tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post8220352568199806872..comments2024-01-07T06:59:04.212-05:00Comments on The Playgoer: Broadway GhostsPlaygoerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02994724588504353485noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-76402342430472874912012-04-01T14:26:25.686-04:002012-04-01T14:26:25.686-04:00Did they really auction off the piece of the facad...Did they really auction off the piece of the facade of the Helen Hayes. My husband and myself were students at the time and I worked for The Shuberts. I remember the morning I woke up to discover workers took a jack hammer and "jacked" a line across the facade. It was originally all supposed to be saved. Nothing bad happened but the City had them take a piece that was not destroyed and it was supposed to be saved and incorporated into a future theatre on Broadway. Was it sold?<br />We left New York after that because our "heart" was broken. Working for the Shuberts, the destruction of the 5 theatres, the rise in HIV, and the way every interview I went on for a theatre job seemed like a casting couch were the reaons we left.<br />We returned and went to see Follies at the Marquis and I accidentally peed on the floor but then started laughing.Kevin and Don Nortehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09507702544857696042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-55491171151350734102011-10-24T12:41:25.662-04:002011-10-24T12:41:25.662-04:00Intriguing theater history. I love that Swanson p...Intriguing theater history. I love that Swanson photo.Jacqueline T. Lynchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047941886908178350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-41637245555002239842011-10-24T10:57:05.202-04:002011-10-24T10:57:05.202-04:00Thanks for including that photograph of Swanson in...Thanks for including that photograph of Swanson in the ruins of the Roxy.<br /><br />I wonder whether it's possible nowadays to shoot such images. Not hard to imagine that regulations and/or fear of lawsuits would prevent it. I tell ya: if we can't play in the wreckage of our theaters, whose wrecked theaters <i>can</i> we play in?John Branchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12323569021826786444noreply@blogger.com