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The 'Morosco Theatre' was a legitimate theatre located at 217 West 45th Street in the heart of the theater district in midtown-Manhattan.
It was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp for the Shuberts, who constructed it for Oliver Morosco in gratitude for his helping them break the monopoly of the Theatrical Syndicate. It opened on February 5 1917 with the musical ''Canary Cottage'', with a book by Morosco and a score by Earl Carroll.
The Shuberts lost the building in the Depression and City Playhouses, Inc. bought it at auction in 1943. It was sold in 1968 to Bankers Trust Company and, after protests failed, destroyed in 1982, along with the Helen Hayes, the Bijou, and remnants of the Astor and the Gaiety Theatre, to build the Marriott Marquis hotel and Marquis Theatre.
Bob Martin's musical comedy "The Drowsy Chaperone" makes mention of the Morosco Theatre. The title is a reference to a fictional show which, according to the narrative, opened at the Morosco in 1928. The narrator goes on to say that the Morosco was demolished in 1982, and a hotel was built in its place. That hotel, of course, is the Marriott Marquis, which houses the Marquis Theatre, where "The Drowsy Chaperone" opened in 2006.

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Notable productions

★ ''Happy New Year'', a musical adaptation of the Philip Barry play ''Holiday'' with songs by Cole Porter, 1980

★ ''The Lady From Dubuque'' by Edward Albee, 1980

★ ''Da'' by Hugh Leonard, 1978

★ ''Side By Side By Sondheim'', a musical revue, 1978

★ ''Golda'' by William Gibson, 1977

★ ''The Shadow Box'' by Michael Cristofer, 1977

★ ''A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green'', a musical revue, 1977

★ ''The Eccentricities of a Nightingale'' by Tennessee Williams, 1976

★ ''The Norman Conquests'' by Alan Ayckbourn, 1975

★ ''In Praise of Love'' by Terence Rattigan, 1974

★ ''A Moon for the Misbegotten'' by Eugene O'Neill, 1973

★ ''The Changing Room'' by David Storey, 1973

★ ''Butley'' by Simon Gray, 1972

★ ''And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little'' by Paul Zindel, 1971

★ ''Forty Carats'' by Jay Allen, 1968

★ ''The Price'' by Arthur Miller, 1968

★ ''Don't Drink the Water'' by Woody Allen, 1966

★ ''Mary, Mary'' by Jean Kerr, 1964

★ ''Alfie!'' by Bill Naughton, 1964

★ ''The Three Sisters'' by Anton Chekov, 1964

★ ''The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore'' by Tennessee Williams, 1963

★ ''The Best Man'' by Gore Vidal, 1960

★ ''The Visit'' by Friedrich Duerrenmatt, 1958

★ ''Major Barbara'' by George Bernard Shaw, 1956

★ ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' by Tennessee Williams, 1955

★ ''The Deep Blue Sea'' by Terence Rattigan, 1952

★ ''Death of a Salesman'' by Arthur Miller, 1949

★ ''The Voice of the Turtle'' by John Van Druten, 1943

★ ''Blithe Spirit'' a farce by Noel Coward, with Clifton Webb, 1941

★ ''Old Acquaintance'' by John Van Druten, 1940

★ ''Our Town'' by Thornton Wilder, 1938

★ ''A Doll's House'' by Henrik Ibsen, 1937

★ ''Camille'' by Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1932

★ ''Uncle Vanya'' by Anton Chekhov, 1929

★ ''The Letter'' by W. Somerset Maugham, 1927

★ ''Craig's Wife'' by George Kelly, 1925

★ ''Scaramouche'' by Rafael Sabatini, 1923

★ ''Beyond the Horizon'' by Eugene O'Neill, 1920

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Internet Broadway Database link