{"id":439,"date":"2009-04-11T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/04\/quote-of-the-day-julie-andrews-edition.html"},"modified":"2009-04-11T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T17:38:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-julie-andrews-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: Julie Andrews Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mark Hellinger Theater on West 51st Street was originally built by Thomas W. Lamb in the 1930s as a movie palace for Warner Bros. Herman Levin, our producer, took a gamble when he chose the venue as a home for <em>My Fair Lady, <\/em>since, before our occupation, it had been a bit of a white elephant and was situated a few blocks uptown from the main Broadway area. But it was a beautiful theater, especially the front interior of the building, the lobby being exquisite and ideally matching the elegance of our show. Though a little shallow backstage, it was one of the largest and best equipped of the New York theaters, and it had a seating capacity of eighteen hundred people.<\/p>\n<p>Much later, in 1970, the Nederlanders purchased it, but after a string of flops, they leased and eventually sold it to the Times Square Church in 1989. Various parties have tried to reclaim the building as a legitimate theater in the years since, but to no avail &#8211; which is truly a shame, since Broadway must and should preserve every great theater it can.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Julie Andrews in her memoir <em>Home, <\/em>now available in <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Home\/Julie-Andrews\/e\/9780786884759\/?itm=1\">paperback<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mark Hellinger Theater on West 51st Street was originally built by Thomas W. Lamb in the 1930s as a movie palace for Warner Bros. Herman Levin, our producer, took a gamble when he chose the venue as a home for My Fair Lady, since, before our occupation, it had been a bit of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=439\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quote of the Day: Julie Andrews Edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1710,1995,1838,1691],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-julie-andrews","tag-mark-hellinger-theatre","tag-my-fair-lady","tag-quote-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}