The Hippodrome Theatre, also called the New York Hippodrome, was a theater located on Sixth Avenue between West 43rd and West 44th Streets in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The theater operated from 1905 to 1939 and was called the world's largest theater by its builders, with a seating capacity of 5,300 and a stage measuring 100 by 200 feet (30 m × 61 m). It had state-of-the-art theatrical technology, including a tank built into the stage apron that could be filled with water for aquatic performances. The Hippodrome was built by Frederic Thompson and Elmer "Skip" Dundy, creators of the Luna Park amusement park on Coney Island, with the backing of Harry S. Black's…
New York Hippodrome
Names this building has traded under. A production filed against one
of them is filed against this record.
By decade2 productions across 2 decades
1910s1
1930s1
Counted from the productions we hold, which are Broadway and a
partial West End. A quiet decade here can mean a dark theatre and can mean a gap
in the record.
Another time, Clare and I snuck away from the Hippodrome in Birmingham, between my panto performances, to have a quiet meal at a local restaurant. We managed to remain relatively incognito through most of the meal – until the music channel broadcasting on the row of wall-mounted flat-screen TVs began showing ‘What About Us?’ I might as we…ebooks/Barrowman, Carole E_/I Am What I Am - Carole E. Barrowman.txt
Oh yes, I did see my life flash before me during an evening performance of Robin Hood at the Birmingham Hippodrome in 2008, and all I kept repeating to myself was, ‘Please don’t let me die in tights.’ebooks/Barrowman, Carole E_/I Am What I Am - Carole E. Barrowman.txt
T imes Square is a monument to impermanence. Near what would eventually be the site of the Hilton Theatre on Forty-third Street, a juvenile mastodon draped in reddish-brown hair was stalked and then attacked by a saber-toothed cat in the black spruce swamps that covered Midtown. Lifeblood gushing from its punctured neck, the six-ton shagg…ebooks/Berger, Glen/Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger.txt
And seventy years after the Hippodrome was knocked down, and nineteen thousand years after a block of glacial ice one thousand feet high covered all of Times Square, renovation plans were getting drawn up for a Theater District Shake Shack while, simultaneously, renovations at the Hilton Theatre had ground to a spectacular halt.ebooks/Berger, Glen/Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger.txt
In April 1945, just before peace was declared in Europe, Novello launched his next show at the Hippodrome. Drury Lane was still occupied by ENSA and the association of Novello with that theatre was broken in practice if not in the mind of the public. Perchance to Dream followed an affair through reincarnations of the lovers over three era…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
What this page does not know
What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here
outside it — concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed
production.
