Houses that never held a hit
Five productions or more on the books and nothing that ever passed five hundred performances. 44 buildings. Some were unlucky, some were the wrong size, and some were only ever booked for try-outs.
44 in the catalogue.
| Knickerbocker Theatre 1,300 seats | 1893–1930 | 162 productions |
| Garrick Theatre 718 seats | 1890–1932 | 154 productions |
| Ritz Theatre | 1921–1982 | 99 productions |
| Apollo Theatre 1,194 seats | 1920–1996 | 77 productions |
| Criterion Theatre 588 seats | 74 productions | |
| Gielgud Theatre 994 seats | 64 productions | |
| New York Theatre | 1895–1913 | 61 productions |
| Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 2,196 seats | 1663 | 59 productions |
| Manhattan Theatre | 1875–1909 | 55 productions |
| Tom Stoppard Theatre 640 seats | 55 productions | |
| Nora Bayes Theatre | 1918–1945 | 53 productions |
| Studio 54 922 seats | 1927 | 53 productions |
| Vaudeville Theatre 690 seats | 49 productions | |
| Aldwych Theatre 1,200 seats | 48 productions | |
| Noël Coward Theatre 942 seats | 44 productions | |
| Wyndham's Theatre 799 seats | 43 productions | |
| Manhattan Opera House | 1906–1939 | 40 productions |
| London Palladium 2,286 seats | 39 productions | |
| Savoy Theatre 1,150 seats | 39 productions | |
| Times Square Theatre 1,057 seats | 1920–1933 | 39 productions |
| Phoenix Theatre 1,012 seats | 1953–1972 | 36 productions |
| Novello Theatre 1,146 seats | 33 productions | |
| Coronet Theatre | 1925–1959 | 32 productions |
| Duchess Theatre 494 seats | 31 productions | |
| Windsor Theatre | 1937–1959 | 31 productions |
| Trafalgar Theatre 630 seats | 30 productions | |
| Victoria Palace Theatre 1,557 seats | 29 productions | |
| Dominion Theatre 2,163 seats | 25 productions | |
| Harold Pinter Theatre 796 seats | 25 productions | |
| Prince of Wales Theatre 1,148 seats | 23 productions | |
| Earl Carroll Theatre 3,000 seats | 1922–1990 | 20 productions |
| Standard Theatre | 1875–1909 | 20 productions |
| Prince Edward Theatre 1,618 seats | 1930 | 15 productions |
| Sondheim Theatre 1,137 seats | 15 productions | |
| Cherry Lane Theatre 179 seats | 1924 | 12 productions |
| Central Theatre 922 seats | 1918–1955 | 11 productions |
| Cambridge Theatre 1,231 seats | 9 productions | |
| Apollo Victoria Theatre 2,328 seats | 8 productions | |
| @sohoplace 602 seats | 8 productions | |
| Gillian Lynne Theatre 1,118 seats | 7 productions | |
| Her Majesty's Theatre 1,216 seats | 1705 | 7 productions |
| Theatre Royal Haymarket 888 seats | 7 productions | |
| Holiday Theatre | 1923–1955 | 6 productions |
| Jardin de Paris | 1907–1925 | 6 productions |