Never closed, on paper
An opening date, a substantial run, and no closing date at all. 212 productions, and 188 of them opened before 1950, so this is overwhelmingly a record-keeping absence rather than a show that never came off.
212 in the catalogue.
| The Old Maid Empire Theatre | 1935 | 305 perf. |
| First Lady Music Box Theatre | 1935 | 246 perf. |
| Night of January 16 Ambassador Theatre | 1935 | 235 perf. |
| Victoria Regina Broadhurst Theatre | 1935 | 203 perf. |
| Victoria Regina Broadhurst Theatre | 1936 | 314 perf. |
| Golden Boy Belasco Theatre | 1937 | 250 perf. |
| The Star-Wagon Empire Theatre | 1937 | 223 perf. |
| Of Mice and Men Music Box Theatre | 1937 | 207 perf. |
| You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Theatre 80 St. Marks | 1967 | 1,597 perf. |
| 1776 46th Street Theatre | 1969 | 1,217 perf. |
| Gease Eden Theatre | 1972 | 3,388 perf. |
| Tommy St. James Theatre | 1993 | 899 perf. |
| The Who\ Theatre not recorded | 1993 | 899 perf. |
| Chicago Richard Rodgers Theatre | 1996 | 9,999 perf. |
| A Funny Thing... Forum (1996 Revival) St. James Theatre | 1996 | 715 perf. |
| The Lion King New Amsterdam Theatre | 1997 | 10,000 perf. |
| tick, tick... BOOM! Theatre not recorded | 2001 | 215 perf. |
| Wicked Gershwin Theatre | 2003 | 8,500 perf. |
| Monty Python’s Spamalot Shubert Theatre | 2005 | 1,575 perf. |
| The Book of Mormon Eugene O'Neill Theatre | 2011 | 5,000 perf. |
| How to Succeed... (2011 Revival) Al Hirschfeld Theatre | 2011 | 473 perf. |
| Porgy and Bess Richard Rodgers Theatre | 2012 | 322 perf. |
| Aladdin New Amsterdam Theatre | 2014 | 9,999 perf. |
| Hamilton Richard Rodgers Theatre | 2015 | 3,500 perf. |
| the-bands-visit Ethel Barrymore Theatre | 2017 | 589 perf. |
| The Band Visit Theatre not recorded | 2017 | 589 perf. |
| Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Lyric Theatre | 2018 | 2,231 perf. |
| Hadestown Walter Kerr Theatre | 2019 | 1,700 perf. |
| Moulin Rouge! The Musical Al Hirschfeld Theatre | 2019 | 1,500 perf. |
| SIX: The Musical Brooks Atkinson Theatre | 2021 | 1,200 perf. |
| MJ The Musical Neil Simon Theatre | 2022 | 1,036 perf. |
| The Outsiders Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre | 2024 | 300 perf. |