The Mark Hellinger Theatre is a generally used name of a former legitimate Broadway theatre located at 237 West 51st Street in midtown Manhattan. The building is still standing and substantially unaltered; in 1991, it was converted into the Times Square Church. The theatre is most notable for the original production of My Fair Lady, which ran from 1956-1962.
Designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb, the theatre was built by Warner Bros. as a deluxe N...
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The Mark Hellinger Theatre is a generally used name of a former legitimate Broadway theatre located at 237 West 51st Street in midtown Manhattan. The building is still standing and substantially unaltered; in 1991, it was converted into the Times Square Church. The theatre is most notable for the original production of My Fair Lady, which ran from 1956-1962.
Designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb, the theatre was built by Warner Bros. as a deluxe New York City movie palace to showcase their then-revolutionary Vitaphone sound films. It opened as the Warner Bros. Hollywood Theatre on April 22, 1930, with the film Hold Everything.
Although built as a cinema, the stage was made large enough for live performances. The first of these was in 1934, Calling All Stars, a revue with Martha Raye. Live performances were not particularly successful during its first decade.
In 1940, Warner Brothers renamed it the 51st Street Theatre. In 1948, wealthy producer Anthony Brady Farrell purchased the house,...
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