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Earl Carroll Theatre

Earl Carroll Theatre

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Broadway Closed 1922–1931 on this page20 productionsLandmark

The Earl Carroll Theatre is a former stage facility at 6230 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It was built by showman Earl Carroll and designed in the Streamline Moderne style by architect Gordon Kaufmann in 1938. The theatre has been known by a number of names since, including Moulin Rouge from 1953 to 1964 and the Aquarius Theater in the 1960s through the early 1980s. From 1997 to 2017, it was officially known as Nickelodeon on Sunset (or Nick on Sunset), housing the West Coast production of live-action original series produced for the Nickelodeon cable channel. The theater closed in 2017. In 2019, the building was leased for 10 years by a pair of theater operators wh…

By decade20 productions across 2 decades

  1. 1920s 18
  2. 1930s 2

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

1923 Kid Boots December 31, 1923 · Edward Royce 489 perf.
1929 Earl Carroll's Sketch Book [1929] July 1, 1929 · Edgar MacGregor 392 perf.
1922 The Gingham Girl August 28, 1922 · Edgar MacGregor 322 perf.
1926 Earl Carroll's Vanities [1926] August 24, 1926 303 perf.
1931 Earl Carroll's Vanities [1931] August 27, 1931 · Edgar MacGregor 300 perf.
1931 Earl Carroll Vanities August 27, 1931 · Earl Carroll 278 perf.
1923 Earl Carroll's Vanities [1923] July 5, 1923 · William Collier 204 perf.
1928 Earl Carroll's Vanities [1928] August 6, 1928 · Busby Berkeley 200 perf.

Everything that played here20 productions

1922 Bavu February 25, 1922 · Original · no show page 25 perf.
1922 Just Because March 22, 1922 · Original · no show page 46 perf.
1922 (Raymond Hitchcock's) Pin Wheel June 15, 1922 · Original · no show page 28 perf.
1922 The Gingham Girl August 28, 1922 · Original · no show page 322 perf.
1923 Earl Carroll's Vanities [1923] July 5, 1923 · Original · no show page 204 perf.
1923 Kid Boots December 31, 1923 · Original · no show page 489 perf.
1923 King Lear March 9, 1923 · Revival · no show page 2 perf.
1923 My Aunt From Ypsilanti May 1, 1923 · Original · no show page 7 perf.
1924 Great Music October 4, 1924 · Original · no show page 44 perf.
1925 Earl Carroll's Vanities [1925] July 6, 1925 · Original · no show page 199 perf.
1926 Earl Carroll's Vanities [1926] August 24, 1926 · Original · no show page 303 perf.
1927 Allez-oop August 2, 1927 · Original · no show page 120 perf.
1927 Happy December 5, 1927 · Original · no show page 80 perf.
1927 Madame X July 6, 1927 · Revival · no show page 22 perf.
1928 Earl Carroll's Vanities [1928] August 6, 1928 · Original · no show page 200 perf.
1928 Get Me in the Movies May 21, 1928 · Original · no show page 32 perf.
1929 Earl Carroll's Sketch Book [1929] July 1, 1929 · Original · no show page 392 perf.
1929 Fioretta February 5, 1929 · Original · no show page 111 perf.
1931 Earl Carroll's Vanities [1931] August 27, 1931 · Original · no show page 300 perf.
1931 Earl Carroll Vanities August 27, 1931 · Original 278 perf.

In the literature1 passages

  • Eddie Cantor in the Ziegfeld production of Kid Boots. New York, Earl Carroll Theatre, 1923. [Culver Pictures]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).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.
  • When 7 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.

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