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Shows · 1920s · 1923

1923

229 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 1923.

Broadway opened 225 shows in 1923: half of those runs were over within 40 performances. White Cargo, by Leon Gordon, broke that pattern, running 850 performances, 21.2 times the median.

White Cargo, by Leon Gordon, opened November 5, 1923 at Greenwich Village Theatre and ran 850 performances.

Holiday Theatre opened.

Imperial Theatre opened.

Opened in 1923

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Undated: 4 openings

Unknown It Pays to Advertise Aldwych Theatre, London
Unknown Peer Gynt Garrick Theatre, London
Unknown Saint Joan Garrick Theatre, London
Unknown The Adding Machine Garrick Theatre, London

January: 18 openings

January 1, 1923 Will Shakespeare National Theatre, Broadway 80 perf.
January 4, 1923 Chauve-Souris [1922] Century Grove, Broadway 139 perf.
January 8, 1923 Mike Angelo Morosco Theatre, Broadway 48 perf.
January 8, 1923 Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
January 11, 1923 Polly Preferred Little Theatre, Broadway 184 perf.
January 15, 1923 Give and Take 49th Street Theatre, Broadway 172 perf.
January 15, 1923 The Humming Bird Ritz Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
January 15, 1923 The Lower Depths Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway 20 perf.
January 17, 1923 Jitta's Atonement Comedy Theatre, Broadway 37 perf.
January 22, 1923 Dagmar Selwyn Theatre, Broadway 56 perf.
January 22, 1923 Lady Butterfly Globe Theatre, Broadway 128 perf.
January 22, 1923 The Cherry Orchard Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway 18 perf.
January 23, 1923 Extra Longacre Theatre, Broadway 21 perf.
January 24, 1923 Romeo and Juliet Henry Millers Theatre, Broadway 157 perf.
January 24, 1923 The Dancing Girl Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway 142 perf.
January 27, 1923 A Square Peg Punch And Judy Theatre, Broadway 41 perf.
January 29, 1923 The Three Sisters Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway 10 perf.
January 31, 1923 Caroline Ambassador Theatre, Broadway 151 perf.

February: 15 openings

February 5, 1923 Mary the 3D 39th Street Theatre, Broadway 152 perf.
February 5, 1923 Peer Gynt Garrick Theatre, Broadway 120 perf.
February 5, 1923 Sun Showers Astor Theatre, Broadway 48 perf.
February 7, 1923 Wildflower Casino Theatre, Broadway 477 perf.
February 10, 1923 Icebound Sam H Harris Theatre, Broadway 171 perf.
February 12, 1923 The Laughing Lady Longacre Theatre, Broadway 96 perf.
February 19, 1923 Hail and Farewell Morosco Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
February 19, 1923 Rita Coventry Bijou Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
February 19, 1923 The Sporting Thing To Do Ritz Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
February 19, 1923 You and I Belmont Theatre, Broadway 136 perf.
February 20, 1923 Anything Might Happen Comedy Theatre, Broadway 63 perf.
February 26, 1923 Mister Malatesta Princess Theatre, Broadway 96 perf.
February 26, 1923 The Brothers Karamazoff Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway 10 perf.
February 26, 1923 The Lady from the Provinces Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway 10 perf.
February 27, 1923 Humoresque Vanderbilt Theatre, Broadway 32 perf.

March: 16 openings

March 1, 1923 Roger Bloomer 48th Street Theatre, Broadway 50 perf.
March 6, 1923 Morphia Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre, Broadway 64 perf.
March 9, 1923 King Lear Earl Carroll Theatre, Broadway 2 perf.
March 12, 1923 Barnum Was Right Frazee Theatre, Broadway 88 perf.
March 12, 1923 Go-Go Dalys 63rd Street Theatre, Broadway 138 perf.
March 12, 1923 Pasteur Empire Theatre, Broadway 16 perf.
March 12, 1923 The Chastening 48th Street Theatre, Broadway 18 perf.
March 13, 1923 The Comedian Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 87 perf.
March 14, 1923 The Love Habit Bijou Theatre, Broadway 69 perf.
March 19, 1923 The Adding Machine Garrick Theatre, Broadway 72 perf.
March 19, 1923 The Love Set Punch And Judy Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
March 20, 1923 The Guilty One Selwyn Theatre, Broadway 31 perf.
March 22, 1923 Jack and Jill Globe Theatre, Broadway 92 perf.
March 26, 1923 Sandro Botticelli Provincetown Playhouse, Broadway 24 perf.
March 27, 1923 The Wasp Morosco Theatre, Broadway 95 perf.
March 31, 1923 The Enchanted Cottage Ritz Theatre, Broadway 65 perf.

