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The Ed Sullivan Theater, located at 1697–1699 Broadway between West 53rd and West 54th, in the Theater District in Manhattan,〔White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot; ''AIA Guide to New York City'', 4th Edition; New York Chapter, American Institute of Architects; Crown Publishers/Random House. 2000. ISBN 0-8129-3106-8; ISBN 0-8129-3107-6. p.266.〕 is a venerable radio and television studio in New York City. The theater has been used as a venue for live and taped CBS broadcasts since 1936.〔(The History of the Ed Sullivan Theater ) at EdSullivan.com〕 It is historically known as the home of ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' and the site of The Beatles' US debut performance. It has also housed David Letterman's tenure of CBS' ''Late Show'' from 1993 to 2015. The theatre currently houses ''The Late Show with Stephen Colbert'', the second incarnation of the ''Late Show'' franchise. It is on the National Register of Historic Places, and the interior has been designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. ==First 66 years== The 13-story, brown brick and terra cotta office building〔Gray, Christopher. ("Streetscapes | Ed Sullivan Theater: If the Soundproofed Walls Could Talk" ), ''The New York Times'', December 23, 2009〕 with a ground-floor theater was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp.〔 It was built by Arthur Hammerstein between 1925 and 1927,〔 and was named Hammerstein's Theatre after his father, Oscar Hammerstein I. The original neo-Gothic interior contained pointed-arch stained-glass windows with scenes from the elder Hammerstein's operas. Its first production was the three-hour musical ''Golden Dawn'', the second male lead of which was Cary Grant, then still using his birth name, Archie Leach.〔 Arthur Hammerstein went bankrupt in 1931, and lost ownership of the building.〔 It later went by the name Manhattan Theatre, Billy Rose's Music Hall, and the Manhattan once again.〔http://www.ibdb.com/venue.php?id=1182〕 In the 1930s, it became a nightclub.〔 After CBS obtained a long-term lease on the property, the radio network began broadcasting from there in 1936, moving in broadcast facilities it had leased at NBC Studios in Radio City.〔 Architect William Lescaze renovated the interior, keeping nearly all of the Krapp design but covering many walls with smooth white panels, his work earning praise from the magazine ''Architectural Forum''.〔 The debut broadcast was the ''Major Bowes Amateur Hour''.〔 The theater had various names during the network's tenancy, including Radio Theater #3 and the CBS Radio Playhouse.〔 It was converted for television in 1950, when it became CBS-TV Studio 50.〔 In the early and mid-Fifties, the theater played host to many of the live telecasts of ''The Jackie Gleason Show.'' Newspaper columnist and impresario Ed Sullivan, who had started hosting his variety show ''Toast of the Town'', soon renamed ''The Ed Sullivan Show'', from the Maxine Elliott Theatre (CBS Studio 51) on West 39th Street in 1948, moved to Studio 50 a few years later. The theater was officially renamed for Sullivan at the end of his "20th Anniversary Celebration" telecast on December 10, 1967. In the 1960s, Studio 50 was one of CBS' busiest stages, not only for Sullivan's program but also for ''The Merv Griffin Show'',〔McFadden, Robert D. ("A Building With a History, From Bootleggers to Beatles" ) ''The New York Times'', February 22, 1993]〕 as well as several game shows. In 1965, Studio 50 was converted to color, and the first color episode of ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' originated from the theater on October 31, 1965. (The program originated from CBS Television City in color for the previous six weeks while the color equipment was installed. One earlier color episode of the program originated from Studio 72 at Broadway and 81st on August 22, 1954.〔(TV.com listing for September 19, 1965 episode of the Ed Sullivan Show. )〕) ''What's My Line?,'' ''To Tell the Truth'' and ''Password'' also called the studio home after CBS began broadcasting regularly in color; previously, they had been taped around the corner at CBS-TV Studio 52, which later became the disco Studio 54. The first episode of regular color telecasts of ''What's My Line?'' was broadcast live on September 11, 1966. ''Line'' and ''Truth'' remained at Studio 50 even after they moved from CBS to first-run syndication in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Ed Sullivan Theater was also the first home for ''The $10,000 Pyramid,'' with its huge end-game board set at the rear of the stage, in 1973. Other short-lived game shows produced at the Ed included ''Musical Chairs'' with singer Adam Wade (1975), ''Shoot For The Stars'' with Geoff Edwards (1977) (which was an NBC show), and ''Pass the Buck'' with Bill Cullen (1978). The CBS lease on the building expired in 1981〔 and it became a Reeves Entertainment teletape facility. As such it hosted the sitcom ''Kate & Allie'', which ran from 1984 to 1989 (as it happened, on CBS), as well as the early Nickelodeon talk show ''Livewire''.〔Greene, Alexis. ("What Cable Offers Children" ), ''The New York Times'', April 25, 1982〕 In 1990, David Niles/1125 Productions signed onto the lease, with the theater to house his HDTV studio and new Broadway show ''Dreamtime''. On October 17, 1992, an NBC special celebrating Phil Donahue's 25 years on television taped in the theater. The following month, NBC News used the theater for its November 1992 election night coverage. 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「Ed Sullivan Theater」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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