Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
#0Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 8:59pm
Who do you guys think will have theaters renamed for them in the future?
I was walking by the August Wilson (formerly the Virginia) today, and started thinking...
There should (and possibly will be) a:
Sondheim Theatre
Frank Rich Theatre
Thoughts?
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#1re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:05pm
I like the idea of a Sondheim theatre a lot!
What about Andrew Lloyd Weber theatre? I mean he has had the two longest running shows on broadway, lets name a theatre after him!
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#2re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:07pm
Ohh! The Stephen Sondheim Theatre! I love it! (Possibly instead of the now-named Broadway theatre..)
An Ethel Merman theatre would also be lovely
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#3re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:08pmYeah the Sondheim Theatre!
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#4re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:09pmMore than anything else we NEED a "Carol Channing Theater".
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#5re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:10pmleave it to Dollypop....
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#6re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:16pmOooh, the Broadway Theatre as the Sondheim Theatre... I LIKE. Although, other than West Side Story (and not at opening) and the Candide revival, Sondheim hasn't actually been represented there, right? Plus, most of his shows would never play their best in that barn of a theater... But what other theatres could be renamed? It's kind of taboo to take a theatre name away from an actual person, aint it...? Hmm.
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#7re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:21pmI would love to see the 'Sondheim' theater to be a nice small-ish, intimate one. Perhaps the one Ring of Fire was in whose name escapes me now.
#8re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:26pm
Ring of Fire played in the Ethel Barrymore theatre
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Updated On: 5/9/06 at 09:26 PM
#9re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:26pm
The Ethel Barrymore.
And yes, I agree that I would like an ALW theatre, but I would also like a Sondheim theatre.
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#10re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:30pmI love the idea of the Ethel Merman Theatre. I can just picture people saying "So, did you hear? THIS SHOW is going into the Merm."
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#11re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:31pm
Who contributes to the decision to rename a theater? Is it just the theater owner/ producing organization?
Does someone smart know who owns which of all of the Broadway theaters? I know only 10 off the top of my head...
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#12re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:31pmlol- That would be wonderful! Maybe that's what the Broadway theatre can become...being big and brassy as it is...
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#13re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:34pm
Let's hope Donald Trump doesn't buy a theater. I would like to shoot myself in the head, if he does.
GO SONDHEIM THEATRE!
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#14re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:36pmif just one of you say the Idina Menzel Theater, I will personally smack you silly....and NOT in a good way!
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#15re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:36pmWhat? What the heck has he done on Broadway? That would be the ultimate act of vanity if he chose to do that. But, I think he's more interested in buying Central Park
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#16re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:40pmDoes anyone think we'll one day have the Clive Barnes or the Ben Brantley? :-P
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#17re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:43pmI really doubt that an American theatre will ever be named the Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
#18re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:50pm
I would love to see the 'Sondheim' theater to be a nice small-ish, intimate one. Perhaps the one Ring of Fire was in whose name escapes me now.
Yea...umm...I don't think Ethel Barrymore should lose the theatre that's named after her. The Barrymores are American theatre royalty.
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#19re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 9:54pmI hope they don't change some of the more general names. I really like the names Palace and Majestic. And I wish they had left the Jacobs the Royale, oh well. And I really like the Imperial. I was wondering too if they'd give Ben Brantley his own theater. He is pretty influential. But I would think ALW would get a theatre in London, considering he owns half of them anyways.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#20re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 10:09pm
if just one of you say the Idina Menzel Theater, I will personally smack you silly....and NOT in a good way!
Idina Menzel Theatre
#22re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 10:22pmThere used to be one of those...
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#23re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 10:27pmstop it Fab, you are exciting me!
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
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#24re: Broadway Theaters to be Renamed in the Future
Posted: 5/9/06 at 11:12pmThere should be an Al Jolston Theare.
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