The Edison Theatre was a legitimate Broadway theatre located in the Hotel Edison at 240 West 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan. Officially a 499-seat Off-Broadway house the Edison Theater actually had 541 seats.[citation needed]It opened as the Arena Theatre on May 31 1950 with a revival of George Kelly’s The Show Off. The following year it was converted into the hotel’s ballroom and remained as such until the early 1970s when it was re-converted to a theatre.
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