 The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is a Broadway theatre company located in New York City. Architects Carrere & Hastings designed the 1400-seats theatre. Producer Charles Dillingham built the theatre in 1910 and lost it in 1931. It became a movie house and was bought by the Brandt chain in 1936. City Playhouses Incorporated bought it in 1957. The theatre was extensively renovated and reopened as the Lunt-Fontanne in 1958, and the Nederlander Organization bought it in 1973. Lunt-Fontanne has hosted plays and musicals such as The Sound of Music, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet as well as Beauty and the Beast, A Midsummer Night s Dream, Titanic and Hello Dolly.
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