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Richard Rodgers Theatre

The Richard Rodgers Theatre (formerly Chanin's 46th Street Theatre and the 46th Street Theatre) is a Broadway theater at 226 West 46th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1925, it was designed by Herbert J. Krapp and was constructed for Irwin Chanin. It has approximately 1,400 seats[a] across two levels and is operated by the Nederlander Organization. Both the facade and the auditorium interior are New York City landmarks.

Richard Rodgers Theatre
Showing the musical Hamilton in 2019
Former namesChanin's 46th Street Theatre (1925–1932)
46th Street Theatre (1932–1990)
Address226 West 46th Street
LocationManhattan, New York, US
Coordinates40°45′33″N 73°59′12″W / 40.759030°N 73.986750°W / 40.759030; -73.986750
OwnerNederlander Organization
TypeBroadway
Capacity1,400[a]
ProductionHamilton
Construction
OpenedFebruary 7, 1925 (1925-02-07)
ArchitectHerbert J. Krapp
General contractorChanin Construction Company
Website
broadwaydirect.com/venue/richard-rodgers-theatre/
DesignatedNovember 17, 1987[1]
Reference no.1333
Designated entityFacade[1]
DesignatedNovember 17, 1987[2]
Reference no.1334
Designated entityAuditorium interior[2]

The facade is divided into two sections. The eastern section, containing the auditorium, is designed in the neo-Renaissance style with white brick and terracotta. The auditorium's ground floor has an entrance under a marquee, above which is a loggia of three double-height arches, as well as a entablature and balustrade at the top. The facade's western section, comprising the stage house, is seven stories high and is faced in buff-colored brick. The auditorium contains neo-Renaissance detailing, steep stadium seating in the orchestra level, a large balcony, and a shallow domed ceiling. Due to the slope of the seats, the rear of the orchestra is one story above ground. There are also box seats near the front of the auditorium on two tiers.

Chanin's 46th Street Theatre was the first Broadway theater developed by Irwin S. Chanin, and it was immediately leased to the Shubert brothers when it opened. The Shuberts bought the building outright in 1931 and renamed it the 46th Street Theatre. In 1945, the theater was taken over by Robert W. Dowling of the City Investing Company. In 1960, it was purchased by the producer Lester Osterman, who sold it to producers Stephen R. Friedman and Irwin Meyer in 1978. The Nederlander Organization purchased the venue in 1981 and renamed it to honor the composer Richard Rodgers in 1990. Over the years, the Richard Rodgers has hosted eleven Tony Award-winning productions: Guys and Dolls, Redhead, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, 1776, Raisin, Nine, Fences, Lost in Yonkers, In the Heights, and Hamilton. Other long-running shows at the theater have included Panama Hattie and One Touch of Venus.

Site edit

The Richard Rodgers Theatre is on 226 West 46th Street, on the south 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 11,295 sq ft (1,049.3 m2).[4] The theater has a frontage of 112 ft (34 m) on 46th Street and a depth of 100 ft (30 m).[4][5][6]

The Richard Rodgers shares the block with the Music Box Theatre to the south, the Imperial Theatre to the west, and the New York Marriott Marquis to the east. Other nearby buildings include the Paramount Hotel (including Sony Hall) and Lena Horne Theatre to the northwest; the Hotel Edison and Lunt-Fontanne Theatre to the north; One Astor Plaza to the southeast; the Booth and Gerald Schoenfeld Theatres to the south; and the Bernard B. Jacobs, and John Golden Theatres to the southwest.[4] Prior to the theater's construction, the site was occupied by six brownstone residences.[5]

Design edit

The Richard Rodgers Theatre, originally the 46th Street Theatre, was designed by Herbert J. Krapp in the neo-Renaissance style and was constructed in 1924 for the Chanin brothers.[3][7][8] The exterior and interior designs were particularly ornate, even when compared with other Broadway theaters, because the 46th Street was the first theater developed by Irwin Chanin.[9][10] Since 1990, the theater has been named after composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979).[11][12] It is operated by the Nederlander Organization.[13][14]

Facade edit

The facade consists of two sections. The eastern section is wider and is symmetrical, containing the auditorium entrance. It is made of glazed white brick with white terracotta decorations.[15][16] The upper stories of the auditorium-entrance section are designed as a colonnade with a central loggia.[17] The western section, which contains the stage house, is seven stories high and contains a buff-brick facade.[15][16] Early sources cite the theater facade as also containing limestone.[18][19]

Auditorium section edit

The first story of the auditorium facade is symmetrically arranged, though the eastern section is shorter than its width. There is a water table made of terrazzo, above which are rusticated blocks. On the eastern side of the ground-floor facade, a double metal door connects to a service alley. To the right, or west, are three glass-and-aluminum double doors connecting with the box office lobby. Next to that, terrazzo steps lead to emergency-exit doors from the auditorium.[20] The westernmost opening consists of a metal stage door.[13][20] The ground story has wooden display boxes and is topped by a cornice.[20] A marquee hangs over the center three openings; it replaced the original marquee,[18][19] which has since been removed.[21]

 
Arch detail

The auditorium's second and third stories contain outer bays that flank a loggia with three arches. Each arch has a keystone with a console bracket, and they are flanked by pilasters with Corinthian-style capitals with terracotta swans.[15][20] The bottoms of the central bays contain an iron railing.[16] Behind the arches is a fire stair and a brick wall with terracotta lyres, swags, and bellflowers.[15][22] The outer bays contain white-brick wall sections, which are topped by swags and rectangular panels with masks. There are pilasters next to each of the outer bays, and a sign with the theater's name is suspended from the easternmost bay.[20][23] Running above the facade is a entablature, containing a frieze with panels, shields, and rinceaux, as well as a cornice supported by terracotta modillions. The roof of the auditorium has a terracotta balustrade with urns that divide it into bays. The center three bays of the balustrade have latticework while the outer bays have shields and foliate decorations. Another brick parapet, with terracotta coping, runs behind the terracotta balustrade.[22][23]

