Im just curious after reading the Minskoff had a flood, even though I thought it was above the ground? Or at least thats what it seems like from the lobby space. I understand thats spaces can flood even if that arent below ground level, but Im just more intrigued by the placement of both theatres in their buildings. If anyone has an outline, floor plan, blueprint, or whatever to help me visualize it that would be great! Thanks!
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The Marquis orchestra entrance is located on the 3rd floor of the Marriott Marquis. Stage door is at street level on 45th St so I’m not sure if the theater actually slopes down all the way to street level or if the cast has to come downstairs too.
The Minskoff requires you to take an escalator up to get to the orchestra theater entrance. I’m not sure if it’s one level or two. The stage door is also at street level and if you peek in, it does appear that a lot of action is happening right there. So perhaps some of the costumes are down there as well.
the 2 theatres in relation to each other are backwards in that the Marquis's stage backs onto times sq. the Minskoff's stage is inside the tower and their house backs onto times sq.
looking at cross sections of both, they are all pretty much above street level so not sure why it flooded, I am assuming it might be something to do with sprinklers going off?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre
But also think of your house---flooding occurs from washing machines, hot water heaters, plumbing in showers, toilets, sinks, etc. And as mentioned in above post from fire sprinklers. The story I copied was from the fire suppression system.