Summer Garden

Fictional

Address

1634 Broadway

GPS

40.761695826373, -73.983723282006

BOOK

Healy’s they left at twelve and taxied to Bistolary’s. There were Axia Marlowe and Phoebe Column, from the Summer Garden show, Fred Sloane and Amory. The evening was so very young that they felt ridiculous with surplus energy, and burst into the cafe like Dionysian revellers.
“Table for four in the middle of the floor,” yelled Phoebe. “Hurry, old dear, tell ’em we’re here!”
“Tell ’em to play Admiration!” shouted Sloane. “You two order; Phoebe and I are going to shake a wicked calf,” and they sailed off in the muddled crowd. Axia and Amory, acquaintances of an hour, jostled behind a waiter to a table at a point of vantage; there they took seats and watched.

This side of Paradise

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

A fictional theatre inspired by the Winter Garden Theatre, 1634 Broadway. Opened in 1911, with an original design by William Albert Swasey. Its current appearance dates from a major, comprehensive renovation in 1922, when it was completely remodelled: the proscenium and stage date from that intervention, as does the more clearly defined character of its auditorium, decorated in the Adam style. It stands out for the size of its auditorium, its stage, and its backstage areas, which has made it especially well suited to large-scale musicals. It has 1,600 seats and is operated by the Shubert Organization.

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