Belasco Theatre is a Broadway theater at 111 West 44th Street, between Seventh Avenue and Sixth Avenue, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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30 Facts About Belasco Theatre
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The Belasco Theatre has 1,016 seats across three levels and has been operated by The Shubert Organization since 1948.
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Belasco Theatre is on 111 West 44th Street, on the north sidewalk between Seventh Avenue and Sixth Avenue, near Times Square in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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Belasco Theatre was designed by George Keister, the architect of the neighboring Hotel Gerard, in the neo-Georgian style.
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Belasco Theatre's apartment is on the fourth story above the eastern pavilion.
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The Belasco Theatre was outfitted with the most advanced stagecraft tools available including extensive lighting rigs, a hydraulics system, and vast wing and fly space.
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David Belasco Theatre intended the backstage areas to be clean and comfortable, even prohibiting stagehands from spitting onto the floor.
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Belasco Theatre had a collection of erotica and medieval art in a hidden Gothic-style room.
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David Belasco himself had been involved in operating Oscar Hammerstein's Republic Theatre, in the Theater District on 42nd Street, since 1902.
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Belasco Theatre was heavily focused on theatrical lighting; in many cases, he invested more money and devoted more time to a production's light rehearsal than to the combined total of all other production costs.
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In June 1906, Belasco Theatre announced he would manage the theater and name it after Peter Stuyvesant, the New Amsterdam director-general.
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David Belasco's Stuyvesant Theatre opened on October 16,1907, with the musical A Grand Army Man featuring Antoinette Perry.
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Belasco Theatre served as the producer or director of almost 50 productions at the theater for the next two decades; the majority of these ran for at least a hundred performances.
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Not long afterward, the Belasco Theatre hosted The Concert and Return of Peter Grimm, both with over 200 performances.
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The Belasco Theatre hosted some musical performances, such as a wind instrument ensemble led by Georges Barrere, as well as a performance by the Trio de Lutece.
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The following year, the Belasco Theatre premiered The Boomerang, and the stage apron was adjusted for The Boomerang.
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Belasco Theatre initially paid close attention to accurate representation of details in the theater's productions.
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Belasco Theatre was adamant that laundry scenes should contain functioning laundries capable of washing and ironing real clothes, and for one production he made a mockup of a Childs Restaurants franchise.
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The Belasco Theatre hosted the musical Hit the Deck in 1927, one of the few to take place in the theater.
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Since Belasco Theatre missed the original opening performance of Tonight or Never due to illness, a second one was hosted for his benefit in March 1931.
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Belasco Theatre made minor alterations to the theater but generally found it in "good condition".
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The Belasco Theatre estate filed to foreclose upon the theater in February 1936 and reacquired the theater from Rice that March.
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In late 1934, the Group Theatre started showing its productions at the Belasco, relocating Gold Eagle Guy from another theater.
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The game show Take It or Leave It was broadcast from the Belasco Theatre while it was an NBC studio.
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The National Actors Belasco Theatre had a "favorable" lease agreement, paying only for taxes, fixed expenses, and utility use.
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The Belasco Theatre was then used to host the puppet show A Little More Magic in 1994.
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Belasco Theatre Theater is the subject of an urban legend that David Belasco Theatre's ghost haunts the theater every night.
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Belasco Theatre then asks audience members in one of the boxes to tell her if the ghost appears.
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