission mean business.
Welcome to Broadway! Welcome to The Stritch!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/25/14 at 8:24am

Your seat is wired and you get a jolt if you either come late or use a cell during the show.

Posted: 8/27/14 at 12:35pm

Looks like this might not be happening.... https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Shubert-Organizations-New-Broadway-Theatre-Unlikely-Luxury-Apartment-Building-in-the-Works-20140827#.U_4H_tJdWHU

What happened to zoning in times Square adjacent to theatres needed to be used for theatres to secure air right usage?!

[MadonnaMusical]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 8:11pm

Any news on this? A black box on Broadway would be nice... they could build it under a high rise apartment too!
DEAR SHUBERT ORG, BUILD A BLACK BOX ON BROADWAY!!!

[Fantod]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 8:20pm

It would still be an off-Broadway theatre though, unless you had a 500 seat black box theatre, which would be very strange.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 10:22pm

Not strange at all. You could easily put the chairs on risers that move around. I've seen plenty of theaters across the country do it.

[Fantod]

Posted: 1/12/15 at 11:18pm

Do you have a picture of how that would look? I just can't picture it.

PS: why do a whole bunch of people have their profile picture set to Maggie Smith in the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie? Updated On: 1/12/15 at 11:18 PM

[fyeahmaria]

Posted: 1/13/15 at 6:49am

The main stage of my local theater in Norway is a 520 seat black box theatre and it works great. It's usually set up as a regular theatre with the stage in the front and the audience watching from raked seats, but for example during their producion of Hair a few years back the audience were split in two with the stage in the middle.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 1/13/15 at 12:53pm

Yea. Not sure how to post pictures but here is a link to Greenbriar Valley Theatre in WV. It's a big black box. It's only about 300 seats, but the same idea could work in a larger house.

https://www.google.com/search?q=greenbrier+valley+theatre&espv=2&biw=1070&bih=461&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=T1u1VLm8KYmmNvi6gqAJ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAw#imgdii=voNcXW7DInyvYM%3A%3BovAd7WRmMAXqfM%3BvoNcXW7DInyvYM%3A&imgrc=voNcXW7DInyvYM%253A%3B5eXmGaazaOvMpM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252F0.static.wix.com%252Fmedia%252F312843776a2c5cac46ab200e0b3b2c83.wix_mp_512%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.gvtheatre.org%252F%2523!__contact-us%252Fpage-4%3B775%3B512

GVT