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unusual facts about 42nd Street



Allyn King

She played Alicia Bonner in the 1920 Avery Hopwood hit comedy Ladies' Night that had a run of 360 performances at the Eltinge Theatre on 42nd Street and Louise Endicott in the successful 1924 William LeBaron and Con Conrad musical comedy Moonlight over its 174 run at Longacre Theatre.

Backstage musical

This type of musical was typified in the early films by director and choreographer, Busby Berkeley, including 42nd Street (1933), Footlight Parade (1933), Dames (1934) and the Gold Diggers series (1933, 1935 and 1937).

Children's Civic Light Opera

Past shows have included Thoroughly Modern Millie, A Chorus Line, 42nd Street, Annie, Damn Yankees, and Little Shop of Horrors.

Edgar Selwyn

The Selwyns owned several theatres in the United States including the Park Square Theatre in Boston; the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio; the Selwyn in Chicago; and the Selwyn, Apollo, and Times Square theatres in New York City.

Is there life after high school?

This production starred Caroline O'Connor, Mark Michael Hutchinson, Geoff Steer, Rosemarie Ford, Lynne Kieran, Steven Mann, Nelly Morrison & Nigel Garton early in their careers who did this late night engagement while several were also appearing in West End hit shows Me and My Girl, 42nd Street and The Hired Man.

Nanaimo Christian School

NCS's Senior Musical Theatre has put on sold-out productions of: Les Misérables,2004 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 2005 Fiddler on the Roof, 2006 Annie 2006, West Side Story, 2007, 42nd street 2008,Wizard of Oz 2009, and Anne of Green Gables, the musical, in 2010.

Toni Lamond

On her return to Australia in the mid 1990s she performed in shows including 42nd Street, The Pirates of Penzance and My Fair Lady.


see also

42nd Street Shuttle

The French Connection and King of New York, among many other titles, were filmed on the 42nd Street shuttle.

Charles C. Haight

American Music Hall (American Theater), 42nd Street, 1893, Demolished

Pullo Center

, Tracy Lawrence, Mary Ann Winkowski "The Ghost Whisperer", Man of La Mancha, Jason Aldean, Barbie Live in Fairytopia, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Bob Saget, 42nd Street, Secondhand Serenade, Parachute, and The Rust.

Salmon Tower Building

The firm of Walter J. Salmon, Sr. which erected the edifice, was known as 11 West 42nd Street, Inc.

Street Trash

In 2010, Arrow Video released a 2 DVD set in the UK featuring the documentary Meltdown Memoirs along with a previously unavailable featurette with Jane Arakawa and the booklet 42nd Street Trash: The Making of the Melt written by Calum Waddell.

Walter J. Salmon, Sr.

(1871 - December 25, 1953) was a New York City real estate investor and developer who, according to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, was "responsible for rebuilding the north side of West 42nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the first decades of the 20th century".