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Music Box Theatre

January 01, 1970

This article is about the theater in New York City. For the Chicago theater, see Music Box Theatre (Chicago). For the Los Angeles theater formerly with the name, see The Fonda Theatre.

The Music Box Theatre is a Broadway theater at 239 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1921, the Music Box Theatre was designed by C. Howard Crane in a Palladian-inspired style and was constructed for Irving Berlin and Sam H. Harris. It has 1,025 seats across two levels and is operated by The Shubert Organization. Both the facade and the auditorium interior are New York City landmarks.

Music Box Theatre
Showing the musical Dear Evan Hansen in 2019
Address239 West 45th Street
Manhattan, New York City
United States
Coordinates40°45′32″N 73°59′14″W / 40.758864°N 73.987178°W / 40.758864; -73.987178
OwnerShubert Organization
TypeBroadway
Capacity1,025
ProductionSuffs
Construction
OpenedSeptember 1921
Years active1921–present
ArchitectC. Howard Crane
Website
Official website
DesignatedDecember 8, 1987[1]
Reference no.1359[1]
Designated entityFacade
DesignatedDecember 8, 1987[2]
Reference no.1360[2]
Designated entityAuditorium interior

The facade is made of limestone and is symmetrically arranged, with both Palladian and neo-Georgian motifs. At ground level, the eastern portion of the facade contains the theater's entrance, with a marquee over it, while the stage door is to the west. A double-height central colonnade at the second and third floors conceals a fire-escape staircase; it is flanked by windows in the outer bays. The auditorium contains Adam style detailing, a large balcony, and two outwardly curved box seats within ornate archways. The theater was also designed with a comparatively small lobby, a lounge in the basement, and mezzanine-level offices.

Harris proposed the Music Box Theatre in 1919 specifically to host his productions with Berlin, and the Shubert family gained an ownership stake shortly after the Music Box opened. The theater initially hosted the partners' Music Box Revue nearly exclusively, presenting its first play, Cradle Snatchers, in 1925. Many of the Music Box's early productions were hits with several hundred performances. There were multiple productions by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman in the 1930s, including Once in a Lifetime and The Man Who Came to Dinner. After Harris died in 1941, Berlin and the Shuberts shared ownership of the theater, and the Music Box largely showed dramas rather than musicals. The theater hosted several plays by William Inge in the 1950s. Though the length of production runs declined in later years, the Music Box has remained in theatrical use since its opening. The Shuberts acquired the Berlin estate's ownership stake in 2007.

Site edit

The Music Box Theatre is on 239 West 45th Street, on the north sidewalk between Eighth Avenue and Broadway, near Times Square in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.[3][4] The square land lot covers 10,050 square feet (934 m2).[4] The theater has a frontage of 100 feet (30 m) on 45th Street and a depth of about 100 feet.[4][5]

The adjoining block of 45th Street is also known as George Abbott Way,[6] and foot traffic on the street increases box-office totals on the theaters there.[7] The Music Box shares the block with the Richard Rodgers Theatre and Imperial Theatre to the north, as well as the New York Marriott Marquis to the east. Other nearby buildings include the Paramount Hotel to the north; the Hotel Edison and Lunt-Fontanne Theatre to the northeast; One Astor Plaza to the southeast; the Gerald Schoenfeld, Booth, Shubert, and Broadhurst Theatres to the south; and the Majestic, Bernard B. Jacobs, and John Golden Theatres to the southwest.[4]

Design edit

The Music Box Theatre was designed by C. Howard Crane in a Palladian-inspired style and was constructed from 1920 to 1921 for Irving Berlin and Sam H. Harris.[3][8] The interior was decorated by Crane and William Baumgarten, with many Adam style details.[9][10][11] The Longacre Engineering and Construction Company built the theater, with M. X. C. Weinberger as consulting engineer. Numerous other contractors were involved in the theater's development.[10] The Music Box is operated by the Shubert Organization.[12][13]

Facade edit

Ground floor (west to east)
 
Fire escape (bronze gate)
 
Auditorium exits (three double doors)
 
Main entrance (four double doors)

The facade is made of limestone.[8][14] It is symmetrically arranged, though the theater is shorter than its width.[15] For the design of the facade, Crane drew from both Palladian and neo-Georgian motifs.[8][10] The facade's largest feature is a double-height central colonnade at the second and third floors.[10][14][15] According to theatrical historian Ken Bloom, the facade design was inspired by that of the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia.[11]

The easternmost side on 45th Street includes four pairs of glass and bronze doors leading to the ticket lobby. There are bronze sign boards on either side, and the entrance is topped by a marquee. Just west of the ticket-lobby entrance is a single doorway. The center of the ground story includes three pairs of glass and bronze doors from the auditorium. There are wood-and-glass sign boards on either side of the central doors, with colonettes on either side and sheet metal-wood pediments above them. A bronze fire-escape gate, accessed by two granite steps, and two wide sign boards are to the west of the center doors. The westernmost part of the facade contains a double door, a narrow sign board, and a single door.[16] These doors, adjacent to the Imperial Theatre's entrance, constitute the stage doors.[16][12] Above the ground floor is a horizontal band course with motifs of swags, urns, and vertical bars.[16]

At the second and third floors is a colonnade between a pair of outer bays. The colonnade has four fluted columns, which are topped by Corinthian-style decorative capitals. The auditorium facade is slightly recessed behind the colonnade, creating a gallery, which is shielded by decorative iron railings between the columns.[16] The recessed gallery contains the auditorium's fire escape, with stairs leading down to ground level.[16][17] There are also three double doorways with stone surrounds, which exit onto the gallery. Above each doorway is a frieze with urns and swags; there is a triangular pediment in the outer doorways and scrolled pediment in the center doorway.[16] A pair of pilasters flanks each of the outer bays,[8][9] with Corinthian capitals atop each pilaster.[16] The second-floor window of each outer bay is a Palladian window,[15] which contains sash window panes. The tympanum is divided into three sections, with an arched tympanum above the center section. The third story has a rectangular sash window with a molded frame. A vertical sign hangs from the easternmost bay on the upper stories.[16]

The top of the facade has a frieze with rosette motifs, as well as a cornice with dentils and modillions.[16] Above the facade is a sloping slate roof with several projecting dormers for windows.[15] There is also a roof balustrade with cast-iron and wrought-iron railings.[16]

Auditorium edit

 
Auditorium as seen from balcony level, looking toward the left-hand box

The auditorium has an orchestra level, one balcony, boxes, and a stage behind the proscenium arch.[18] The auditorium is wider than its depth, and the space is designed with plaster decorations in high relief.[19] According to the Shubert Organization, the auditorium has 1,025 seats;[13] meanwhile, The Broadway League cites a capacity of 1,009 seats[20] and Playbill cites 984 seats.[12] The discrepancy arises from the fact that there are 1,009 physical seats and 16 standing-only spots. The physical seats are divided into 538 seats in the orchestra, 455 at the balcony, and 16 in the boxes. The orchestra seating includes 35 seats in the orchestra pit at the front of the stage.[13] The original color scheme was ivory and dark green.[9][21] The carpets and curtain were designed in a coral color.[10][17]

Seating areas edit

The rear (east) end of the orchestra contains a shallow promenade, and the orchestra level is raked. The rear wall of the promenade (corresponding with the orchestra's aisles) has doorways with Corinthian-style piers, above which is an entablature in the Adam style.[22] The north end of the promenade has a stair that rises to the balcony's foyer, as well as a double stair that leads down to a basement lounge.[23] Both stairs have Adam-style railings.[23] The orchestra and its promenade contain plasterwork panels on the walls. A standing rail is placed at the rear of the orchestra.[24] No boxes were installed at orchestra level per Harris and Berlin's request.[14][21]

