Booth Theater overhaul
Booth Theater overhaul
#1Booth Theater overhaul
Posted: 4/30/11 at 10:47am
Did a quick search, couldn't find anyone posting about this yet. I walked by the Booth theater yesterday to find them ripping out the seats and throwing them in a trash compactor..
Looks like the theater is getting a renovation. Probably be a good thing - I know lots of people found those seats uncomfortable..
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#2Booth Theater overhaul
Posted: 4/30/11 at 11:06amWow! This is surprising to me. I found the Booth to be one of the most comfortable theatres on Broadway...
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madlibrarian
Broadway Star Joined: 8/15/06
#2Booth Theater overhaul
Posted: 4/30/11 at 12:38pm
Wow. They are probably installing new narrower seats in tighter rows to increase seating capacity. Sightlines and comfort being unimportant, of course.
On a side note, if the Booth is under renovation, we lack one theater appropriate to Peter and the Starcatchers or You Can't Take It With You or a re-opening of Scottsboro Boys or ....
#3Booth Theater overhaul
Posted: 4/30/11 at 12:59pm
I love the layout of the Booth. I love the center aisle. I imagine they will take that out 
As for the seats though, they did feel like sitting on cement slabs.
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#4Booth Theater overhaul
Posted: 4/30/11 at 1:32pmThe Broadhurst needs to do this next in the next month or so as well to give more than 2 1/2 inches of leg room.
#5Booth Theater overhaul
Posted: 4/30/11 at 1:53pm
The seats are roomy but not the most comfortable. I'm sure the new seats will be so tiny Susan Lucci would find it a tight squeeze.
The seating the Broadhurst is an embarrassment.
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Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#6Booth Theater overhaul
Posted: 4/30/11 at 1:56pmI hope the Booth is getting a full face lift, like the Shubert, Music Box, Winter Garden, Longacre and Belasco Theaters have received. The Booth appears to be one of the victims of the mushroom soup beige and baby diaper brown color scheme pogroms that the Shuberts inflicted on many of their theatres in the 60s and 70s.
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madlibrarian
Broadway Star Joined: 8/15/06
#7Booth Theater overhaul
Posted: 4/30/11 at 2:51pmCome to think of it: isn't it odd to have scheduled and begun an overhaul less than a week after High bombed?
#8Booth Theater overhaul
Posted: 4/30/11 at 8:24pmI assume the Shubert Organization was already planning on renovating the theatre, and they were going to carry it out once the current tenant closed.
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