Stage-house section edit

The stage-house wing is utilitarian in design.[15][22] The first story of the stage house contains a water table made of terrazzo. There are openings for the stage door, as well as larger doors to transport sets and other large items. On the upper stories, there are four window openings on each floor, as well as brick pilasters.[22][23] Above the stage house's seventh floor is a cornice with modillions; it is made of sheet metal and decorated in the Adam style.[22]

Auditorium edit

The auditorium has an orchestra level, one balcony, boxes, and a stage behind the proscenium arch. The auditorium space is designed with plaster decorations in low relief.[24] According to the Nederlander Organization, the auditorium has 1,319 seats;[25] meanwhile, The Broadway League cites a capacity of 1,400 seats[14] and Playbill cites 1,321 seats.[13] The original configuration had 1,500 seats, composed of 640 in the orchestra and 850 in the balcony, as well as eight boxes. The theater was initially decorated in red and gold.[18][19][26] The auditorium's orchestra level and balcony are both accessed from the same lobby. This layout was part of an effort by Irwin Chanin to "democratize" the seating arrangement of the theater. For a similar reason, the Richard Rodgers was designed with a single balcony rather than the typical two, since Chanin perceived second balconies to be too distant.[27][8]

Seating areas edit

 
The orchestra level's steeply raked stadium seating
 
View from under the balcony

The rear (east) end of the orchestra contains a promenade with decorative bands on its ceiling.[28] The orchestra is raked, but its rear rows contain stadium seating that is more steeply sloped than the front rows.[18][29][8] While the front rows are at ground level, the rearmost level is almost one story higher,[29][30][31] allowing the entrance foyer to be placed under the rear of the orchestra.[15][30] This stadium seating configuration was supposedly used to improve visibility and acoustics,[18][26][29] though the rear rows have poor visibility as a result of the steep slope.[15][31] There is a double staircase to the balcony level from the center of the orchestra's rear section.[28] A partial cross-aisle and a wrought-iron railing separate the orchestra's front and rear portions.[32] There are exit doors from the partial wide aisles.[18][28] Two aisles lead from the orchestra's front to the rear, connecting with the exit doors.[18] The orchestra and its promenade contain walls with plasterwork paneling. There are arches along the orchestra's side walls, which contain shallow pilasters and moldings.[33][15]

The balcony is cantilevered over the orchestra, reducing obstructed views from the rear rows of the orchestra.[18][27] The balcony level is similarly divided into front and rear sections by an aisle halfway across the depth.[24] There are decorative iron railings surrounding the double staircase from the orchestra to the balcony. The rear wall of the balcony promenade contains plasterwork panels, as at orchestra level. A technical booth is also installed on the rear wall.[34] The plasterwork panels continue onto the walls. The balcony's underside has light fixtures, moldings, and plasterwork panels.[33] The front railing has molded wave decorations and friezes with foliate motifs; these are obscured by light boxes.[34]

On either side of the proscenium is a segmentally arched wall section with four boxes, arranged in two tiers. The fronts of the boxes are curved outward and contain molded wave decorations and friezes with foliate motifs. The undersides contain molded decorations with light fixtures. Above each arch is a medallion with swags.[33]

 
Central dome with overhanging chandelier

Other design features edit

Next to the boxes is an elliptical proscenium arch. The archway is surrounded by a molded rounded band, containing a motif of a spiral leaf. There is a cartouche above the middle of the proscenium.[28] Backstage, the theater was designed with 16 private rooms and five triple-sized rooms, connected to the stage by an elevator.[30]

A sounding board curves onto the ceiling above the proscenium arch, separated from the proscenium and the ceiling by a pair of ribs.[28] The sounding board is decorated with low relief plasterwork and latticework.[33] The ceiling has a shallow dome surrounded by a molded band. There are bands within the dome itself, dividing the dome's surfaces into panels. The center of the dome has a plasterwork medallion at the center, from which hangs a chandelier.[34] The rest of the ceiling, surrounding the dome, is divided into panels by moldings. These panels contain grilles as well as medallions in low relief.[28]

History edit

Times Square became the epicenter for large-scale theater productions between 1900 and the Great Depression.[35] 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.[36] The Chanin brothers developed another grouping of theaters in the mid-1920s.[37][38][39] Though the Chanins largely specialized in real estate rather than theaters, Irwin Chanin had become interested in theater when he was an impoverished student at the Cooper Union. He subsequently recalled that he had been "humiliated" by having to use a separate door whenever he bought cheap seats in an upper balcony level.[37][40]

Development and early years edit

 
View of the 46th Street Theatre in 1925

Chanin acquired the residences at 226 to 236 West 46th Street in January 1924.[41] Two months later, the Chanin Construction Company filed plans for the construction of a new theater on 46th Street, to cost $1.1 million.[5][6] Irwin Chanin was a newcomer to the Broadway theater industry, so he hired Herbert Krapp, an experienced architect who had designed multiple Broadway theaters for the Shubert brothers.[10][17] Krapp designed the theater's facade in a more ornate manner than his previous commissions. Irwin Chanin, who built the theater with his brother Henry, wished to lure visitors with architecture because they did not have the booking chain or an established reputation in the theatrical industry.[10] The New York Times quoted Irwin as saying: "We hope with this particular theater to carry out the new modern thought in the art of the theatrical world."[5]

The Chanins had no experience in operating theaters, and they hired Andrew J. Cobe to lease the theater to an operator.[42] In October 1924, the Shuberts leased Chanin's 46th Street Theatre for twenty-one years at a cost of $2 million.[43][44][45] The theater's owners received a $625,000 loan the following January,[46] and the Chanins finalized their lease that month.[26][47] Krapp designed the 46th Street Theatre with ornate decorations, including theatrical masks, in sharp contrast to simpler brick-faced theaters that he had designed for the Shuberts.[17]

