Anyone know how many seats this thing has? I've looked it up and found anything from 460-ish to 1200. I only ask because would it be possible to make this thing a Broadway theatre in the future if ever possible? Just a thought that popped in my head as I watch the Dave Letterman & Oprah interview.
I would imagine that should CBS ever decide to get rid of the building it could be restored to a legit house (as it was when it was first built in the 1920s).
It was originally a theater, built by Oscar's brother and named after their father Oscar Hammerstein I and named the Hammerstein Theater. It seats The 1200-seat theater but only 461 seats are used for TV audiences. It opened at Hammerstein's Theater in 1929, with a musical called The Golden Dawn, which featured a yongue Cary Grant.
In the 1930s, it was renamed the Manhattan Theater, then Billy Rose's Music Hall, then it became a nightclub and then the Manhattan theater again, and in 1936 CBS acquired it and it became Radio Theater #3 and then the CBS Radio Playhouse. In 1950, it became CBS-TV Studio 50.
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Posted: 1/7/13 at 12:02am