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Opened in November 1924 as the Martin Beck Theatre, the Broadway house at 302 West 45th Street carries one of the more elaborate origin stories on the street. The vaudeville promoter Martin Beck commissioned it and, unusually for the time, paid for it outright, making it the only theatre in New York then standing without a mortgage. Architect G. Albert Lansburgh dressed it in a Moorish and Byzantine style meant to outshine its neighbours, with dressing rooms enough for 200 performers and an inte...