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| If it’s successful, isn’t it better? | |
| Last Edit: dramedy 01:56 pm EST 02/08/21 | |
| Posted by: dramedy 01:55 pm EST 02/08/21 | |
| In reply to: re: It was scheduled to be completed in 2022 - Michael_Portantiere 12:25 pm EST 02/08/21 | |
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| Seems like more backstage space is created. It seems like a real lobby will be formed. I like the entrance in side street instead of Times Square. The escalator might be a bottleneck but minakoff, marquis, square and Wilson all have stairs or escalators to the theater level. The place isn’t too bad with street noise like some theaters but increasing distance from street noise is good. My biggest objection was losing the theater for several years and then a little pandemic changed that. I guess I trust the engineers that say it can be lifted and permanently supported. |
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| re: If it’s successful, isn’t it better? | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 02:56 pm EST 02/08/21 | |
| In reply to: If it’s successful, isn’t it better? - dramedy 01:55 pm EST 02/08/21 | |
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| Not exiting directly onto Times Square is reason enough for the renovation. I saw "An American in Paris" on a May weeknight performance, and exiting the theater took an obscene amount of time, moving at a crawl, because we were being shunted directly into the most crowded part of Times Square during one of the most crowded times of the year. | |
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| re: If it’s successful, isn’t it better? | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 02:04 pm EST 02/08/21 | |
| In reply to: If it’s successful, isn’t it better? - dramedy 01:55 pm EST 02/08/21 | |
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| Thanks. I understand all of those points except what you wrote about a "real lobby." Didn't the old Palace have a long, wide entrance way that functioned as a real lobby? | |
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| re: If it’s successful, isn’t it better? | |
| Posted by: sirpupnyc 03:46 pm EST 02/08/21 | |
| In reply to: re: If it’s successful, isn’t it better? - Michael_Portantiere 02:04 pm EST 02/08/21 | |
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| More in the mold of the entrance to the Imperial or the 42nd Street entrance of the Lyric or New Amsterdam: because the house is actually on the other side of the block, there's a hallway connecting the street-side door to the theatre's actual interior. Like those others, it wasn't a "lobby" in the sense of it being a space you'd want to spend any time if you had another option. What the Palace is getting is lobby/lounge space that's both outside the house and inside the theatre's "building" and separate from entryways. | |
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