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The Booth Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 222 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan, New York City. Architect Henry B. Herts designed the Booth and its companion Shubert Theatre as a back-to-back pair sharing a Venetian Renaissance-style façade. Named in honor of famed 19th-century American actor Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth, the theater's 783-seat auditorium was intended to provide an intimate setting for dramatic and comedy plays. It opened on October 16, 1913, with Arnold Bennett's play ''The Great Adventure''. The venue was the second New York City theatre to bear this name. The first, Booth's Theatre, was originally owned by Edwin Booth, and built by the architectural partnership Renwick & Sands between 1867-69 on the corner of 23rd Street and 6th Avenue (see picture, below). The Booth Theatre appeared in ''The West Wing'' episode ''Posse Comitatus''. It hosted a fictitious charity performance of ''War of the Roses'' which an equally fictitious President Bartlet attended during the assassination of the Qumari Defence Minister Abdul ibn Shareef. The box-office record was broken in 2013 by Bette Midler in ''I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers'' with a gross of $753,217 in just seven performances. Midler then broke her own record the week following with a gross of $865,144 A new record was set when "The Elephant Man" revival, starring Bradley Cooper, grossed $1,058,547 for an 8-performance week ending 12/28/14. ==Notable productions== *1936: ''You Can't Take It With You'' *1946: ''Swan Song'' *1969: ''Butterflies Are Free'' *1972: ''That Championship Season'' *1976: ''for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf'' *1979: ''The Elephant Man'' *1990: ''Once on This Island'' *1992: ''The Most Happy Fella'' *2000: ''The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe'' *2002: ''I'm Not Rappaport'' *2009: ''Next to Normal'' *2011: ''Other Desert Cities'' *2013: ''I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers''; ''The Glass Menagerie'' *2014: ''The Elephant Man'' *2015: ''Hand to God'' *2016: ''Hughie'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Booth Theatre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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