Good Morning America Coming to Broadway
Ed Fuentes
The marquee on Broadway's Los Angeles Theatre advertises Monday's Good Morning America taping.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — One of Broadway's historic theatres will get a national audience Monday morning as Good Morning America broadcasts its post-Oscars show live from the 1931 Los Angeles Theatre. Appropriately, the day will focus on the celebrities, fashion and fun of Oscar night.
The show airs from 7 to 9am, showing here on ABC7. We on the west coast receive a tape delay, though, so the broadcast will actually be live from Downtown from 4 - 6am.
According to an email sent out by the Bringing Back Broadway effort, the show will also highlight the 1933 theatre and the Broadway revitalization push.
Launched in January of 2008, the Bringing Back Broadway effort is an initiative by property owners and Councilman Jose Huizar to bring life back to the upper floors and theaters lining Broadway. The street contains a dozen theaters between 3rd and 9th, all built in the early part of the 1900s.
Raymond Dang on February 22, 2009, at 03:39PM – #1
Wow. This would never have happened a few years ago. A big step, but I wish they could shoot the broadcast another time of day. Downtown at 4am? It's going to look deader than dead on national tv.
Jim Winstead on February 22, 2009, at 10:18PM – #2
didn't barbara walters do her oscar special from the los angeles theater or one of the other broadway theaters just a year or two ago?
Ed Fuentes on February 22, 2009, at 11:55PM – #3
Barbara Walters' Oscar Special was held at the Los Angeles Theater in 2007. She described as "not quite your local megaplex."
One segment was filmedacross the way inside the Palace ––where some scenes for Dreamgirls was filmed. It was there Walters interviewed Jennifer Hudson for the special.
JDRCRASH on February 24, 2009, at 01:16PM – #4
Cool; now America gets to see what the "other" Broadway is like and it's potential.