Gaiety Theatre

By decade43 productions across 4 decades

1. 1900s 2
2. 1910s 13
3. 1920s 26
4. 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

Ranked among the 42 runs here that record a performance count. 1 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here43 productions

In the literature6 passages

• Between the early Edwardian musical comedies of the Gaiety Theatre and the recent megamusicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber is a largely forgotten era in the history of the British musical of some twenty-five years. Between 1935 and 1960, 127 new British musicals were presented in the West End, but only a handful have survived into today’s acti…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
• Brighouse was the author of many one-act plays that appear in some fifty anthologies. The plays that were produced at the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester include The Doorway (1909), Dealing in Futures (1909), The Polygon (1911), Lonesome Like (1911), and Spring in Bloomsbury (1911). He also wrote The Price of Coal (1911); The Oak Settle (191…theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt
• duced Hampstead, Everyman Theatre, Oct. 18, 1926. 2. I'll Leave It to You. Light comedy, 3 acts. Written 1919. Published 1920. Produced Manchester, Gaiety Theatre, May 3, 1920; London, New Theatre, July 21, 1920.theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt
• duced Dublin, Gaiety Theatre, Feb. 28, 1955. 19. The Drums of Father Ned. Comic fantasy. Written 1958. Produced 20.theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 4 (O-S).txt
• 16. In Chancery. Fantastic comedy, 3 acts. Published 1905; Produced Edinburgh, Lyceum Theatre, Sept. 19, 1884; London, Gaiety Theatre, Dec. 24, 1884. 17. The Magistrate. Farce, 3 acts. Published 1892. Produced Court Theatre, Mar. 21, 1885. 18. (Adaptation). Mayfair. Play. Produced St. James's Theatre, Oct. 31, 1885. Based on Victorien Sar…theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 4 (O-S).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 1 of these run lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 33 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.
• How many seats.
• Who built it.
• Any photograph of the building. 83 of 135 venues have one.