Broadway theater
The Brooks Atkinson Theater on 47th St in Manhattan.The Broadway marquee opened in 1926 and has 1,069 seats.It was constructed as the Mansfield Theater but was renamed in 1960 after former New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson.For many years the TV game show What's My Line played here.
The current musical playing here is called Waitress.The musical score was written by Sara Bareilles (I'm Not Gonna Write You A Love Song,King of Anything,Falling into Your (Gravity) and was nominated for a Tony Award in 2016 for Best Musical Score.Bareilles is also currently starring in the leading role of Jenna Hunterson in the musical.
The Waitress musical was based on a 2007 film of the same name.The film was written and directed by Adrienne Shelly,who sadly,was murdered in 2006 in her Greenwich Village studio apartment by an undocumented immigrant construction worker-Wikipedia
Broadway theater
The Brooks Atkinson Theater on 47th St in Manhattan.The Broadway marquee opened in 1926 and has 1,069 seats.It was constructed as the Mansfield Theater but was renamed in 1960 after former New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson.For many years the TV game show What's My Line played here.
The current musical playing here is called Waitress.The musical score was written by Sara Bareilles (I'm Not Gonna Write You A Love Song,King of Anything,Falling into Your (Gravity) and was nominated for a Tony Award in 2016 for Best Musical Score.Bareilles is also currently starring in the leading role of Jenna Hunterson in the musical.
The Waitress musical was based on a 2007 film of the same name.The film was written and directed by Adrienne Shelly,who sadly,was murdered in 2006 in her Greenwich Village studio apartment by an undocumented immigrant construction worker-Wikipedia