The balcony level is raked and contains plasterwork panels on the walls. An Adam-style entablature runs above the top of the balcony wall, wrapping around to the tops of the boxes and proscenium. The balcony front curves outward and has vine and flower motifs, as well as medallions depicting female characters. Modern light boxes are in front of the balcony, and a technical booth is at the rear. The balcony's soffit, or underside, is divided into panels that contain plaster medallions with light fixtures, as well as air-conditioning vents.[24] The auditorium was originally lit by five-armed sconces on the walls, which were replaced in the 1960s with imitation brass sconces.[9] The original sconces were described in American Architect and Architecture as "Dutch brass with amber crystals".[14]

 
Box detail

On either side of the proscenium is an archway with a single box at the balcony level.[21] The boxes were described in American Architect as having "a very decided decorative charm to the motive of the proscenium treatment".[14][21] Each box is semicircular and is cantilevered from the wall; they are accessed from stair halls leading from the orchestra.[19] The boxes' archways are supported by six Corinthian columns, three on each side, and are additionally flanked by paired Corinthian pilasters.[22] Within each archway, the two center columns flank mirrored panels, which in turn are topped by broken pediments with urns.[23] The fronts of the boxes contain Adam-style metal railings,[25] originally ornamented in silver-gray.[14][21] An entablature rises above the box seats, topped by a half-dome with a pastoral mural.[26] These murals depict classical ruins.[23] The half-domes are flanked by spandrels with decorations of eagles spreading their wings.[22]

Other design features edit

Next to the boxes is a flat proscenium arch.[18] The archway is flanked by fluted columns and pilasters in the Corinthian style. The top of the archways contains an entablature with Adam-style decorations of urns, vines, fans, and reeds.[22] The proscenium measures about 26 feet (7.9 m) high and 40 feet (12 m) wide.[13] Due to a lack of space backstage, a counterweight system was installed to lift sets and other objects onto the stage.[14] The ceiling contains Adam-style moldings and friezes, which divide it into sections. There are also air-conditioning vents in the ceiling,[23] and four chandeliers originally hung from it.[27] Above the front of the balcony is a wide circular medallion. The rear of the ceiling contains a cove that curves downward onto the wall, supported by modillions at the entablature of the wall.[23]

Other interior spaces edit

The Music Box's rear promenade is accessed directly from the lobby,[14] which measures 8 feet (2.4 m) wide and 25 feet (7.6 m) long.[28] The lobby was decorated as a simple space, with pink marble baseboards, marble walls, and a plaster cornice. The cornice was decorated with neo-Georgian ornaments. A bronze box-office booth was placed in the lobby.[17] The lobby has a box office because the theater had no dedicated box office when it opened.[29] The floor was made of alternating gray and pink marble tiles.[17] The lobby was separated from the auditorium itself by draped partitions, which removed the drafts that typically occurred behind the last row of seats.[14][17]

At the balcony level is a mezzanine. This level contained Berlin's studio, as well as ladies' retiring rooms, telephone rooms, and managers' offices. Berlin's studio was designed like an attic, with exposed ceiling rafters, as well as wainscoted walls and a stone fireplace mantel.[17]

 
Stair from the basement lounge to the foyer

Below the auditorium is a basement lounge. Its lavish design contrasted with the lounges of other Broadway theaters, which generally received little attention.[27] Architecture and Building magazine described the lounge as being in the Queen Anne style, "developed more as if in a dwelling than in a club or public place".[10] The staircase to the basement lounge is made of marble and contains an intermediate landing.[10][14][23] A tapestry is mounted on the stair landing.[10][17][23] The tapestry depicts a reclining figure of a nude woman next to a waterfall.[23] A mirrored panel was hung on the lounge's wall, opposite the tapestry. Siena marble fireplace mantels, with mirrors above them, were placed at each end of the lounge.[17] The basement also has the theater's restrooms.[12]

History edit

Times Square became the epicenter for large-scale theater productions between 1900 and the Great Depression.[30] During the 1900s and 1910s, many theaters in Midtown Manhattan were developed by the Shubert brothers, one of the major theatrical syndicates of the time.[31] Meanwhile, Sam H. Harris was a producer and Irving Berlin was a songwriter. Prior to the development of the Music Box Theatre, Harris had partnered with George Cohan in the development of several theaters and productions in the 1900s and 1910s.[32]

Development and early years edit

Venue for revues edit

According to one account, the name for the Music Box Theatre arose from a conversation between Sam H. Harris and Irving Berlin in 1919. Harris had suggested building a theater, to which Berlin suggested the name "Music Box".[33][29] Harris liked the name and suggested that Berlin could write a song for the new theater.[29] In March 1920, Harris and Berlin bought the properties at 239 to 245 West 45th Street from L. and A. Pincus and M. L. Goldstone.[34][35][36] They then announced plans to build the Music Box Theatre on the site.[34][37] By that May, Crane had prepared plans for the theater.[5] Harris planned to stage twice-yearly revues,[38] and he subsequently ended his long-running partnership with George M. Cohan.[39] Hassard Short was named as the first general stage director,[40][41] spending over $240,000 on the first show.[8] The Music Box ultimately cost more than $1 million, $400,000 for the building itself and $600,000 for the land;[8][42] the theater overran its original budget by about $300,000.[43] The Music Box was one of the only Broadway theaters to be built for specific producers' work.[8][44]

The Music Box Theatre opened on September 22, 1921, with performances of Music Box Revue.[45][46][47] The new theater was praised by both architectural and theatrical critics, and several architectural publications printed pictures of the theater.[48] These included the American Architect and the Architectural Review, which called the theater's design "remarkable" both in design and layout.[14][48] The New-York Tribune called the facade "singularly successful in its expression of the interior",[17] while Architecture and Building said the "delicacy of domestic architecture" was fitting for the Music Box's design.[10][48] Among theatrical critics, Jack Lait referred to the Music Box as the "daintiest theatre in America" in Variety magazine.[47][48] Other reviewers said the theater was "unparalleled" in design and had "dignified architectural decorations" in contrast to other theaters.[48] The comedian Sam Bernard said simply, "It stinks from class."[49] In his autobiography, producer Moss Hart said that the Music Box was "everybody's dream of a theatre", enhancing the quality of the productions staged there.[50][51]

 
View of the auditorium

Film executive Joseph M. Schenck originally was a partner in the Music Box Theatre with Berlin and Harris,[8][43] though he transferred his stake to the Shubert brothers not long afterward.[8] For the first three years of its operation, the Music Box exclusively hosted the Music Box Revue.[52] The inaugural edition in 1921 starred Bernard and Berlin.[46][47][11] Three subsequent editions of the Music Box Revue were hosted in as many years, and each subsequent edition gradually declined in quality. Among the performers who appeared multiple times were the Brox Sisters, Clark and McCullough, Florence Moore, Grace Moore, Joseph Santley, and Ivy Sawyer.[11] One notable performance was the 1924 edition, which featured Fanny Brice of the Ziegfeld Follies.[11][53] Earl Carroll's Vanities was also staged in 1924, becoming the second production to be presented at the Music Box.[54][55] Its producer, Earl Carroll, was briefly jailed in November 1924 after showing "obscene" photos outside the Music Box.[56]

