Music Box 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 decade144 productions across 11 decades

1. 1920s 14
2. 1930s 18
3. 1940s 14
4. 1950s 12
5. 1960s 19
6. 1970s 9
7. 1980s 15
8. 1990s 10
9. 2000s 13
10. 2010s 12
11. 2020s 8

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 141 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 here144 productions

In the literature8 passages

• Based on Alan Paton’s 1948 novel Cry, the Beloved Country , the musical was originally produced on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre on October 30, 1949, for 281 performances with Todd Duncan (Stephen Kumalo), Leslie Banks (James Jarvis), and Julian Mayfield (Absalom Kumalo). Besides the current production by the New York City Opera Compa…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Miss Lonelyhearts by Howard Teichmann (Music Box Theatre, October 3, 1957, 12 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Side by Side by Sondheim opened in New York at the Music Box Theatre on 18 April 1977 after five preview performances. There were 29 songs presented in the show, plus a medley of perhaps a dozen more, including numbers dropped from Sondheim shows during either rehearsals or out-of-town tryouts. The stage was bare except for two pianos and…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
• 4 . For example, “Music Box Theatre, Expensively Built / Cost Over $1,000,000 to Date—May Be Scaled at $4—Open in Sept.” ran a subhead on a page-one Variety article of July 22, 1921. And a New York Times column, “Gossip of the Rialto,” Aug. 7, 1921, similarly noted that the theater cost one million, “twice the $500,000 that was originally…ebooks/Magee, Jeffrey/Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater (Broadway Legacies) - Jeffrey Magee.txt
• Raúl was then set to play Zangara in the revival of Assassins , which was going to play the Music Box Theatre. However, after September 11th the show was canceled because of the theme. Unfortunately, Raúl had already quit tick, tick… BOOM! , so he had no gig. Out of the blue, The Roundabout called and offered him the role of the Emcee in…ebooks/Rudetsky, Seth/Seth's Broadway Diary, Volume 1_ Part 1 - Seth Rudetsky.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 19 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.