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and Gerard Oestreicher, who leased the theater, donated the space for the Hall of Fame; Arnold Weissberger was another founder. Blackwell ordered that the names of the first honorees "be embossed in bronze-gold lettering on the theater's entrance walls flanking its grand staircase and escalator".
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Eligible inductees come from disciplines including actors, playwrights, songwriters, designers, directors, and producers who have had a career in American theater for at least 25 years and at least five major production credits on
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Since 1998, full accounts of the annual induction ceremonies, with quotes from both inductees and their presenters, have appeared in the
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would be located in the Uris Theatre, which was then under construction, and is now the
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in New York City, where the plaques containing the names of the inductees are hung.
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The first group of inductees was announced in October 1972.
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Index

Theater Hall of Fame
New York City
Earl Blackwell
Gershwin Theatre
James M. Nederlander
Broadway
American Theatre Critics Association
Gershwin Theatre
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
George Abbott
Judith Anderson
Fred Astaire
Pearl Bailey
Tallulah Bankhead
Ethel Barrymore
John Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore
Norman Bel Geddes
Irving Berlin
Leonard Bernstein
Edwin Booth
Katharine Cornell
Noël Coward
Lynn Fontanne
Eva Le Gallienne
George Gershwin
Ira Gershwin
Lillian Gish
Oscar Hammerstein II
Moss Hart

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