Adelphi Theatre (New York City)

The Adelphi Theatre is a former theater with over 1400 seats on Broadway (152 West 54th Street).

Under the name Craig Theatre, the building was opened in 1928. Only in the period 1934-1940 and 1944-1958, it was called the Adelphi Theatre. In 1958 it was renamed 54th Street Theatre, 1965 in George Abbott Theatre and demolished in 1970 to make the building complex of the Hilton Hotels space.

In 1934 the building was taken over by the Federal Theatre Project, a national program for employment of unemployed actors during the Great Depression. In 1940 it was acquired by the Royal Fraternity of Master spiritualist organization metaphysicians, it served to the arrest of its leader, James Bernard Schafer 1942. 1943, a season long as Yiddish theater, the Shubert Organization in 1944 until it took over. In the 1950s, it used the television company DuMont Television Network as a studio where the sketch series The Honeymooners was filmed. 1957 she was again converted into a theater, but sold after a series of failures such as Jule Stynes ​​musical Darling of the Day (1968 ) to the Hilton group that built New York's largest hotel in this area.

The theater became famous under this name mainly due to the following successful musical productions: Leonard Bernstein's On the Town (1944 ), Kurt Weill's Street Scene (1947 ), Richard Adler and Jerry Ross' Damn Yankees (1955), the Elvis Presley Parody Bye Bye Birdie by Charles Strouse (1960 ) or the late work No Strings (1962 ) by Richard Rodgers. Martha Graham was also seen here with her ​​ballet troupe.