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Theatre de Lys

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Off Broadway Closed 1954–1954 on this page1 productions

The Lucille Lortel Theatre is an off-Broadway playhouse at 121 Christopher Street in Manhattan's West Village. It was built in 1926 as a 590-seat movie theater called the New Hudson, later known as Hudson Playhouse. The interior design is largely unchanged, though as of 2024 it had 295 seats. In the early 1950s, the site was converted to an off-Broadway theater as Theatre de Lys, opening on June 9, 1953, with a production of Maya, a play by Simon Gantillon starring Kay Medford, Vivian Matalon, and Susan Strasberg. It closed after seven performances. Much more successful was The Threepenny Opera which opened March 10, 1954, with a cast that included Bea Arthur, John Astin, Lotte Lenya, Leon L…

Lucille Lortel Theatre (former)

Names this building has traded under. A production filed against one of them is filed against this record.

Longest runs hereby performances

1954 The Threepenny Opera March 10, 1954 · Carmen Capalbo 95 perf.

Everything that played here1 productions

1954 The Threepenny Opera March 10, 1954 · Original 95 perf.

In the literature8 passages

  • 29. Jacqueline Kennedy with Leonard and Felicia Bernstein and their children Alexander and Jamie at the Theatre De Lys, New York, 28 June 1965. Photo: Bettmann/Corbis.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • 29 Jacqueline Kennedy with Leonard and Felicia Bernstein and their children Alexander and Jamie at the Theatre De Lys, New York, on 28 June 1965. The occasion was the opening night of Leonard Bernstein's Theatre Songs , a revue featuring songs from shows for which Bernstein composed the music.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • A disappointing Off-Broadway revival opened at the Theatre de Lys on January 28, 1968, for fifty-seven performances with Josephine Premice now in the role of Madame Fleur; it included five new songs (“Somethin’ Cold to Drink,” “Jump de Broom,” “Walk to de Grave,” “Woman Never Understan’,” and “Madame Tango’s Particular Tango”). The small-…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • A gentle musical is something of a rarity, and, yet, gentleness is the pervading quality of Whispers on the Wind, which opened last night at the Theatre de Lys.ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
  • New York run: Theatre de Lys, March 10, 1954; 95 p. Reopened: September 20, 1955; 2,611 p.ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.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.
  • How many seats.
  • Who built it.
  • Any photograph of the building. 83 of 135 venues have one.

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