Ziegfeld Theatre

By decade40 productions across 5 decades

1. 1920s 4
2. 1930s 4
3. 1940s 14
4. 1950s 13
5. 1960s 5

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 34 runs here that record a performance count. 6 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here40 productions

In the literature8 passages

• Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical first opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on March 13, 1947, for 581 performances. As of this writing, the musical has enjoyed ten New York revivals.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Rio Rita was Florenz Ziegfeld’s premiere attraction at his Ziegfeld Theatre, then located on the northwest corner of 6th Avenue and 54th Street. In the spectacular production, Capt. James Stewart (J. Harold Murray) leads his Texas Rangers in the stirring “Rangers’ Song” as they chase a bank robber known as the Kinkajou. The pursuit takes…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Australia premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre on November 24, 2008. We sat just behind Hugh, his beautiful Australian movie-star wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, and various members of their family.ebooks/Schoenfeld, Gerald/Mr. Broadway_ The Inside Story of the Shuberts, the Shows, and the Stars - Gerald Schoenfeld.txt
• By the time Foxy arrived at Broadway's Ziegfeld Theatre on February 16, 1964, it had a splashier design and a new producer (David Merrick), but many of the fundamental problems had not been solved. Merrick, who was mounting Hello, Dolly! at the same time, spent very little to promote the show, which closed after seventy-two performances a…ebooks/Viagas, Robert/I'm the Greatest Star_ Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today - Robert Viagas.txt
• "No Shoes" dance number in Show Boat, with (center) Laveme French as Sam, Pearl Primus as Sal, and Helen Dowdy as Queenie. New York, Ziegfeld Theatre, 1946. [Culver Pictures]theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).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 6 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 4 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.