This article is about the former theatre with the address 5 Columbus Circle. For the office building at 1790 Broadway, known as 5 Columbus Circle, see 5 Columbus Circle. For the present day New York theatre of the same name, see Majestic Theatre (Broadway).
Designed in 1903 by John H. Duncan, the architect of Grant's Tomb, it was built at a time that Columbus Circle was expected to become a theatre district. Initially named the Majestic Theatre, the venue seated about 1,355 and hosted original musicals and operettas, including The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Toyland, and some plays. In 1906 it housed the seminal African-American musical Abyssinia.[1] It was renamed Park Theatre in 1911, opening with The Quaker Girl, and it again presented plays, musicals, and operettas.[2] In early 1913 it showed the world's first full-length color drama feature film, The Miracle.[3] The Shuberts, Florenz Ziegfeld, and Billy Minsky, in succession, owned the house but did not find success there.
In 1923, it was purchased by William Randolph Hearst, renamed the Cosmopolitan Theatre, and played movies. The name was changed to the International Theatre in 1944.[2]
In 1949, NBC leased the theatre, and made it into a television studio rechristened as NBC International Theatre, with the Admiral Broadway Revue being one of the first TV shows aired from this location. In 1953, the venue hosted a portion of the 25th Academy Awards, which was the first Academy Awards to be broadcast, as well as the first to be aired from both New York City and Los Angeles.
The theater was demolished in 1954 to allow for wider sidewalks in front of the New York Coliseum,[2] which in turn was torn down to make way for the Time Warner Center in 2000.
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The Movie Theater For Marion Davies -- YouTube: The 1920s Channel. An article from the June, 1924 issue of Picture Play detailing theatre's conversion to a movie palace in 1923 is read. Includes photos from the article. Video posted 31 December 2023.
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