Orpheum Theatre (Manhattan)

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Orpheum Theatre
The Orpheum Theatre, home of the New York production of Stomp, which opened in 1994
Address	126 Second Avenue
City	New York City, New York
Country	United States
Coordinates	40°43′42″N 73°59′16″W / 40.728302°N 73.987684°W / 40.728302; -73.987684Coordinates: 40°43′42″N 73°59′16″W / 40.728302°N 73.987684°W / 40.728302; -73.987684
Owned by	Liberty Theatres
Capacity	347
Opened	1904
Other names	Players Theatre Orpheum Concert Garden New Orpheum
Production	Stomp
Website
www.theroyalgeorgetheatre.com

The Orpheum Theatre is a 299-seat Off-Broadway theatre on Second Avenue near the corner of St. Marks Place in the East Village neighborhood of lower Manhattan, New York City. It is the home of the New York production of Stomp since it opened in 1994 with over 5,000 performances of the show have taken place there.

There may have been a concert garden on the site as early as the 1880s, but there was a theatre there by 1904.^[1] During the heyday of Yiddish theatre in the Yiddish Theater District in Manhattan, the venue was the Player's Theatre, and was part of the "Jewish Rialto" along Second Avenue.^[2] By the 1920s, the theatre was exhibiting films, but was converted back to dramatic use in 1958,^[1] with the first production, Little Mary Sunshine, opening in November 1959.^[3]

Significant productions include the revival and revamping of Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes in 1962, Your Own Thing in 1968, The Me Nobody Knows in 1970, The Cocktail Party in 1980, Key Exchange in 1981, Broken Toys! in 1981, Little Shop of Horrors in 1982, Sandra Bernhard's Without You I'm Nothing in 1988, The Lady in Question in 1989, Eric Bogosian's Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll in 1990, John Leguizamo's Mambo Mouth in 1991, and David Mamet's Oleanna in 1992.^[3]

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↑ 1.0 1.1 Damien Farley url=http://cinematreasures.org/theater/13829/. "Orpheum Theatre". Cinema Treasures. Missing or empty |url= (help); |accessdate= requires |url= (help)
↑ "Second Avenue". New York Songlines. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
↑ 3.0 3.1 "Orpheum Theatre". The Internet Off-Broadway Database. 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.

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"Orpheum Theatre" at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

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Orpheum Theatre (Manhattan)

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