George Gershwin Theatre

By decade74 productions across 4 decades

1. 1970s 29
2. 1980s 24
3. 1990s 15
4. 2000s 6

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 68 runs here that record a performance count. 6 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here74 productions

In the literature8 passages

• Thirty-eight years before the first preview of Turn Off the Dark —thirty-eight years to the day —a Broadway show opened at the newly built Uris Theatre. The 1972 show was Via Galactica, starring Raul Julia, and I had never heard of it, but in the January 1, 2011, edition of the New York Times there was a remarkable editorial written by th…ebooks/Berger, Glen/Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger.txt
• The most recent revival, which was based on a 1998 London production, opened on March 21, 2002, at the Gershwin Theatre for 388 performances. Patrick Wilson was Curly, and Josefina Gabrielle (who had appeared in the London cast) was Laurey.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The musical was again revived on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre for 103 performances beginning on April 29, 1997, and was recorded by RCA Victor (CD # 09026-68835-2).ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• And yet when Lansbury opens on a Tuesday night, she sees a sea of empty seats in the less-than-half-full Uris Theatre. Granted, this is Broadway’s biggest house, capable of accommodating more than 1,900 theatergoers. But last week it was filled.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• During the run, the production moved to the Gershwin Theatre. David Carroll was replaced by John Schneider and later by Rex Smith; Liliane Montevecchi by Zina Bethune and later by Cyd Charisse (making her Broadway debut); Michael Jeter by Austin Pendelton; Jane Krakowski by Lynette Perry; Karen Akers by Valerie Cutko.ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.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 6 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• 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.
• Who built it.
• Any photograph of the building. 83 of 135 venues have one.