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.
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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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