Neil Simon Theatre

By decade125 productions across 11 decades

1. 1920s 3
2. 1930s 15
3. 1940s 22
4. 1950s 13
5. 1960s 16
6. 1970s 8
7. 1980s 16
8. 1990s 11
9. 2000s 5
10. 2010s 15
11. 2020s 1

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 122 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 here125 productions

In the literature8 passages

• Music in the Air (subtitled “A Musical Adventure”) originally opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on November 8, 1932, for a then healthy run of 342 performances. The freshness and originality of Oscar Hammerstein II’s book was praised, and his lyrics and Jerome Kern’s glorious music resulted in one of the era’s finest scores and yiel…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Theatre : Shubert Theatre (during the run, the musical transferred to the Alvin Theatre)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Theatre : Alvin Theatre (during run, the musical transferred to the Winter Garden Theatre, the Cort Theatre, and the St. James Theatre)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Hairspray was as much a fairy tale as the show that had played the same Neil Simon Theatre twenty-five years earlier: Annie. Heavyset Tracy Turnblad’s winding up with knockout Link Larkin was as unlikely as Annie’s getting the world’s richest man to adopt her. Not every mother who grew to be as ample as Edna Turnblad still had a husband d…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• After its opening at New York’s Alvin Theatre on 23 January 1941, following a tryout run in Boston, the premiere production of Lady in the Dark, a collaboration with playwright Moss Hart and lyricist Ira Gershwin, ran for an impressive total of 545 performances. Yet the question of “revivability” has dogged Weill’s third American musical…ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.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 6 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.