Notable shows The Lyric as a movie theatre in 1985 Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan and Reginald De Koven.
The busts shown on the 2nd floor of the facade are of W. These were considered far too many for a commercial theatre of its size, and six, the top row of each side, were removed soon after the Lyric opened. It had eighteen box seats, nine on each side of the auditorium.
The Lyric originally had approximately 1,350 seats and two balconies. While De Koven's plans for the school did not bare fruit, his opera Red Feather was the first stage work with music to be presented at the Lyric Theatre when it premiered on November 9, 1903. It was designed by architect Victor Hugo Koehler, and opened on October 12, 1903, with Richard Mansfield's production of Old Heidelberg. However, the school went bankrupt before construction was finished, and Potter leased the theatre and its offices to the Shubert brothers. Potter as a home for composer Reginald De Koven's American School of Opera. The theatre was originally built by developer Eugene C. Both the 42nd and 43rd Street facades of the original Lyric were preserved and today form the front and back entrances of the modern Lyric Theatre. In 1996, its interior was demolished and the space was combined with that of the former Apollo Theatre to create the Ford Center, now the new Lyric Theatre. In 1934, it was converted into a movie theatre which it remained until closing in 1992. It had two formal entrances: at 213 West 42nd Street and 214-26 West 43rd Street. The Lyric Theatre was a Broadway theatre built in 1903 in the Theater District of Manhattan in New York City.
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