Imperial Theatre

May still be running1 open on the record

These opened in the last three years and carry no closing date. That is the strongest claim the data supports — an unrecorded closing looks exactly like a run still going, and the file was last checked in August 2026. A run that closed last week is still sitting in this list.

By decade78 productions across 10 decades

1. 1920s 8
2. 1930s 17
3. 1940s 7
4. 1950s 8
5. 1960s 5
6. 1970s 12
7. 1980s 5
8. 2000s 5
9. 2010s 7
10. 2020s 4

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 75 runs here that record a performance count. 3 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here78 productions

In the literature8 passages

• 6 The opening night of Peter Pan at Broadway's Imperial Theatre was on 24 April 1950.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• First performance: 24 April 1950, New York, Imperial Theatre, cast incl. Jean Arthur (Peter Pan) and Boris Karloff (Captain Hook); John Burrell (dir.), Trude Rittmann (music coordinator), Ben Steinberg (cond.)ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
• In a short essay printed in the Imperial Theatre playbill Loesser described his initial resistance to the idea of adapting Howard’s play They Knew What They Wanted . 27 Before long, however, he realized that he could delete “the topical stuff about the labor situation in the 1920’s, the discussion of religion, etc.” 28 Loesser continues:…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Several New York tastemakers praised the show lavishly when it opened at the Imperial Theatre. Robert Coleman headed his review in the Daily Mirror with the judgment, “‘Most Happy Fella’ Is a Masterpiece” and subtitled this endorsement with “Loesser has performed a truly magnificent achievement with an aging play.” 32 John McClain of the…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Loesser, Frank. “Some Loesser Thoughts on ‘The Most Happy Fella.’” Imperial Theatre program notes, 1956.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.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 3 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 3 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.