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St. James Theatre

St. James Theatre

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Broadway Open 19302026 on this page37 productions

The St. James Theatre, originally Erlanger's Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 246 West 44th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Opened in 1927, it was designed by Warren and Wetmore in a neo-Georgian style and was constructed for A. L. Erlanger. It has up to 1,709 seats across three levels and is operated by ATG Entertainment. Both the facade and the auditorium interior are New York City landmarks. The facade is made largely of stucco, except for the ground story, which is clad in cast stone above a granite water table. The ground story has several recessed openings to the lobby, auditorium, and upper-story offices. Above that are two marquee…

Erlanger's Theatre

Names this building has traded under. A production filed against one of them is filed against this record.

May still be running1 open on the record

2026 Titaníque Opened April 12, 2026

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 decade37 productions across 10 decades

  1. 1930s 1
  2. 1940s 2
  3. 1950s 4
  4. 1960s 4
  5. 1970s 4
  6. 1980s 2
  7. 1990s 7
  8. 2000s 2
  9. 2010s 5
  10. 2020s 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

1964 Hello, Dolly! January 16, 1964 · Gower Champion 2,844 perf.
2001 The Producers April 19, 2001 2,502 perf.
1943 Oklahoma! March 31, 1943 · Rouben Mamoulian 2,212 perf.
1951 The King and I March 29, 1951 · John van Druten 1,246 perf.
1954 The Pajama Game May 13, 1954 · George Abbott & Jerome Robbins 1,063 perf.
1993 The Who\ April 22, 1993 · Des McAnuff 899 perf.
1993 Tommy April 22, 1993 · Des McAnuff 899 perf.
1980 Barnum April 30, 1980 · Joe Layton 854 perf.

Ranked among the 36 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 here37 productions

1930 Fine And Dandy September 23, 1930 · Original 255 perf.
1943 Oklahoma! March 31, 1943 · Original 2,212 perf.
1948 Where’s Charley? October 11, 1948 · Original · no show page 792 perf.
1951 The King and I March 29, 1951 · Original 1,246 perf.
1954 The Pajama Game May 13, 1954 · Original 1,063 perf.
1956 Li’l Abner November 15, 1956 · Original · no show page 693 perf.
1958 Flower Drum Song December 1, 1958 · Original 600 perf.
1960 Do Re Mi December 26, 1960 · Original 400 perf.
1961 Subways Are For Sleeping December 27, 1961 · Original 205 perf.
1962 Mr. President October 20, 1962 · Original 265 perf.
1964 Hello, Dolly! January 16, 1964 · Original 2,844 perf.
1971 Two Gentlemen of Verona December 1, 1971 · Revival 627 perf.
1976 Music Is December 20, 1976 · Original 8 perf.
1978 On the Twentieth Century February 19, 1978 · Original 449 perf.
1979 Carmelina April 8, 1979 · Original 17 perf.
1980 Barnum April 30, 1980 · Original 854 perf.
1983 My One and Only May 1, 1983 · Original 767 perf.
1991 The Secret Garden April 25, 1991 · Original 706 perf.
1993 The Who\ April 22, 1993 · Original 899 perf.
1993 Tommy April 22, 1993 · Revival 899 perf.
1996 A Funny Thing... Forum (1996 Revival) April 18, 1996 · Revival · no show page 715 perf.
1998 High Society April 27, 1998 · Original 144 perf.
1999 Swing! December 9, 1999 · Original 461 perf.
1999 The Civil War April 22, 1999 · Original 61 perf.
2001 The Producers April 19, 2001 · Original 2,502 perf.
2008 Gypsy March 27, 2008 · Revival 332 perf.
2010 American Idiot April 20, 2010 · Original 422 perf.
2012 Bring It On: The Musical August 1, 2012 · Original 173 perf.
2012 Leap of Faith April 26, 2012 · Original 20 perf.
2014 Bullets Over Broadway April 10, 2014 · Original 156 perf.
2018 Frozen March 22, 2018 · Revival · no show page 825 perf.
2022 Into the Woods July 10, 2022 · Revival 425 perf.
2023 New York, New York The Musical April 26, 2023 · Original 108 perf.
2024 Illinoise April 24, 2024 · Original 117 perf.
2024 Sunset Boulevard October 20, 2024 · Revival 312 perf.
2025 The Queen of Versailles November 9, 2025 · Original 49 perf.
2026 Titaníque April 12, 2026 · Original · no show page

In the literature8 passages

  • Theatre : Imperial Theatre (during run, the musical transferred to the St. James Theatre)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Where’s Charley? originally opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre on October 11, 1948, and when it closed on September 9, 1950, it had chalked up 792 performances, enjoyed two hit songs (“Once in Love with Amy” and “My Darling, My Darling”), and won a Tony Award for Ray Bolger as Best Leading Actor in a Musical. Upon its closing, Bo…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • The musical about farmers and cowboys in the Indian Territory in the early 1900s first opened at the St. James Theatre on March 30, 1943, for a then record-breaking run of 2,212 performances. The original cast included Alfred Drake (Curly), Joan Roberts (Laurey), Celeste Holm (Ado Annie), Howard Da Silva (Jud Fry), Betty Garde (Aunt Eller…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Theatre : St. James Theatre (during run, the musical transferred to the Shubert Theatre)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • With the opening of Flower Drum Song , theatergoers were also treated to a completely refurbished St. James Theatre. Early programs offered a special insert that included six photographs of the new interiors as well as background information about the makeover. The building had been “stripped to its skeleton” and an entirely new theatre w…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.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 2 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.

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