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The City and the Theater - A 250 Year Journey from Bowling Green to Times Square
Mary C Henderson - HARDBACK Price: $29.99
This documents the rich cultural legacy of New York City
and its playhouses
Complete with illustrations and biographies of more than 75 Broadway theatres, here is a vivid, thorough history of Manhattan and the rise of the theatre district from 1699, when a petiton was first made for a perfomance license, to the 20C and the birth of Time Square, and to the recent revitalisation of 42nd Street in the mid-1960s
The book also includes an A to Z listing of every Broadway theatre ever to exist, complete with photograph or illustration, address, architect, opening production, historical info, and - if applicable - when the theatre was demolished
A celebration of the people and places that have given America and the world the
unique gift of Broadway
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