Snapple Theater Center - New York City, NY
N 40° 45.667 W 073° 58.997
18T E 585816 N 4512736
Quick Description: You can't go by the Snapple Theater Center on Broadway in New York City without noticing it as it has a huge bottle of lemon-flavored Snapple on its front!
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 6/24/2009 3:59:00 PM
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Long Description:"The Snapple Theatre Center is a two-theatre Off Broadway complex
at the corner of 50th Street and Broadway in the Times Square
neighborhood.
History
The complex opened on May 22, 2006 in a space formerly occupied
by a vocational school that is now above a Duane Reade drugstore
and is sponsored by the beverage company Snapple. Its space is
20,000-square-foot (1,900-square meter) space entertainment
center.
Its two theatres consist of the Jerry Orbach Theatre (named for
actor Jerry Orbach) and unnamed space.
The two theatres have a total of 398 seats. It is "inside the
box" where off-Broadway theatres were earlier prohibited because
earlier rules required that only Broadway shows were permitted in
the Times Square neighborhood.
The Jerry Orbach Theatre name evolved after a poster of him as
the originating role of El Gallo in The Fantasticks was on display
in the lobby during a revival of the play and this prompted the
owners to name the whole theatre for him.
The unnamed theatre is home to the play Perfect Crime by Walter
Manzi that has been playing in various off Broadway venues since
1987. Before coming to the Snapple it played at the Duffy Theatre
at 46th and Broadway above a Howard Johnsons restaurant that was
torn down."
Source:
Wikipedia