#Brooks Atkinson theatre

[ridethecyanide]

April 8, 1999 - On this day in RSL history, Robert stars in a stage revival of The Iceman Cometh, playing Don Parritt.

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[slowburningechoes]

Robert Sean Leonard at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre stage door following performances of The Iceman Cometh (1999). His role in this revival of Eugene O'Neill's play was "Don Parritt".

Comfy casual Bobby is something so personal to me.

[thephantomofanastasia]

An original news article from the New York Times about the Anastasia play in 1954 at the Lyceum Theatre. The photos are of Viveca Lindfors as Anna and Eugenie Leontovich as the Dowager Empress in Adaptation of the Marcelle Maurette play, with English translations by Guy Bolton.

This is where it all began: a play, the old Hollywood film, an operetta, the animated movie, and then a Broadway musical!

Source: Atkinson, Brooks. “Adaptation from French Opens at the Lyceum.” New York Times, 30 Dec. 1954, www.nytimes.com/1954/12/30/archives/theatre-the-mystery-of-anastasia-adaptation-from-french-opens-at.html

[cabaretkel]

Broadway Theatres

There are currently 41 operating Broadway theatres, & I have been lucky enough to visit most of them. In descending order by most visited, here is a list of all the productions I’ve seen & the year I attended for each theatre.  

Belasco Theatre: Hedwig & the Angry Inch (2014) / Hedwig & the Angry Inch (2015) / Hedwig & the Angry Inch (2015) / Farinelli & the King (2018) / Network (2019)

Neil Simon Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar (2012) / Big Fish (2013) / All the Way (2014) / Angels in America Part 1 (2018) / Angels in America Part 2 (2018) 

Richard Rodgers Theatre: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2013) / Romeo & Juliet (2013) / If/Then (2014) / Hamilton (2016) / Hamilton (2018)

Studio 54: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2013) / Cabaret (2014) / Cabaret (2015) / The Lifespan of a Fact (2019) / Pictures From Home (2023)

Longacre Theatre: First Date (2013) / Of Mice & Men (2014) / Allegiance (2016) / The Prom (2019) / Leopoldstadt (2023)   

Brooks Atkinson Theatre / Lena Horne Theatre: Peter & the Starcatcher (2013) / Spring Awakening (2016) / Spring Awakening (2016) / Waitress (2017) / SIX (2023)

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre: It’s Only a Play (2015) / The Color Purple (2016) / The Ferryman (2018) / Company (2020) / Parade (2023)

Circle in the Square Theatre: Godspell (2012) / Fun Home (2016) / In Transit (2017) / Once on this Island (2018)

Booth Theatre: The Glass Menagerie (2013) / The Elephant Man (2015) / American Son (2019) / Kimberly Akimbo (2023)

Music Box Theatre: Pippin (2013) / The Heidi Chronicles (2015) / Dear Evan Hansen (2017) / Purlie Victorious (2023)

Broadhurst Theatre: The Front Page (2017) / Anastasia (2018) / Jagged Little Pill (2020) / A Beautiful Noise (2023)

Imperial Theatre: Les Miserables (2014) / Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (2017) / Carousel (2018) / Bad Cinderella (2023)

Broadway Theatre: Cinderella (2014) / Fiddler on the Roof (2016) / West Side Story (2020) / Here Lies Love (2023) 

Ethel Barrymore Theatre: The Bands Visit (2018) / The Inheritance Part 1 (2020) / The Inheritance Part 2 (2020) / Harmony (2023)

Al Hirschfeld Theatre: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2011) / Kinky Boots (2013) / Moulin Rouge (2020) 

Nederlander Theatre: Newsies (2014) / Honeymoon in Vegas (2015) / Pretty Woman (2019)  

St. James Theatre: Bullets Over Broadway (2014) / Something Rotten! (2016) / Frozen (2018)

Shubert Theatre: Hello Dolly (2018) / To Kill a Mockingbird (2019) / Some Like it Hot (2023)

Winter Garden Theatre: School of Rock (2016) / Beetlejuice (2020) / Back to the Future (2023)

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre: The Addams Family (2011) / Finding Neverland (2016) / Tina - The Tina Turner Musical (2020)

Lyceum Theatre: The Realistic Jones (2014) / A View From the Bridge (2016)

Marquis Theatre: Wonderland (2011) / Evita (2012) 

American Airlines Theatre: Violet (2014) / On the Twentieth Century (2016)

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre: Casa Valentina (2014) / Constellations (2015)

Palace Theatre: Annie (2013) / Sunset Boulevard (2017)

Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre: The Bridges of Madison County (2014) / Come From Away (2018)

August Wilson Theatre: Mean Girls (2019) / Funny Girl (2023)

Stephen Sondheim Theatre: Anything Goes (2012) / & Juliet (2023)

