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The Lucille Lortel Theatre is an off-Broadway playhouse located at 121 Christopher Street in Manhattan's West Village. It was built in 1926 as a 590-seat movie theater called the New Hudson, later known as Hudson Playhouse. The interior is largely unchanged to this day. In the early 1950s, the site was converted to an off-Broadway theater as Theater de Lys, opening on June 9, 1953 with a production of ''Maya'', a play by Simon Gantillon starring Kay Medford, Vivian Matalon, and Susan Strasberg. It closed after seven performances. The phenomenon was "The Threepenny Opera," which opened March 10, 1954, with a cast that included Bea Arthur, John Astin, Lotte Leyna, Leon Lishner, Scott Merrill, Gerald Price, Charlotte Rae and Jo Sullivan. Because of an incoming booking, it was forced to close after 96 performances. Re-opening Sept. 20, 1955, with largely the same cast, "The Threepenny Opera" this time played until Dec. 17, 1961, a then record-setting run for a musical in New York City.〔(''Maya'' at the Lortel Archives )〕 In 1955, financier Louis Schweitzer acquired the building as an anniversary present for his wife, actress-producer Lucille Lortel. In 1981, the year of her 81st birthday, the theatre was renamed in her honor. After Lortel's death, the theatre was left to the Lucille Lortel Foundation.〔("Preserving a Theater Legacy in Westport" )〕 ==Notable productions== *1953:''School for Scandal'' *1953:''The Scarecrow'' *1953:''The Little Clay Cart'' *1954: ''The Threepenny Opera'' *1956: ''Cry the Beloved Country'' *1964: ''As You Like It'' *1967: ''The Viewing'' by Lyle Kessler *1968: ''House of Flowers''; ''Private Lives'' *1969: ''Dames at Sea'' *1971: ''Black Girl'' *1973: ''Moonchildren'' *1976: ''Eden'' *1981: ''Cloud 9''; ''A Soldier's Play'' *1984: '''night, Mother'' *1987: ''Steel Magnolias'' *1990: ''Falsettoland'' *1992: ''Lips Together, Teeth Apart''; ''The Destiny of Me'' *1996: ''The Boys in the Band'' *1997: ''As Bees in Honey Drown'' *2004: ''Fat Pig'' *2007: ''In a Dark Dark House'' *2007: ''Seussical'' *2008: ''reasons to be pretty'' *2009: ''Coraline'' *2012: ''Carrie'' 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「Lucille Lortel Theatre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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