Marquis Theatre

Marquis Theatre

The theatre marquee, box office and entrance on the 46th Street side of the New York Marriott Marquis hotel
Address	210 West 46th Street Manhattan, New York City United States
Coordinates	40°45′32″N 73°59′11″W / 40.75889°N 73.98639°W / 40.75889; -73.98639
Owner	Vornado Realty Trust (majority)
Operator	Nederlander Organization
Type	Broadway
Capacity	1,612[a]
Production	The Wiz
Construction
Opened	July 9, 1986
Years active	1986–present
Architect	John C. Portman Jr.
Website
broadwaydirect.com/venue/marquis-theatre

The Marquis Theatre is a Broadway theater on the third floor of the New York Marriott Marquis hotel in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1986, it is operated by the Nederlander Organization. There are about 1,612 seats in the auditorium,^[a] spread across an orchestra level and a balcony.

The Marquis was designed by John C. Portman Jr., who designed the Marriott Marquis and included the theater to increase the size of the hotel. The theater's main entrance and box office are at 210 West 46th Street. The box office is at ground level, and there are escalators leading from the ground floor to the auditorium. Due to a lack of space, the wings on each side of the proscenium arch are smaller than mandated by city building codes. The theater also has no freight elevator, no dedicated restroom facilities, and small hallways.

A theater was proposed on the site in 1973 as part of a hotel (later the Marriott Marquis), the completion of which was delayed until 1985. The hotel had controversially replaced several existing theaters, and the design features of the new Marquis Theatre were highly criticized, even by the hotel's supporters. The theater opened in July 1986 with concerts by Shirley Bassey, followed by the long-running Me and My Girl. The Marquis then hosted a series of short-lived productions from the 1990s through the 2010s.
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