Gaiety Theatre (New York City)

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1540-1550 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, USA

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N40° 45' 30.7584" W73° 59' 7.4616"   (40.758544, -73.985406) Start navigation »

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The Gaiety Theatre was a Broadway theatre at 1547 Broadway in New York City from 1909 until 1982, when it was torn down.
The office building that housed the theatre, the Gaiety Building, has been called the Black Tin Pan Alley for the number of African-American songwriters, who rented office space there.
It was designed by Herts & Tallant and owned by George M. Cohan. The theatre introduced revolutionary concepts of a sunken orchestra (the previous configuration had the orchestra on the same level as the seats in front of the stage) and also not having pillars obstructing sight lines for the balcony.

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