The 46th Street, as the theater was called, officially opened on February 8, 1925, with a production of Is Zat So?.[19][48][9][b] Most of the 46th Street's early runs consisted of shows that were transferred from other theaters,[49] including Is Zat So?, which had transferred from the 39th Street Theatre.[51] The Greenwich Village Follies was staged at the 46th Street in December 1925,[52][53] after which Is Zat So? returned to the theater to complete its run.[54][55] Following this were John Colton's The Shanghai Gesture in 1926[54][56] and an eight-week long engagement by Sacha Guitry and his wife Yvonne Printemps later that year.[57] The Spider premiered in 1927,[58][59] followed by a short run of Baby Mine.[54][60] The 46th Street's first hit was Laurence Schwab's musical Good News, which opened in September 1927[61][62] and ran 551 performances.[63][64] Schwab and his collaborators staged another hit in 1929, the golf-themed Follow Thru,[61][65] with 401 performances.[66][64] The decade ended with Top Speed,[67][68] which featured Ginger Rogers in her Broadway debut.[69]

1930s to 1950s edit

 
Auditorium exit detail

The early 1930s opened with two hits:[69] the revue Sweet and Low in 1930[70][71] and You Said It the next year.[72][73] With the Chanins experiencing financial trouble,[31] the Shuberts acquired the fee to the theater's site in January 1931 for about $1.2 million.[74][75] The Chanins' name was removed from the theater in 1932,[76] and Margaret Sullavan appeared in the drama Happy Landing the same year.[77][78] This was followed by two transfers:[79] Of Thee I Sing[80][81] and Autumn Crocus.[79][82] The 46th Street then staged Howard Lindsay's comedy She Loves Me Not in 1933,[69][83] which had 367 performances.[84][85] The Farmer Takes a Wife, which opened the next year,[86][87] featured Henry Fonda in his Broadway premiere alongside Margaret Hamilton.[88] After Cole Porter's Anything Goes was staged at the 46th Street in 1935,[89][90] the theater hosted short-lived productions for several years.[85] Olsen and Johnson's hit revue Hellzapoppin opened at the 46th Street in 1938,[69][91] succeeded by Porter's DuBarry Was a Lady in 1939.[92][93]

Porter produced another musical, Panama Hattie, which opened in 1940[94][95] and ran for 501 performances.[96][97] During the early 1940s, the 46th Street hosted productions including Junior Miss (1941),[98][99] Beat the Band (1942),[100][101] and Sons o' Fun (1943).[102][103] Also in 1943, the United States Army staged a single performance of five plays written and performed by soldiers, which raised $100,000 for charity.[104] One Touch of Venus appeared at the 46th Street in 1944, running 567 performances,[105][106] and the hit Dark of the Moon followed the next year.[107][108] The theater was sold to Robert W. Dowling's City Investing Company in early 1945,[109][110] but the Shuberts successfully sued to block the City Investing Company from acquiring the theater until Dark of the Moon closed.[111] The 46th Street's next production was a transfer of the operetta The Red Mill.[112][113] Finian's Rainbow opened in 1947,[113][114] ultimately running for 725 performances.[115][116] A smoker's promenade opened in the adjacent alley in 1948, with murals depicting eight productions at the theater.[117]

The theater hosted Love Life in 1948[118][119] and Regina in 1949,[120][121] both produced by Cheryl Crawford.[122] In 1950, the 46th Street Theatre hosted Arms and the Girl, featuring Nanette Fabray,[123][124] for 134 performances.[116][125] Frank Loesser's musical Guys and Dolls opened the same year,[123][126] with about 1,200 performances over the next three years.[116][127] The next production to be staged was Ondine in 1954,[123][128] followed the same year by On Your Toes[129][130] and The Bad Seed.[131] The three subsequent productions at the 46th Street Theatre, from 1955 to early 1960, all featured singer and dancer Gwen Verdon, who won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for all of these productions.[132] These were Damn Yankees in 1955,[133][134] New Girl in Town in 1957,[135][136] and Redhead in 1959.[137][138] Three short-lived productions were staged between New Girl in Town and Redhead.[139]

1960s to 1980s edit

 
Detail of a spandrel in the auditorium

In March 1960, Lester Osterman bought the 46th Street Theatre from the City Investing Company, having already acquired the Eugene O'Neill Theatre from City Investing.[140][141] After short runs of Christine[142][143] and a revival of Finian's Rainbow,[144][145] the theater continued to produce major musicals into that decade.[106] These included Tenderloin, which opened in 1960 and starred Maurice Evans.[146][147] The next hit was How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which opened in 1961[131][148] and ran for 1,417 performances.[146][149] The theater also hosted a memorial for lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II during 1962.[150] The 46th Street then hosted Do I Hear a Waltz?, which opened in 1965[131][151] and was the only collaboration between composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.[152] The theater's late-1960s hits were I Do! I Do!, a 1967 play that featured only Mary Martin and Robert Preston,[153][154] and 1776, a musical that opened in 1969.[155][156]

After 1776 moved to another theater, the 46th Street hosted the revival of No, No, Nanette with Ruby Keeler in 1971,[131][157] which ran for 855 performances.[158][159] The theater subsequently hosted Clare Boothe Luce's The Women in 1973,[158][160][161] followed the same year by Raisin,[131][162] the latter of which ran for 847 performances.[163][164] Next was a revival of the Noël Coward play Private Lives in 1975;[163][165][166] the musical Chicago was also revived later that year,[131][167] lasting 898 performances.[163][168] The theater hosted Working briefly in 1978,[106][169] and that production's producers Stephen R. Friedman and Irwin Meyer bought Osterman's ownership stake.[170][171] The 46th Street then staged The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, an off-Broadway transfer, until early 1982.[163][172][173]

Meyer and Friedman had placed the theater for sale by 1980,[174] and they sought to rename the theater after Ethel Merman, but this did not happen.[175][176] Both the Shubert Organization and the Nederlander Organization were interested in acquiring the theater.[177][178] In 1981, the Nederlanders purchased a half-interest in the 46th Street.[179] The musical Nine opened at the theater the next year[180][181] and ran until February 1984.[181][182][183] Jerry Weintraub also purchased a stake in the operation of the 46th Street in 1984.[184][185] This was followed by Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs in 1985,[186][187] then Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace in 1986.[188][189] August Wilson's play Fences opened in 1987[190][191] and ran for 526 performances.[192][193] The 46th Street then hosted revivals of Born Yesterday[194][195] and The Merchant of Venice in 1989.[196][197]

