Vanderbilt Theatre

By decade73 productions across 4 decades

1. 1910s 5
2. 1920s 26
3. 1930s 36
4. 1950s 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 71 runs here that record a performance count. 2 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here73 productions

In the literature5 passages

• Langston Hughes’s drama Mulatto opened at the Vanderbilt Theatre on October 24, 1935; with a run of 375 performances, it became Broadway’s longest-running nonmusical by a black playwright.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Constance Carpenter and William Gaxton (at piano) in A Connecticut Yankee. New York, Vanderbilt Theatre, 1927. [Photograph by Vandamm. Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
• The Girl Friend Opened March 17, 1926, at the Vanderbilt Theatre for a run of 301 performances Music by Richard Rodgers Book by Herbert Fields Directed by John Harwood Choreographed by Jack Haskell Settings by P. Dodd Ackerman Costumes by Booth, Willoughby and Jonestheatre-pdfs/Thou Swell Thou Witty-The Life and Lyrics of Lorenz Hart - Hart, Dorothy.txt
• Opened December 27,1926, at the Vanderbilt Theatre for a run of 333 performancestheatre-pdfs/Thou Swell Thou Witty-The Life and Lyrics of Lorenz Hart - Hart, Dorothy.txt
• P Connecticut Yankee Opened November 3,1927, at the Vanderbilt Theatre for a run of 418 performances Music by Richard Rodgers Book by Herbert Fields, from the novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain Directed by Alexander Leftwich Choreographed by Busby Berkeley Settings and costumes by John Hawkins, Jr.theatre-pdfs/Thou Swell Thou Witty-The Life and Lyrics of Lorenz Hart - Hart, Dorothy.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 2 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 41 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.
• Any photograph of the building. 83 of 135 venues have one.