Music Box Theatre

The Music Box Theatre is a Broadway theater in Manhattan (239 West 45th Street). Today it has 1009 seats. However, it was always one of the smaller official Broadway houses. Since 2007 it belongs to the Shubert Organization, which had a part of the capital since 1940.

In the 1910s and 1920s still prevailed the revues on Broadway. The theater was built for The Music Box Revue, which was designed by the theater producer Sam H. Harris and the composer Irving Berlin, and opened in 1921. It led not only to musical productions coming back to spectacles. Humphrey Bogart was in 1925 to see on this stage. The play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins, has been processed to the musical later, here had its premiere in 1926. 1931 George Gershwin's musical satire Of Thee I Sing was lifted out of the baptism, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Even Cole Porter's music was heard occasionally. The team of authors George Simon Kaufman and Moss Hart celebrated great successes in the 1930s here. Among the major dramas that had their premiere here, for example, is John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1937 ) mentioned.

The burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee came on in 1942, Marlon Brando was in 1944 at this stage of his Broadway debut. Around the middle of the 20th century, when the American stage drama reached a climax, plays were performed by Harold Pinter and Arthur Laurents. The innovative musical theater composer Stephen Sondheim was able to bring several of his productions on the stage here. Stars like Amanda Plummer were seen.

1999, a revival of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus was shown in 2003 ran Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams.