Broadhurst Theatre

Broadhurst Theatre

  • Theater | Broadway
  • price 4 of 4
  • Midtown West
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Time Out says

George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance was the first production in this theatre, currently operaed by the Shuberts and with 1,156 seats. Renowned architect Herbert J. Krapp decorated the Broadhurst's interior with Doric columns and Greek-style cornices and friezes. Its spare exterior is mostly brickwork, enhanced by touches of stone and terra-cotta trim. Amadeus played here in 1980, as well as the Public Theater's The Tempest, starring Patrick Stewart. Recent residents have included Billy Crystal's solo memoir, 700 Sundays, and the English import Enron.

Details

Address
235 W 44th St
New York
Cross street:
between Broadway and Eighth Ave
Transport:
Subway: A, C, E to 42nd St–Port Authority; N, Q, R, 42nd St S, 1, 2, 3, 7 to 42nd St–Times Sq
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Boop! The Musical

4 out of 5 stars
Broadway review by Adam Feldman  Try to imagine this: a family-friendly Broadway musical based on a beloved cartoon character from the Great Depression. Maybe she has distinctive hair and a signature red dress. Maybe she’s looking to find out who she is, so she runs away and gets dazzled by the bright lights and bustle of NYC. Her best friends could be, I don’t know, a dog and an orphan girl. And this may sound crazy, but: What if her sunniness and can-do optimism had the power to inspire progressive political change?  It’d never work. Just kidding, just kidding! It worked like the dickens in the 1977 moppet musical Annie, and it works again—minus Annie’s more Dickensian elements—in Boop! The Musical. Directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, this is an old-fashioned candy shop of a show, where tasty confections are sold in bulk. When Boop! is corny, it’s candy corn. Gorge on the multicolor gumdrops of its high-energy production numbers; chew the jelly beans of its gentle social-mindedness; let the caramel creams of its love story melt slightly oversweetly in your mouth. And above all, savor this show’s red-hot cinnamon heart: Jasmine Amy Rogers, making a sensational Broadway debut as the 1930s animated-short icon Betty Boop.   Boop! The Musical | Photograph: Courtesy Evan Zimmerman In our world, Betty is the quintessential cartoon jazz baby, a Fleischer Studios flapper inspired by singer Helen Kane (famous for her "boop-oop-a-doop" tag in songs like “I Wanna Be Loved...
  • Musicals
  • Open run
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