Greenwich Village Theatre
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| Address | 220 W. 4th Street Manhattan, New York United States |
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| Capacity | 450 |
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| Opened | November 15, 1917 |
| Demolished | 1930 |
| Architect | Herman Lee Meader |
Greenwich Village Theatre (GVT) was an arts venue in Greenwich Village, New York which opened in 1917 and closed for the last time in 1930. Herman Lee Meader was the architect and it was located in Sheridan Square at 4th Street and Seventh Avenue. It was an intimate theatre that seated 450, and is no longer extant.[1][2] It was originally built for Frank Conroy's Greenwich Village Players.
The Greenwich Village Follies of 1919 premiered at the GVT on July 15, 1919. It became "the first Off-Broadway musical to gain wide recognition in New York".[3] The theatre was also the venue for the first series of performances organised by the International Composers' Guild between 19 February and 23 April 1922. The ICG moved on to the Klaw Theatre for their second season.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Mackay, Constance d'Arcy. The Little Theatre in the United States New York: Henry Holt, 1917. pp. 73–75.
- ^ Stern, Robert A. M.; Gilmartin, Patrick; Mellins, Thomas (1987). New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars. New York: Rizzoli. p. 781. ISBN 978-0-8478-3096-1. OCLC 13860977.
- ^ Hischak, Thomas S. (2011). Off-Broadway Musicals Since 1919: From Greenwich Village Follies to The Toxic Avenger. Scarecrow Press. p. 4-5. ISBN 9780810877726.
- ^ Lott, R. Allen (1983). ""New Music for New Ears": The International Composers' Guild". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 36 (2): 266–286. doi:10.2307/831066. ISSN 0003-0139. JSTOR 831066.
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