The Ed Sullivan Theater is a theater located at 1697-1699 Broadway, between West 53rd and West 54th, in the Theater District in Manhattan, New York City. The theater has been used as a venue for live broadcasts and recorded by CBS since 1936.
Historically known as The Ed Sullivan Show and the US Beatles' debut album appearance and before the rise of Elvis Presley. It is also home to David Letterman of the CBS ' Late Show from 1993 to 2015. The theater is now home to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the second incarnation of End Show franchise. This place is on the National Register of Historic Places, and its interior has been designated a landmark by the New York City Land Preservation Commission.
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13-storey office building, brown brick and terra cotta with ground floor theater designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp. Built by Arthur Hammerstein between 1925 and 1927, and was named Hammerstein's Theater after his father, Oscar Hammerstein I. The original neo-Gothic interior contains a curved stained glass window with scenes from the Hammerstein Opera elder. His first production was a three-hour musical Golden Dawn , the second male lead was Cary Grant, then still using his birth name, Archie Leach. Arthur Hammerstein went bankrupt in 1931, and lost ownership of the building.
Then go by the name of Manhattan Theater , Billy Rose Music Building , and Manhattan once again. In the 1930s, it became a nightclub. After CBS acquired a long-term lease on the property, the radio network began airing from there in 1936, moving on a leased broadcast facility at NBC Studios in Radio City. Architects William Lescaze renovated the interior, guarded almost all Krapp designs but covered many walls with a fine white panel, his work gaining praise from the Architecture Forum magazine. The debut debut is Major Bowes Amateur Hour . Theaters have various names during the network lease period, including Radio Theater # 3 and CBS Radio Playhouse . It was converted to television in 1950, when it became CBS-TV Studio 50 . In the early and mid Fifties, the theater hosted many live broadcasts of The Jackie Gleason Show.
The newspaper columnist and impresario Ed Sullivan, who had begun hosting his variety show Toast of the Town, was soon renamed The Ed Sullivan Show, from the Maxine Elliott Theater (CBS Studio 51) on West 39th Street in 1948, moved to Studio 50 a few years later. The theater was officially renamed Sullivan at the end of its 20th Anniversary Celebration on December 10, 1967.
In the 1960s, Studio 50 was one of the busiest stages of the CBS, not only for Sullivan's program, but also for The Merv Griffin Show, as well as several gaming events. In 1965, Studio 50 was changed to color, and the first color episode of The Ed Sullivan Show came 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 installed One previous color episode of the program came from Studio 72 on Broadway and 81 on August 22, 1954.) What's My Path ?, Saying the Truth and Password also called studio homes after CBS began to broadcast regularly in color; beforehand, they had been recorded in a corner on CBS-TV Studio 52, which later became a Studio 54 disco. The first episode of regular color impressions What is My Line? was broadcast live on September 11, 1966. Line and Truth stayed in Studio 50 even after they moved from CBS to the first-run syndication in the late 1960s and the early 1970s.
Ed Sullivan Theater was also the first home for the $ 10,000 Pyramid, with a large end game board on the back of the stage, in 1973. Other short game performances produced at Ed including Musical Seats with singer Adam Wade (1975), Shoot For The Stars with Geoff Edwards (1977) (which is an NBC show), and Skip the Buck with Bill Cullen ( 1978).
CBS rental in the building ended in 1981 and became the teletape facility of Reeves Entertainment. Because it hosts sitcom Kate & amp; Allie , which lasted from 1984 to 1989 (as happened, on CBS), as well as the early Nickelodeon talk show Livewire . In 1990, David Niles/1125 Productions signed a contract, with a theater for home studio HDTV and a new Broadway show Dreamtime . On October 17, 1992, NBC specifically celebrated 25-year-old Phil Donahue on television recorded at the theater. The following month, NBC News used theaters for the November 1992 election night coverage.
