Los Angeles playing New York · nineteen days · 2013
The film is set in New York and was made in Los Angeles. Its conservatory is rooms in a vaudeville theatre, and its Carnegie Hall is another theatre down the street. In the picture: the film at Sundance, January 2014.
Overnight
Five real rooms in a theatre and a hotel. Pull the sheet along and see what the film made of each one.
Palace Theatre · 630 South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
Hotel Barclay · 103 West 4th Street, Downtown Los Angeles
Every room is bare. Pull the sheet.
The building · Palace Theatre
The film
The building · Palace Theatre
The film
The building · Palace Theatre
The film
The building · Palace Theatre
The film
The building · Hotel Barclay
The film
The Barclay also gave the film Andrew’s apartment and the coffee shop where Andrew breaks up with Nicole.
The schedule
Wikipedia says principal photography began in September 2013 and that the film was shot in nineteen days, at fourteen hours of filming a day.
In the third week the director, Damien Chazelle, was in a car accident and went to hospital. He was back on set the next day, and the film wrapped on time.
The location list says the whole performance sequence was shot at the Orpheum.
Strike
The Orpheum, the Palace and the Barclay are close together downtown. The Barclay is a residential building today, and the Manhattan school is a working school: both are seen from the street. Which Newhall building was used is not published, so that pin marks the address one location list gives.
6 places you can visit in Los Angeles, Santa Clarita and New York. Most were the film’s Shaffer Conservatory, jazz club, bar or Carnegie Hall.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working theatre with concerts and screenings. Seen from South Broadway; inside with a ticket to an event or on a theatre tour.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A live venue on South Broadway. Seen from the street; inside with an event ticket or on the Saturday theatre walk.
Site reference · Restricted access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A residential building today. Seen from the corner of 4th and Main Street; the lobby is not open to visitors.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public street in Old Town Newhall. Which building was used is not published, so the pin marks the address one location list gives.
Los Angeles and Santa Clarita · 842 South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
The Orpheum Theatre, 842 South Broadway, opened on 15 February 1926; G. Albert Lansburgh designed the Beaux Arts facade.
A working theatre with concerts and screenings. Seen from South Broadway; inside with a ticket to an event or on a theatre tour.
Los Angeles and Santa Clarita · 630 South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
Wikipedia gives the Palace as opened in 1911 as the third Los Angeles home of the Orpheum circuit, designed by G. Albert Lansburgh and Robert Brown Young, and calls it the oldest theatre remaining on Broadway.
A live venue on South Broadway. Seen from the street; inside with an event ticket or on the Saturday theatre walk.
Los Angeles and Santa Clarita · 103 West 4th Street, Downtown Los Angeles
The set decorators used the Barclay’s lobby, redressed as a high-end bar, for the scene where Andrew meets the lawyer.
A residential building today. Seen from the corner of 4th and Main Street; the lobby is not open to visitors.
Los Angeles and Santa Clarita · 24347 Main Street, Newhall, Santa Clarita
The set decorators place Jim Neyman’s house, the car rental and the car crash scene in Santa Clarita, outside Los Angeles.
A public street in Old Town Newhall. Which building was used is not published, so the pin marks the address one location list gives.
Stay
A downtown hotel on the street of the Orpheum and the Palace.
South Broadway, Los Angeles
A hotel at 1060 South Broadway, on the same street as the Orpheum and the Palace. Its page describes Beaux Arts rooms with views over Broadway. Pictured: the Orpheum, 2014.
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A Saturday theatre walk, and live results for Carnegie Hall and Los Angeles film tours.
South Broadway, Los Angeles
A Saturday 10am walking tour of the Broadway theatre district that names the Orpheum and the Palace; it runs about two hours forty-five minutes and theatre interiors depend on availability. Pictured: the Palace, 2014.
See the tourMidtown Manhattan
Live marketplace results for tours that include Carnegie Hall. Check which ones go inside. Pictured: the front, 2011.
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Live marketplace results for film location tours of Los Angeles. Check each route for downtown. Pictured: the Hotel Barclay.
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7 of 7 places · 12 of 12 stories
842 South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
The onstage grand finale is shot on the Orpheum stage, which stands in for Carnegie Hall.
630 South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
An empty hallway at the Palace is switched to the jazz club overnight.
The Studio Band Room is built on the Palace’s stage.
The Shaffer practice rooms are a corridor added to the Palace’s basement.
Andrew’s Shaffer dorm room and the Nassau band room are also dressed inside the Palace.
103 West 4th Street, Downtown Los Angeles
The Barclay’s lobby is redressed as a high-end bar for Andrew’s meeting with the lawyer.
A coffee shop at the Barclay is where Andrew breaks up with Nicole; the hotel also gives Andrew’s apartment.
24347 Main Street, Newhall, Santa Clarita
Jim Neyman’s house, the car rental and the car crash scene are filmed in Santa Clarita.
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown Manhattan
Exterior shots of Andrew’s first on-stage performance are taken at Carnegie Hall.
150 West 85th Street, Upper West Side
Cameras are set up outside Manhattan Country School for exterior shots.
Los Angeles County, California
Principal photography begins in September 2013; the film is shot in nineteen days at fourteen hours a day.
Damien Chazelle is hurt in a car accident in the third week of filming, is in hospital, and returns to set the next day to wrap on time.
Places to stay
Inside the United Artists Theatre building.
939 South Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles, 90015 · Source · Check dates on Expedia (Ad / affiliate)
Where Julien Arpels died.
150 Central Park South, Manhattan, New York, 10019 · Source · Check dates on Expedia (Ad / affiliate)
Fifth Avenue hotel seen in Home Alone 2, North by Northwest and The Great Gatsby.
768 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, 10019 · Source · Check dates on Expedia (Ad / affiliate)
What’s on
The Regent Theater · 150 m from Hotel Barclay
The Regent Theater · 150 m from Hotel Barclay
The Belasco · 450 m from Orpheum Theatre
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