Richard Rodgers Theatre

Richard Rodgers Theatre

Coordinates: 40°45′33″N 73°59′13″W / 40.75917°N 73.9869°W / 40.75917; -73.9869

Richard Rodgers Theatre

Tarzan in 2006
Address 226 West 46th Street
City New York City
Country USA
Architect Irwin Chanin
Owned by Nederlander Organization
Capacity 1,319
Opened 1928
Previous names Chanin's 46th Street Theatre, 46th Street Theatre
Production Porgy & Bess
www.richardrodgerstheatre.com/

The Richard Rodgers Theatre, is a Broadway theater in New York City, built by Irwin Chanin in 1925. When it was first opened, it was called Chanin's 46th Street Theatre. Chanin almost immediately leased it to the Shuberts, who bought the building outright in 1931 and renamed it the 46th Street Theatre. In 1982, it was purchased and renovated by the Nederlander Organization, who in 1990 changed the name to the Richard Rodgers Theatre in memory of the composer Richard Rodgers. The building is located at 226 W 46th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue.

It currently holds the distinction of housing the most number, ten, of Tony Award-winning Best Plays and Best Musicals.[1]

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Chanin's seating plan

The Richard Rodgers Theatre is notable in that it was the first to feature Chanin's 'democratic' seating plan. In most earlier Broadway theatres, patrons seated in the cheaper balcony and mezzanine sections utilized separate entrances from patrons who had purchased the more expensive orchestra section seats. Instead, all patrons entered the new theatre through the same doors, and a series of steps inside the house led to the upper seating areas.

Notable productions

References

  1. ^ "Tony Awards Facts & Trivia"
  2. ^ The Broadway League. Chicago 1996 revival | IBDB. Internet Broadway Database.
  3. ^ Jones, Kenneth. "In the Heights". Playbill.

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