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) started to consider protecting the 46th Street Theatre as a landmark in 1982,[198] with discussions continuing over the next several years.[199] The LPC designated the 46th Street's facade and interior as landmarks on November 17, 1987.[200] This was part of the commission's wide-ranging effort in 1987 to grant landmark status to Broadway theaters.[201] The New York City Board of Estimate ratified the designations in March 1988.[202] The Nederlanders, the Shuberts, and Jujamcyn collectively sued the LPC in June 1988 to overturn the landmark designations of 22 theaters, including the 46th Street, on the merit that the designations severely limited the extent to which the theaters could be modified.[203] The lawsuit was escalated to the New York Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the United States, but the designations were ultimately upheld in 1992.[204]

1990s to present edit

On March 27, 1990, at a luncheon to benefit the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Nederlanders renamed the theater to honor the composer Richard Rodgers.[11][12] The first production to be staged at the renamed theater was Alexander H. Cohen and Hildy Parks's Accomplice,[205][206] and the musical Oh, Kay! was revived later in 1990.[207][208] The Neil Simon play Lost in Yonkers opened in 1991,[209] ultimately running 780 performances.[210][211] The Boys Choir of Harlem appeared at the Richard Rodgers in 1993,[212][213] followed the same year by Fool Moon.[214][215] Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor, which also opened in late 1993,[216] lasted for 320 performances.[217][218] How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying returned to the Richard Rodgers in 1995[219] and had 548 performances.[220][221] This was followed by two musicals with scores by John Kander and Fred Ebb:[222] a revival of Chicago in 1996[223][224] and Steel Pier in 1997.[225][226] During late 1997, the musical Side Show was staged at the Richard Rodgers;[227][228] it flopped despite positive reviews.[229] Conversely, Footloose opened the next year,[230] and it ran 737 performances over two years,[231][232] despite negative reviews.[233]

Seussical, which opened in 2000,[234][235] ended up closing after six months at a $10 million loss.[236] In 2001, several Broadway performers and directors launched a celebration of Rodgers's work at the theater, a year before what would have been his 100th birthday.[237] The same year saw the premiere of another Simon hit, 45 Seconds from Broadway.[238][239] This was followed in 2002 by a run of Private Lives[240][241] and a comparatively much longer run of Movin' Out, which ran for four years.[242][243] The musical Tarzan appeared at the Richard Rodgers in 2006,[244][245] and the theater was renovated with the addition of the Richard Rodgers Gallery, a space with to memorabilia of the composer.[25] This was followed in 2007 by Cyrano de Bergerac,[246][247] then by Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical In The Heights from 2008[248][249] to 2011.[250] The theater's other productions of the early 2010s included Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo in 2011; Porgy and Bess and Lewis Black's Running on Empty in 2012; and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream in 2013.[13][14]

 
View from the east, while hosting If/Then in 2014; the stage house is visible at right

In 2013, the Richard Rodgers underwent a $3.5 million renovation conducted by EverGreene Architectural Arts. Up to 20 layers of paint were removed, and light-gray wall patterns and proscenium murals were installed. In addition, all 1,319 seats were replaced and a second arch in front of the original proscenium was removed.[251][252][253] The first production at the renovated theater was Romeo and Juliet,[253] which had a limited engagement;[254][255] it was succeeded by If/Then in 2014.[256][257] As part of a settlement with the United States Department of Justice in 2014, the Nederlanders agreed to improve disabled access at their nine Broadway theaters, including the Richard Rodgers.[258][259] Miranda's musical Hamilton opened at the theater in 2015 and has performed there since then.[260][261] On March 12, 2020, the theater closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[262] It reopened on September 14, 2021, with performances of Hamilton.[263]

Notable productions edit

The Richard Rodgers Theatre has housed 11 Tony Award-winning Best Plays and Best Musicals, more than any other Broadway theater.[264][265] In order of when the productions won, these are Guys and Dolls (1951 Best Musical), Damn Yankees (1956 Best Musical), Redhead (1959 Best Musical), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962 Best Musical), 1776 (1969 Best Musical), Raisin (1974 Best Musical), Nine (1982 Best Musical), Fences (1987 Best Play), Lost in Yonkers (1991 Best Play), In the Heights (2008 Best Musical), and Hamilton (2016 Best Musical).[14] Productions are listed by the year of their first performance.[13][14]

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Box office record edit

Hamilton achieved the box office record for the Richard Rodgers Theatre. The production grossed $4,041,493 for the week ending December 30, 2018, with a top ticket price of $849 and 101.87% of the theatre's gross potential.[299] Hamilton's gross for the week of December 30, 2018, is the highest-grossing week for any show in Broadway history.[300]

See also edit

References edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ a b This capacity is approximate and may vary depending on the show.
  2. ^ Some sources cite the 1924 Greenwich Village Follies, which transferred from the Shubert Theatre and Winter Garden Theatre, as the first production.[49] The Broadway League does not report the Greenwich Village Follies as having been staged at the 46th Street Theatre.[50]

