The Cort Theater on Broadway – and a curse?
Now, on the eve of its latest production – the revival of “Barefoot in the Park” opening February Feb. 16 – theater watchers wonder: Could the Cort be curse?
To find out, The Post enlisted feng shui consultant Judith Wendell and psychi Stephen Robinson to check it out.
Their verdict? Not promising.
Armed with the tools of her trade – a pendulum and copper stick called a dowser – Wendell first checked the energy, or chi, of the stretch between Sixth and Seventh avenues.
“It’s a pretty low-energy block,” she concludes. “The theater is also the smallest building on either side of the block -it doesn’t stand out at all.” Not helping matters is the parking to sign that “obviates” the Cort’s signage – and the fact that 48th is an east-bound block, its traffic moving away from the Theater District proper.
Pausing near the box office, she checked her pendulum for signs of “unhappy spirits.” No ghosts there, she says, but she did feel “negative thought forms of previous tenants …unhappy actors, illness, hardship, sadness.”