Broadway Theaters used in films.

[TTL]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 6:27pm

I was watching one of my favorite films, 'Something's Gotta Give' with D.Keaton and J.Nicholson and was wondering what Broadway Theater was used in the film... also the Majestic was used for 'A Chorus Line' right?

[adrian55]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 7:08pm

The theater in Something's Gotta Give was the Ethel Barrymore Theater.

[NYC_or_Bust]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 7:09pm

I'm assuming you mean INTERIOR, correct?

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 7:10pm

"also the Majestic was used for 'A Chorus Line' right?"

Nope. The Mark Hellinger.

[morosco]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 7:11pm

I believe the Mark Hellinger Theatre was used for A CHORUS LINE (at least the interior shots).

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 7:13pm

I belive they used the Shubert or a mock up of it in Spiderman 3.

[Weez]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 7:16pm

The exterior of the theatre in 'Spider-man 3' was the Broadhurst. They had to kick the History Boys out for a night to do filming, iirc. I don't remember what the interior was though...

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 7:44pm

I think the Martin Beck (now the Hirschfeld) was used in Woody Allen's Manhattan Murder Mystery.

[SirNotAppearing]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 7:53pm

Roughly off-topic, but god, did Spider-Man 3 suck something awful.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 8:09pm

Yes, that was the interior of the Broadhurst. I remember the night/day they filmed that.

There was some Glenn Close movie that kicked The Producers out of the St. James for the day, but I don't recall what.

Speaking of The Producers, the remake used the St. James; the original used the Playhouse, which was once across the street from the Cort.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 8:14pm

The Belasco was used in No Way To Treat A Lady.

[cab832]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 10:32pm

The exterior of the Plymouth Theatre (now the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre) was in the movie "The First Wives Club".

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 10:47pm

"The Belasco was used in No Way To Treat A Lady." Also Bullets over Broadway, I think. I thought it was the Cort used in The Producers (the original).
Updated On: 6/26/08 at 10:47 PM

[carderic]

Posted: 6/26/08 at 11:56pm

wasn't the Belasco used for Bullets over broadway?

[Chrissy*J]

Posted: 6/27/08 at 1:36am

The exterior of the Neil Simon Theatre was used in "Connie and Carla", along with the Shubert (during GYPSY's run) plus a few others I can't seem to recall right now.

"Connie and Carla" is my crack, so many musical theatre references/performances.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 6/27/08 at 1:57am

In Muppets Take Manhattan, Scooter bicycles past the Shubert. And in Dungeons and Dragons, Tom Hanks runs past the Majestic (I think)

[Kaybee]

Posted: 6/27/08 at 10:17am

Doe anyone know which Film used the ceiling view trap door at the lyceum? I have searched every where and CANNOT find an answer.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 6/27/08 at 11:15am

In the opening credits of the Gypsy remake, they show the exterior of a theatre which I am 98% sure is the New Amsterdam.

[Patash]

Posted: 6/27/08 at 11:41am

Not to the point of this thread, but I got a big kick out of Ugly Betty when they were at Wicked, supposedly in New York. The theatre was clearly one of the LA old ones -- lots of glitz and definitely NOT the Gershwin.

[Weez]

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:39pm

Yeah, that was a great episode for giggles; mostly because of Gio being awesome, but also because one minute they were threatening to go in the Gershwin, then the next minute they were totally in the Pantages. XD

I love watching out for theatre stuff. I love how pictures of Times Square try not to include any theatre billboards because they can date a picture so easily. I love how you can pinpoint the dates of filming of 'Enchanted' to within a few weeks because of the billboards that are up at the time. I love trying to work out when a picture of Times Square was taken by whatever theatre things I can spy.

Anyhoo!

[Smaxie]

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:41pm

>I thought it was the Cort used in The Producers (the original).<

No, it's the Playhouse, both interior and exterior. It's a theatre that stood across the street from the Cort that was torn down in 1968, soon after the filming of The Producers. (The Cort's marquee makes an appearance when Franz Liebkind drives up on his motorcycle on opening night. The plastic cursive Cort letters are the same - meaning the Cort's marquee hasn't been updated in 40 years.)

Some others not mentioned:

The Golden in All About Eve

The Biltmore in Cradle Will Rock

The Eltinge/Empire in Last Action Hero

The Alvin in Author, Author (with Merrily We Roll Along on the marquee)

Updated On: 6/27/08 at 12:41 PM

[Princeton78]

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:53pm

If you switch to Off-Broadway, they used the exterior, and I believe the interior of the Cherry Lane in the film version of Godspell. This of course is ironic because the show opened at the Cherry Lane.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 6/27/08 at 10:04pm

I believe the Music Box appears in the film of "Deathtrap."

(Guilty secret: I love that movie.)

[winston89]

Posted: 6/27/08 at 10:39pm

I too laugh at the whole Wicked in Ugly Betty thing. I was ok with them using the Gershwin for shots of the building because the show takes place in NYC. But, because I knew that at the time it was filmed in LA (production is moving to NYC) that they were going to show the inside of the Pantages. However, what did bother me was when Henry and Betty left the thetre the shot kept going back and forth. When the camera was on Henry his back was towards the Gershwin. When the camera was on Betty they shows Juniors. It made me laugh to see that Juniors is ten blocks away from The Gerswhin.


And, in Muppets Take Manhatten there is a shot of Waldorf and Statlor looking at them putting up the maruqees for Mnahatten Melodies at The Biltmore and them joking about how the best tickes were on a bus leaving Manhaten so they didn't have to see the show.

[amoni]

Posted: 6/28/08 at 12:35am

You can also see The Playhouse Theatre in "Valley Of The Dolls" with Neely O'Hara in "Tell me Darling" a musical on the marquee at the end of the film. And you can see The Biltmore front of house and marquee before it was abandoned in "The Muppets Take Manhattan" where they put on "Manhattan Melodies".