Citations edit

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richard, rodgers, theatre, formerly, chanin, 46th, street, theatre, 46th, street, theatre, broadway, theater, west, 46th, street, theater, district, midtown, manhattan, york, city, opened, 1925, designed, herbert, krapp, constructed, irwin, chanin, approximate. The Richard Rodgers Theatre formerly Chanin s 46th Street Theatre and the 46th Street Theatre is a Broadway theater at 226 West 46th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City Opened in 1925 it was designed by Herbert J Krapp and was constructed for Irwin Chanin It has approximately 1 400 seats a across two levels and is operated by the Nederlander Organization Both the facade and the auditorium interior are New York City landmarks Richard Rodgers TheatreShowing the musical Hamilton in 2019Former namesChanin s 46th Street Theatre 1925 1932 46th Street Theatre 1932 1990 Address226 West 46th StreetLocationManhattan New York USCoordinates40 45 33 N 73 59 12 W 40 759030 N 73 986750 W 40 759030 73 986750OwnerNederlander OrganizationTypeBroadwayCapacity1 400 a ProductionHamiltonConstructionOpenedFebruary 7 1925 1925 02 07 ArchitectHerbert J KrappGeneral contractorChanin Construction CompanyWebsitebroadwaydirect wbr com wbr venue wbr richard rodgers theatre wbr New York City LandmarkDesignatedNovember 17 1987 1 Reference no 1333Designated entityFacade 1 New York City LandmarkDesignatedNovember 17 1987 2 Reference no 1334Designated entityAuditorium interior 2 The facade is divided into two sections The eastern section containing the auditorium is designed in the neo Renaissance style with white brick and terracotta The auditorium s ground floor has an entrance under a marquee above which is a loggia of three double height arches as well as a entablature and balustrade at the top The facade s western section comprising the stage house is seven stories high and is faced in buff colored brick The auditorium contains neo Renaissance detailing steep stadium seating in the orchestra level a large balcony and a shallow domed ceiling Due to the slope of the seats the rear of the orchestra is one story above ground There are also box seats near the front of the auditorium on two tiers Chanin s 46th Street Theatre was the first Broadway theater developed by Irwin S Chanin and it was immediately leased to the Shubert brothers when it opened The Shuberts bought the building outright in 1931 and renamed it the 46th Street Theatre In 1945 the theater was taken over by Robert W Dowling of the City Investing Company In 1960 it was purchased by the producer Lester Osterman who sold it to producers Stephen R Friedman and Irwin Meyer in 1978 The Nederlander Organization purchased the venue in 1981 and renamed it to honor the composer Richard Rodgers in 1990 Over the years the Richard Rodgers has hosted eleven Tony Award winning productions Guys and Dolls Redhead How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 1776 Raisin Nine Fences Lost in Yonkers In the Heights and Hamilton Other long running shows at the theater have included Panama Hattie and One Touch of Venus Contents 1 Site 2 Design 2 1 Facade 2 1 1 Auditorium section 2 1 2 Stage house section 2 2 Auditorium 2 2 1 Seating areas 2 2 2 Other design features 3 History 3 1 Development and early years 3 2 1930s to 1950s 3 3 1960s to 1980s 3 4 1990s to present 4 Notable productions 4 1 46th Street Theatre 4 2 Richard Rodgers Theatre 5 Box office record 6 See also 7 References 7 1 Notes 7 2 Citations 7 3 Sources 8 External linksSite editThe Richard Rodgers Theatre is on 226 West 46th Street on the south 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 11 295 sq ft 1 049 3 m2 4 The theater has a frontage of 112 ft 34 m on 46th Street and a depth of 100 ft 30 m 4 5 6 The Richard Rodgers shares the block with the Music Box Theatre to the south the Imperial Theatre to the west and the New York Marriott Marquis to the east Other nearby buildings include the Paramount Hotel including Sony Hall and Lena Horne Theatre to the northwest the Hotel Edison and Lunt Fontanne Theatre to the north One Astor Plaza to the southeast the Booth and Gerald Schoenfeld Theatres to the south and the Bernard B Jacobs and John Golden Theatres to the southwest 4 Prior to the theater s construction the site was occupied by six brownstone residences 5 Design editThe Richard Rodgers Theatre originally the 46th Street Theatre was designed by Herbert J Krapp in the neo Renaissance style and was constructed in 1924 for the Chanin brothers 3 7 8 The exterior and interior designs were particularly ornate even when compared with other Broadway theaters because the 46th Street was the first theater developed by Irwin Chanin 9 10 Since 1990 the theater has been named after composer Richard Rodgers 1902 1979 11 12 It is operated by the Nederlander Organization 13 14 Facade edit The facade consists of two sections The eastern section is wider and is symmetrical containing the auditorium entrance It is made of glazed white brick with white terracotta decorations 15 16 The upper stories of the auditorium entrance section are designed as a colonnade with a central loggia 17 The western section which contains the stage house is seven stories high and contains a buff brick facade 15 16 Early sources cite the theater facade as also containing limestone 18 19 Auditorium section edit The first story of the auditorium facade is symmetrically arranged though the eastern section is shorter than its width There is a water table made of terrazzo above which are rusticated blocks On the eastern side of the ground floor facade a double metal door connects to a service alley To the right or west are three glass and aluminum double doors connecting with the box office lobby Next to that terrazzo steps lead to emergency exit doors from the auditorium 20 The westernmost opening consists of a metal stage door 13 20 The ground story has wooden display boxes and is topped by a cornice 20 A marquee hangs over the center three openings it replaced the original marquee 18 19 which has since been removed 21 nbsp Arch detailThe auditorium s second and third stories contain outer bays that flank a loggia with three arches Each arch has a keystone with a console bracket and they are flanked by pilasters with Corinthian style capitals with terracotta swans 15 20 The bottoms of the central bays contain an iron railing 16 Behind the arches is a fire stair and a brick wall with terracotta lyres swags and bellflowers 15 22 The outer bays contain white brick wall sections which are topped by swags and rectangular panels with masks There are pilasters next to each of the outer bays and a sign with the theater s name is suspended from the easternmost bay 20 23 Running above the facade is a entablature containing a frieze with panels shields and rinceaux as well as a cornice supported by terracotta modillions The roof of the auditorium has a terracotta balustrade with urns that divide it into bays The center three bays of the balustrade have latticework while the