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The Ziegfeld Theatre was a single-screen movie theater located at 141 West 54th Street in midtown Manhattan in New York City. It opened in 1969 and closed in 2016. The theater was named in honor of the original Ziegfeld Theatre (1927–1966), which was built by the impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
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The Ziegfeld Theatre was a single-screen movie theater located at 141 West 54th Street in midtown Manhattan in New York City. It opened in 1969 and closed in 2016. The theater was named in honor of the original Ziegfeld Theatre (1927–1966), which was built by the impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
February 2, 1927. ( 1927-02-02) Demolished. 1966. Architect. Joseph Urban and. Thomas W. Lamb. The Ziegfeld Theatre was a Broadway theatre located at 1341 Sixth Avenue, corner of 54th Street in Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1927 and despite public protests, it was razed in 1966.
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Ziegfeld Theatre could refer to: Ziegfeld Theatre (1927), a legitimate Broadway theater built on Sixth Ave. in New York City in 1927. Ziegfeld Theatre (1969), a single screen movie theater built on West 54th St. in New York City in 1969.
Built just a few hundred feet from the site of original Ziegfeld Theatre (demolished in 1966), this ‘new’ Ziegfeld Theatre opened December 17, 1969 with a gala premiere of “Marooned” starring Gregory Peck. The movie house was one of the last big palaces built in the United States.
Jan 31, 2016 · Walter Reade, Jr. opened the current Ziegfeld Theater in 1969, adding it to his empire of locations, mostly in New York State and New Jersey. Joe approached the ladies and introduced himself, and spoke to them extensively about the theater, and THSA. Dolly Reade is the wife of the deceased Walter Reade, Jr ., and Ronnie Reade is his daughter.
5 days ago · Ziegfeld’s renown is one of the reasons why both the 1966 demolition of the original theater, despite years of financial struggles and flip-flopping between movie theater and Broadway...