musical.today New York, United States
Ambassador Theatre
1,125 seats
Chicago has played the Ambassador since January 2003, which makes this small Shubert house on West 49th Street the longest address the revival has held. It is the room the show settled into after seven years of moving.
The building
Herbert J. Krapp set the auditorium on a diagonal across a plot only a hundred feet wide, which is how 1,125 seats fit into a site that should not hold them. The Shuberts built it after the First World War along with the theatres now named for O'Neill and Walter Kerr, and it opened on 11 February 1921 with a musical, The Rose Girl.
They sold it in 1935 and it spent twenty years being something else: a CBS radio studio, a cinema, a house for foreign films, then a studio for the DuMont television network. The Shuberts bought it back in 1956. Most of what played here afterwards was short. Chicago arrived in 2003 and has not left.
Opening dates, capacities and architects on this page come from the theatre's own history pages and from Wikipedia.
Getting there
50th Street on the 1; 49th Street on the N, Q, R and W; Times Square–42nd Street for everything else, then five blocks north.