outer bays have shields and foliate decorations Another brick parapet with terracotta coping runs behind the terracotta balustrade 22 23 Stage house section edit The stage house wing is utilitarian in design 15 22 The first story of the stage house contains a water table made of terrazzo There are openings for the stage door as well as larger doors to transport sets and other large items On the upper stories there are four window openings on each floor as well as brick pilasters 22 23 Above the stage house s seventh floor is a cornice with modillions it is made of sheet metal and decorated in the Adam style 22 Auditorium edit The auditorium has an orchestra level one balcony boxes and a stage behind the proscenium arch The auditorium space is designed with plaster decorations in low relief 24 According to the Nederlander Organization the auditorium has 1 319 seats 25 meanwhile The Broadway League cites a capacity of 1 400 seats 14 and Playbill cites 1 321 seats 13 The original configuration had 1 500 seats composed of 640 in the orchestra and 850 in the balcony as well as eight boxes The theater was initially decorated in red and gold 18 19 26 The auditorium s orchestra level and balcony are both accessed from the same lobby This layout was part of an effort by Irwin Chanin to democratize the seating arrangement of the theater For a similar reason the Richard Rodgers was designed with a single balcony rather than the typical two since Chanin perceived second balconies to be too distant 27 8 Seating areas edit nbsp The orchestra level s steeply raked stadium seating nbsp View from under the balcony The rear east end of the orchestra contains a promenade with decorative bands on its ceiling 28 The orchestra is raked but its rear rows contain stadium seating that is more steeply sloped than the front rows 18 29 8 While the front rows are at ground level the rearmost level is almost one story higher 29 30 31 allowing the entrance foyer to be placed under the rear of the orchestra 15 30 This stadium seating configuration was supposedly used to improve visibility and acoustics 18 26 29 though the rear rows have poor visibility as a result of the steep slope 15 31 There is a double staircase to the balcony level from the center of the orchestra s rear section 28 A partial cross aisle and a wrought iron railing separate the orchestra s front and rear portions 32 There are exit doors from the partial wide aisles 18 28 Two aisles lead from the orchestra s front to the rear connecting with the exit doors 18 The orchestra and its promenade contain walls with plasterwork paneling There are arches along the orchestra s side walls which contain shallow pilasters and moldings 33 15 The balcony is cantilevered over the orchestra reducing obstructed views from the rear rows of the orchestra 18 27 The balcony level is similarly divided into front and rear sections by an aisle halfway across the depth 24 There are decorative iron railings surrounding the double staircase from the orchestra to the balcony The rear wall of the balcony promenade contains plasterwork panels as at orchestra level A technical booth is also installed on the rear wall 34 The plasterwork panels continue onto the walls The balcony s underside has light fixtures moldings and plasterwork panels 33 The front railing has molded wave decorations and friezes with foliate motifs these are obscured by light boxes 34 On either side of the proscenium is a segmentally arched wall section with four boxes arranged in two tiers The fronts of the boxes are curved outward and contain molded wave decorations and friezes with foliate motifs The undersides contain molded decorations with light fixtures Above each arch is a medallion with swags 33 nbsp Central dome with overhanging chandelierOther design features edit Next to the boxes is an elliptical proscenium arch The archway is surrounded by a molded rounded band containing a motif of a spiral leaf There is a cartouche above the middle of the proscenium 28 Backstage the theater was designed with 16 private rooms and five triple sized rooms connected to the stage by an elevator 30 A sounding board curves onto the ceiling above the proscenium arch separated from the proscenium and the ceiling by a pair of ribs 28 The sounding board is decorated with low relief plasterwork and latticework 33 The ceiling has a shallow dome surrounded by a molded band There are bands within the dome itself dividing the dome s surfaces into panels The center of the dome has a plasterwork medallion at the center from which hangs a chandelier 34 The rest of the ceiling surrounding the dome is divided into panels by moldings These panels contain grilles as well as medallions in low relief 28 History editTimes Square became the epicenter for large scale theater productions between 1900 and the Great Depression 35 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 36 The Chanin brothers developed another grouping of theaters in the mid 1920s 37 38 39 Though the Chanins largely specialized in real estate rather than theaters Irwin Chanin had become interested in theater when he was an impoverished student at the Cooper Union He subsequently recalled that he had been humiliated by having to use a separate door whenever he bought cheap seats in an upper balcony level 37 40 Development and early years edit nbsp View of the 46th Street Theatre in 1925Chanin acquired the residences at 226 to 236 West 46th Street in January 1924 41 Two months later the Chanin Construction Company filed plans for the construction of a new theater on 46th Street to cost 1 1 million 5 6 Irwin Chanin was a newcomer to the Broadway theater industry so he hired Herbert Krapp an experienced architect who had designed multiple Broadway theaters for the Shubert brothers 10 17 Krapp designed the theater s facade in a more ornate manner than his previous commissions Irwin Chanin who built the theater with his brother Henry wished to lure visitors with architecture because they did not have the booking chain or an established reputation in the theatrical industry 10 The New York Times quoted Irwin as saying We hope with this particular theater to carry out the new modern thought in the art of the theatrical world 5 The Chanins had no experience in operating theaters and they hired Andrew J Cobe to lease the theater to an operator 42 In October 1924 the Shuberts leased Chanin s 46th Street Theatre for twenty one years at a cost of 2 million 43 44 45 The theater s owners received a 625 000 loan the following January 46 and the Chanins finalized their lease that month 26 47 Krapp designed the 46th Street Theatre with ornate decorations including theatrical masks in sharp contrast to simpler brick faced theaters that he had designed for the Shuberts 17 The 46th Street as the theater was called officially opened on February 8 1925 with a production of Is Zat So 19 48 9 b Most of the 46th Street s early runs consisted of shows that were transferred from other theaters 49 including Is Zat So which had transferred from the 39th Street