Imperial Theatre (New York City, New York)
USA /
New Jersey /
West New York /
New York City, New York /
West 45th Street, 249
World
/ USA
/ New Jersey
/ West New York
World / United States / New York
theatre, 1923_construction
5-story theater completed in 1923. Designed by Herbert J. Krapp, it was the Shubert Organization's 50th venue in New York City, and was constructed to replace their outdated Lyric Theatre. Seating 1,417, It opened on December 25, 1923 with the Oscar Hammerstein II-Vincent Youmans production Mary Jane McKane. Since then, it has hosted numerous important musicals, including Annie Get Your Gun (1946), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), Dreamgirls (1981), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985) and Les Misérables (1990), which played at the theater until 2003. Billy Elliot the Musical played at the theater from November 2008 until January 2012.
The actual theater is on 46th Street, but the main entrance is via a narrow extension through the block to 45th Street. The 3-story facade on 45th Street is faced in painted limestone; the ground floor has three sets of brass-framed double-doors, brass-framed transoms, and a pair of brass-framed poster boxes at the ends. The ground floor is covered by a suspended metal marquee with multiple bands of light bulbs, swags separated by narrow, short columns along the bottom, and a top panel with "IMPERIAL" in light-outlined letters, flanked by a pair of large rosettes. There are poster boards along the sides of the marquee, and mounted above is a 2-sided, angled sign edged in light bulbs. The 2nd & 3rd floors have two bays of double-windows, and the facade is crowned by a white stone modillioned cornice surmounted by a parapet with shield at the center.
The main north facade is clad in brown brick with a brown-painted stone water table. The theater portion is at the west half, with two pairs of brass double exit doors flanking a bay with poster boards. All three of these bays have transoms and are covered by a suspended metal marquee with signs at the ends, and "IMPERIAL" in white script on the front edge. There is a metal service door to the left. Above a band of brick corbelling is a wide metal balcony with a metal roof; one wide and one narrow opening exit onto the balcony.
The stagehouse section at the east half of the facade has two metal service doors flanking two windows with iron grilles and a small, narrow window in the center, also with iron bars. The windows and doors have brick lintels. To the right is another poster box. The band of corbels continues over from the west end of the facade, at the top of the 2nd floor. The 2nd-5th floors all have four bays of single-windows with brick sills and lintels. Spanning the 3rd-5th floor across the whole facade are a total of six very slightly-projecting brick piers with white stone capitals and bases. There is one at each end, two framing the balcony, and a pair at the west end of the stagehouse. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with rows of small brackets and swags in the frieze.
www.shubertorganization.com/theatres/imperial.asp
The actual theater is on 46th Street, but the main entrance is via a narrow extension through the block to 45th Street. The 3-story facade on 45th Street is faced in painted limestone; the ground floor has three sets of brass-framed double-doors, brass-framed transoms, and a pair of brass-framed poster boxes at the ends. The ground floor is covered by a suspended metal marquee with multiple bands of light bulbs, swags separated by narrow, short columns along the bottom, and a top panel with "IMPERIAL" in light-outlined letters, flanked by a pair of large rosettes. There are poster boards along the sides of the marquee, and mounted above is a 2-sided, angled sign edged in light bulbs. The 2nd & 3rd floors have two bays of double-windows, and the facade is crowned by a white stone modillioned cornice surmounted by a parapet with shield at the center.
The main north facade is clad in brown brick with a brown-painted stone water table. The theater portion is at the west half, with two pairs of brass double exit doors flanking a bay with poster boards. All three of these bays have transoms and are covered by a suspended metal marquee with signs at the ends, and "IMPERIAL" in white script on the front edge. There is a metal service door to the left. Above a band of brick corbelling is a wide metal balcony with a metal roof; one wide and one narrow opening exit onto the balcony.
The stagehouse section at the east half of the facade has two metal service doors flanking two windows with iron grilles and a small, narrow window in the center, also with iron bars. The windows and doors have brick lintels. To the right is another poster box. The band of corbels continues over from the west end of the facade, at the top of the 2nd floor. The 2nd-5th floors all have four bays of single-windows with brick sills and lintels. Spanning the 3rd-5th floor across the whole facade are a total of six very slightly-projecting brick piers with white stone capitals and bases. There is one at each end, two framing the balcony, and a pair at the west end of the stagehouse. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice with rows of small brackets and swags in the frieze.
www.shubertorganization.com/theatres/imperial.asp
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Theater
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Coordinates: 40°45'32"N 73°59'13"W
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