New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theater regarded as one of the most opulent theaters in the United States. It is located at 214 West 42nd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, within the Theatre District of Manhattan. When it opened in 1903, it was also the first theater with an Art Nouveau interior.
The New Amsterdam Theatre was owned by Florenz Ziegfeld, who produced the Follies revue there from 1914 to 1918. It had the first Broadway $5 ticket price. Ziegfeld remodelled the roof garden into another theater, called the Aerial Gardens. As with many of the theaters in the area, the New Amsterdam Theatre fell into hard times until the rehabilitation of the Times Square area in the 1990's, when business picked up again.
New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Amsterdam_Theatre_Mary_Poppins_2007_NYC.jpg Author: Andreas Praefcke
Today the New Amsterdam Theatre ranks alongside the Lyceum Theatre as the oldest surviving Broadway venue. The theater is presently presenting the musical Mary Poppins.
How to reach the New Amsterdam Theatre
The New Amsterdam Theatre is located at 214 West 42nd Street. Take the 1, 2 or 3 train to the Times Square / 42nd Street subway station. Walk west along West 42nd Street until you reach the New Amsterdam Theatre on your left.
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