Bijou Theatre (Manhattan, 1917)
| 209 West 45th Street | |
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 209 W. 45th St. | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Manhattan, New York City |
| Coordinates | 40°45′30.5″N 73°59′10.5″W / 40.758472°N 73.986250°W |
| Opened | 1917 |
| Demolished | 1982 |
The Bijou Theatre was a former Broadway theater in New York City that opened in 1917 and was demolished in 1982.
It was built by the
Leslie Howard, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Luigi Pirandello, Graham Greene, Eugene O'Neill, William Saroyan, and Seán O'Casey.[3]
The Oscar-winning British film The Red Shoes played the Bijou for 107 weeks, from October 21, 1948, to November 13, 1950.
Starting on November 16, 1950, as the Bijou, it hosted the film Cyrano de Bergerac, starring José Ferrer.[4]
In 1951, it became a CBS radio studio, then—as the D. W. Griffith Theatre—it presented art films, and was subsequently reduced in size due to the expansion of the adjacent Astor.[1] It was reinstated as the Bijou Theatre in 1965, and was home to arguably its largest hit—Mummenschanz[5]—but was demolished in 1982 to make room for the Marriott Marquis Hotel.
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bijou Theatre (Manhattan).
- ^ a b c "Bijou Theatre in New York, NY - Cinema Treasures". cinematreasures.org. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
- ^ The New York Times. April 13, 1917
- ISBN 978-1-4766-3714-3.
- ^ The New York Times. November 17, 1950
- ^ Neuner, Allen (September 2, 2021). "Tales of Broadway: One theatre for the price of five". Out In Jersey. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
