8. Bijou Theatre
Bijou Theatre, the smallest of the Shubert theatres was designed by Herbert J. Krapp and was built in 1917 on Forty-fifth Street. While the theater mostly showcased plays by writers like Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, and Sacha Guitry, it was one of three theaters that premiered the musical Fancy Free. Emerging from its comfort zone once in 1950, it showed one film, Cyrano De Bergerac. A year later, Bijou Theatre became a CBS radio station and was later renamed D.W. Griffith Theatre to showcase art films. The theater took up the name Bijou Theatre once again in 1965 until was torn down in 1982 for the Mariott Marquis Hotel.