Biography of bernard b jacobs theatre

Broadway is home to a huge concentration of theaters. However, it is interesting to note that certain parts of the theater district are even more concentrated than the rest. For instance, the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre is one of three Broadway Theaters built as a part of a single complex. It is a medium-sized theater, while the Majestic Theatre is a large-sized theater and the John Golden Theatre is a small-sized theater. Fittingly, the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre has a seating capacity of approximately 1,092.

Building the Complex

The Chanin Organization built six theaters in the mid-1920s. That was a bit unusual because it had no previous experience. Still, the building of the six theaters didn’t come out of anywhere, seeing as how the Chanin Organization’s founder Irwin Chanin had developed a taste for theater back when he was still a poor student at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. By 1926, three of the six theaters were complete. Despite that, the Chanin Organization was already moving to build a new complex, which would have a large-sized theater on 44th Street plus a medium-sized theater and a small-sized theater on 45th Street. Out of the three, the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre was the first to open in January 1927, though it was still called the Royale Theatre in those times.

Under the Chanin Organization

Interested individuals should know the three theaters were meant to host different kinds of shows aimed at different theatergoers, thus enabling them to exist next to each other without eating too much into one another’s sales. In the Royale Theatre’s case, it was supposed to host musical comedies. As such, it opened with Piggy, which received a mid-run rename to I Told You So. Reputedly, its script wasn’t the

(b. 13 June 1916 in New York City; d. 27 August 1996 in Roslyn, New York), lawyer and president of the Shubert Organization, the largest theatrical firm in the United States.

Bernard Jacobs was born in the neighborhood of Harlem, then largely Jewish, to Russian-Polish Jewish immigrants. His father and grandfather worked on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the woolen waste business. Jacobs and his two older sisters and brother were raised in an Orthodox home, and his father was president of the leading Jewish-Polish synagogue in Harlem. Although not religious, Jacobs was active in Jewish organizations and philanthropies throughout his life. He attended New York City Primary Schools 10 and 184. His family moved to the Upper West Side of Manhattan when he was thirteen. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School, graduated from New York University’s Bronx campus in 1937 and received a law degree from Columbia University in 1940. He then went to work with his brother as his partner in a general law practice that mainly represented jewelers.

During World War II, Jacobs was sent to the U.S. Army Signal Corps’ electronics school at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, where he became an expert in VHF, or Very High Frequency, a fighter command control system. He then shipped to the South Pacific to help operate VHF equipment, but because there was no VHF equipment where he was stationed, he worked as a cryptographer and company clerk for three years in Australia.

After the war, Jacobs returned to work with his brother. He married Betty Shulman in 1946. They moved from Manhattan to Roslyn, Long Island, and had two children. The Jacobses helped organize the first synagogue in Roslyn. They would return to Manhattan in 1980.

In 1958 Gerald Schoenfeld, the younger brother of one of Jacobs’s closest college friends, invited him to become his partner as house counsel to the powerful Shubert Organization, which owned and operated sixteen theaters in New York and

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"Royale Theatre" redirects here. For similarly named theaters, see Royal Theatre (disambiguation).

The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (formerly the Royale Theatre and the John Golden Theatre) is a Broadway theater at 242 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1927, the theater was designed by Herbert J. Krapp in a Spanish style and was built for real-estate developer Irwin S. Chanin. It has 1,100 seats across two levels and is operated by The Shubert Organization. Both the facade and the auditorium interior are New York City landmarks.

The facade is designed in a Spanish style with golden brick, terracotta, and stone and is divided into two sections. The western portion of the facade contains the theater's entrance, with five double-height arched windows and a curved pediment above. The eastern portion is the stage house and is topped by a loggia. The auditorium contains Spanish-style detailing, a large balcony, and an expansive vaulted ceiling. The auditorium's interior features murals by Willy Pogany as well as several box seats.

The Royale, Majestic, and Masque (now John Golden) theaters, along with the Lincoln Hotel, were all developed by the Chanin brothers and designed by Krapp as part of a theater/hotel complex. The Royale was the first of the three theaters to be completed, opening on January 11, 1927. The Shubert family took over the Royale in 1930 but subsequently went into receivership, and producer John Golden leased the theater in 1932. Golden renamed the theater after himself in 1934, but the Shuberts took over in 1936 and leased the theater to CBS Radio. The Royale was restored as a legitimate theater under its original name in 1940. The theatre was renamed in 2005 after Bernard B. Jacobs (1916–1996), former president of the Shubert Organization.

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