Theatre 51 The Greenwich Village Follies was staged at the 46th Street in December 1925 52 53 after which Is Zat So returned to the theater to complete its run 54 55 Following this were John Colton s The Shanghai Gesture in 1926 54 56 and an eight week long engagement by Sacha Guitry and his wife Yvonne Printemps later that year 57 The Spider premiered in 1927 58 59 followed by a short run of Baby Mine 54 60 The 46th Street s first hit was Laurence Schwab s musical Good News which opened in September 1927 61 62 and ran 551 performances 63 64 Schwab and his collaborators staged another hit in 1929 the golf themed Follow Thru 61 65 with 401 performances 66 64 The decade ended with Top Speed 67 68 which featured Ginger Rogers in her Broadway debut 69 1930s to 1950s edit nbsp Auditorium exit detailThe early 1930s opened with two hits 69 the revue Sweet and Low in 1930 70 71 and You Said It the next year 72 73 With the Chanins experiencing financial trouble 31 the Shuberts acquired the fee to the theater s site in January 1931 for about 1 2 million 74 75 The Chanins name was removed from the theater in 1932 76 and Margaret Sullavan appeared in the drama Happy Landing the same year 77 78 This was followed by two transfers 79 Of Thee I Sing 80 81 and Autumn Crocus 79 82 The 46th Street then staged Howard Lindsay s comedy She Loves Me Not in 1933 69 83 which had 367 performances 84 85 The Farmer Takes a Wife which opened the next year 86 87 featured Henry Fonda in his Broadway premiere alongside Margaret Hamilton 88 After Cole Porter s Anything Goes was staged at the 46th Street in 1935 89 90 the theater hosted short lived productions for several years 85 Olsen and Johnson s hit revue Hellzapoppin opened at the 46th Street in 1938 69 91 succeeded by Porter s DuBarry Was a Lady in 1939 92 93 Porter produced another musical Panama Hattie which opened in 1940 94 95 and ran for 501 performances 96 97 During the early 1940s the 46th Street hosted productions including Junior Miss 1941 98 99 Beat the Band 1942 100 101 and Sons o Fun 1943 102 103 Also in 1943 the United States Army staged a single performance of five plays written and performed by soldiers which raised 100 000 for charity 104 One Touch of Venus appeared at the 46th Street in 1944 running 567 performances 105 106 and the hit Dark of the Moon followed the next year 107 108 The theater was sold to Robert W Dowling s City Investing Company in early 1945 109 110 but the Shuberts successfully sued to block the City Investing Company from acquiring the theater until Dark of the Moon closed 111 The 46th Street s next production was a transfer of the operetta The Red Mill 112 113 Finian s Rainbow opened in 1947 113 114 ultimately running for 725 performances 115 116 A smoker s promenade opened in the adjacent alley in 1948 with murals depicting eight productions at the theater 117 The theater hosted Love Life in 1948 118 119 and Regina in 1949 120 121 both produced by Cheryl Crawford 122 In 1950 the 46th Street Theatre hosted Arms and the Girl featuring Nanette Fabray 123 124 for 134 performances 116 125 Frank Loesser s musical Guys and Dolls opened the same year 123 126 with about 1 200 performances over the next three years 116 127 The next production to be staged was Ondine in 1954 123 128 followed the same year by On Your Toes 129 130 and The Bad Seed 131 The three subsequent productions at the 46th Street Theatre from 1955 to early 1960 all featured singer and dancer Gwen Verdon who won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for all of these productions 132 These were Damn Yankees in 1955 133 134 New Girl in Town in 1957 135 136 and Redhead in 1959 137 138 Three short lived productions were staged between New Girl in Town and Redhead 139 1960s to 1980s edit nbsp Detail of a spandrel in the auditoriumIn March 1960 Lester Osterman bought the 46th Street Theatre from the City Investing Company having already acquired the Eugene O Neill Theatre from City Investing 140 141 After short runs of Christine 142 143 and a revival of Finian s Rainbow 144 145 the theater continued to produce major musicals into that decade 106 These included Tenderloin which opened in 1960 and starred Maurice Evans 146 147 The next hit was How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying which opened in 1961 131 148 and ran for 1 417 performances 146 149 The theater also hosted a memorial for lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II during 1962 150 The 46th Street then hosted Do I Hear a Waltz which opened in 1965 131 151 and was the only collaboration between composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Stephen Sondheim 152 The theater s late 1960s hits were I Do I Do a 1967 play that featured only Mary Martin and Robert Preston 153 154 and 1776 a musical that opened in 1969 155 156 After 1776 moved to another theater the 46th Street hosted the revival of No No Nanette with Ruby Keeler in 1971 131 157 which ran for 855 performances 158 159 The theater subsequently hosted Clare Boothe Luce s The Women in 1973 158 160 161 followed the same year by Raisin 131 162 the latter of which ran for 847 performances 163 164 Next was a revival of the Noel Coward play Private Lives in 1975 163 165 166 the musical Chicago was also revived later that year 131 167 lasting 898 performances 163 168 The theater hosted Working briefly in 1978 106 169 and that production s producers Stephen R Friedman and Irwin Meyer bought Osterman s ownership stake 170 171 The 46th Street then staged The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas an off Broadway transfer until early 1982 163 172 173 Meyer and Friedman had placed the theater for sale by 1980 174 and they sought to rename the theater after Ethel Merman but this did not happen 175 176 Both the Shubert Organization and the Nederlander Organization were interested in acquiring the theater 177 178 In 1981 the Nederlanders purchased a half interest in the 46th Street 179 The musical Nine opened at the theater the next year 180 181 and ran until February 1984 181 182 183 Jerry Weintraub also purchased a stake in the operation of the 46th Street in 1984 184 185 This was followed by Neil Simon s Brighton Beach Memoirs in 1985 186 187 then Joseph Kesselring s Arsenic and Old Lace in 1986 188 189 August Wilson s play Fences opened in 1987 190 191 and ran for 526 performances 192 193 The 46th Street then hosted revivals of Born Yesterday 194 195 and The Merchant of Venice in 1989 196 197 The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission LPC started to consider protecting the 46th Street Theatre as a landmark in 1982 198 with discussions continuing over the next several years 199 The LPC designated the 46th Street s facade and interior as landmarks on November 17 1987 200 This was part of the commission s wide ranging effort in 1987 to grant landmark status to Broadway theaters 201 The New York City Board of Estimate ratified the designations in March 1988 202 The Nederlanders the Shuberts and Jujamcyn collectively sued the LPC in June 1988 to