17 Facts About Minskoff Theater

Minskoff Theater was designed by Kahn and Jacobs, who designed One Astor Plaza.

The Minskoff Theater Theatre was added during the planning process; in exchange, One Astor Plaza's developers were allowed to erect a taller building with additional floor area.

The first major production at the Minskoff Theater, Irene, was followed by a series of short-lived productions in the 1970s.

Minskoff Theater Theatre is on the third floor of One Astor Plaza, known as 1515 Broadway, along Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.

Minskoff Theater is accessed from a covered arcade under the center of One Astor Plaza, which connects 44th and 45th Streets.

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The Minskoff was the first fully wheelchair-accessible Broadway theater in New York City.

The Minskoff was designed without fire curtains, since the city had allowed sprinkler systems to be installed in both theaters.

The Minskoff Theater hosted the rock musical Rockabye Hamlet, which flopped with seven performances in February 1976.

The Merce Cunningham Dance Company had a brief engagement in January 1977, and the Minskoff Theater hosted the final performances of the long-running musical Pippin, which transferred from the Imperial, later that year.

In 1980, the Minskoff Theater hosted a revival of the musical West Side Story, which lasted for 333 performances.

Subsequently, the Minskoff Theater hosted three live appearances in early 1986: the singer Patti LaBelle, the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, and the vocal groups The Temptations and The Four Tops.

The Minskoff Theater then hosted the 1988 Tony Awards immediately after Cabaret ended that June.

The Minskoff Theater's last show of the 1980s was the musical Black and Blue, which opened in January 1989 and had 829 performances over two years.

Minskoff Theater hosted the Tony Awards in 1991, followed that November by a limited run of the musical Peter Pan.

The Minskoff Theater did not have another production until December 2002, when the musical Dance of the Vampires opened.

The Minskoff Theater again stood empty until February 2004, when the musical Fiddler on the Roof was revived; it ran for 781 performances.

In November 2005, the long-running musical The Lion King was booked for the Minskoff Theater, having been forced to relocate after eight years at Disney's New Amsterdam Theatre.