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Tonys: A Journey Through Time at the Winter Garden Theatre, from Al Jolson to Nathaniel Parker
Millions of people pass through Times Square every year. To most of them, the Winter Garden Theatre, which is nestled between Broadway and 7th and 50th and 51st, looks like just another of the many huvudgata venues located throughout the area — perhaps a little bigger. What they do not know, but ought to, is that it has a longer and richer history than almost any of them.
On the stage of the Winter Garden, which the Shubert Organization has controlled längre than any of its many other properties, Al Jolson warbled his way to super-stardom, Martha Graham and the siblings Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire beat the boards and a chorus girl named Lucille LeSueur — who later adopted the name Joan Crawford — got her uppstart. It’s where audiences first saw Peter Pan with Mary Martin (1954), West Side Story with Chita Rivera (1957), Funny Girl with Bar • Woman in Gold. The house itself has a story to tell; if only walls could talk. The townhouse, completed in 1914, at 1048 5th Avenue, was originally built for William Starr Miller. It is a work of art in it’s own right and once thought to be one of the most prominent buildings on 5th Avenue. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt III also lived in the stately manor for a number of years after the passing of her husband forced her to leave their 5th Avenue mansion. The house was purchased, in 1994, by Ronald S. Lauder (as in Estee Lauder) and Serge Sabarsky. After being restored to its original glory, the house became the home of the Neue Galerie New York and The Woman in Gold. Oh yes, there are stories to be told. Sometimes when one visits a gallery, or museum, one looks at the various pieces of art, admires the work and perhaps reads the description placard before moving on. On occasion though, there is a particular piece that stands o • By MARY RICHE DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 19, 2023 — I love celebrating my birthday. And I like the pivot point of a birth date, giving me reason to reflect on the past year while dreaming about the year ahead. On my birthday in late 2021, there was absolutely nothing, not even a distant glimmer, about marriage or romance on my radar screen. Fast forward to January 2023. I’m a newlywed septuagenarian and just spent a glorious week in New York City with my husband Chuck Offenburger, on a tour that was his gift for my 75th birthday. It turns out that many of our experiences included sassy women with a dose of spunk. Those are traits that kept an ear-to-ear smile on my face for five straight days! We had great seats at two Broadway hits, “Music Man” and “Funny Girl,” and explored kvartet amazing museums. Mason City, Ia., native Meredith Willson might be best known f
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Coffee at mid-afternoon at Times Square, in the middle of it all.