A couple of weeks ago, to celebrate the re-naming of the Cort Theatre to the James Earl Jones Theatre, we played a game that asked you to name 21 Broadway theaters based on simple descriptions. This week, let's see if you can name the remaining 20!
To help you out, at the bottom of this article, we give you the answers to Part One, and remind you that none of the theaters are used twice!
Broadway Games:
What's in a Name? Part 2
Can you name...:
... 2 theaters named for New York history?
... 2 theaters named for previously demolished theaters?
... 1 theater named for an older theater incorporated into this new one?
... 2 theaters named for theater impresarios?
... 1 theater named for the hotel that surrounds it?
... 2 theaters named for leaders in the Shubert Organization?
... 1 theater named for a brother who died before his other brothers finished building it?
... 1 theater built specifically to house Irving Berlin musical revues?
... 1 theater named for the British-American producer who was the first to rent this space?
... 1 theater named for a disco, itself named for a television broadcasting space?
... 1 theater named for the builders of the skyscraper it is a part of?
... 1 theater named for a producer (in fact, it's the second theater named for him!)?
... 1 theater named for an acting school?
... 1 theater named for its corporate sponsor?
... 1 theater named for a Broadway publicist?
... 1 theater named for a London theatre?
Answers to Broadway Games:
What's in a Name? Part 1
Can you name...
... 5 theaters named for actors? (not including the James Earl Jones) Booth, Barrymore, Lunt-Fontanne, Vivian Beaumont & The Hayes
... 3 theaters named for playwrights? Neil Simon, August Wilson & Eugene O'Neill
... 2 theaters named for critics? Brooks Atkinson & Walter Kerr
... 3 theaters named for composers/lyricists? Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers & Gershwin
... 4 theaters with names that just sounded theatrical? (they aren't named for anything special) Majestic, Imperial, Ambassador & Palace
... 2 theaters named for their location? Broadway & Longacre
... 1 theater named for a caricaturist? Al Hirschfeld