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Showbusiness legends including Elvis Presley, Barbra
Streisand, Sammy Davis Jr. and Carol Burnett have passed through
the Hudson's dressing rooms, as have a long line of rock bands
and burlesque artists during the theater's colorful 114-year
history.
Its original owner Henry B. Harris died in 1912 on the RMS
Titanic, while his wife made it onto the last lifeboat before
the ship sank. CBS Radio broadcast from there from 1934 to 1943,
and NBC network premiered its "Tonight Show" from the theater in
1954.
During the more seedy Sixties it hosted burlesque shows, and in
the 1980s it became a venue for rock concerts. More recently,
until 2015, it was used for special events by Millennium Hotels.
For its rebirth as a theater, the Hudson is staging 'Sunday in
the Park with George', a revival of a 1984 Broadway production,
based on the book by James Lapine, with music and lyrics written
by Stephen Sondheim.
"I'm thrilled, thrilled to be making my Broadway musical debut
here at the Hudson Theatre, and in a Sondheim and Lapine
musical, so there's no pressure," Gyllenhaal said, to laughter
from a crowd gathered outside the theater for a ribbon-cutting
ceremony on Wednesday night.
Gyllenhaal portrays Seurat as he paints his most famous work, "A
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte". Tony
Award-winner Annaleigh Ashford, plays Seurat's neglected lover
Dot.
The production opens on February 23, and is scheduled to run
through April 23.
(Reporting by Reuters Television, Writing by Karishma Singh;
Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
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