Lost Broadway Theatres - Hardcover

Nicholas Van Hoogstraten

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1878271067 ISBN 13: 9781878271068

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pr, 1991

Synopsis

"Architects, theatre consultants, designers, and Broadway buffs will find (this book) to be a genuine treat". -- Michael Sommers, Theatre Crafts

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Review

Theaters are more than just buildings, more than giant musical instruments, as some have described them. For regular theatergoers, they're old friends. When a theater disappears, there's a palpable sense of mourning. Updated to 1997, Lost Broadway Theatres recalls, in photos and memories, playhouses from the colossal and opulent American Theatre, now a parking lot, to the cozy Punch and Judy, now the site of an office building. The good news is that several of the houses previously considered doomed but not yet demolished have been restored in the Times Square boom. Lost Broadway Theatres celebrates their return, and pleads on behalf of other hidden beauties whose fate may not yet be sealed.

Review

Architects, theatre consultants, designers, and Broadway buffs of all degrees of sophistication will find Lost Broadway Theatres to be a genuine treat. Nicholas van Hoogstraten has unearthed a wealth of photographs that show both the interiors and facades of several dozen long-gone Broadway houses. Lost Broadway Theatres shows you what these theatres looked like inside and out.... Theatregoers will get a wonderful idea of what Broadway looked like back in the days when it really was the Great White Way. Michael Sommers, Theatre Crafts

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1878271067
• ISBN 13: 9781878271068
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288