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The George Gershwin Theatre is a 500-seat proscenium theatre, one of four situated in the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts complex located on the campus of Brooklyn College at 2900 Campus Road in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Named after the prolific Brooklyn-born composer, it opened its doors in 1953.
The Gershwin Theatre is on the second floor of Paramount Plaza, also known as 1633 Broadway, north of Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. [1] Ralph Alswang designed the theater, which opened in 1972 as the Uris Theatre, [2] [3] while Emery Roth and Sons designed Paramount Plaza. [4]
Encores! is a Tony-honored concert series dedicated to reviving American musicals, usually with their original orchestrations. [1] Presented by New York City Center since 1994, Encores! has revived shows by Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim, among many others.
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The American Theater Hall of Fame was founded in 1972 in New York City. The first head of its executive committee was Earl Blackwell . In an announcement in 1972, he said that the new Theater Hall of Fame would be located in the Uris Theatre, which was then under construction, and is now the Gershwin Theatre .
In January 2014, Nederlander settled a suit with the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York City over violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Under the consent decree, Nederlander agreed to make alterations within three-years to nine of its theatres in New York to make them more accessible and pay a $45,000 penalty.
Jujamcyn Theaters LLC / dʒ uː ˈ dʒ æ m s ɪ n /, formerly the Jujamcyn Amusement Corporation, is a theatrical producing and theatre-ownership company in New York City. For many years Jujamcyn was owned by James H. Binger , former chairman of Honeywell , and his wife, Virginia McKnight Binger.
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