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"If there was one thing worth saving from the old Times Square, it
was the majestic old theatres that dotted the area, and now they
are preserved in Lost Broadway Theatres by Nicholas Van
Hoogstraten, an Emmy-winning TV producer who created the book from
his own love of the theatre, as a veteran of over 30 musicals and
plays. Updated to include the restoration work of the 1990's, this
oversized book has over 300 period and contemporary photographs,
drawings, and plans, and traces of the history of nearly 60
Broadway theatres built from 1882 to 1932. -- Manhattan
"Nicholas van Hoogstraten takes a look in Lost Broadway Theatres
at the buildings, people, and stories that turned a mile of
midtown Manhattan into the Great White Way. Along with photographs
of the exteriors and interiors of each theater, this updated and
expanded edition of a 1991 book offers architectural drawings and
lists of the major plays and players. Van Hoogstraten, a
television producer, tells marvelous anecdotes that set the
imagination spinning...." -- Betsy von Furstenberg, New York Times
Book Review, Nov 30 1997
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