Lamb's Theatre was an Off-Broadway theater located at 130 West 44th Street, Manhattan, New York City Address and Seating playbill.com, retrieved December 30, 2009 inside the Manhattan Church of the Nazarene, near Times Square in New York City. It seated approximately 350 and specialized in musical productions.Johnson, David."The Lamb's Stands Up Off Broadway" livedesignonline.com, October 1, 1999 The building was built in 1904–1905 and was designed by Stanford White as the headquarters of the theater club The Lambs.
In 2007, the venue was closed to make way for the Chatwal New York hotel."Press release: The Lamb’s Closes its Doors for New Hotel" cubecity.org, March 9, 2007Sargent, Greg, "New Hotel Threatens Lovely Lambs Theater", The New York Observer, October 17, 1999
History The six-story Lambs Club Building originally housed a fraternal club of theater professionals called The Lambs, taking after a club in England started by Charles Lamb in 1868. The members included Fred Astaire, Mark Twain, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr."The Lambs: A Brief History : America's First Professional Theatrical Club - Est. 1874" , The Lambs, Inc.
In the mid-1970s, the Manhattan Church of the Nazarene bought the Lamb's building for the sake of making it into a mission. The Lambs club moved to 3 West 51st Street in 1975. In 1978, Lamb's Theatre Company was created by Carolyn Rossi Copeland and it hosted the successful "Broadway for Kids" series. In 1981, the renovated 3rd floor theatre had its first show, Cotton Patch Gospel and was penned the "Gem of Times Square". With a list of over 50 productions or stages, in 1984 they opened a Lamb's Little Theatre on the first floor.
Performance history List of productions at Lambs Theatre broadwayworld.comLamb's Theatre listing lortel.org, retrieved December 30, 2009
1981: Cotton Patch Gospel 1982: Snoopy! The Musical 1982: Puff The Magic Dragon 1983: Breakfast with Les and Bess Kalcheim, Lee, "Breakfast with Les and Bess: a comedy in two acts", Samuel French Inc. 1983: Painting Churches 1984: The Gift of the Magi 1985: Dames at Sea 1986: The Alchemedians 1986: Olympus on My Mind 1987: Funny Feet 1988: Godspell 1990: Smoke On The Mountain 1992: Opal 1991: Final Departure 1993: Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer 1995: John & Jen 1996: I Do! I Do! 1997: John, His Story 1999: Thoroughly Modern Millie 2000: The Countess 2002: The Prince and the Pauper 2003: That Day in September 2004: Silent Laughter 2004: Children's Letters to God 2004: Cam Jansen 2005: Picon Pie 2006: The Man in the Iron Mask
References
External links Lamb's Theatre