1920s and 1930s hit shows edit

The comedy The Cradle Snatchers, with Humphrey Bogart, was the first play to be staged at the Music Box, opening in 1925.[42][52] With close to 500 performances, it was a hit.[57][58] More generally, of the productions staged in the Music Box in its first decade, only two flops with less than 100 performances were staged, both of which ran immediately after The Cradle Snatchers closed.[42] The first was Gentle Grafters in October 1926,[59][60] while the second was Mozart that November.[59][61] This was followed by the comedy Chicago, which premiered in late 1926 with Francine Larrimore and Charles Bickford,[52][62] and a run of the melodrama The Spider in 1927, which transferred from a neighboring theater.[42][63] By the end of 1927, Hassard Short had given up his stake in managing the Music Box.[64] The play Paris Bound also premiered in 1927,[52][65] followed the next year by the similarly named Paris with Irène Bordoni.[52][66] The last show in the 1920s was The Little Show,[52] which premiered in 1929.[67][68]

The Music Box staged the French play Topaze with Frank Morgan in 1930,[69][70] followed by the comedy The Third Little Show with Ernest Truex and Beatrice Lillie in 1931.[71][72] The theater largely hosted works by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, produced either individually or in partnership, during the 1930s. Immediately following Topaze was Hart and Kaufman's first-ever collaboration, Once in a Lifetime,[29][73] which premiered in late 1930.[74][75] Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind collaborated in 1931 for Of Thee I Sing,[76][77] the first Pulitzer Prize-winning musical,[71] and Kaufman joined Edna Ferber the next year to produce Dinner at Eight,[78][79] which ran 232 performances.[80][81] The next year, Berlin and Hart staged the revue As Thousands Cheer,[78][82] which with 400 performances was lengthy for a Great Depression-era musical.[80][83] Hart and Kaufman again partnered in 1934 for the play Merrily We Roll Along.[78][84]

Five plays were performed at the Music Box in 1935.[85] These were Rain,[86][87] Ceiling Zero,[88][89] If This Be Treason,[90][91] a theatrical version of Pride and Prejudice,[92][93] and finally Kaufman and Katharine Dayton's collaboration First Lady.[94][95] Kaufman and Ferber collaborated again in the 1936 production Stage Door.[78][96] This was followed the next year by a short run of Young Madam Conti with Constance Cummings,[97][98] as well as a Kaufman-directed adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men.[99][100] Two Hart and Kaufman productions were staged in 1938: a transfer of I'd Rather Be Right[101][102] and the original Sing Out the News.[102][103] The productions in 1939 began with the Noël Coward revue Set to Music,[104][105] following which was From Vienna, produced by the Refugee Artists Group.[106][107] The last hit of the 1930s was Hart and Kaufman's The Man Who Came to Dinner,[108][109] which had 739 performances through 1941.[106][110] Irving Berlin subsequently recalled that he and Harris had almost lost control of the otherwise financially-successful Music Box Theatre during the Depression.[29] In spite of this, all but three shows had at least 100 performances in the Music Box's first 25 years.[111]

1940s to 1970s edit

 
Scaffolding over the entrance

The Music Box Theater underwent several changes in operation during the 1940s.[112] Sam Harris died in July 1941,[113][114][115] and his ownership stake in the theater went to his widow Kathleen Marin, pursuant to his will.[116] Additionally, independent producers began to lease the Music Box.[117] The theater also pivoted away from hosting revues and musicals because of its relatively low seating capacity; instead, it mainly hosted small dramas.[118] The burlesque revue Star and Garter opened in 1942,[112][119] eventually running 609 performances.[118][120] This was followed in 1944 by a 713-performance run of the comedy I Remember Mama,[121][122] which featured Marlon Brando in his Broadway debut.[112] Another major production in the 1940s was Summer and Smoke, which premiered in 1948.[112][123] The next year, the Music Box showed Lost in the Stars,[112][124] which was the last musical staged at the Music Box until the 1970s.[118]

The long-running comedy Affairs of State transferred to the Music Box from the Royale Theatre in 1950.[125][126] The same year, Marin sold her one-third ownership stake in the Music Box Theatre to Harris and the Shuberts.[127][128][a] In 1952, the Music Box staged a transfer of the hit The Male Animal.[130][131] The playwright William Inge had three highly successful plays during the 1950s,[132] all of which had over 400 performances.[133] First among these was Picnic, which opened in 1953.[132][134] This was followed by Bus Stop in 1955[135][136] and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs in 1957.[135][137] Besides Inge's productions, the Music Box hosted a transfer of The Solid Gold Cadillac in 1954,[138][139] as well as Separate Tables in 1956.[130][140] The decade ended with the 1959 plays Rashomon, featuring Claire Bloom and Rod Steiger,[141][142] and Five Finger Exercise, featuring Brian Bedford and Jessica Tandy.[141][143]

In 1961, the Music Box staged A Far Country, featuring Kim Stanley and Steven Hill.[144][145] The next year saw the opening of the comedy The Beauty Part with Bert Lahr,[141][146] which flopped during the city's newspaper strike despite critical acclaim.[147] The Music Box staged a more successful production, Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling with Gertrude Berg, the next year.[148][149] The theater's most successful play of the 1960s was the comedy Any Wednesday, which opened in 1964[145][150] and ran for 983 performances.[151][152] The decade's other hits included Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, which opened in 1967,[145][153] and There's a Girl in My Soup, which opened later that year.[145][154]

The British play Sleuth opened in 1970, featuring Keith Baxter and Anthony Quayle;[145][155] it became the theater's longest-running production with 1,222 performances.[151][156] When the Music Box celebrated its 50th anniversary the next year, the theater was still largely successful.[29][139] Berlin said at the time that he still held part-ownership in the Music Box for sentimental reasons.[29][111] In 1974, the theater staged its first musical in 25 years: Rainbow Jones,[118] which closed after its only performance.[157][158] It was followed the same year by the comparatively more successful Absurd Person Singular.[145][159] The Music Box staged a revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1976,[160][161] and it hosted a range of Stephen Sondheim songs in the musical Side by Side by Sondheim the next year.[162][163] The theater's last production of the 1970s was Deathtrap, which opened in 1978.[164] Deathtrap was ultimately transferred four years later and ran 1,793 total performances.[165][166]

1980s and 1990s edit

 
Seen from the east

The Music Box had a major hit in the early 1980s with the religious drama Agnes of God, which premiered in 1982[167][168] and had 599 performances with Geraldine Page and Amanda Plummer.[169][170] By contrast, the theater mostly hosted flops during the mid-1980s.[171] The Music Box hosted a revival of Hay Fever in 1985,[172][173] followed the next year by a revival of Loot,[169][174] which was Alec Baldwin's first Broadway appearance.[175] In 1987, the Music Box staged Sweet Sue with Mary Tyler Moore,[169][176] as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company's hit production Les Liaisons Dangereuses.[162][177] This was followed by several short-lived productions,[171] including Mail[178][179] and Spoils of War in 1988,[180][181] as well as Welcome to the Club in 1989.[182][183] The decade ended with the hit A Few Good Men.[184][185] Irving Berlin continued to co-own the theater until he died in 1989 at the age of 101; in his final years, Berlin would contact the Shuberts to ask them about the theater's receipts.[186]