April: 15 openings

April 2, 1923 Elsie Vanderbilt Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
April 2, 1923 If Winter Comes Gaiety Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
April 2, 1923 Irene Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway 16 perf.
April 3, 1923 Cinders Dresden Theatre, Broadway 31 perf.
April 3, 1923 Uptown West Bijou Theatre, Broadway 73 perf.
April 5, 1923 The Dice of the Gods National Theatre, Broadway 20 perf.
April 9, 1923 The Exile George M Cohans Theatre, Broadway 32 perf.
April 9, 1923 Zander the Great Empire Theatre, Broadway 80 perf.
April 10, 1923 Anathema 48th Street Theatre, Broadway 15 perf.
April 16, 1923 How Come? Apollo Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
April 17, 1923 Within Four Walls Selwyn Theatre, Broadway 15 perf.
April 23, 1923 As You Like It 48th Street Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
April 23, 1923 The Devil's Disciple Garrick Theatre, Broadway 64 perf.
April 25, 1923 Sylvia Provincetown Playhouse, Broadway 13 perf.
April 30, 1923 The Inspector General 48th Street Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.

May: 38 openings

May 1, 1923 My Aunt From Ypsilanti Earl Carroll Theatre, Broadway 7 perf.
May 2, 1923 Pride Morosco Theatre, Broadway 13 perf.
May 7, 1923 Boccaccio's Untold Tale Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 7, 1923 For Value Received Longacre Theatre, Broadway 48 perf.
May 7, 1923 Salome Frazee Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
May 7, 1923 The Apache Punch And Judy Theatre, Broadway 16 perf.
May 7, 1923 The Chip Woman's Fortune Frazee Theatre, Broadway 30 perf.
May 7, 1923 The Mountebank Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 32 perf.
May 7, 1923 The Revolt of the Mummies Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 7, 1923 The Rivals 48th Street Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
May 7, 1923 The Rut Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 7, 1923 The Trysting Place Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 8, 1923 A Thousand Generations and One Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 8, 1923 None Are So Blind Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 8, 1923 Thursday Evening Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 8, 1923 Under Conviction Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 9, 1923 Punk, or The Amateur Rehearsal Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 9, 1923 The Clock Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 9, 1923 The Crowsnest Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 9, 1923 The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 10, 1923 The Little Stone House Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 10, 1923 The Pot Boiler Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 10, 1923 The Will O' the Wisp Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 10, 1923 Torches Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 11, 1923 Another Way Out Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 11, 1923 The Mistletoe Bough Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 11, 1923 The Monkey's Paw Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 11, 1923 Three Pills in a Bottle Nora Bayes Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.
May 14, 1923 Bombo Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway 32 perf.
May 15, 1923 The Comedy of Errors Frazee Theatre, Broadway 7 perf.
May 17, 1923 Dew Drop Inn Astor Theatre, Broadway 83 perf.
May 18, 1923 Sweet Nell of Old Drury 48th Street Theatre, Broadway 35 perf.
May 21, 1923 Aren't We All? Gaiety Theatre, Broadway 32 perf.
May 21, 1923 Blossom Time Shubert Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
May 21, 1923 Cold Feet Fulton Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
May 22, 1923 Not So Fast Morosco Theatre, Broadway 31 perf.
May 25, 1923 Sun-Up Provincetown Playhouse, Broadway 28 perf.
May 28, 1923 Adrienne George M Cohans Theatre, Broadway 235 perf.

