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Stephen Sondheim Theatre

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The Stephen Sondheim Theatre, formerly Henry Miller's Theatre, is a Broadway theater operated by the Roundabout Theatre Company at 124 West 43rd Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. The theater was established in 1918 by Henry Miller, the actor and producer. Since 2010, it has been named after American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. The theater was designed in the neoclassical style by architects Paul R. Allen and Ingalls & Hoffman with 950 seats. Its facade is protected as a city landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The modern 1,055-seat theater opened in 2009 at the base of the Bank of America Tower. The current theater is completely underground and was designed by Cookfox, architects of the Bank of America Tower. The original theater was managed by Henry Miller along with Elizabeth Milbank Anderson and Klaw & Erlanger. After Miller's death in 1926, his son Gilbert Miller took over operation. The Miller family sold the theater in 1966 to the Nederlanders, who sold it in 1968 to Seymour Durst. The final musical production at the theater closed in 1969, and it served as a porn theater through much of the 1970s, then operated as a discotheque called Xenon from 1978 to 1984. The Henry Miller then operated as a nightclub in the 1980s and 1990s and then as the cabaret venue Kit Kat Club until 2000. The theater reopened as a Broadway venue in 2001, but it only played the musical Urinetown before closing in 2004. Henry Miller's Theatre was completely rebuilt when the Bank of America Tower was developed, and it reopened in 2009 as one of two underground Broadway theaters.

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