Where to sit
Six the Musical seating chart — Lena Horne Theatre
A plain-language read of the Lena Horne Theatre for Six the Musical. Section by section, with the trade-offs ticket sellers tend to gloss over.
About the venue
- Theatre
- Lena Horne Theatre
- Address
- 256 W 47th St, New York, NY 10036
- Neighborhood
- Theater District
- Capacity
- 1,232 seats
- Operator
- Nederlander Organization
Home of Six since 2022.
The short version
The Lena Horne opened in 1926 as the Mansfield Theatre — designed by Herbert J. Krapp in Spanish Revival style for Irwin Chanin — and was renamed for New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson in 1960 before Nederlander rededicated it for Lena Horne in 2022, the first Broadway house named for a Black woman. At 1,232 seats across an orchestra and a single shallow mezzanine, it is intimate by midtown standards and sight lines are good throughout. Six runs 80 minutes with no intermission, so you are committed to your seat for the duration: front mezz has the best wide-angle on all six performers, centre orchestra is great for vocal proximity, and side orchestra rows can clip the staging on the corners.
Section by section
Sections are ordered roughly cheapest-to-most-expensive within the house's seating tiers — but the best value isn't always the cheapest. Watch for the sweet spot.
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Orchestra
Centre orchestra is premium for proximity to the queens. Side rows are cheaper but lose some of the choreography on the corners.
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Mezzanine
The best value tier — full coverage of all six performers, no neck-craning. Front rows of the mezz are the consensus best-value pick.
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