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) had started to consider protecting the Music Box as a landmark in 1982,[187] with discussions continuing over the next several years.[188] The LPC designated the Music Box's facade and interior as a landmark on December 8, 1987.[189][190] This was part of the commission's wide-ranging effort in 1987 to grant landmark status to Broadway theaters.[191] The New York City Board of Estimate ratified the designations in March 1988.[192] The Shuberts, the Nederlanders, and Jujamcyn collectively sued the LPC in June 1988 to overturn the landmark designations of 22 theaters, including the Music Box, on the merit that the designations severely limited the extent to which the theaters could be modified.[193] The lawsuit was escalated to the New York Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the United States, but these designations were ultimately upheld in 1992.[194]

In the 1990s, the Music Box continued to have many relatively short runs.[171] The solo play Lucifer's Child with Julie Harris played a limited engagement in April 1991,[195][196] and Park Your Car in Harvard Yard opened the same year with Judith Ivey and Jason Robards.[197][198] The next year, the Music Box staged A Small Family Business, which ran for a little over one month.[199][200] A more successful production was Blood Brothers, opening in 1993[201] and running 893 performances over the next two years.[175][202][203] In addition, a plaque commemorating Irving Berlin was installed at the Music Box in 1994.[204] The musical Swinging on a Star opened in 1995.[205][206] The next year, the Music Box staged the musical State Fair,[207][208] the latter of which was the final Broadway show produced by David Merrick.[209] Subsequently, Barrymore ran 238 performances in 1997,[210][211] and The Diary of Anne Frank opened later that year, running through the next year with 221 performances.[212][213] Finally, the Music Box staged Closer in 1999, with 173 performances.[214][215]

2000s to present edit

 
The marquee as seen in 2012

The Music Box's tendency for short production runs continued into the 2000s.[171] A revival of the Shakespeare play Macbeth closed in June 2000 after 13 performances,[216][217] and a more successful production came later that year with The Dinner Party,[218][219] which ran 364 performances.[220] The 19th-century drama Fortune's Fool was staged in 2002,[171][221] as was short-lived comedy Amour.[222][223] As part of a settlement with the United States Department of Justice in 2003, the Shuberts agreed to improve disabled access at their 16 landmarked Broadway theaters, including the Music Box.[224][225] The Music Box hosted Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 2003[226][227] and Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance in 2004,[228][229] as well as Antony Sher's solo Primo[230] and the musical In My Life in 2005.[231][232] These were followed in 2006 by Festen[233][234] and The Vertical Hour.[235][236] Meanwhile, the Shubert Organization and Berlin's estate continued to operate the theater jointly.[129][237] The unusual arrangement, which led to jokes that the Shuberts owned sixteen and a half theaters, continued until 2007, when the Berlin estate sold its interest to the Shuberts.[129]

The Music Box's productions at the end of the 2000s included Deuce and The Farnsworth Invention in 2007; a transfer of the long-running August: Osage County from the Imperial Theatre in 2008; and Superior Donuts in 2009. This was followed by Lend Me a Tenor and La Bête in 2010; Jerusalem and Private Lives in 2011; and One Man, Two Guvnors and Dead Accounts in 2012.[12][20] The musical Pippin opened in 2013 and ran for two years.[238][239] Further productions in the mid-2010s included The Heidi Chronicles and King Charles III in 2015, as well as Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed in 2016.[12] The musical Dear Evan Hansen opened at the Music Box in December 2016.[240][241] The theater closed on March 12, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic;[242] it reopened on December 11, 2021, with performances of Dear Evan Hansen.[243] The theater also hosted a memorial service to the late Shubert chairman Philip J. Smith in March 2022.[244] Due to poor ticket sales, Dear Evan Hansen closed in September 2022.[245][246] The next month, the theater hosted a limited run of Gabriel Byrne's solo show Walking with Ghosts.[247][248]

A revival of Bob Fosse's Dancin' opened at the Music Box in March 2023, running for two months;[249][250] it was followed by the play Purlie Victorious that September.[251][252] Following the closure of Purlie Victorious in February 2024,[253] the musical Suffs opened at the theater in April 2024.[254][255]

Notable productions edit

Productions are listed by the year of their first performance. The Music Box Revue, which has had multiple editions, is listed by the years of the first performances of each edition.[12][20]

Box office record edit

Dear Evan Hansen achieved the box office record for the Music Box Theatre. The production grossed $2,119,371 over the eight performances during the week ending December 31, 2017.[303] The same production had also achieved a record earlier in the year, making that record the highest gross for a Broadway house that seats under 1,000.[304]

See also edit

References edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Some sources have cited Harris's widow as having immediately sold the theater to the Berlins and Shuberts.[118][129]

