The Imperial Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 249 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan. The theatre seats up to 1417 people. The Shubert Organization's fiftieth venue in New York City, it was constructed to replace their outdated Lyric Theatre. Designed by Herbert J. Krapp specifically to accommodate musical theatre productions, it opened on December 25, 1923 with the Oscar Hammerstein II-Vincent Youmans production Mary Jane McKane.
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