Cort Theatre / James Earl Jones Theatre: The Cripple of Inishmaan (2014) / Gutenberg! The Musical (2023)

Hudson Theatre: Toured the theatre (2019) / Merrily We Roll Along (2023)

Eugene O'Neill Theatre: The Book of Mormon (2012)

Minskoff Theatre: Easter Bonnet Competition (2014)

Majestic Theatre: The Phantom of the Opera (2016)

New Amsterdam Theatre: Aladdin (2014)

Walter Kerr Theatre: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (2016)

Hayes Theatre: Lobby Hero (2018)

Gershwin Theatre: Wicked (2020)

John Golden Theatre: The Shark is Broken (2023)

Ambassador Theatre: Chicago (2023)

Lyric Theatre: N/A

Vivian Beaumont Theatre: N/A

Shows seen multiple times: Hedwig & the Angry Inch (3), Cabaret (2), Hamilton (2) & Spring Awakening (2).

108 shows, 1 event & 1 tour

[noxus-roxus]

Hello heres my program/playbill collection (I put an * if it was gifted to me, and a ^ if its original cast, and ~ for original National Tour):

Newsies (Arena Stage)^

Playbill: In the Comfort of Your Home (Virtual Event during Covid)

Hadestown (The Kennedy Center) ~

Six (Brooks Atkinson Theatre) ^

Mean Girls (The Kennedy Center)

Hamilton (The Kennedy Center)

Dear Evan Hansen (The Kennedy Center) ~

Wicked (The Kennedy Center)

Ride the Cyclone (Arena Stage)^

King Lear (STC)^

Hadestown (Walter Keer Theatre)*

Wicked (Gershwin Theatre)*

Come From Away (Kennedy Center) ~

Come From Away (Phoenix Theatre)

Dear Evan Hansen (The Music Box)

Into the Woods (St. James Theatre-Revival)^*

Life of Pi (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre) ^*

[caroleditosti]

SIX the Musical, Theater Review

SIX the Musical, Theater Review

The Queens of SIX the Musical at the Brooks Atkinson (courtesy of the production) It took over 500 years for the six wives of Henry VIII to finally remix history and set the record straight nightly on Broadway in SIX the Musical at the Brooks Atkinson. What a phenomenal fun time to join these Ex-Wives in their exclusive club as they dish up the failed monarch, driven to upend the Catholic…

[everythngchanges]

Six Broadway in the New York Times!

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[dxntloseurhead]

can we all promise not to become Those types of stans when six goes to broadway pls

[tessalovesbway]

Six on Broadway?

I love the musical six, but am I the only one who is wondering how the show wilt turn out on Broadway? The Brooks Atkinson theatre is huge. It's harder to have interaction with the audience. Espesially Megasix won't be the same in a big theatre. Perhaps off-Broadway would have been a better decision, but who knows. Maybe they will find a way to keep interaction with the audience - something stage-wise perhaps. I guess I just have to wait and see.

[slowburningechoes]

Another picture of Robert Sean Leonard around the time of The Iceman Cometh (1999), in celebration of 26 years since its opening at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

[tudor-thorns]

waitress went so six could run

[aya-is-norse-mythological]

YOU GUYS

I just came back from New York and I need to share some pics with you.

I saw 3 shows : Waitress, Dear Evan Hansen & Hamilton.

YEAH, I KNOW RIGHT?! AGGAJADVELBEWKEGSKBEKGEJENSRKBD

Anywho have fun with these pics you can clearly see me dying in-

(P.S. that green jacket I wore in Waitress and Dear Evan Hansen has become my favorite item of clothing as it was blessed with the magic of Broadway)

[shakespearenews]

Helge Kökeritz, a Shakespearean scholar who once inspired the cast of a Yale Shakespeare production to pronounce the words as the Elizabethans might have, died at Falköping, Sweden, according to sources here. He was 61 years old...

In “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” which started Yale's eightday Shakespeare Festival in 1954, Professor Kökeritz coached the cast in Shakespearean diction, achieving the effect chiefly in vowel structure. Mercy was pronounced “marcy,” speak was “spake,” and desert “desart.” The “G” was dropped in words ending in“ing.” The aim, in part, was to produce the play as it had been written and to bring to the theater more of what one member of the production then called the forgotten dramatization of Shakespeare's works.

Of the production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” scenes of which were televised on “Omnibus” over the Columbia Broadcasting System, the critic Brooks Atkinson said: “This is an unusual event chiefly because the actors attempt to pronounce the words in the Elizabethan fashion. Yale's extensive Shakespeare incunabula include, among other sacred treasures, Professor Helge Kökeritz. [He] made a fascinating Columbia recording of excerpts from Shakespeare, read with what he believes to be the original word values.

More and image source. 

15 minutes of production footage are available at the LoC. 

[wearenotasfarwest]

All That’s Known, Spring Awakening -> Catherine Parr, Six the Musical