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The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, seen from the Lincoln Center Plaza.
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The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
The New York State Theater is part of New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. The theater occupies the south side of the main plaza (at Columbus Avenue & 63rd Street) that it shares with the Metropolitan Opera House and Avery Fisher Hall (home of the New York Philharmonic). The New York State Theater is home to both New York City Ballet and New York City Opera. The Theater was built with funds from the State of New York as part of New York State's cultural participation in the 1964-1965 World's Fair. After the Fair, the State transferred ownership of the theater to the City of New York.
The theater was designed by architect Philip Johnson and opened on April 23, 1964. Richard Rodgers was named President of the Music Theater of Lincoln Center, and during his tenure, many classic Broadway musicals were revived there, among them The King and I, Carousel (with its original star, John Raitt), Annie Get Your Gun (with its original star, Ethel Merman), Show Boat, and South Pacific.
The theater seats 2,755 and features continental style seating on the orchestra level, five “Rings” (balconies), faced with jewel-like lights and a large spherical chandelier in the center of the gold paneled ceiling. The lobby areas of the theater feature many examples of modern art.
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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 16.3-acre (61,000 m²) complex of buildings in New York City which serves as home for 12 arts organizations: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Juilliard School,
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Ninth Avenue / Columbus Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Traffic runs downtown (southbound) along its full length, and in both directions between 14th and 16th Streets.
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Metropolitan Opera Association of New York City, founded in April 1880, is a major presenter of all types of opera including Grand Opera. The Metropolitan is America's largest classical music organization, and annually presents some 240 opera performances.
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Avery Fisher Hall, located in New York City, is a part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. It is the home of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The hall contains 2,738 seats.
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The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States, organized during 1842. Based in New York City, the Philharmonic performs most of its concerts at Avery Fisher Hall and has long been considered one of the best orchestras in the world.
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New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1933 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin.
The company grew from an earlier troupe known as the Ballet Society.
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The company grew from an earlier troupe known as the Ballet Society.
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New York City Opera (NYCO) is based in Philip Johnson's New York State Theater at Lincoln Center.
The company was founded in 1944 with the aim of an opera company that would be financially accessible to a wide audience, innovative in its choice of repertory, and a home for
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Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28 1902 – December 30 1979) was one of the great composers of musical theater, best known for his song writing partnerships with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. He wrote more than 900 published songs, and forty Broadway musicals.
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The King and I
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Poster for the original Broadway production
Music Richard Rodgers
Lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II
Book Oscar Hammerstein II
Based upon Novel by Margaret Landon
Anna and the King of Siam
Productions 1951 Broadway
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Poster for the original Broadway production
Music Richard Rodgers
Lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II
Book Oscar Hammerstein II
Based upon Novel by Margaret Landon
Anna and the King of Siam
Productions 1951 Broadway
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Carousel
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Original Broadway Cast Album
Music Richard Rodgers
Lyrics Oscar Hammerstein, II
Book Oscar Hammerstein, II
Based upon Liliom, a play by Ferenc Molnar
Productions 1945 Broadway
1950 West End
1956 film
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Original Broadway Cast Album
Music Richard Rodgers
Lyrics Oscar Hammerstein, II
Book Oscar Hammerstein, II
Based upon Liliom, a play by Ferenc Molnar
Productions 1945 Broadway
1950 West End
1956 film
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John Emmett Raitt (19 January1917 - 20 February2005) was a star of the musical theater and stage.
Raitt was born in Santa Ana, California. He got his start in theatre as a high school student at Fullerton High School in Fullerton, California.
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Raitt was born in Santa Ana, California. He got his start in theatre as a high school student at Fullerton High School in Fullerton, California.
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Annie Get Your Gun
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Broadway 1946 Original Cast Album
Music Irving Berlin
Lyrics Irving Berlin
Book Herbert Fields
Dorothy Fields
Productions 1946 Broadway
1947 West End
1947 U.S.
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Broadway 1946 Original Cast Album
Music Irving Berlin
Lyrics Irving Berlin
Book Herbert Fields
Dorothy Fields
Productions 1946 Broadway
1947 West End
1947 U.S.
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Ethel Merman
in the film Stage Door Canteen (1943)
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Show Boat
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Window card for the 1994 revival
Music Jerome Kern
Lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II
Book Oscar Hammerstein II
Based upon Edna Ferber's novel Show Boat
Productions 1927 Broadway
1929 Film
1932 Broadway revival
1936 Film
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Window card for the 1994 revival
Music Jerome Kern
Lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II
Book Oscar Hammerstein II
Based upon Edna Ferber's novel Show Boat
Productions 1927 Broadway
1929 Film
1932 Broadway revival
1936 Film
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South Pacific
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Original Cast Recording
Music Richard Rodgers
Lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II
Book Oscar Hammerstein II
Joshua Logan
Based upon Tales of the South Pacific
by James A.
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Original Cast Recording
Music Richard Rodgers
Lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II
Book Oscar Hammerstein II
Joshua Logan
Based upon Tales of the South Pacific
by James A.
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Elie Nadelman (February 20, 1882, Warsaw - December 28, 1946) was a Poland-born US sculptor.
He spent 10 years in the Paris art scene at the beginning of the century -- an advocate of one of the formalist theories current at that time.
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He spent 10 years in the Paris art scene at the beginning of the century -- an advocate of one of the formalist theories current at that time.
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