New Amsterdam Theatre

By decade151 productions across 7 decades

1. 1900s 69
2. 1910s 39
3. 1920s 20
4. 1930s 13
5. 1990s 2
6. 2000s 6
7. 2010s 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 106 runs here that record a performance count. 45 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here151 productions

In the literature8 passages

• Broadway veterans were also concerned about New York City's financial support for the remodeling of the New Amsterdam Theatre. The city gave Disney a $21 million low-interest loan for the renovation, while Disney put up $8 million, and the city gave Disney a 99-year lease at a token rent.ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt
• Mary Poppins —not to mention the rehabilitation of the New Amsterdam Theatre, which was an important building block in the rejuvenation of West Forty-second Street. That makes Robert Jess Roth an MVP.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• May 15, 1997. New Amsterdam Theatre. The people flocking in certainly are interested in seeing this first preview of this modern oratorio King David . After all, its authors, Alan Menken and Tim Rice, have quite a pedigree by now. Their Beauty and the Beast recently celebrated its third anniversary and will celebrate many more (ten more,…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• For this is the first legitimate attraction at the New Amsterdam Theatre in more than sixty years, since Othello had played a three-week engagement in 1937. To better put into perspective how much time had passed: Othello had been played by a white actor. (Walter Huston, in fact, most famous for playing the grizzled old and wise prospecto…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Meanwhile at the new New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway, Julie Taymor showed substantially more imagination—and genius. Her giraffe was a man who walked on four very thin stilts; he wore a many-feet-tall neck and head unit. While “two heads are better than one” has been a bromide for eons, Taymor took it literally and had an actor wear an…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.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 45 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 57 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.