Liberty Theatre

By decade88 productions across 4 decades

1. 1900s 24
2. 1910s 25
3. 1920s 27
4. 1930s 12

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 87 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 here88 productions

In the literature7 passages

• Little Johnny Jones opened at the Liberty Theatre on 7November 1904. Its first Broadway run lasted only fifty-two performances, but Cohan continued to tinker with it during its road tour. When he brought it back to New York the following year, it amassed over two hundred performances. The score contains two of Cohan’s most unforgettable n…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
• Produced Liberty Theatre, Feb. 20, 1922. 4. (With Connelly). Merton of the Moines. Comedy, 4 acts. Published 1925. Produced Cort Theatre, Nov. 13, 1922. 5. (With Connelly). Helen of Troy, N.Y. Musical comedy, prologue and 2 acts. Produced Selwyn Theatre, June 19, 1923. Music and lyrics: Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. (With Connelly). The Dee…theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
• "Sweet and Low Down," "Our Little Captain," "Harbor of Dreams," "Nightie Night," and "Tip Toes." Produced New York, Liberty Theatre, December 28, 1925. Revived New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music,theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
• Robinson in Blackbirds of 1928, Liberty Theatre, New York. (Photograph by Vandamm. Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations] Billtheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
• 1924. New York run: Liberty Theatre, opened December 1, 1924. 330 performances. Music by George Gershwin. Lyrics almost entirely by Ira Gershwin. Produced by Alex A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley. Book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson. Book staged by Felix Edwardes. Dances staged by Sammy Lee. Orchestra under the direction of Paul Lannin. Orc…theatre-pdfs/The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin - Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.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 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.
• Who built it.