How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#1
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:15pm

Having just seen Macbeth at the Barrymore Theater I realized that I have been to 38 out of the 40 Broadway Theaters. I have The Cort and Circle In The Square left to go to. I will definitely see No Man's Land/Waiting for Godot this fall and that will leave me with one more. What is your number?

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#2
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:20pm

Only 6...
Gershwin
Nederlander
Winter Garden
Music Box
Brooks Atkinson
Shubert

Updated On: 8/24/13 at 06:20 PM

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#2
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:25pm

All of them. I'm just that cool.

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#3
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:30pm

Been to all except American Airlines, Vivian Beaumount, Belasco, Broadhurst, Circle in the Square, Cort, Samuel J. Freidman, Walter Kerr, Lyceum (Seeing the Nance Sunday), Minskoff, Schoenfeld, and Stephen Sondheim (Seeing the Trip to Bountiful Saturday). After this weekend only 10 more to go!

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#4
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:33pm

Easier to name the ones I haven't been in.

Shubert
Circle in the Square
Minskoff
Beaumont
Cort
Schoenfeld
American Airlines
Ambassador
Foxwoods
Hayes
Winter Garden

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#5
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:36pm

i've been in 27

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#6
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:38pm

I have been to only 17 theaters (19 in 2 weeks).

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#7
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:48pm

13:

St. James
Neil Simon
Lunt-Fontanne
Lyceum
Longacre
Shubert
Al Hirschfeld
Eugene O'Neill
Samuel J. Friedman
Foxwoods
Stephen Sondheim
Marquis
Nederlander

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#8
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:50pm

At one point, I counted over 20. But that was years ago. No idea now.

And I always pored through the "At This Theatre" section of the Playbill. I would imagine what it was like to sit in the same seat I was in and watch some of those incredible, classic shows.

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#9
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:51pm

Holy crap. 27/40

All except:

American Airlines
Booth
Belasco
Broadhurst
Circle
Cort
Foxwoods
Schoenfeld
Hayes
Lyceum
Longacre
Friedman
Sondheim

Updated On: 5/20/13 at 06:51 PM

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#10
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:53pm

I quite enjoyed this question. I'm at 34.

All except:
August Wilson
Circle in the Square
Helen Hayes
Minskoff
Palace
Stephen Sondheim

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#11
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:55pm

Only six.

Majestic
Imperial
Nederlander
Minskoff
Goodman
Vivian Beaumont

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#12
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:55pm

Majestic
Al Hirschfeld
Imperial
August Wilson
Broadway
Eugene O'Neil
Palace
Stephen Sondheim
Foxwoods

After this summer, I will hopefully be able to add the following to this list...
Music Box
Shubert
*And return visits to the Al Hirschfeld and the Broadway

I have always REALLY wanted to see a show in the Marquis...

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#13
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:55pm

I don't have any idea..I would have years of playbills to look through. So I am just going to say LOTS. It's also interesting to think about how many different shows we have seen at the same theaters.

Not to mention that some of the theaters have changed names. I had been to the Martin Beck theater years ago a number of times... and only recently realized it's the current Hirschfeld Theater.

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#14
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:59pm

Hm, well now it's my mission to get into all 40. I've been to 34.

I have not been to the:
Broadhurst
Cort
Friedman
Golden
Music Box (seeing Pippin in August)
August Willson

If anyone else is as intrigued as I was by this, here's a list of all the Broadway houses. If you click on a specific theatre, it brings you to IBDB, which has each theatre's history.

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Updated On: 5/20/13 at 06:59 PM

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#15
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:01pm

Holy cow! 38/40! All except the Lyceum and the August Wilson.

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#16
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:02pm

Only 24. Interestingly, I have not been in any of the theaters on the north side of 45th street and most of the ones east of Broadway.

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#17
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:12pm

28/40
Haven't been to:
Minskoff
Schoenfeld,
Friedman
Winter Garden
Circle in the Square
Broadway
Sondheim
American Airlines
Foxwoods
Majestic
Palace
Ambassador

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Updated On: 5/20/13 at 07:12 PM

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#18
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:27pm

35.

Still haven't been in:
American Airlines
Belasco
Cort
Golden
St. James

::bust a move::

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#19
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:29pm

I'm at 34/40!! Wow, didn't expect that many!!
I still need:
Ambassador
American Airlines
Belasco
Friedman
Helen Hayes
Walter Kerr

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#20
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:33pm

20/40. Exactly half. I'm sure that number will quickly increase after I move to the city this fall.

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#21
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:37pm

All of them. I have been seeing shows for almost 50 years.

Some of them are no longer with us such as the 54th st and the Harkness

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#22
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:47pm

I've been to all, but two:

The Winter Garden and Circle in the Square.

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#23
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:53pm

All but The Sondheim and Circle in The Square [and the Sondheim has opened since i last visited New York I'm from Melbourne]

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How Many Of The 40 Broadway Theaters Have You Been To?#24
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:59pm

17:
Golden
Imperial
Palace
Eugene O'Neil
Nederlander
Al Hirschfeld
Helen Hays
Richard Rodgers
St James
Vivian Beaumont
Lyceum
Neil Simon
Stephen Sondheim
Bernard B. Jacobs
Ethel Barrymore
Majestic
Music Box

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