Helen Hayes Theater

By decade105 productions across 8 decades

1. 1910s 9
2. 1920s 34
3. 1930s 38
4. 1940s 4
5. 1960s 6
6. 1970s 8
7. 1980s 4
8. 2000s 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 93 runs here that record a performance count. 12 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here105 productions

In the literature8 passages

• The following songs were dropped in preproduction: “You Never Had It So Good,” “Wake Up, Little Theatre,” and various sequences from “Me and Juliet.”ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• • The Little Theatre Guild of Great Britain (LTG), founded in 1946, represents amateur companies which are generally larger and control their own premises. It has 103 members located in England, and boasts Sir Ian McKellen as a Patron. He has said: ‘Like many professional actors, I am a graduate of the Little Theatre Guild, whose member t…ebooks/Henshall, Ruthie/So You Want To Be In Musicals_ (So You Want to Be_. (Nick Hern Books)) - Ruthie Henshall.txt
• When Kauffmann arrived at the Helen Hayes Theater on February 15, the night before Friel's play was scheduled to open, the marquee was dark. The performance had been cancelled, ticketholders were informed, because a rat had been discovered in the generator. Kauffmann was especially grieved on behalf of his wife, when the pair became a pub…ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
• Wallace got back to work quickly, starring in Nuts to You , a revue produced by the Harlem Showcase at the YMCA Little Theatre on West 135th Street. “Royce Wallace is known to many people here and abroad,” declared the Amsterdam News . 94 In fact, her stock seemed to be rising, as she took on more prominent roles, “heading” a “summer show…ebooks/Oja, Carol J_/Bernstein Meets Broadway_ Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Broadway Legacies) - Carol J. Oja.txt
• I saw the original production of La Cage aux Folles at the Palace and it rocked my world. I was just a little theatre nerd in the 1980s and it was so big and gay and fabulous—it blew me away. It was larger than life. It gave the Palace this really specific feeling for me that has always lasted.ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.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 12 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 73 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.
• Who built it.