The Haunted Theaters of Broadway (L)

Some of the most entertaining spirits of this world—or the next—can be found in this entertaining talk about the real-life (and real death) stories of the ghosts who haunt theaters around the world. Robert Viagas, former Playbill editor and author of the new book, “Good Morning Olive: The Haunted Theatres of Broadway and Beyond,” will introduce you to the laughing ghost of the St. James Theatre; the phantom audience that died in a fire at the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago; The “Black Goon” of Disney’s New Amsterdam Theatre; the ghost cat who haunts the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and Olive Thomas, the flirtatious spirit of a Ziegfeld showgirl, who appears only to men and who greeted the author by shaking scenery backstage at the Broadway theater she still haunts to this day.

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