The Neil Simon Theatre is a Broadway venue built in 1927 and located at 250 West 52nd Street in midtown-Manhattan. As of 2009, the record for its longest running show is held by the musical Hairspray, which opened August 15, 2002 and ran for 2,642 performances before closing on January 4, 2009. A revival production of Ragtime will begin on October 23, 2009.
Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, the developer, real estate mogul Alexander Pincus ...
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The Neil Simon Theatre is a Broadway venue built in 1927 and located at 250 West 52nd Street in midtown-Manhattan. As of 2009, the record for its longest running show is held by the musical Hairspray, which opened August 15, 2002 and ran for 2,642 performances before closing on January 4, 2009. A revival production of Ragtime will begin on October 23, 2009.
Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, the developer, real estate mogul Alexander Pincus originally named it the Alvin Theatre as an amalgam of the names of producers ALex Aarons and VINton Freedley. With its address originally listed as 244-54 West 42nd Street, it opened on November 22, 1927 with George and Ira Gershwin's Funny Face starring Fred and Adele Astaire. In 1930, the legendary Ethel Merman made her Broadway debut in Girl Crazy; in 1934, she appeared again in Cole Porter's Anything Goes and again in 1936 in Porter's Red, Hot and Blue. In 1935, the Gershwins' classic American folk opera Porgy and Bess had its world...
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