Eugene O'Neill Theatre

By decade73 productions across 8 decades

1. 1920s 29
2. 1930s 20
3. 1940s 12
4. 1960s 3
5. 1980s 1
6. 1990s 2
7. 2000s 5
8. 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.

Longest runs hereby performances

Everything that played here73 productions

In the literature8 passages

• 8 The Firstborn by Christopher Fry opened at the Coronet Theatre on 30 April 1958. It included incidental music by Bernstein. The cast was led by Anthony Quayle; it also included Michael Wager, a friend of the Bernsteins.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• First performance: 26 February 1976, Philadelphia, PA, Forrest Theatre, Ken Howard (President), Patricia Routledge (President's Wife), Gilbert Price (Lud); Donald McKayle (choreo.), Frank Corsaro (dir.), Roland Gagnon (cond.)ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• Theatre : Coronet Theatre (during run, the revue transferred to the Mark Hellinger Theatre)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• As the Hartmans explained in the revue’s prologue (as they walked down the aisle of the Coronet Theatre to the stage), the revue’s original name had been a more commercial one, but unfortunately another show in town was already called South Pacific . However, their revue had much in common with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hit, because every…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Theatre : 48th Street Theatre (during run, the musical transferred to the Coronet Theatre)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.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 39 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.