Der Scutt designed the Minskoff, with Ben Schlanger as a consulting architect. The Minskoff Theatre is on the third floor of One Astor Plaza, also known as 1515 Broadway, along Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Though many of the Minskoff's early productions were unprofitable, since 2006 it has housed the musical The Lion King, which became the highest-grossing Broadway musical ever in 2014. The theater subsequently hosted long runs such as West Side Story, The Pirates of Penzance, Black and Blue, and Sunset Boulevard in the 1980s and 1990s. The first major production at the Minskoff, Irene, was followed by a series of short-lived productions in the 1970s. The Minskoff Theatre was added during the planning process in exchange, One Astor Plaza's developers were allowed to erect a taller building with additional floor area. One Astor Plaza was initially proposed in 1967 without any theaters. One Astor Plaza's eastern section is directly above the theater and has to be supported entirely by the theater's roof. There are escalators leading from the ground floor to the lobby, where further escalators lead to the auditorium. The theater's main entrances are from a passageway connecting 44th and 45th Streets, in the middle of a city block between Broadway to the east and Eighth Avenue to the west. It was one of the first theaters constructed under the Special Theater District amendment of 1967. The Minskoff was designed by Kahn and Jacobs, who designed One Astor Plaza.
Over the years it has served as host to musicals, dance companies, and concerts. There are approximately 1,710 seats in the auditorium, spread across an orchestra level and a balcony. Opened in 1973, it is operated by the Nederlander Organization and is named after Sam Minskoff and Sons, the building's developers.
The Minskoff Theatre is a Broadway theater on the third floor of the One Astor Plaza office building in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
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