June: 5 openings

June 4, 1923 The School for Scandal Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
June 14, 1923 The Passing Show of 1923 Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway 118 perf.
June 18, 1923 George White's Scandals [1923] Globe Theatre, Broadway 168 perf.
June 19, 1923 Helen of Troy, New York Selwyn Theatre, Broadway 191 perf.
June 25, 1923 Ziegfeld Follies of 1923 [Summer Edition] New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway 96 perf.

July: 3 openings

July 5, 1923 Earl Carroll's Vanities [1923] Earl Carroll Theatre, Broadway 204 perf.
July 18, 1923 Fashions of 1924 Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 13 perf.
July 19, 1923 Two Fellows and a Girl Vanderbilt Theatre, Broadway 132 perf.

August: 20 openings

August 6, 1923 In Love With Love Ritz Theatre, Broadway 128 perf.
August 6, 1923 Thumbs Down 49th Street Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
August 7, 1923 The Mad Honeymoon Playhouse Theatre, Broadway 16 perf.
August 8, 1923 The Newcomers Ambassador Theatre, Broadway 21 perf.
August 13, 1923 Tweedles Frazee Theatre, Broadway 96 perf.
August 14, 1923 The Good Old Days Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway 71 perf.
August 15, 1923 Little Jessie James Longacre Theatre, Broadway 385 perf.
August 15, 1923 The Woman on the Jury Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre, Broadway 77 perf.
August 16, 1923 The Breaking Point Klaw Theatre, Broadway 68 perf.
August 17, 1923 Children of the Moon Comedy Theatre, Broadway 117 perf.
August 20, 1923 Artists and Models [1923] Shubert Theatre, Broadway 312 perf.
August 20, 1923 Brook Greenwich Village Theatre, Broadway 16 perf.
August 20, 1923 Home Fires 39th Street Theatre, Broadway 48 perf.
August 20, 1923 We've Got to Have Money Playhouse Theatre, Broadway 56 perf.
August 21, 1923 Red Light Annie Morosco Theatre, Broadway 87 perf.
August 25, 1923 Zeno 48th Street Theatre, Broadway 89 perf.
August 27, 1923 Magnolia Liberty Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
August 28, 1923 Little Miss Bluebeard Lyceum Theatre, Broadway 175 perf.
August 29, 1923 The Whole Town's Talking Bijou Theatre, Broadway 173 perf.
August 30, 1923 The Jolly Roger National Theatre, Broadway 52 perf.

September: 15 openings

September 3, 1923 Poppy Apollo Theatre, Broadway 346 perf.
September 6, 1923 Connie Goes Home 49th Street Theatre, Broadway 20 perf.
September 10, 1923 The Crooked Square Hudson Theatre, Broadway 88 perf.
September 11, 1923 Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Belasco Theatre, Broadway 86 perf.
September 17, 1923 Sally New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
September 17, 1923 The Changelings Henry Millers Theatre, Broadway 128 perf.
September 17, 1923 The Lullaby Knickerbocker Theatre, Broadway 144 perf.
September 18, 1923 Peter Weston Sam H Harris Theatre, Broadway 23 perf.
September 19, 1923 Chains Playhouse Theatre, Broadway 125 perf.
September 20, 1923 The Greenwich Village Follies [1923] Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway 140 perf.
September 22, 1923 Music Box Revue [1923] Music Box Theatre, Broadway 273 perf.
September 24, 1923 A Lesson in Love 39th Street Theatre, Broadway 72 perf.
September 24, 1923 Chicken Feed Little Theatre, Broadway 144 perf.
September 25, 1923 Nifties of 1923 Fulton Theatre, Broadway 47 perf.
September 26, 1923 Casanova Empire Theatre, Broadway 77 perf.

