Longacre Theatre is a Broadway theater at 220 West 48th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.
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11 Facts About Longacre Theatre
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Longacre Theatre is on 220 West 48th Street, on the south sidewalk between Eighth Avenue and Broadway, near Times Square in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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The site of the Longacre Theatre was previously occupied by a row of four residences, each of which was three stories high.
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Longacre Theatre was designed by Henry B Herts and constructed for baseball personality Harry Frazee.
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In March 1935, the Group Theatre premiered Clifford Odets's Till the Day I Die and Waiting for Lefty, which starred Odets, Elia Kazan, and Lee J Cobb for 135 performances.
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Ultimately, the Longacre Theatre was used as a radio and television studio for nine and a half years.
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The first production at the newly reopened Longacre Theatre was Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d'Usseau's Ladies of the Corridor, which opened in October 1953.
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Goldman wrote that the Longacre Theatre was not near many other theaters, especially as compared with venues on 45th Street, and claimed that the Longacre Theatre hosted weak shows because its owners "could only get dreck to play there".
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In 1978, the Fats Waller revue Ain't Misbehavin' opened at the Longacre Theatre, ultimately seeing 1,604 performances over three theaters.
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Longacre Theatre hosted the musical Truly Blessed, a showcase of Mahalia Jackson's music, for a month in 1990.
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In 2001, the Longacre Theatre hosted two brief runs: Judgment at Nuremberg and A Thousand Clowns.
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