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The
Music Box Theater is a legitimate
Broadway theatre located at 239 West 45th Street in midtown-
Manhattan.
The once most aptly named theater on Broadway, the intimate Music Box was designed by
architect C. Howard Crane and constructed by composer
Irving Berlin and producer
Sam H. Harris specifically to house Berlin's famed Music Box Revues. It opened in 1921 and hosted a new musical production every year until 1925, when it presented its first play,
Cradle Snatchers, starring
Humphrey Bogart. The following year,
Chicago, the
Maurine Dallas Watkins play that served as the basis for the hit musical, opened here. It housed a string of hits for the playwriting team of
George S. Kaufman and
Moss Hart, from their first collaboration
Once in a Lifetime to their smash hit
The Man Who Came to Dinner.
Cole Porter and
George and
Ira Gershwin also presented shows here.
In the 1950s, playwright
William Inge found a home at the Music Box, where he'd success with
Picnic,
Bus Stop, and
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.
One of the smaller Broadway houses, with a seating capacity of 860, the theater was co-owned by Berlin's estate and the
Shubert Organization until the latter assumed full ownership in 2007. Its box seats are notable for being unusually large and round, and
Dame Edna lovingly described them as "ashtrays" during her successful run there. The lobby features a plaque and wall exhibit commemorating its rich history.
Other notable productions
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