The Broadway Theatre
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: The Broadway Theatre is one of a select few legitimate theaters that was originally built as a movie house. Its seating capacity of 1,765 made it ideal for the changeover to musical theater in 1930. It showed movies for a brief period again in the 1950s but has been a legitimate theater ever since.It is currently owned and operated by the Shubert Organization and continues to be one of the largest Broadway theaters.
More information at: https://www.broadway.com/venues/theaters/broadway-theatre/
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
South Pacific (1953)
File — Box 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection consists of playbills, programs, and personal items collected by Tuck throughout his many years of theater-going. The bulk of the collection represents Pittsburgh area theaters as well as London area theatres. There are personal items such as his ticket stubs from performances, phonograph records, and newspaper clippings collected by Mr. Tuck in this collection as well.Throughout Mr. Tuck’s theater-going career he saw many different types of plays, musicals,...
Dates:
Existence: 1970 - 1990