Citations edit

  1. ^ a b Landmarks Preservation Commission 1987, p. 1.
  2. ^ a b Landmarks Preservation Commission Interior 1987, p. 1.
  3. ^ a b White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-19538-386-7.
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  5. ^ a b "Contemplated Construction". The Real Estate Record: Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide. Vol. 105, no. 19. May 9, 1920. p. 622. from the original on December 2, 2021. Retrieved December 4, 2021 – via columbia.edu.
  6. ^ Feirstein, Sanna (2001). Naming New York: Manhattan Places and How They Got Their Names. NYU Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-8147-2711-9.
  7. ^ Bloom 2007, p. 30.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i Landmarks Preservation Commission 1987, p. 12.
  9. ^ a b c d Morrison 1999, p. 123.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i "The Music Box Theatre, New York". Architecture and Building. Vol. 53. 1921. p. 95. from the original on December 2, 2021. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  11. ^ a b c d e Bloom 2007, p. 178.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g "Music Box Theatre". Playbill. from the original on December 1, 2021. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
  13. ^ a b c d "Music Box Theatre". Shubert Organization. December 4, 2016. from the original on December 1, 2021. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
  14. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "The Music Box Theatre, West 45th Street". The American Architect-The Architectural Review. Vol. 121, no. 2386. February 1, 1922. p. 99 – via Internet Archive.
  15. ^ a b c d Landmarks Preservation Commission 1987, p. 17; Morrison 1999, p. 123.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Landmarks Preservation Commission 1987, p. 17.
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Music Box Theater Paragon of Taste; A Model House". New-York Tribune. September 18, 1921. p. 48. from the original on December 2, 2021. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
  18. ^ a b Landmarks Preservation Commission Interior 1987, p. 17.
  19. ^ a b Landmarks Preservation Commission Interior 1987, pp. 17–18.
  20. ^ a b c The Broadway League (December 4, 2016). "Music Box Theatre – New York, NY". IBDB. from the original on December 1, 2021. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
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music, theatre, this, article, about, theater, york, city, chicago, theater, chicago, angeles, theater, formerly, with, name, fonda, theatre, broadway, theater, west, 45th, street, george, abbott, theater, district, midtown, manhattan, york, city, opened, 1921. This article is about the theater in New York City For the Chicago theater see Music Box Theatre Chicago For the Los Angeles theater formerly with the name see The Fonda Theatre The Music Box Theatre is a Broadway theater at 239 West 45th Street George Abbott Way in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City Opened in 1921 the Music Box Theatre was designed by C Howard Crane in a Palladian inspired style and was constructed for Irving Berlin and Sam H Harris It has 1 025 seats across two levels and is operated by The Shubert Organization Both the facade and the auditorium interior are New York City landmarks Music Box TheatreShowing the musical Dear Evan Hansen in 2019Address239 West 45th StreetManhattan New York CityUnited StatesCoordinates40 45 32 N 73 59 14 W 40 758864 N 73 987178 W 40 758864 73 987178OwnerShubert OrganizationTypeBroadwayCapacity1 025ProductionSuffsConstructionOpenedSeptember 1921Years active1921 presentArchitectC Howard CraneWebsiteOfficial websiteNew York City LandmarkDesignatedDecember 8 1987 1 Reference no 1359 1 Designated entityFacadeNew York City LandmarkDesignatedDecember 8 1987 2 Reference no 1360 2 Designated entityAuditorium interior The facade is made of limestone and is symmetrically arranged with both Palladian and neo Georgian motifs At ground level the eastern portion of the facade contains the theater s entrance with a marquee over it while the stage door is to the west A double height central colonnade at the second and third floors conceals a fire escape staircase it is flanked by windows in the outer bays The auditorium contains Adam style detailing a large balcony and two outwardly curved box seats within ornate archways The theater was also designed with a comparatively small lobby a lounge in the basement and mezzanine level offices Harris proposed the Music Box Theatre in 1919 specifically to host his productions with Berlin and the Shubert family gained an ownership stake shortly after the Music Box opened The theater initially hosted the partners Music Box Revue nearly exclusively presenting its first play Cradle Snatchers in 1925 Many of the Music Box s early productions were hits with several hundred performances There were multiple productions by Moss Hart and George S Kaufman in the 1930s including Once in a Lifetime and The Man Who Came to Dinner After Harris died in 1941 Berlin and the Shuberts shared ownership of the theater and the Music Box largely showed dramas rather than musicals The theater hosted several plays by William Inge in the 1950s Though the length of production runs declined in later years the Music Box has remained in theatrical use since its opening The Shuberts acquired the Berlin estate s ownership stake in 2007 Contents 1 Site 2 Design 2 1 Facade 2 2 Auditorium 2 2 1 Seating areas 2 2 2 Other design features 2 3 Other interior spaces 3 History 3 1 Development and early years 3 1 1 Venue for revues 3 1 2 1920s and 1930s hit shows 3 2 1940s to 1970s 3 3 1980s and 1990s 3 4 2000s to present 4 Notable productions 5 Box office record 6 See also 7 References 7 1 Notes 7 2 Citations 7 3 Sources 8 External linksSite editThe Music Box Theatre is on 239 West 45th Street on the north sidewalk between Eighth Avenue and Broadway near Times Square in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City 3 4 The square land lot covers 10 050 square feet 934 m2 4 The theater has a frontage of 100 feet 30 m on 45th Street and a depth of about 100 feet 4 5 The adjoining block of 45th Street is also known as George Abbott Way 6 and foot traffic on the street increases box office totals on the theaters there 7 The Music Box shares the block with the Richard Rodgers Theatre and Imperial Theatre to the north as well as the New York Marriott Marquis to the east Other nearby buildings include the Paramount Hotel to the north the Hotel Edison and Lunt Fontanne Theatre to the northeast One Astor Plaza to the southeast the Gerald Schoenfeld Booth Shubert and Broadhurst Theatres to the south and the Majestic Bernard B Jacobs and John Golden Theatres to the southwest 4 Design editThe Music Box Theatre was designed by C Howard Crane in a Palladian inspired style and was constructed from 1920 to 1921 for Irving Berlin and Sam H Harris 3 8 The interior was decorated by Crane and William Baumgarten with many Adam style details 9 10 11 The Longacre Engineering and Construction Company built the theater with M X C Weinberger as consulting engineer Numerous other contractors were involved in the theater s development 10 The Music Box is operated by the Shubert Organization 12 13 Facade edit Ground floor west to east nbsp Fire escape bronze gate nbsp Auditorium exits three double doors nbsp Main entrance four double doors The facade is made of limestone 8 14 It is symmetrically arranged though the theater is shorter than its width 15 For the design of the facade Crane drew from both Palladian and neo Georgian motifs 8 10 The facade s largest feature is a double height central colonnade at the second and third floors 10 14 15 According to theatrical historian Ken Bloom the facade design was inspired by that of the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia 11 The easternmost side on 45th Street includes four pairs of glass and bronze doors leading to the ticket lobby There are bronze sign boards on either side and the entrance is topped by a marquee Just west of the ticket lobby entrance is a single doorway The center of the ground story includes three pairs of glass and bronze doors from the auditorium There are wood and glass sign boards on either side of the central doors with colonettes on either side and sheet metal wood pediments above them A bronze fire escape gate accessed by two granite steps and two wide sign boards are to the west of the center doors The westernmost part of the facade contains a double door a narrow sign board and a single door 16 These doors adjacent to the Imperial Theatre s entrance constitute the stage doors 16 12 Above the ground floor is a horizontal band course with motifs of swags urns and vertical bars 16 At the second and third floors is a colonnade between a pair of outer bays The colonnade has four fluted columns which are topped by Corinthian style decorative capitals The auditorium facade is slightly recessed behind the colonnade creating a gallery which is shielded by decorative iron railings between the columns 16 The recessed gallery contains the