October: 26 openings

October 1, 1923 Tarnish Belmont Theatre, Broadway 248 perf.
October 1, 1923 The Magic Ring Liberty Theatre, Broadway 96 perf.
October 1, 1923 Virginia Runs Away Dalys 63rd Street Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
October 1, 1923 What's Your Wife Doing? 49th Street Theatre, Broadway 72 perf.
October 2, 1923 Cymbeline Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway 15 perf.
October 4, 1923 Hammerstein's 9 O'Clock Revue Century Promenade, Broadway 12 perf.
October 8, 1923 Battling Buttler Selwyn Theatre, Broadway 313 perf.
October 8, 1923 Windows Garrick Theatre, Broadway 48 perf.
October 9, 1923 The Nervous Wreck Sam H Harris Theatre, Broadway 279 perf.
October 10, 1923 Launzi Plymouth Theatre, Broadway 13 perf.
October 13, 1923 Floriani's Wife Greenwich Village Theatre, Broadway 16 perf.
October 15, 1923 For All of Us 49th Street Theatre, Broadway 216 perf.
October 15, 1923 The Grand Guignol Players Frolic Theatre, Broadway 56 perf.
October 16, 1923 Ginger Dalys 63rd Street Theatre, Broadway 30 perf.
October 16, 1923 The Player Queen Neighborhood Playhouse, Broadway 49 perf.
October 16, 1923 The Shame Woman Greenwich Village Theatre, Broadway 278 perf.
October 16, 1923 The Showing-up of Blanco Posnet Neighborhood Playhouse, Broadway 49 perf.
October 17, 1923 The Dancers Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway 133 perf.
October 18, 1923 White Desert Princess Theatre, Broadway 12 perf.
October 20, 1923 Ziegfeld Follies of 1923 New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway 233 perf.
October 22, 1923 Nobody's Business Klaw Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
October 23, 1923 The Swan Cort Theatre, Broadway 255 perf.
October 24, 1923 Scaramouche Morosco Theatre, Broadway 61 perf.
October 25, 1923 Oedipus Rex Century Theatre, Broadway 20 perf.
October 29, 1923 Runnin' Wild New Colonial Theatre, Broadway 228 perf.
October 29, 1923 Steadfast Ambassador Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.

November: 31 openings

November 1, 1923 Cyrano de Bergerac National Theatre, Broadway 232 perf.
November 5, 1923 The Deep Tangled Wildwood Frazee Theatre, Broadway 16 perf.
November 5, 1923 White Cargo Greenwich Village Theatre, Broadway 850 perf.
November 6, 1923 Stepping Stones Globe Theatre, Broadway 281 perf.
November 9, 1923 Spring Cleaning Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre, Broadway 251 perf.
November 12, 1923 A Royal Fandango Plymouth Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
November 12, 1923 Go West, Young Man Punch And Judy Theatre, Broadway 48 perf.
November 12, 1923 The Cup Fulton Theatre, Broadway 16 perf.
November 13, 1923 The Camel's Back Vanderbilt Theatre, Broadway 15 perf.
November 15, 1923 Queen Victoria 48th Street Theatre, Broadway 44 perf.
November 17, 1923 A Love Scandal Ambassador Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
November 19, 1923 Out of the Seven Seas Frazee Theatre, Broadway 16 perf.
November 19, 1923 The Failures Garrick Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
November 20, 1923 An Enemy of the People Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway
November 20, 1923 Robert E. Lee Ritz Theatre, Broadway 15 perf.
November 20, 1923 The Death of Pazukhin Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway
November 20, 1923 Topics of 1923 Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway 154 perf.
November 20, 1923 Uncle Vanya Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway
November 21, 1923 Mistress of the Inn Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway 7 perf.
November 22, 1923 Sharlee Dalys 63rd Street Theatre, Broadway 36 perf.
November 26, 1923 Dumb-bell Belmont Theatre, Broadway 2 perf.
November 26, 1923 Hamlet Manhattan Opera House, Broadway 24 perf.
November 26, 1923 Ivanov Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway 5 perf.
November 26, 1923 Meet the Wife Klaw Theatre, Broadway 232 perf.
November 26, 1923 Sancho Panza Hudson Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
November 26, 1923 Time 39th Street Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
November 27, 1923 In the Next Room Vanderbilt Theatre, Broadway 159 perf.
November 27, 1923 One Kiss Fulton Theatre, Broadway 95 perf.
November 28, 1923 Laugh, Clown, Laugh! Belasco Theatre, Broadway 133 perf.
November 29, 1923 In the Claws of Life Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway 3 perf.
November 29, 1923 The Lady from the Sea Metropolitan Opera House, Broadway 10 perf.

