Daily News from New York, New York • 156

1 i- i READY I CJ a THRU WED. 10 A.M. GeEumbus Day Come in and see the values in our exciting 32-page circular. A Weiv Jersey staging a coup Vn a .11 a- uii I RI i By OWEN MORfTZ SAVE 50! suityourself impeccably in pure wool -a-tf i I -'V. Urban Altatra Editor Is nothing sacred? Does Jersey have no shame? Now it seems New Jersey is mulling a Broadway in exile an entertainment complex that would be built in the Jersey Meadow-lands, near Giants Stadium, to house Broadway plays, maybe in competition with Broadway itself.

This comes from Jimmy Neder-lander, one of Broadway's biggest producers. Nederlander was approached some time back by Jersey authorities for advice on building an entertainment complex in the Meadowlands, separate from the sports-oriented Brendan Bryne Arena. The discussions are said to have focused on building several Broadway-type playhouses in the Meadowlands. Nederlander says he hasn't said yes, and probably won't, because his heart is in New york. "I'm a lover of Broadway," he says.

"This is my home." But Nederlander and his Nederlander Organization do book the performers for the summertime Garden State Arts Center off the Garden State Parkway in Holmdel, N.J., under a long-term contract More to the point, Jersey seems determined these days to upstage New York at every opportunity. Last month, Jersey's congressional delegation in Washington put the kiss of death on Westway, partly because it posed a threat to Jersey's resurgent Hudson River waterfront And lest we forget, the Meadowlands is home to New York's two National Football League franchises. Legitimate theater would thus be Jersey's cowp de grace, endowing the state with a degree of national respect that has eluded it As far as Nederlander is concerned, it's a push-pull situation. Jersey is pulling and he and other producers feel they're being pushed by amateurs and community activists in tandem with the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission. lie's against landmarking One big issue along the Rialto is whether the theaters should be land-marked.

Nederlander says landmarking is the wrong tact "Second balconies don't work," he says, a reference to the outmoded design of some theaters. As it happens, the city now has a no-demolition law that makes it virtually impossible to tear down any theater. Nederlander and Gerald Schoenfeld of The Shubert Organization say they can live with that law; others like producer Joe Papp have proposed that City Hall step in as a last resort But all are opposed to landmarking as such; the quirks of the landmarks law and the idea that the bureaucracy of a part-time agency should rule on display and interior changes at a time when Broadway is vesteds with the Woolmark9 PURE VIRGIN WOOL Designed with the inimitable European in the finest wool. Center side vent models. Also elegant double breasteds in group.

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"We need help, but that (landmarking) isn't it," says Nederlander. "We couldn't have produced 'Cats if we had that law. Landmarking won't help any production I know of. Maybe they should landmark the producers." Nederlander made these remarks while watching the formal dedication of the $450 million Marriott-Marquis Hotel in Times Square. The hotel is also a sore point between the theater industry and community activists.

Scanning the 38 stories of interior space that constitute the atrium of the hotel, Nederlander said he believes the Marquis is "the best step forward for Times Square in the last 50 years." "We have to progress," he continued "This (the hotel) is progress. You can't go back. Some people still want to drive around in Model Ts." Nederlander is the designated producer of a theater that will open as part of the Marquis later this year. That theater is less than what was promised the community, and many community leaders are outraged that the Koch administration permitted a smaller theater than promised though the hotel got a bonus by promising something larger. But it's also true that many are opposed to the hotel as an oversized interloper on the Times Square scene.

Nederlander doesn't think so, obviously. And as Nederlander talks, it becomes clear that the interloper is New Jersey, Never mind that the theater is an integral part of New. York, and without a viable New York, northern New Jet sey would shrivel up tomorrow. What's clear is that Jersey has no need to worry about landmarks laws, part-time bureaucrats or the actions of community negativists. Nor does it seem to worry much about shame, either.

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