42nd street

I love a theatre trip, so when London Box Office asked if I'd like to see e glitzy 42nd Street, the answer was definitely YES!

TheatreAround the World in 80 Days This rough-theatre adaptation of Jules Verne’s Victorian adventuring yarn has eight actors playing more than 100 characters.

42nd Street is the classic musical, starring Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers. "You're going out there a nobody, but coming back as a star!"

Way back in the late 80s, right before 42nd Street was sweep clean and purified with Disney goodness, you could still enjoy the historic New York location in all it's noisy, colorful, rude and vivid glory. As an aspiring artist, starting at 17ish, I would travel to NY every once in awhile to show my illustrations. This was before websites, emails and electricity, so you had to get your work seen the old fashioned way, pestering. I'd crash at friends/relatives apartments and spend the day…

classic-hollywood-glam: 42nd Street 1933

I shot the Victory Theater when 42nd Street was one of the seediest in New York--nothing but porn houses and theaters that showed bloody action films. Now, the street is almost genteel. Taken with a Deardorff 4x5, Kodak VPL, filtered.

The 1981 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, 42nd Street is the song-and-dance, American dream fable of Broadway, featuring the iconic songs “42nd Street,” “We’re In the Money,” “Lullaby of Broadway,” “Shuffle Off To Buffalo,” “I Only Have Eyes For You” and many more.

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