Productions2 on Broadway
| 1922 | Shubert Theatre Original. February 1, 1922 · Julian Mitchell · predates this show | 46 performances |
| 1937 | Labor Stage Revival. November 27, 1937 · Charles Friedman | 1,108 performances |
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Pins and Needles way initially presented for a limited engagement at the tiny Labor Stage (formerly the Princess Theatre) by and for members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, but it soon attracted audiences in such droves that it kept on running until it overtook Irene as the long-run record holder for… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p105
Retitled New Pins and Needles in 1939, the show moved to the Windsor Theatre, then on 48th Street east of 7th Avenue, at a top ticket price of $1.65. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p106
Yet when this legendary freak success closed up shop it had bested the long-run record for musicals recently established by Pins and Needles. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p108
Pins and Needles was initially presented for a limited engagement at the tiny Labor Stage (formerly the Princess Theatre) by and for members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, but it soon attracted audiences in such droves that it kept on running until it overtook Irene as the long-run record holder for… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p124
Katherine Dunham’s first Broadway credit was for the choreography for a song added to the 1939 labor revue Pins and Needles, which had opened in 1937. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p43
The Princess Theater, long a failure as a legitimate house, played an important role in the history of the American musical. In the 1910s the Princess served as the home of the first great intimate musicals written by JEROME KERN, Guy Botton, and P.G. Wodehouse. Later the theater served as the home for the long-running… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p446
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