December: 23 openings

December 3, 1923 The Talking Parrot Frazee Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.
December 4, 1923 Pelleas and Melisande Times Square Theatre, Broadway 13 perf.
December 4, 1923 The Lady Empire Theatre, Broadway 85 perf.
December 5, 1923 Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway
December 8, 1923 Cosi Sia Century Theatre, Broadway 2 perf.
December 8, 1923 La Citta Morta Century Theatre, Broadway 2 perf.
December 8, 1923 La Porta Chiusa Century Theatre, Broadway 2 perf.
December 8, 1923 The Potters Plymouth Theatre, Broadway 208 perf.
December 18, 1923 The Shadow 39th Street Theatre, Broadway 14 perf.
December 20, 1923 The Business Widow Ritz Theatre, Broadway 32 perf.
December 20, 1923 The Other Rose Morosco Theatre, Broadway 84 perf.
December 23, 1923 The Blue Bird Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, Broadway 33 perf.
December 24, 1923 The Alarm Clock 39th Street Theatre, Broadway 32 perf.
December 24, 1923 The Wild Westcotts Frazee Theatre, Broadway 24 perf.
December 25, 1923 Hurricane Frolic Theatre, Broadway 125 perf.
December 25, 1923 Mary Jane McKane Imperial Theatre, Broadway 151 perf.
December 25, 1923 The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly Liberty Theatre, Broadway 87 perf.
December 26, 1923 Neighbors 48th Street Theatre, Broadway 37 perf.
December 26, 1923 This Fine-Pretty World Neighborhood Playhouse, Broadway 33 perf.
December 28, 1923 Saint Joan Garrick Theatre, Broadway 195 perf.
December 29, 1923 Roseanne Greenwich Village Theatre, Broadway 41 perf.
December 31, 1923 Kid Boots Earl Carroll Theatre, Broadway 489 perf.
December 31, 1923 The Song and Dance Man Hudson Theatre, Broadway 96 perf.

Closed in 1923

January 6, 1923 Our Nell Nora Bayes Theatre, opened 1922 40 run
January 20, 1923 The Awful Truth Henry Millers Theatre, opened 1922 144 run
January 20, 1923 The Bunch and Judy Globe Theatre, opened 1922 63 run
January 27, 1923 Blossom Time Ambassador Theatre, opened 1921 516 run
February 3, 1923 The World We Live In Jolsons 59th Street Theatre, opened 1922 111 run
February 24, 1923 Glory Vanderbilt Theatre, opened 1922 74 run
March 6, 1923 The Merchant of Venice Lyceum Theatre, opened 1922 92 run
March 10, 1923 R. U. R. Garrick Theatre, opened 1922 184 run
March 10, 1923 The Greenwich Village Follies [1922] Shubert Theatre, opened 1922 209 run
April 14, 1923 The God of Vengeance Provincetown Playhouse, opened 1922 133 run
April 21, 1923 Liza Dalys 63rd Street Theatre, opened 1922 172 run
April 21, 1923 The Lady in Ermine Ambassador Theatre, opened 1922 238 run
April 28, 1923 Better Times Hippodrome Theatre, opened 1922 405 run
May 5, 1923 Kiki Belasco Theatre, opened 1921 600 run
June 2, 1923 Sally, Irene and Mary Casino Theatre, opened 1922 313 run
June 2, 1923 The Clinging Vine Knickerbocker Theatre, opened 1922 188 run
June 2, 1923 The Gingham Girl Earl Carroll Theatre, opened 1922 322 run
June 16, 1923 Up She Goes Playhouse Theatre, opened 1922 256 run
June 23, 1923 Ziegfeld Follies of 1922 New Amsterdam Theatre, opened 1922 424 run
July 7, 1923 Little Nellie Kelly Liberty Theatre, opened 1922 276 run
August 4, 1923 Music Box Revue [1922-23] Music Box Theatre, opened 1922 330 run
October 20, 1923 Merton of the Movies Cort Theatre, opened 1922 392 run

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