"The Little Theater OFF Times Square." A callout to the old radio anthology show "The Firstnighter Program," which supposedly was set at the Little Theater, complete with a weekly recreation of entering a Broadway theater for an opening night at the time, but produced in Chicago. And one would wonder why Barbara Luddy and Les Tremayne were the stars of each week's play.
Jack Paar also had guests sit with him behind the desk, most notably John F. Kennedy before he was nominated for President. The Hayes is currently being remodeled. The Second Stage Theatre company will be using it as its new home starting in the spring and a promotion for them as a Broadway company. The Hayes has 499 seats, one less than the minimum for a Broadway house, but they got a waiver that I would assume SST will keep. As a TV studio, besides Merv, "The Dick Clark Saturday Night Show" was done live in the late 50s (and a lot of dcp's late 50s archival clips are from the prime time show, not "Bandstand") and David Frost took the theater over when Merv moved to CBS, with Goodson-Todman taking over the place on the weekends to tape most of the first season of the 1969 revival of "Beat the Clock." (The first few weeks were taped at another Teletape facility in Manhattan, but "Clock" had to vacate for a new show called "Sesame Street.") <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor [email protected] On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sunday, December 31, 2017 at 2:30:38 PM UTC-5, Steve Timko wrote: >> >> By the way, episode 5 has Merv entering through a door at the back of the >> theatre. I recognized then that it was being filmed in The Ed Sullivan >> Theater. >> >> > Actually, Merv's mid-60s Westinghouse series - the '65 - '69 one with > Arthur Treacher - was taped not at the Sullivan but at The Little Theatre > on West 44th - a.k.a. "The Little Theatre on Times Square," as Treacher > called it at the beginning of each episode. It's now the Helen Hayes > Theatre. It's much smaller than the Sullivan. And he did frequently enter > from the rear of the auditorium. > > His '69 - '72 CBS late night show originally taped at the Cort Theatre on > 48th before he moved it to Television City. > > His long-running Metromedia show did tape at the Sullivan on trips east in > the late seventies and early eighties. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
