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 The Orpheum Theatre, home of the New York production ofStomp, which ran from 1994 to 2023 | |
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| Address | 126 Second Avenue New York City,New York United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°43′42″N73°59′16″W / 40.728302°N 73.987684°W /40.728302; -73.987684 |
| Owner | Liberty Theatres |
| Capacity | 347 |
| Opened | 1904 |
TheOrpheum Theatre, formerlyPlayer's Theatre, is a 299-seatoff-Broadway theatre onSecond Avenue near the corner ofSt. Marks Place in theEast Village neighborhood oflower Manhattan,New York City. The theatre is owned by Liberty Theatres, a subsidiary ofReading International, which also ownsMinetta Lane Theatre.[1]
There may have been a concert garden on the site as early as the 1880s, but there was a theatre there by 1904.[2] During the heyday ofYiddish theatre in theYiddish Theater District in Manhattan, the venue was the Player's Theatre, and was part of the "Jewish Rialto" along Second Avenue.[3] By the 1920s, the theatre was exhibiting films, but was converted back to dramatic use in 1958,[2] with the first production,Little Mary Sunshine, opening in November 1959.[4]
Significant productions include the revival and revamping ofCole Porter's musicalAnything Goes in 1962,Your Own Thing in 1968,The Me Nobody Knows in 1970,The Cocktail Party in 1980,Key Exchange in 1981,Broken Toys! in 1981,Little Shop of Horrors in 1982,Sandra Bernhard'sWithout You I'm Nothing in 1988,The Lady in Question in 1989,Eric Bogosian'sSex, Drugs, Rock & Roll in 1990,John Leguizamo'sMambo Mouth in 1991, andDavid Mamet'sOleanna in 1992.[4] From 1994 to 2023 it was the home of the New York production ofStomp, with over 11,000 performances of the show having taken place there.[5]