Princess Theatre

By decade115 productions across 6 decades

1. 1900s 26
2. 1910s 41
3. 1920s 36
4. 1930s 1
5. 1940s 5
6. 1980s 6

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 84 runs here that record a performance count. 31 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here115 productions

In the literature8 passages

• More than anybody, it was Jerome Kern (1885-1945) who, starting with his Princess Theatre revues, brought maturity to the nascent American form. Kern was, in fact, strongly influenced by the central European operetta, for some of his earliest successes had been with songs interpolated into American productions of European musicals. Someti…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
• Hoping that it would be the first in a series of Australian musicals, Thring opened Collits’ Inn at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne on 23 December 1933 starring Gladys Moncrieff (1892-1976), Australia’s most popular star of light opera who had made her name in the English operetta The Maid of the Mountains in Melbourne in 1921. This exp…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
• Although there is no reason to doubt Kern’s aspiration “to apply modern art to light music as Debussy and those men have done to more serious work,” 20 it was not until Show Boat that Kern was able to fully realize these goals. Kern had, of course, previously created complete scores for an impressive series of precocious integrated musica…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• When, in 1914, producer F. Ray Comstock was having difficulty filling his 299-seat Princess Theatre (then on 39th Street near 6th Avenue), theatrical and literary agent Elisabeth Marbury suggested that they jointly sponsor a series of modern musical comedies, all with music written by Jerome Kern and librettos by Guy Bolton. The aim was t…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• For Oh, Boy! , their third Princess Theatre Musical and the third longest running book musical of the 1910’s, Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton were joined by British humorist P. G. Wodehouse, who helped give the characters the flavor of transplanted silly-ass Englishmen. Again the settings were modern and modest, the songs fitted the story, and…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.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 31 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 80 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.