Center Theatre

By decade58 productions across 2 decades

1. 1930s 6
2. 1940s 52

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 43 runs here that record a performance count. 15 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here58 productions

In the literature8 passages

• • The Drowsy Chaperone , a woozy musical comedy from Canada whose American premiere was at the Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles. It closed December 30, 2007, after playing 674 performances and grossing $63.5 million.ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt
• The chiefs of the biggest not-for-profit theaters make big salaries. Some question if the salaries are commensurate with the duties. Andre Bishop, artistic director of the Lincoln Center Theatre, who was paid more than four hundred thousand dollars in the 2007 season, said, “I receive a handsome salary and worked 35 years to get it…. The…ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt
• Remember that three not-for-profit theaters produce on Broadway: the Lincoln Center Theatre, the Manhattan Theatre Club, and Roundabout Theatre. They are sometimes called the super-nfps. By producing on Broadway, these organizations and the artists whose work appears on their Broadway stages are eligible for Tony Awards. Perhaps because o…ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt
• The Lincoln Center Theatre operates the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, a Broadway stage, the Mitzi Newhouse, an off-Broadway house, and it is building a new off-off-Broadway theater that seats ninety-nine. Part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the 1960s campus holding the performing spaces for the New York Philharmonic, the Metrop…ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt
• Only in 1985, after years of disuse, was a successful organization formed that revived the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. Lincoln Center Theatre (LCT) was the country's largest not-for-profit theater, but as in 2008, The Roundabout wields a bigger budget. The total budgets for the Kennedy Center and the Center Group in Los Angeles are as large…ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.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 15 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 1 of these run ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that they certainly closed — nobody wrote down the date.