Term of the Day: musical house

musical house--a large Broadway theater that commonly stages musicals, like the Gershwin (home of "Wicked"), the Minskoff ("The Lion King"), the New Amsterdam ("Aladdin"), the Shubert or the Lyric. Since musicals are so expensive (at least $12 million and often much more), producers will try to put musicals in houses that are 1400 seats and above. These houses also have much larger orchestra pits.