American Airlines Theatre

By decade116 productions across 8 decades

1. 1910s 4
2. 1920s 28
3. 1930s 14
4. 1940s 1
5. 1950s 1
6. 2000s 36
7. 2010s 26
8. 2020s 6

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 112 runs here that record a performance count. 4 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here116 productions

In the literature8 passages

• The revue opened at the Selwyn Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, on October 16, 1954, and permanently closed there on October 24.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Josephine by Sally Benson (opened on January 8, 1953, at the Playhouse, Wilmington, Delaware, and closed on February 7, 1953, at the Selwyn Theatre, Chicago, Illinois)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Bock’s memorial was held at the American Airlines Theatre the following January, where friends and colleagues recounted many of their shows with Bock. Performers sang, writers spoke, friends wept. “When I direct a show with a traditional score, I tell the casting director to ask actors to sing a Bock and Harnick song,” director Lonny Pric…ebooks/Isenberg, Barbara/Tradition!_ The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical - Barbara Isenberg.txt
• Broadway did. He was a comic leading man. Lane had the privilege of inaugurating the refurbished American Airlines Theatre (nee the Selwyn) on the reborn Forty-second Street with a summer 2000 revival of Kaufman and Hart's comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner, playing tart-tongued critic Sheridan Whiteside, who finds himself stranded in the…ebooks/Viagas, Robert/I'm the Greatest Star_ Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today - Robert Viagas.txt
• Times Square next door to the larger Selwyn Theatre and played there right setting a through to the end of August, thereby making Broadway history and to follow. It pattern which the other really big hit shows were, eventually, this first was Robert Baral who finally summarized the importance oftheatre-pdfs/Gertrude Lawrence - Sheridan Morley.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 4 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 26 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.