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Late Show with David Letterman
When David Letterman switched network from NBC to CBS, CBS purchased the theater in February 1993 from Winthrop Financial Associates of Boston for $ 4.5 million, as the location of the broadcast for his new show, Late Show with David Letterman . The existing tenants, Niles' Dreamtime , were given four weeks to vacate. As the economy moved the show and lack of available Broadway theater, Dreamtime closed. This quick sale and emptiness of the building made the award-winning Henry Hart Rice Achievement award for the Most Clever Deal of the Year for 1993.
The theater is configured to be a studio, with lighting and sound adjustments; the number of seats is reduced from 1,200 to 400. During the renovation of stained glass windows have been moved and stored by CBS in arrangement with the New York City Land Preservation Commission; window openings are covered with acoustic material. The architectural firm doing the work, Polshek Partnership, noted on its website that "to maintain the integrity of the landmark architecture, all interventions can be reversed."
In 2005, it took nearly four months for the theater retrofit with the cabling and equipment needed to broadcast a high definition television.
Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants, is based in the theater office building from 1993 until shortly after the conclusion of Letterman hosted the Late Show in 2015.
Final show with Stephen Colbert
Lieutenant Substitute Stephen Colbert continued to broadcast The Late Show with Stephen Colbert of the Ed Sullivan Theater, despite massive renovations between the two tenors of the host. The removal of the Letterman set came just hours after its last performance, on May 20, 2015. Letterman marquee was also removed, and temporarily replaced by a banner promoting the Angelo's Pizza restaurant adjacent to the theater, featuring Colbert posing with a slice of pizza.
The theater underwent full restoration to the original splendor of 1927, including exposure to the dome of the theater, which was covered by airways and sound buffers, reassembling original colored glass windows, which had been removed and placed. in storage during the Letterman era, and restoration of wooden pendants with colored glass chambers that overshadowed his bulb. Recovery was made possible because of technological advancements that allowed fewer sound and video equipment to cover the architectural details of the auditorium. CBS executive Richard Hart explained that Colbert was initially hesitant to use the theater, but called for restoration after he was told about the dome while touring the facility.
Colbert describes his new set as "intimate"; It features a multi-tiered design, with extensive use of LED lighting and video projection background, and a larger desk area than Letterman. Affected for new events, the Sullivan dome is lit with a digital projection system used to display images above the theater, such as a kaleidoscope pattern featuring Colbert's face and CBS logo. Newer, larger audience seats are installed, reducing the overall capacity to 370 from 461. The new theater tent is designed to have a "luxurious" appearance appropriate for Broadway; CBS executive late at night Vincent Favale joked that Colbert's tent made one installed at 30 Rockefeller Center for The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon looks like a mall kiosk in comparison.
Other uses
The theater served as a stage for The Rosie O'Donnell Show during a one-week show in October 1996 when several eighth studio studios at 30 NBC Rockefeller Center headquarters experienced complications from electric fires.
Theater has hosted most of the New York-based finals for the Survivor reality show game. Ed Sullivan Theater was first used for Survivor: The Amazon (after bad weather canceled the final outer arena of the central park) and was later used for every even-numbered season of Survivor: Palau for Survivor: One World .
In the 21st century, the theater has held concerts on the roof or marquee-top by several musicians:
- Dave Matthews Band on July 15, 2002
- Audioslave on November 25, 2002 (their debut live performance)
- Phish on June 21, 2004
- Paul McCartney on July 15, 2009
- Eminem and Jay-Z in June 2010
On February 9, 2014, the 50th anniversary of the first appearance of The Beatles Ed Sullivan , CBS News held a round table discussion at the theater. Anthony Mason moderated the panel, consisting of Pattie Boyd, Neil Innes, Mick Jones, Tad Kubler, John Oates, Andrew Oldham, Nile Rodgers, and Julie Taymor. The tent replica to the theater as it seemed the night from the original show also covered the Late Show with David Letterman marquee over the weekend. David Letterman interviewed Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in the theater as part of a special Grammy-related award aired on CBS around the same time.
References
External links
- Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway Internet Database
- Ed Sullivan Theater at edsullivan.com
- Ed Sullivan Theater at nyc.com
- Ed Sullivan Theater at newyorkcitytheatre.com
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