Beacon Theatre, New York 1974

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There are horizontal band courses above the first and fifth floors, corresponding to those on the hotel's facade, as well as an arcade near the auditorium's roof. Under the theater's marquee is a semicircular outdoor ticket lobby with tile flooring, which is recessed from the sidewalk.

Sent In By: Val Athanassiou on 30 October 2023 Purchased my first item on a family recommendation (was sweating it because it was quite a special product) and it was delivered in bulletproof packaging, resisting the usual AusPost tough love. None of the other planned theaters in the Roxy Circuit were ever built, in part because of the start of the Great Depression shortly afterward. Gordon Marks 45 Years At the Vanguard of Jazz; Party Celebrates Book Opened in Former Stable Makes Room for Guests Three L. The hotel's facade is plain in design, and the theater's entrance is on the southern section of the hotel's Broadway facade.Movie palaces became common in the 1920s, between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Great Depression. The blogger thought Don Felder wasn't present but I can hear Glenn naming Don Felder in the recording. Joan Baez celebrated her 75th birthday with a concert at the theater on January 27, 2016, which was broadcast on PBS's Great Performances and released on CD and DVD. The theater was closed in 1976 after Singer and Metz went bankrupt, [96] and it was planned to be replaced by a supermarket. Above the theater's marquee, the hotel building contains arched windows on the second floor and a brick facade on upper stories.

The Chanin brothers also had some experience in theatrical development, having built six Broadway theaters in the mid-1920s. The Beacon also continued to screen talking pictures such as Ulysses, [79] as well as live shows including a ballet production in 1968. By then, Boxoffice magazine characterized the Beacon as one of the Upper West Side's few movie palaces that remained in theatrical use. The band recorded a live album at the theater in March 2000, releasing Peakin' at the Beacon that November.The rock band the Allman Brothers Band was at one point the most frequent performer at the Beacon, [8] appearing there nearly every year from 1989 to 2014. The Beacon implemented a policy of presenting only first runs at the end of 1948; the British picture Don't Take It to Heart was the first to be screened under this policy. The Broadway League temporarily relocated the Tony Awards, the annual ceremony for Broadway theatre, to the Beacon in the early 2010s due to prior bookings at the ceremony's traditional home, Radio City Music Hall. Playing a number of their previous hits and recent releases, the band are also joined on stage separately by Linda Ronstadt and by former songwriting partner Jackson Browne, before all parties come together for a spectacular rendition of Take It Easy, concluding a truly magnificent set from a band on the cusp of international success.