The barns
Fourteen hundred seats and up. The Hippodrome held 5,300 and needed a show with an elephant in it. The economics of a big house decide what can be staged in it, which is why the spectacle never went away.
30 in the catalogue.
| Hippodrome 5,300 seats | 1905–1939 | 2 productions |
| Center Theatre 3,700 seats | 1932–1954 | 58 productions |
| Niblo's Garden 3,200 seats | 1823–1895 | |
| Earl Carroll Theatre 3,000 seats | 1922–1990 | 20 productions |
| Apollo Victoria Theatre 2,328 seats | 8 productions | |
| London Palladium 2,286 seats | 39 productions | |
| Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 2,196 seats | 1663 | 59 productions |
| Dominion Theatre 2,163 seats | 25 productions | |
| George Gershwin Theatre 1,933 seats | 1972 | 74 productions |
| Lyric Theatre 1,930 seats | 1998 | 231 productions |
| Broadway Theatre 1,761 seats | 1924 | 185 productions |
| New Amsterdam Theatre 1,747 seats | 1903 | 151 productions |
| Palace Theatre 1,743 seats | 1913 | 79 productions |
| Minskoff Theatre 1,710 seats | 1973 | 41 productions |
| St. James Theatre 1,710 seats | 1927 | 37 productions |
| New Century Theatre 1,700 seats | 1921–1962 | 94 productions |
| Majestic Theatre 1,645 seats | 1927 | 126 productions |
| Ziegfeld Theatre 1,638 seats | 1927–1966 | 40 productions |
| Prince Edward Theatre 1,618 seats | 1930 | 15 productions |
| Marquis Theatre 1,611 seats | 1986 | 43 productions |
| Mark Hellinger Theatre 1,603 seats | 1930–1989 | 62 productions |
| Victoria Palace Theatre 1,557 seats | 29 productions | |
| Winter Garden Theatre 1,526 seats | 1911 | 146 productions |
| Lunt-Fontanne Theatre 1,519 seats | 1910 | 93 productions |
| Hammerstein's Theatre 1,500 seats | 1927–1959 | 3 productions |
| Shubert Theatre 1,460 seats | 1913 | 182 productions |
| Al Hirschfeld Theatre 1,437 seats | 1924 | 173 productions |
| Adelphi Theatre 1,434 seats | 1928–1970 | 56 productions |
| Imperial Theatre 1,417 seats | 1923 | 78 productions |
| Shaftesbury Theatre 1,416 seats | 2 productions |