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About New Victory. New Victory opens new worlds to young people and families through extraordinary performances and education and engagement programs. New Victory brings kids to the arts and the arts to kids in and beyond New York City.
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The New Victory Theater is a theater at 209 West 42nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, near Times Square. Built in 1900 as the Republic Theatre (also Theatre Republic), it was designed by Albert Westover and developed by Oscar Hammerstein I as a Broadway theater.
New Victory opens new worlds to kids and families through extraordinary performances, education and engagement programs. What's New at New 42. The New Victory dome restoration is completed!
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- The Belasco
- Minsky’s Republic
- 42nd Street’s Decline
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Built in 1900 by Oscar Hammerstein, the grandfather of the famous lyricist, the theater was called the Theatre Republic. On the exterior was a Venetian façade with a grand staircase on the front sidewalk, leading to the first of two balconies and illuminated by ornamental lamps. On the rooftop, theatergoers would gather at The Paradise Roof Gardens...
In 1902, the larger-than-life impresario David Belasco took over the theater and gave it his name. Competing with the popular Ziegfield Follies across the street, Belasco made his theater technologically advanced to allow for more elaborate productions. He installed an orchestra pit, a new lighting system and a modern stage with trap doors through ...
In the early 1900s, the New York kings of burlesque were the four Minsky brothers. Billy Minsky, hoping to make burlesque classier, proposed bringing their shows to Broadway and leased The Republic in the 1930s, transforming it into Broadway’s first burlesque club and the Minsky flagship stage. Renamed Minsky’s Republic, Billy gave the entire struc...
When Mayor LaGuardia banned burlesque, Minsky’s as people knew it was no more. In a burst of WWII patriotism, the theater was renamed, yet again, as The Victory when it became a movie theater. Over the next 30 years, the Times Square neighborhood gradually declined into abject decay. In 1972, once an architectural marvel and elegant Broadway destin...
“The New Victory is an exquisite jewel on a street of gems” – The New York Times The New 42nd Street, now called New 42, determined that under its aegis, it could give New York something the city did not yet have: New York’s first theater for kids. The New Victory Theater opened on December 11, 1995. From the sidewalk, New Victory resembles the des...
Powered by New 42, whose mission is to make extraordinary performing arts a vital part of everyone’s life from the earliest years onward, New Victory connects its audiences to new...
New Victory, New York, New York. 32,886 likes · 55 talking about this. America’s #1 theater for young people and families, located in NYC’s Times Square.
About. The New Victory Theater is New York City’s first and only full-time performing arts theater for kids and their families and classmates. The New Victory Theater seeks out sophisticated, thought-provoking professional productions from both around the globe and close to home.
