Longacre Theatre
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The Longacre Theatre is a Broadway theatre. It is located at 220 West 48th Street.
This theatre has for many years been perceived as "cursed" with bad luck, ever since the founder of the theatre, Harry H. Frazee, then also the owner of the Red Sox, sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees. People in the theatre business are often a superstitious bunch, so producers won't bring plays there for fear that the show will flop - this suspicion has dated back at least to the 1960s, when William Goldman wrote his seminal book The Season, in which he at one point identifies the Longacre as a classic "bad" house that producers don't want to book. A glance at its entry on www.ibdb.com demonstrates that the theatre hasn't housed a long-running "hit" play in some time.
[edit] External links
- Longacre Theater Information
- Broadway Theatre Guide
- Seating chart
- Longacre Theatre at the Internet Broadway Database
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