overturn the landmark designations of 22 theaters including the 46th Street on the merit that the designations severely limited the extent to which the theaters could be modified 203 The lawsuit was escalated to the New York Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the United States but the designations were ultimately upheld in 1992 204 1990s to present edit On March 27 1990 at a luncheon to benefit the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts the Nederlanders renamed the theater to honor the composer Richard Rodgers 11 12 The first production to be staged at the renamed theater was Alexander H Cohen and Hildy Parks s Accomplice 205 206 and the musical Oh Kay was revived later in 1990 207 208 The Neil Simon play Lost in Yonkers opened in 1991 209 ultimately running 780 performances 210 211 The Boys Choir of Harlem appeared at the Richard Rodgers in 1993 212 213 followed the same year by Fool Moon 214 215 Simon s Laughter on the 23rd Floor which also opened in late 1993 216 lasted for 320 performances 217 218 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying returned to the Richard Rodgers in 1995 219 and had 548 performances 220 221 This was followed by two musicals with scores by John Kander and Fred Ebb 222 a revival of Chicago in 1996 223 224 and Steel Pier in 1997 225 226 During late 1997 the musical Side Show was staged at the Richard Rodgers 227 228 it flopped despite positive reviews 229 Conversely Footloose opened the next year 230 and it ran 737 performances over two years 231 232 despite negative reviews 233 Seussical which opened in 2000 234 235 ended up closing after six months at a 10 million loss 236 In 2001 several Broadway performers and directors launched a celebration of Rodgers s work at the theater a year before what would have been his 100th birthday 237 The same year saw the premiere of another Simon hit 45 Seconds from Broadway 238 239 This was followed in 2002 by a run of Private Lives 240 241 and a comparatively much longer run of Movin Out which ran for four years 242 243 The musical Tarzan appeared at the Richard Rodgers in 2006 244 245 and the theater was renovated with the addition of the Richard Rodgers Gallery a space with to memorabilia of the composer 25 This was followed in 2007 by Cyrano de Bergerac 246 247 then by Lin Manuel Miranda s musical In The Heights from 2008 248 249 to 2011 250 The theater s other productions of the early 2010s included Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo in 2011 Porgy and Bess and Lewis Black s Running on Empty in 2012 and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Rascals Once Upon a Dream in 2013 13 14 nbsp View from the east while hosting If Then in 2014 the stage house is visible at rightIn 2013 the Richard Rodgers underwent a 3 5 million renovation conducted by EverGreene Architectural Arts Up to 20 layers of paint were removed and light gray wall patterns and proscenium murals were installed In addition all 1 319 seats were replaced and a second arch in front of the original proscenium was removed 251 252 253 The first production at the renovated theater was Romeo and Juliet 253 which had a limited engagement 254 255 it was succeeded by If Then in 2014 256 257 As part of a settlement with the United States Department of Justice in 2014 the Nederlanders agreed to improve disabled access at their nine Broadway theaters including the Richard Rodgers 258 259 Miranda s musical Hamilton opened at the theater in 2015 and has performed there since then 260 261 On March 12 2020 the theater closed due to the COVID 19 pandemic 262 It reopened on September 14 2021 with performances of Hamilton 263 Notable productions editThe Richard Rodgers Theatre has housed 11 Tony Award winning Best Plays and Best Musicals more than any other Broadway theater 264 265 In order of when the productions won these are Guys and Dolls 1951 Best Musical Damn Yankees 1956 Best Musical Redhead 1959 Best Musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 1962 Best Musical 1776 1969 Best Musical Raisin 1974 Best Musical Nine 1982 Best Musical Fences 1987 Best Play Lost in Yonkers 1991 Best Play In the Heights 2008 Best Musical and Hamilton 2016 Best Musical 14 Productions are listed by the year of their first performance 13 14 46th Street Theatre edit 1925 1926 Is Zat So 266 54 1925 Greenwich Village Follies 53 267 1927 Good News 63 64 1929 Follow Thru 66 268 1930 Sweet and Low 70 268 1931 You Said It 72 268 1932 Of Thee I Sing 79 80 1932 Autumn Crocus 79 269 1933 Counsellor at Law 270 268 1934 The Farmer Takes a Wife 86 271 1935 Anything Goes 89 90 1938 Right This Way 272 271 1938 Hellzapoppin 91 271 1939 Knickerbocker Holiday 273 1939 DuBarry Was a Lady 92 93 1940 Panama Hattie 96 97 1941 Junior Miss 98 1942 Beat the Band 100 274 1943 Sons o Fun 102 1944 One Touch of Venus 105 274 1945 Dark of the Moon 107 108 1945 The Red Mill 113 275 1947 Finian s Rainbow 113 115 1948 Love Life 123 118 1950 Guys and Dolls 127 276 1954 Ondine 128 276 1954 On Your Toes 129 130 1954 The Bad Seed 277 276 1955 Damn Yankees 133 276 1957 New Girl in Town 135 278 1958 Ages of Man 279 278 1959 Redhead 137 278 1960 Christine 142 278 1960 Finian s Rainbow 144 278 1960 Tenderloin 146 147 1961 Donnybrook 280 278 1961 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 146 149 1965 Do I Hear a Waltz 151 281 1965 Pickwick 282 281 1966 I Do I Do 153 281 1968 The Price 283 281 1969 1776 155 281 1971 No No Nanette 158 159 1973 The Women 158 160 1973 Raisin 164 284 1975 Private Lives 165 284 1975 Chicago 168 284 1978 Working 169 284 1978 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 172 284 1982 Nine 181 182 1985 Brighton Beach Memoirs 186 187 1986 Arsenic and Old Lace 188 187 1987 Fences 192 190 1989 Born Yesterday 194 187 1989 The Merchant of Venice 196 187 Richard Rodgers Theatre edit 1990 Oh Kay 208 187 1991 Lost in Yonkers 211 187 1993 Fool Moon 214 215 1993 Laughter on the 23rd Floor 217 285 1994 A Christmas Carol 286 1995 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 221 285 1996 Chicago 223 222 1997 Steel Pier 225 222 1997 Side Show 228 287 1998 Footloose 231 287 2000 Seussical 234 287 2001 45 Seconds from Broadway 238 288 2002 Private Lives 240 243 2002 Movin Out 242 288 2006 Tarzan 244 245 2007 Cyrano de Bergerac 246 247 2008 In The Heights 250 248 2011 Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo 289 290 2012 Porgy and Bess 291 292 2012 Lewis Black Running on Empty 293 294 2012 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 295 296 2013 The Rascals Once Upon a Dream 297 298 2013 Romeo and Juliet 254 255 2014 If Then 256 257 2015 Hamilton 260 261 Box office record editHamilton achieved the box office record for the Richard Rodgers Theatre The production grossed 4 041 493 for the week ending December 30 2018 with a top ticket price of 849 and 101 87 of the theatre s gross potential 299 Hamilton s gross for the week of December 30 2018 is the highest grossing week for any show in Broadway history 300 See 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