Lost Broadway Theatres: Updated and Expanded Edition
Theaters are more than just buildings, more than  giant musical instruments, as some have described them. For regular  theatergoers, they're old friends. When a theater disappears, there's a palpable sense of  mourning. Updated to 1997,Lost Broadway Theatresrecalls, in photos and  memories, playhouses from the colossal and opulent American Theatre, now  a parking lot, to the cozy Punch and Judy, now the site of an office  building. The good news is that several of the houses previously  considered doomed but not yet demolished have been restored in the Times  Square boom.Lost Broadway Theatrescelebrates their return, and pleads on behalf of   other hidden beauties whose fate may not yet be sealed.