auditorium s fire escape with stairs leading down to ground level 16 17 There are also three double doorways with stone surrounds which exit onto the gallery Above each doorway is a frieze with urns and swags there is a triangular pediment in the outer doorways and scrolled pediment in the center doorway 16 A pair of pilasters flanks each of the outer bays 8 9 with Corinthian capitals atop each pilaster 16 The second floor window of each outer bay is a Palladian window 15 which contains sash window panes The tympanum is divided into three sections with an arched tympanum above the center section The third story has a rectangular sash window with a molded frame A vertical sign hangs from the easternmost bay on the upper stories 16 The top of the facade has a frieze with rosette motifs as well as a cornice with dentils and modillions 16 Above the facade is a sloping slate roof with several projecting dormers for windows 15 There is also a roof balustrade with cast iron and wrought iron railings 16 Auditorium edit nbsp Auditorium as seen from balcony level looking toward the left hand box The auditorium has an orchestra level one balcony boxes and a stage behind the proscenium arch 18 The auditorium is wider than its depth and the space is designed with plaster decorations in high relief 19 According to the Shubert Organization the auditorium has 1 025 seats 13 meanwhile The Broadway League cites a capacity of 1 009 seats 20 and Playbill cites 984 seats 12 The discrepancy arises from the fact that there are 1 009 physical seats and 16 standing only spots The physical seats are divided into 538 seats in the orchestra 455 at the balcony and 16 in the boxes The orchestra seating includes 35 seats in the orchestra pit at the front of the stage 13 The original color scheme was ivory and dark green 9 21 The carpets and curtain were designed in a coral color 10 17 Seating areas edit The rear east end of the orchestra contains a shallow promenade and the orchestra level is raked The rear wall of the promenade corresponding with the orchestra s aisles has doorways with Corinthian style piers above which is an entablature in the Adam style 22 The north end of the promenade has a stair that rises to the balcony s foyer as well as a double stair that leads down to a basement lounge 23 Both stairs have Adam style railings 23 The orchestra and its promenade contain plasterwork panels on the walls A standing rail is placed at the rear of the orchestra 24 No boxes were installed at orchestra level per Harris and Berlin s request 14 21 The balcony level is raked and contains plasterwork panels on the walls An Adam style entablature runs above the top of the balcony wall wrapping around to the tops of the boxes and proscenium The balcony front curves outward and has vine and flower motifs as well as medallions depicting female characters Modern light boxes are in front of the balcony and a technical booth is at the rear The balcony s soffit or underside is divided into panels that contain plaster medallions with light fixtures as well as air conditioning vents 24 The auditorium was originally lit by five armed sconces on the walls which were replaced in the 1960s with imitation brass sconces 9 The original sconces were described in American Architect and Architecture as Dutch brass with amber crystals 14 nbsp Box detail On either side of the proscenium is an archway with a single box at the balcony level 21 The boxes were described in American Architect as having a very decided decorative charm to the motive of the proscenium treatment 14 21 Each box is semicircular and is cantilevered from the wall they are accessed from stair halls leading from the orchestra 19 The boxes archways are supported by six Corinthian columns three on each side and are additionally flanked by paired Corinthian pilasters 22 Within each archway the two center columns flank mirrored panels which in turn are topped by broken pediments with urns 23 The fronts of the boxes contain Adam style metal railings 25 originally ornamented in silver gray 14 21 An entablature rises above the box seats topped by a half dome with a pastoral mural 26 These murals depict classical ruins 23 The half domes are flanked by spandrels with decorations of eagles spreading their wings 22 Other design features edit Next to the boxes is a flat proscenium arch 18 The archway is flanked by fluted columns and pilasters in the Corinthian style The top of the archways contains an entablature with Adam style decorations of urns vines fans and reeds 22 The proscenium measures about 26 feet 7 9 m high and 40 feet 12 m wide 13 Due to a lack of space backstage a counterweight system was installed to lift sets and other objects onto the stage 14 The ceiling contains Adam style moldings and friezes which divide it into sections There are also air conditioning vents in the ceiling 23 and four chandeliers originally hung from it 27 Above the front of the balcony is a wide circular medallion The rear of the ceiling contains a cove that curves downward onto the wall supported by modillions at the entablature of the wall 23 Other interior spaces edit The Music Box s rear promenade is accessed directly from the lobby 14 which measures 8 feet 2 4 m wide and 25 feet 7 6 m long 28 The lobby was decorated as a simple space with pink marble baseboards marble walls and a plaster cornice The cornice was decorated with neo Georgian ornaments A bronze box office booth was placed in the lobby 17 The lobby has a box office because the theater had no dedicated box office when it opened 29 The floor was made of alternating gray and pink marble tiles 17 The lobby was separated from the auditorium itself by draped partitions which removed the drafts that typically occurred behind the last row of seats 14 17 At the balcony level is a mezzanine This level contained Berlin s studio as well as ladies retiring rooms telephone rooms and managers offices Berlin s studio was designed like an attic with exposed ceiling rafters as well as wainscoted walls and a stone fireplace mantel 17 nbsp Stair from the basement lounge to the foyer Below the auditorium is a basement lounge Its lavish design contrasted with the lounges of other Broadway theaters which generally received little attention 27 Architecture and Building magazine described the lounge as being in the Queen Anne style developed more as if in a dwelling than in a club or public place 10 The staircase to the basement lounge is made of marble and contains an intermediate landing 10 14 23 A tapestry is mounted on the stair landing 10 17 23 The tapestry depicts a reclining figure of a nude woman next to a waterfall 23 A mirrored panel was hung on the lounge s wall opposite the tapestry Siena marble fireplace mantels with mirrors above them were placed at each end of the lounge 17 The basement also has the theater s restrooms 12 History editTimes Square became the epicenter for large scale theater productions between 1900 and the Great Depression 30 During the 1900s and 1910s many theaters in Midtown Manhattan were developed by the Shubert brothers one of the major theatrical syndicates of the time 31 Meanwhile Sam H Harris was a producer and Irving Berlin was a songwriter Prior to the development of the Music Box Theatre Harris had partnered with George Cohan in the development of several theaters and productions in the 1900s and 1910s 32 Development and early years edit Venue for revues edit According to one account the name for the Music Box Theatre arose from a conversation between Sam H Harris and Irving Berlin in 1919 Harris had suggested building a theater to which Berlin suggested the name Music Box 33 29 Harris liked the name and suggested that Berlin could write a song for the new theater 29 In March 1920 Harris and Berlin bought the properties at 239 to 245 West 45th Street from L and A Pincus and M L Goldstone 34 35 36 They then announced plans to build the Music Box Theatre on the site 34 37 By that May Crane had prepared plans for the theater 5 Harris planned to stage twice yearly revues 38 and he subsequently ended his long running partnership with George M Cohan 39 Hassard Short was named as the first general stage director 40 41 spending over 240 000 on the first show 8 The Music Box ultimately cost more than 1 million 400 000 for the building itself and 600 000 for the land 8 42 the theater overran its original budget by about 300 000 43 The Music Box was one of the only Broadway theaters to be built for specific producers work 8 44 The Music Box Theatre opened on September 22 1921 with performances of Music Box Revue 45 46 47 The new theater was praised by both architectural and theatrical critics and several architectural publications printed pictures of the theater 48 These included the American Architect and the Architectural Review which called the theater s design remarkable both in design and layout 14 48 The New York Tribune called the facade singularly successful in its expression of the interior 17 while Architecture and Building said the delicacy of domestic architecture was fitting for the Music Box s design 10 48 Among theatrical critics Jack Lait referred to the Music Box as the daintiest