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The oldest surviving Broadway theatre still in use for legitimate theatre, the New Amsterdam stands on 42nd Street and opened in 1903. A masterpiece of Art Nouveau design, with around 1,700 seats, it was the most lavish playhouse of its day and the original home of the famous Ziegfeld Follies, the extravagant revues that defined an era of New York entertainment. Its early decades were glittering. Designed by the architects Herts and Tallant, the theatre dazzled with sinuous floral ornament, mur...