Casino Theatre

By decade108 productions across 6 decades

1. 1880s 5
2. 1890s 9
3. 1900s 32
4. 1910s 35
5. 1920s 18
6. 1930s 9

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 101 runs here that record a performance count. 7 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here108 productions

In the literature5 passages

• Then, near the start of the following season, the Casino Theatre opened—the first American playhouse built specifically for musicals. Dominating the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-Ninth Street, well north of the theatre district of the day, the structure combined a facade of Venetian Gothic with a Moorish tower at the corner matc…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
• Baby," "When We Are Married," and "You and I." Produced New York, Casino Theatre, September 28, 1897. The Fortune Teller (1898). Book and lyrics: Harry B. Smith; music: Victor Herbert. Comic opera with a Hun-theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
• The Firefly, with Sammy Lee (far right). New York, Casino Theatre, 1912. [Culver Pictures]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
• Closed Sept. 16, 1973 after 15 performances and one preview. Original production Nov. 30, 1926 at Casino Theatre with Robert Halhday and Vivienne Segal, and played 228 performances. t Succeeded by: 1. Austin Colyer, 2. David Vogel •theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt
• SPONG THEATRE SCHOOL (formerly held Beach Theatre, Falmouth, Cape Cod) m The Casino Theatre and Workshop CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY July 6th to August 30th . . . Eight weeks of intensive work in SPEECH AND VOICE, PANTOMIME, MAKEUP, DANCING AND REHEARSALS Plus PUBLIC APPEARANCES WITH THE PROFESSIONAL STOCK COMPANY SPECIAL COURSE FOR TEACHERS For…theatre-pdfs/sim_theatre-arts_1936-05_20_5.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 7 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 9 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.