Broadway's First Green Theater
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/theater/04Green.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
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"Henry Miller’s Theater, the first newly built Broadway house in more than 20 years — and the first so-called green theater on the Great White Way — has completed major construction and is set to open in September with Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of the musical “Bye Bye Birdie.”
The 1,055-seat theater, on 43rd Street between Avenue of the Americas and Broadway, was built on the site of a theater planned by the actor Henry Miller, which opened in 1918. Over the decades, the original theater fell into disrepair and was used as a movie house and a disco before Roundabout produced the musical “Cabaret” there in 1998, followed by a run of “Urinetown.”
“The first time I came inside the old theater, it was a porno palace,” said Douglas Durst, president of the Durst Organization, which with Bank of America rebuilt the theater alongside the bank’s new 55-story tower at One Bryant Park.
Recycled materials were used in the wall panels and baseboard; waterless urinals are used in the men’s washroom to reduce consumption of potable water; and local materials were used in the marble flooring and countertops, among other touches."
The 1,055-seat theater, on 43rd Street between Avenue of the Americas and Broadway, was built on the site of a theater planned by the actor Henry Miller, which opened in 1918. Over the decades, the original theater fell into disrepair and was used as a movie house and a disco before Roundabout produced the musical “Cabaret” there in 1998, followed by a run of “Urinetown.”
“The first time I came inside the old theater, it was a porno palace,” said Douglas Durst, president of the Durst Organization, which with Bank of America rebuilt the theater alongside the bank’s new 55-story tower at One Bryant Park.
Recycled materials were used in the wall panels and baseboard; waterless urinals are used in the men’s washroom to reduce consumption of potable water; and local materials were used in the marble flooring and countertops, among other touches."
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- Green, Art and Style, Culture, construction
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