Bijou Theatre

By decade179 productions across 10 decades

1. 1880s 8
2. 1890s 19
3. 1900s 31
4. 1910s 17
5. 1920s 48
6. 1930s 20
7. 1940s 4
8. 1950s 15
9. 1970s 11
10. 1980s 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 162 runs here that record a performance count. 17 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here179 productions

In the literature8 passages

• Like International Soiree which had also opened at the tiny Bijou Theatre, The Next President was an intimate revue. But instead of emphasizing music and dance, the new revue was political in nature and starred stand-up comedian Mort Sahl, who specialized in acerbic comments on current events. And like its predecessor, the critics thought…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Six Characters in Search of an Author. Revived by Tom Van Dycke at the Bijou Theatre, New York, April 15, 1931,theatre-pdfs/A Treasury of the Theatre, v. 2.txt
• A Moon for the Misbegotten, Act I. Staged and presented by Carmen Capalbo and Stanley Chase at the Bijou Theatretheatre-pdfs/A Treasury of the Theatre, v. 2.txt
• BIJOU THEATRE Opened Wednesday. April 26, 1972* Dudley Field Malone and Van Rapoport present:theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).txt
• BIJOU THEATRE Opened Monday, May 7, 1973.* Robert J. Gibson and The Roundabout Theatre Compan)' (Gene Feist, Producing Director; Michael Fried, Executive Director) present:theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).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 17 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 116 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.
• Who built it.
• Any photograph that shows the building. We hold 1, but none is typed as an exterior, an auditorium or a marquee.