Nora Bayes Theatre

By decade53 productions across 3 decades

1. 1910s 1
2. 1920s 48
3. 1930s 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 52 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 here53 productions

In the literature2 passages

• A stylishly mounted, somewhat less elaborate variation on the Ziegfeld Follies format was the Greenwich Village Follies (Ziegfeld even threatened to sue over the use of the Follies name), which came along in 1919 and lasted through eight editions up to 1928. The guiding light was director John Murray Anderson, who made his professional de…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Many theaters were built by the Shuberts for their star performers, and named after them. The Ethel Barrymore is the only one of these that’s still an existing Broadway theater. The Shuberts also had involvement in the Maxine Elliott Theatre on 39th Street, the Nora Bayes Theatre on 49th Street and others that are now gone.ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.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 9 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.
• How many seats.
• Who built it.