Beacon Theatre (New York City)
Beacon Theatre, advertising a concert with the Pretenders, 2003
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| Location | 2124 Broadway (at West 74th Street), New York City |
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| Owner | Beacon Broadway Company (operated by The Madison Square Garden Company) |
| Type | Indoor theater |
| Seating type | fixed |
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Beacon Theater and Hotel
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| Location | 2124 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City |
| Coordinates | 40°46′50″N 73°58′52″W / 40.78056°N 73.98111°WCoordinates: 40°46′50″N 73°58′52″W / 40.78056°N 73.98111°W |
| Built | 1929 |
| Architect | Walter W. Ahlschlager |
| NRHP Reference # | 82001187 |
| Added to NRHP | November 4, 1982 |
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| Built | 1929 |
| Opened | December 24, 1929 |
| Renovated | 2009 |
2,829
The Beacon Theatre is a historic theater at 2124 Broadway (at West 74th Street) on Broadway in Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City. The 2,894-seat, three-tiered theatre was designed by Chicago architect Walter W. Ahlschlager and opened in 1929 as a movie palace for motion pictures and vaudeville. Today it is one of New York's leading live music and entertainment venues, under the management of the Madison Square Garden Company. The theater was the site of the 2011, 2012, and 2016 Tony Awards.
The Beacon can be accessed via the New York City Subway from the 72nd Street Station (1 2 3 trains), located two blocks from the theater.
The Beacon Theatre was originally conceived by film producer Herbert Lubin in 1926 as part of a projected chain of deluxe New York City movie palaces. The planned Roxy Theatre Circuit was to be operated by Lubin and Samuel L. "Roxy" Rothafel with the famous Roxy Theatre as its flagship. Planned as the Roxy Midway Theatre, the future Beacon was designed by Walter W. Ahlschlager of Chicago, the architect of the 6000 seat Roxy, as a smaller mate to the larger Times Square theater. However, the collapse of Lubin's fortunes doomed the Roxy scheme and the Midway was never opened. The nearly completed theater sat vacant for a time and was eventually acquired by Warner Theatres to be a first-run showcase for Warner Bros. films on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The renamed Warner's Beacon Theatre opened on December 24, 1929. Designed as a silent film showplace, the theater's delayed opening featured a talking picture (Tiger Rose with Lupe Vélez), silent films having already become obsolete.
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