Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, originally the Globe Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 205 West 46th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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13 Facts About Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is on 206 West 46th Street, on the north sidewalk between Eighth Avenue and Broadway, near Times Square in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was designed by Carrere and Hastings in the Beaux-Arts style.
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The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is the only surviving theater of four that Carrere and Hastings designed, as well as the last theater designed by that firm.
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Primary elevation of the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre's facade is on 46th Street and was originally the carriage entrance.
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Globe Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was built with an entrance on 1555 Broadway, between 46th and 47th Streets.
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The Dillingham Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Company took title to the land in January 1908, and plans for the theater were filed that March.
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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre then announced that he would renovate the Globe to serve as headquarters for his company.
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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre opened on May 5,1958, with Friedrich Durrenmatt's The Visit, starring Lunt and Fontanne.
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Second revival of Peter Pan, featuring Cathy Rigby, was staged at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in 1990, as was a concert by Harry Connick Jr.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company produced A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1996, and the Sovremennik Lunt-Fontanne Theatre had eight Russian-language performances of two productions later that year.
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The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was again renovated, and the bar area was demolished and rebuilt to accommodate a new building to the east.
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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre generally hosted shorter musicals and appearances in the 2010s.
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