theatre in America in Variety magazine 47 48 Other reviewers said the theater was unparalleled in design and had dignified architectural decorations in contrast to other theaters 48 The comedian Sam Bernard said simply It stinks from class 49 In his autobiography producer Moss Hart said that the Music Box was everybody s dream of a theatre enhancing the quality of the productions staged there 50 51 nbsp View of the auditorium Film executive Joseph M Schenck originally was a partner in the Music Box Theatre with Berlin and Harris 8 43 though he transferred his stake to the Shubert brothers not long afterward 8 For the first three years of its operation the Music Box exclusively hosted the Music Box Revue 52 The inaugural edition in 1921 starred Bernard and Berlin 46 47 11 Three subsequent editions of the Music Box Revue were hosted in as many years and each subsequent edition gradually declined in quality Among the performers who appeared multiple times were the Brox Sisters Clark and McCullough Florence Moore Grace Moore Joseph Santley and Ivy Sawyer 11 One notable performance was the 1924 edition which featured Fanny Brice of the Ziegfeld Follies 11 53 Earl Carroll s Vanities was also staged in 1924 becoming the second production to be presented at the Music Box 54 55 Its producer Earl Carroll was briefly jailed in November 1924 after showing obscene photos outside the Music Box 56 1920s and 1930s hit shows edit The comedy The Cradle Snatchers with Humphrey Bogart was the first play to be staged at the Music Box opening in 1925 42 52 With close to 500 performances it was a hit 57 58 More generally of the productions staged in the Music Box in its first decade only two flops with less than 100 performances were staged both of which ran immediately after The Cradle Snatchers closed 42 The first was Gentle Grafters in October 1926 59 60 while the second was Mozart that November 59 61 This was followed by the comedy Chicago which premiered in late 1926 with Francine Larrimore and Charles Bickford 52 62 and a run of the melodrama The Spider in 1927 which transferred from a neighboring theater 42 63 By the end of 1927 Hassard Short had given up his stake in managing the Music Box 64 The play Paris Bound also premiered in 1927 52 65 followed the next year by the similarly named Paris with Irene Bordoni 52 66 The last show in the 1920s was The Little Show 52 which premiered in 1929 67 68 The Music Box staged the French play Topaze with Frank Morgan in 1930 69 70 followed by the comedy The Third Little Show with Ernest Truex and Beatrice Lillie in 1931 71 72 The theater largely hosted works by Moss Hart and George S Kaufman produced either individually or in partnership during the 1930s Immediately following Topaze was Hart and Kaufman s first ever collaboration Once in a Lifetime 29 73 which premiered in late 1930 74 75 Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind collaborated in 1931 for Of Thee I Sing 76 77 the first Pulitzer Prize winning musical 71 and Kaufman joined Edna Ferber the next year to produce Dinner at Eight 78 79 which ran 232 performances 80 81 The next year Berlin and Hart staged the revue As Thousands Cheer 78 82 which with 400 performances was lengthy for a Great Depression era musical 80 83 Hart and Kaufman again partnered in 1934 for the play Merrily We Roll Along 78 84 Five plays were performed at the Music Box in 1935 85 These were Rain 86 87 Ceiling Zero 88 89 If This Be Treason 90 91 a theatrical version of Pride and Prejudice 92 93 and finally Kaufman and Katharine Dayton s collaboration First Lady 94 95 Kaufman and Ferber collaborated again in the 1936 production Stage Door 78 96 This was followed the next year by a short run of Young Madam Conti with Constance Cummings 97 98 as well as a Kaufman directed adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men 99 100 Two Hart and Kaufman productions were staged in 1938 a transfer of I d Rather Be Right 101 102 and the original Sing Out the News 102 103 The productions in 1939 began with the Noel Coward revue Set to Music 104 105 following which was From Vienna produced by the Refugee Artists Group 106 107 The last hit of the 1930s was Hart and Kaufman s The Man Who Came to Dinner 108 109 which had 739 performances through 1941 106 110 Irving Berlin subsequently recalled that he and Harris had almost lost control of the otherwise financially successful Music Box Theatre during the Depression 29 In spite of this all but three shows had at least 100 performances in the Music Box s first 25 years 111 1940s to 1970s edit nbsp Scaffolding over the entrance The Music Box Theater underwent several changes in operation during the 1940s 112 Sam Harris died in July 1941 113 114 115 and his ownership stake in the theater went to his widow Kathleen Marin pursuant to his will 116 Additionally independent producers began to lease the Music Box 117 The theater also pivoted away from hosting revues and musicals because of its relatively low seating capacity instead it mainly hosted small dramas 118 The burlesque revue Star and Garter opened in 1942 112 119 eventually running 609 performances 118 120 This was followed in 1944 by a 713 performance run of the comedy I Remember Mama 121 122 which featured Marlon Brando in his Broadway debut 112 Another major production in the 1940s was Summer and Smoke which premiered in 1948 112 123 The next year the Music Box showed Lost in the Stars 112 124 which was the last musical staged at the Music Box until the 1970s 118 The long running comedy Affairs of State transferred to the Music Box from the Royale Theatre in 1950 125 126 The same year Marin sold her one third ownership stake in the Music Box Theatre to Harris and the Shuberts 127 128 a In 1952 the Music Box staged a transfer of the hit The Male Animal 130 131 The playwright William Inge had three highly successful plays during the 1950s 132 all of which had over 400 performances 133 First among these was Picnic which opened in 1953 132 134 This was followed by Bus Stop in 1955 135 136 and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs in 1957 135 137 Besides Inge s productions the Music Box hosted a transfer of The Solid Gold Cadillac in 1954 138 139 as well as Separate Tables in 1956 130 140 The decade ended with the 1959 plays Rashomon featuring Claire Bloom and Rod Steiger 141 142 and Five Finger Exercise featuring Brian Bedford and Jessica Tandy 141 143 In 1961 the Music Box staged A Far Country featuring Kim Stanley and Steven Hill 144 145 The next year saw the opening of the comedy The Beauty Part with Bert Lahr 141 146 which flopped during the city s newspaper strike despite critical acclaim 147 The Music Box staged a more successful production Dear Me the Sky Is Falling with Gertrude Berg the next year 148 149 The theater s most successful play of the 1960s was the comedy Any Wednesday which opened in 1964 145 150 and ran for 983 performances 151 152 The decade s other hits included Harold Pinter s The Homecoming which opened in 1967 145 153 and There s a Girl in My Soup which opened later that year 145 154 The British play Sleuth opened in 1970 featuring Keith Baxter and Anthony Quayle 145 155 it became the theater s longest running production with 1 222 performances 151 156 When the Music Box celebrated its 50th anniversary the next year the theater was still largely successful 29 139 Berlin said at the time that he still held part ownership in the Music Box for sentimental reasons 29 111 In 1974 the theater staged its first musical in 25 years Rainbow Jones 118 which closed after its only performance 157 158 It was followed the same year by the comparatively more successful Absurd Person Singular 145 159 The Music Box staged a revival of Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 1976 160 161 and it hosted a range of Stephen Sondheim songs in the musical Side by Side by Sondheim the next year 162 163 The theater s last production of the 1970s was Deathtrap which opened in 1978 164 Deathtrap was ultimately transferred four years later and ran 1 793 total performances 165 166 1980s and 1990s edit nbsp Seen from the east The Music Box had a major hit in the early 1980s with the religious drama Agnes of God which premiered in 1982 167 168 and had 599 performances with Geraldine Page and Amanda Plummer 169 170 By contrast the theater mostly hosted flops during the mid 1980s 171 The Music Box hosted a revival of Hay Fever in 1985 172 173 followed the next year by a revival of Loot 169 174 which was Alec Baldwin s first Broadway appearance 175 In 1987 the Music Box staged Sweet Sue with Mary Tyler Moore 169 176 as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company s hit production Les Liaisons Dangereuses 162 177 This was followed by several short lived productions 171 including Mail 178 179 and Spoils of War in 1988 180 181 as well as Welcome to the Club in 1989 182 183 The decade ended with the hit A Few Good Men 184 185 Irving Berlin continued to co own the theater until he died in 1989 at the age of 101 in his final years Berlin would contact the Shuberts to ask them about the theater s receipts 186 The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission