44th Street Theatre

By decade87 productions across 4 decades

1. 1910s 41
2. 1920s 14
3. 1930s 17
4. 1940s 15

Counted from the productions we hold, which are Broadway and a partial West End. A quiet decade here can mean a dark theatre and can mean a gap in the record.

Longest runs hereby performances

Ranked among the 60 runs here that record a performance count. 27 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here87 productions

In the literature3 passages

• 61 The basement café of the 44th Street Theatre, demolished in 1945 (the last show to run there was On the Town ).ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Johnny Johnson (musical play, Paul Green), New York, 44th Street Theatre, 19 November 1936.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
• After five months at the Adelphi Theatre (152 W. 54th Street), On the Town moved on June 4, 1945, to the 44th Street Theatre (216 W. 44th Street). The Adelphi was not “air-cooled,” and Peggy Clark declared the 44th Street Theatre to be “more convenient” in terms of backstage operations. 142 On July 30, the show moved again—this time to th…ebooks/Oja, Carol J_/Bernstein Meets Broadway_ Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Broadway Legacies) - Carol J. Oja.txt

What this page does not know

• What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here outside it — concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed production.
• How long 27 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 8 of these runs ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that they certainly closed — nobody wrote down the date.
• How many seats.
• Who built it.