The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theater on 214 West
42nd Street, in the Theater District of Manhattan in New York City. It
was one of the first Broadway venues to open in the Times Square
neighborhood, on October 26, 1903. The theater has 1,702 seats across
three levels. Both the Beaux-Arts exterior and the Art Nouveau interior
of the building are New York City landmarks, and the building is on the
National Register of Historic Places. The New Amsterdam consists of an
auditorium in the rear and a narrow ten-story office wing in the front.
The facade on 42nd Street is made of gray limestone; the rest of the
facade is brick. The elliptical auditorium contains two balconies
cantilevered above a ground-level orchestra. Above the main auditorium
was a roof theater. The main theater has a steel frame and was designed
with advanced mechanical systems for its time. It is operated by Disney
Theatrical Productions and has hosted the musicals The Lion King, Mary
Poppins and Aladdin.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam_Theatre>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1794:
French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre established the Cult
of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First
Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being>
1798:
War of the First Coalition: A British garrison repelled a
French attack on the Îles Saint-Marcouf off the Normandy coast,
inflicting heavy losses.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_%C3%8Eles_Saint-Marcouf>
1937:
Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City go on strike in
the animation industry's first major labor strike.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Fleischer_Studios_strike>
1946:
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications
corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
man Friday:
A trusted man whose job is to assist and organize someone else's day-to-
day business or personal tasks; a personal assistant, a right-hand man;
also, a trusted male companion. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/man_Friday>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We comprehend the earth only when we have known heaven. Without
the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
--Joseph Joubert
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Joubert>
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