Where to sit
The Great Gatsby seating chart — Broadway Theatre
A plain-language read of the Broadway Theatre for The Great Gatsby. It gives facts from the sources we could read; any view of our own is labelled as ours.
About the venue
- Theatre
- Broadway Theatre
- Address
- 1681 Broadway, New York, NY 10019
- Neighborhood
- Theater District
- Capacity
- 1,763 seats
- Operator
- Shubert Organization
Home of The Great Gatsby since 2024.
The short version
The Broadway Theatre opened in 1924 as B. S. Moss's Colony, a film house, and at 1,763 seats it is one of the largest houses on Broadway; the Shubert Organization's page says its size made it ideal for musical comedies. Shubert's figures put 909 seats in the orchestra and 834 on one mezzanine level, two flights up (31 steps), split into a front mezzanine (250) and a much larger rear mezzanine (584), with 20 box seats. In our view, the front mezzanine is the section to price first for a production this elaborate, centre orchestra is the seat to want for being close, and the back of the rear mezzanine is better kept for a show you already know than for a first visit.
Section by section
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Orchestra
909 seats, reached without steps; wheelchair seating is in the orchestra only (Shubert's access notes). In our view, centre orchestra is the seat to want; at the far sides, look at a seat-view photo before you buy.
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Front Mezzanine
250 seats on the second level, two flights up (31 steps), about two steps per row; the entrance is behind front mezzanine row F (Shubert's access notes). In our view, the section to price first for the whole stage picture.
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Rear Mezzanine
584 seats on the same level, entered in front of its row A (Shubert's access notes). In our view, its back rows are a long way from the stage in a house this size, so they suit a show you already know better than a first visit.
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