Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Theatre Register

By decade59 productions across 11 decades

1910s 1
1920s 3
1930s 2
1940s 1
1950s 1
1960s 4
1970s 22
1980s 4
1990s 9
2000s 11
2010s 1

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.

Everything that played here59 productions

1919	Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella Opening date not recorded · Transfer
1924	Rose Marie 1927 Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1928	Show Boat May 3, 1928 · Transfer
1928	Showboat 1929 Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1931	Cavalcade 1932 Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1934	Three Sisters Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1945	p=33}} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1959	p=208}} }} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1964	Camelot Opening date not recorded · Transfer
1964	Camelot 1965 Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1965	Hello Dolly! 1967 Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1969	Mame 1970 Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1970	The Great Waltz 1972 Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1972	Gone with the Wind 1973 Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1972	p=26}} ) and Charles Hart held out for shares and good contracts in the Kin Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1972	p=27}} British playwrights wrote parts for outspoken female characters, da Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1972	p=41}} The picture-frame-like separation between audience and performance Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1972	p=51}} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1972	pp=26–28}} Langhans, p. 16 Imitating the innovations at Lincoln' Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1972	pp=38–42}} With the appearance of actresses for the first time at Drury La Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1972	pp=52–54, 58}} Nevertheless, it was mostly at the struggling Theatre Royal Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1972	pp=62, 74, 79–85}} On 2 March 1717 was the premiere of the ballet [[The Lo Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1974	Billy 1976 Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1976	pp=19–21}} {{harvnb Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1979	p=12}} Experienced actors Michael Mohun (who Pepys called "the best ac Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1979	p=80}} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1979	p=82}} }} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1979	p=82}} Additionally three rooms were provided for scripts, including a lib Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1979	p=82}} The new play is assumed to have been John Vanbrugh's [[The Re Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1979	p=ix}} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1979	pp=15–26}} Internal power structures were the main reason for this differe Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1979	pp=37–40, 56–57}} and Rich attempted to recoup their depredations of the c Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1979	pp=4–7}} The new playhouse, architect unknown, opened on 7 May 1663 and wa Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1979	pp=80–81}} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1981	p=103}} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1981	p=92}} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1981	pp=103–104}} Effects for an 1829 production were produced by [[hydraulics Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1981	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 1983 Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1993	p=20}} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1993	p=34}} }} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1993	p=35}} }} Actress Sarah Siddons, then part of the Drury Lane company, c Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1995	p=309}} For most of that time, it was one of a handful of [[patent theatre Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1995	p=310}} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1995	p=310}} specifies 3611. The motivation behind building on such a large sca Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1995	p=42}} Linley took up the post of Musical Director at the theatre, receivi Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1995	p=44}} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
1995	p=45}} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
2000	p=268}} In 1833, Alfred Bunn gained control of both Drury Lane and Cov Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
2000	The Witches of Eastwick 2001 Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
2001	My Fair Lady revival 2003 Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
2003	Anything Goes revival 2004 Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
2004	The Producers November 9, 2004 · Transfer
2005	p=60}} Green baize cloth covered the benches in the pit and served to Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
2005	pp=59–60}} Set well back from the broader streets, the theatre was accesse Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
2007	pp=150, 263}} American imports also included Lerner and Loewe's [[My Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
2008	p=xvii}} often including the thrust stages found in the [[English Rena Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
2009	pp=117–118}} Towards the end of the 1790s, Grimaldi starred in [[Robinso Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
2009	pp=45–46}} Grimaldi became best known for his development of the modern da Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page
2013	pp=55–56}} Opening date not recorded · Original · no show page

In the literature8 passages

The production went on to run for 2,281 performances, again a huge achievement, especially given the much larger capacity of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (with more than 2,000 seats), compared to the Mark Hellinger on Broadway (approximately 1,500 seats). So successful was the London incarnation of the show that Columbia decided to recor…ebooks/McHugh, Dominic/Loverly_The Life and Times of My Fair Lady (Broadway Legacies) - Dominic McHugh.txt
Novello’s best remembered and most performed show is The Dancing Years, which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in March 1939. In the plot the composer Rudi Kleber (the leading male role, played, as usual, by Novello himself) is in love with the opera singer Maria Ziegler (Mary Ellis), but their affair is thwarted through misunderst…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
Source: Production of Oliver! at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Photograph by Catherine Ashmore. Copyright Oliver Productions Ltd. & Oliver Promotions Ltd.ebooks/Napolitano, Marc/Oliver!_ A Dickensian Musical - Marc Napolitano.txt
He would outdo himself more than ten years later when he revived the show again, this time at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. While the Palladium version had come close to his ideal vision of what Oliver! could be, Drury Lane offered a unique opportunity to see this ideal reach fruition, primarily owing to the structural differences betwee…ebooks/Napolitano, Marc/Oliver!_ A Dickensian Musical - Marc Napolitano.txt
Source: “Who Will Buy?” from Oliver! at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Photograph by Catherine Ashmore. Copyright Oliver Productions Ltd. & Oliver Promotions Ltd.ebooks/Napolitano, Marc/Oliver!_ A Dickensian Musical - Marc Napolitano.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 59 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
When 59 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.