LPC had started to consider protecting the Music Box as a landmark in 1982 187 with discussions continuing over the next several years 188 The LPC designated the Music Box s facade and interior as a landmark on December 8 1987 189 190 This was part of the commission s wide ranging effort in 1987 to grant landmark status to Broadway theaters 191 The New York City Board of Estimate ratified the designations in March 1988 192 The Shuberts the Nederlanders and Jujamcyn collectively sued the LPC in June 1988 to overturn the landmark designations of 22 theaters including the Music Box on the merit that the designations severely limited the extent to which the theaters could be modified 193 The lawsuit was escalated to the New York Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the United States but these designations were ultimately upheld in 1992 194 In the 1990s the Music Box continued to have many relatively short runs 171 The solo play Lucifer s Child with Julie Harris played a limited engagement in April 1991 195 196 and Park Your Car in Harvard Yard opened the same year with Judith Ivey and Jason Robards 197 198 The next year the Music Box staged A Small Family Business which ran for a little over one month 199 200 A more successful production was Blood Brothers opening in 1993 201 and running 893 performances over the next two years 175 202 203 In addition a plaque commemorating Irving Berlin was installed at the Music Box in 1994 204 The musical Swinging on a Star opened in 1995 205 206 The next year the Music Box staged the musical State Fair 207 208 the latter of which was the final Broadway show produced by David Merrick 209 Subsequently Barrymore ran 238 performances in 1997 210 211 and The Diary of Anne Frank opened later that year running through the next year with 221 performances 212 213 Finally the Music Box staged Closer in 1999 with 173 performances 214 215 2000s to present edit nbsp The marquee as seen in 2012 The Music Box s tendency for short production runs continued into the 2000s 171 A revival of the Shakespeare play Macbeth closed in June 2000 after 13 performances 216 217 and a more successful production came later that year with The Dinner Party 218 219 which ran 364 performances 220 The 19th century drama Fortune s Fool was staged in 2002 171 221 as was short lived comedy Amour 222 223 As part of a settlement with the United States Department of Justice in 2003 the Shuberts agreed to improve disabled access at their 16 landmarked Broadway theaters including the Music Box 224 225 The Music Box hosted Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 2003 226 227 and Dame Edna Back with a Vengeance in 2004 228 229 as well as Antony Sher s solo Primo 230 and the musical In My Life in 2005 231 232 These were followed in 2006 by Festen 233 234 and The Vertical Hour 235 236 Meanwhile the Shubert Organization and Berlin s estate continued to operate the theater jointly 129 237 The unusual arrangement which led to jokes that the Shuberts owned sixteen and a half theaters continued until 2007 when the Berlin estate sold its interest to the Shuberts 129 The Music Box s productions at the end of the 2000s included Deuce and The Farnsworth Invention in 2007 a transfer of the long running August Osage County from the Imperial Theatre in 2008 and Superior Donuts in 2009 This was followed by Lend Me a Tenor and La Bete in 2010 Jerusalem and Private Lives in 2011 and One Man Two Guvnors and Dead Accounts in 2012 12 20 The musical Pippin opened in 2013 and ran for two years 238 239 Further productions in the mid 2010s included The Heidi Chronicles and King Charles III in 2015 as well as Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed in 2016 12 The musical Dear Evan Hansen opened at the Music Box in December 2016 240 241 The theater closed on March 12 2020 due to the COVID 19 pandemic 242 it reopened on December 11 2021 with performances of Dear Evan Hansen 243 The theater also hosted a memorial service to the late Shubert chairman Philip J Smith in March 2022 244 Due to poor ticket sales Dear Evan Hansen closed in September 2022 245 246 The next month the theater hosted a limited run of Gabriel Byrne s solo show Walking with Ghosts 247 248 A revival of Bob Fosse s Dancin opened at the Music Box in March 2023 running for two months 249 250 it was followed by the play Purlie Victorious that September 251 252 Following the closure of Purlie Victorious in February 2024 253 the musical Suffs opened at the theater in April 2024 254 255 Notable productions editProductions are listed by the year of their first performance The Music Box Revue which has had multiple editions is listed by the years of the first performances of each edition 12 20 1921 1924 Music Box Revue 57 1924 Earl Carroll s Vanities 54 57 1926 Chicago 62 256 1928 Paris 66 256 1929 The Little Show 67 256 1930 Topaze 69 70 1930 Once in a Lifetime 74 73 1931 Of Thee I Sing 76 256 1932 Dinner at Eight 81 257 1933 As Thousands Cheer 83 257 1934 Merrily We Roll Along 84 257 1935 Rain 86 85 1935 Ceiling Zero 88 85 1935 If This Be Treason 90 85 1935 Pride and Prejudice 92 85 1935 First Lady 94 85 1936 Stage Door 96 257 1937 Of Mice and Men 100 97 1938 I d Rather Be Right 101 102 1939 Set to Music 104 105 1939 The Man Who Came to Dinner 110 108 1941 The Land Is Bright 258 59 1942 A Kiss for Cinderella 259 59 1942 Star and Garter 120 59 1944 Over 21 260 59 1944 I Remember Mama 121 261 1946 A Flag Is Born 262 261 1948 The Linden Tree 263 261 1948 Summer and Smoke 123 261 1949 They Knew What They Wanted 264 261 1949 Mrs Gibbons Boys 265 261 1949 Lost in the Stars 124 261 1950 Daphne Laureola 266 261 1950 Affairs of State 125 126 1952 Much Ado About Nothing 267 133 1952 The Male Animal 130 131 1953 Picnic 132 134 1954 The Solid Gold Cadillac 138 139 1955 Bus Stop 135 136 1956 The Ponder Heart 268 133 1956 Separate Tables 130 140 1957 Miss Lonelyhearts 269 133 1957 The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 135 137 1959 Rashomon 141 142 1959 Five Finger Exercise 141 143 1961 A Far Country 144 270 1961 Daughter of Silence 271 270 1962 The Beauty Part 141 146 1963 Semi Detached 272 270 1964 Any Wednesday 152 273 1966 Wait Until Dark 274 273 1967 The Homecoming 153 273 1967 There s a Girl in My Soup 151 154 1968 Lovers 275 1968 Harkness Ballet 276 1969 The Watering Place 277 273 1970 Sleuth 156 273 1973 Veronica s Room 278 273 1974 Absurd Person Singular 159 157 1976 Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 160 161 1976 Comedians 279 157 1977 Side by Side by Sondheim 163 157 1978 Deathtrap 165 166 1982 Agnes of God 167 170 1984 Open Admissions 280 157 1985 The Octette Bridge Club 281 177 1985 Hay Fever 173 177 1986 Loot 174 177 1987 Sweet Sue 176 177 1987 Les Liaisons Dangereuses 282 177 1989 Welcome to the Club 182 175 1989 A Few Good Men 184 175 1992 A Small Family Business 200 175 1993 Blood Brothers 203 185 1995 Swinging on a Star 206 209 1996 State Fair 283 208 1997 Barrymore 210 211 1997 The Diary of Anne Frank 212 211 1999 Closer 214 211 1999 Amadeus 284 211 2000 Macbeth 216 217 2000 The Dinner Party 220 218 2002 Fortune s Fool 171 221 2002 Amour 222 223 2003 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 226 227 2005 In My Life 231 232 2006 Festen 233 234 2006 The Vertical Hour 235 236 2007 Deuce 285 286 2007 The Farnsworth Invention 287 288 2008 August Osage County 289 290 2009 Superior Donuts 291 292 2010 Lend Me a Tenor 293 2010 La Bete 294 2011 Jerusalem 295 2011 Private Lives 296 2012 One Man Two Guvnors 297 2012 Dead Accounts 298 2013 Pippin 238 239 2015 The Heidi Chronicles 299 2015 King Charles III 300 2016 Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed 301 2016 Dear Evan Hansen 302 241 2022 Walking with Ghosts 247 248 2023 Dancin 249 250 2023 Purlie Victorious 251 252 2024 Suffs 254 255 Box office record editDear Evan Hansen achieved the box office record for the Music Box Theatre The production grossed 2 119 371 over the eight performances during the week ending December 31 2017 303 The same production had also achieved a record earlier in the year making that record the highest gross for a Broadway house that seats under 1 000 304 See also editPortals nbsp Architecture nbsp New York City nbsp Theatre List of Broadway theatres List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 14th to 59th StreetsReferences editNotes edit Some sources have cited Harris s widow as having immediately sold the theater to the Berlins and Shuberts 118 129 Citations edit a b Landmarks Preservation Commission 1987 p 1 a b Landmarks Preservation Commission Interior 1987 p 1 a b White Norval Willensky Elliot Leadon Fran 2010 AIA Guide to New York City 5th ed New York Oxford University Press p 298 ISBN 978 0 19538 386 7 a b c d 239 West 45 Street 10036 New York City Department of City Planning Archived from the original on December 2 2021 Retrieved March 25 2021 a b Contemplated Construction The Real Estate Record Real Estate Record and Builders Guide Vol 105 no 19 May 9 1920 p 622 Archived from the original on December 2 2021 Retrieved December 4 2021 via columbia edu Feirstein Sanna 2001 Naming 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