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Eden Theatre

Eden Theatre

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Broadway Closed 1969–1973 on this page4 productions

The Éden-Théâtre was a large theatre (4,000 seats) in the rue Boudreau, Paris, built at the beginning of the 1880s by the architects William Klein and Albert Duclos (1842–1896) in a style influenced by orientalism. It was demolished in 1895. == History == === Éden-Théâtre === Inspired by Moghol architecture, it was inaugurated on 7 January 1883 with the ballet Excelsior! with music by Romualdo Marenco, and this was followed in subsequent years by other spectacular ballets. The theatre witnessed the single performance of the first Paris production of Wagner's Lohengrin, on 3 May 1887 (in French) with Ernest van Dyck and Fidès Devriès, conducted by Charles Lamoureux, which aroused enormous opp…

By decade4 productions across 2 decades

  1. 1960s 1
  2. 1970s 3

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

1972 Gease February 14, 1972 · Tom Moore 3,388 perf.
1972 Grease February 14, 1972 · Tom Moore 3,388 perf.
1969 Oh! Calcutta! June 17, 1969 · Margo Sappington 1,314 perf.
1973 Smith May 19, 1973 · Neal Kenyon 17 perf.

Everything that played here4 productions

1969 Oh! Calcutta! June 17, 1969 · Original · no show page 1,314 perf.
1972 Gease February 14, 1972 · Original 3,388 perf.
1972 Grease February 14, 1972 · Original 3,388 perf.
1973 Smith May 19, 1973 · Original · no show page 17 perf.

In the literature8 passages

  • Once the score was in place, Waissman and Fox mounted a production at the Eden Theatre and opened on February 14, 1972. But they soon realized they’d made a mistake. The theater was technically a Broadway house, because it had more than the requisite 499 seats. But it was far from the Broadway district, located on Second Avenue and Twelft…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • A surprise runaway hit, Grease opened at the Off-Broadway Eden Theatre (formerly the Phoenix), then moved on Broadway to the Broadhurst and then the Royale. And there it remained until April 13, 1980, for a record run that was not overtaken until A Chorus Line danced past the mark. The show, which began life as a five-hour amateur product…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • - Small, and Garn Stephens Eden Theatre : opened February 721 972 ——Broadhurst Theatre ves June 7, 1972theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • DOUGLAS WATT, DAILY NEWS The Eden Theatre is a-tingle. Grease, which opened there last night, is a lively and funny musical—as well as the dancingest one in town—that brings back the look and sound of the teenage world of the late 1950s with glee. It’s a winner. Rydell High’s class of ’59 is a spirited one composed largely of delinquents.…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • i EDEN THEATRE Opened Tuesday, June 17, 1969* Hillard Elkins in association with Michael White, Gor-theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (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.
  • 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.
  • How many seats.
  • Who built it.

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