74 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 1939.

Opened in 1939

UndatedJanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember

Undated: 2 openings

	Little Ladyship Aldwych TheatreLondon
	The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde with John Gielgud Gielgud TheatreLondon

January: 11 openings

January 5, 1939	Cox and Box Martin Beck TheatreBroadway
January 5, 1939	Iolanthe Martin Beck TheatreBroadway
January 5, 1939	Patience Martin Beck TheatreBroadway
January 5, 1939	The Gondoliers Martin Beck TheatreBroadway
January 5, 1939	The Mikado Martin Beck TheatreBroadway
January 5, 1939	The Pirates Of Penzance Martin Beck TheatreBroadway
January 5, 1939	The Yeomen of the Guard Martin Beck TheatreBroadway
January 10, 1939	The White Steed Cort TheatreBroadway	136 perf.
January 18, 1939	Set to Music Music Box TheatreBroadway	129 perf.
January 20, 1939	Mr. Banks of Birmingham Hudson TheatreBroadway	3 perf.
January 24, 1939	Naughty Naught '00 American Music HallBroadway	42 perf.

February: 5 openings

February 4, 1939	One For the Money Booth TheatreBroadway	132 perf.
February 7, 1939	I Must Love Someone Longacre TheatreBroadway	191 perf.
February 9, 1939	Stars in Your Eyes Majestic TheatreBroadway	127 perf.
February 11, 1939	Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1939 Hudson TheatreBroadway	9 perf.
February 15, 1939	The Little Foxes National TheatreBroadway	410 perf.

March: 7 openings

March 1, 1939	The Swing Mikado New Yorker TheatreBroadway	86 perf.
March 2, 1939	Frank Fay Vaudeville 44th Street TheatreBroadway	60 perf.
March 12, 1939	Dorothy Crawford Guild TheatreBroadway
March 15, 1939	Tell My Story Mercury TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
March 19, 1939	Stop Press Vanderbilt TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
March 23, 1939	The Hot Mikado Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	85 perf.
March 28, 1939	The Philadelphia Story Shubert TheatreBroadway	417 perf.

April: 3 openings

April 16, 1939	Quiet City Belasco TheatreBroadway	2 perf.
April 20, 1939	Adelante Dalys 63rd Street TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
April 21, 1939	Mexicana 46th Street TheatreBroadway	35 perf.

May: 2 openings

May 22, 1939	Susanna, Don't You Cry Martin Beck TheatreBroadway	5 perf.
May 24, 1939	The Ballet Caravan Martin Beck TheatreBroadway	2 perf.

June: 2 openings

June 19, 1939	Streets of Paris Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	274 perf.
June 20, 1939	From Vienna Music Box TheatreBroadway	79 perf.

July: 2 openings

July 6, 1939	Yokel Boy Majestic TheatreBroadway	208 perf.
July 17, 1939	The American Way Center TheatreBroadway	80 perf.

August: 1 opening

August 28, 1939

George White's Scandals [1939] Alvin TheatreBroadway

120 perf.

September: 3 openings

September 18, 1939	Journey's End Empire TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
September 27, 1939	See My Lawyer Biltmore TheatreBroadway	224 perf.
September 29, 1939	The Straw Hat Revue Ambassador TheatreBroadway	75 perf.

October: 9 openings

October 2, 1939	They Knew What They Wanted Empire TheatreBroadway	24 perf.
October 11, 1939	Skylark Morosco TheatreBroadway	256 perf.
October 14, 1939	The Three Sisters Longacre TheatreBroadway	9 perf.
October 16, 1939	The Man Who Came to Dinner Music Box TheatreBroadway	739 perf.
October 17, 1939	Ladies and Gentlemen Martin Beck TheatreBroadway	105 perf.
October 18, 1939	Too Many Girls Imperial TheatreBroadway	249 perf.
October 24, 1939	The Possessed Lyceum TheatreBroadway	14 perf.
October 25, 1939	Cure For Matrimony Provincetown PlayhouseBroadway	25 perf.
October 25, 1939	The Time of Your Life Booth TheatreBroadway	185 perf.

November: 15 openings

November 1, 1939	Pastoral Henry Millers TheatreBroadway	14 perf.
November 2, 1939	Summer Night St James TheatreBroadway	4 perf.
November 3, 1939	Margin for Error Plymouth TheatreBroadway	264 perf.
November 6, 1939	Sea Dogs Maxine Elliotts TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
November 8, 1939	Life With Father Empire TheatreBroadway	3,224 perf.
November 14, 1939	Thunder Rock Mansfield TheatreBroadway	23 perf.
November 17, 1939	Very Warm for May Alvin TheatreBroadway	59 perf.
November 20, 1939	The World We Make Guild TheatreBroadway	80 perf.
November 21, 1939	Aries Is Rising John Golden TheatreBroadway	7 perf.
November 22, 1939	Ring Two Henry Millers TheatreBroadway	5 perf.
November 24, 1939	I Know What I Like Hudson TheatreBroadway	11 perf.
November 27, 1939	Key Largo Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway	105 perf.
November 28, 1939	Farm of Three Echoes Cort TheatreBroadway	48 perf.
November 29, 1939	Swingin' The Dream Center TheatreBroadway	13 perf.
November 30, 1939	Morning's at Seven Longacre TheatreBroadway	44 perf.

December: 12 openings

December 4, 1939	Hamlet 44th Street TheatreBroadway	40 perf.
December 5, 1939	Foreigners Belasco TheatreBroadway	7 perf.
December 6, 1939	Du Barry Was a Lady 46th Street TheatreBroadway	408 perf.
December 6, 1939	Dubarry Was a Lady 46th Street TheatreBroadway	408 perf.
December 8, 1939	The Woman Brown Biltmore TheatreBroadway	11 perf.
December 19, 1939	Steel Provincetown PlayhouseBroadway	9 perf.
December 20, 1939	Once Upon a Time Labor Stage TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
December 21, 1939	Billy Draws a Horse Playhouse TheatreBroadway	13 perf.
December 25, 1939	Folies Bergère [1939] Broadway TheatreBroadway	121 perf.
December 25, 1939	When We Are Married Lyceum TheatreBroadway	156 perf.
December 26, 1939	Kindred Maxine Elliotts TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
December 27, 1939	Christmas Eve Henry Millers TheatreBroadway	6 perf.

Closed in 1939

January 7, 1939	Blossom Time 46th Street Theatre, opened 1938	19 run
January 7, 1939	Sing Out the News Music Box Theatre, opened 1938	105 run
January 31, 1939	Bachelor Born Morosco Theatre, opened 1938	400 run
February 25, 1939	I Married an Angel Shubert Theatre, opened 1938	338 run
March 11, 1939	Knickerbocker Holiday Ethel Barrymore Theatre, opened 1938	168 run
April 9, 1939	Awake and Sing! Dalys 63rd Street Theatre, opened 1938	95 run
June 10, 1939	The Boys from Syracuse Alvin Theatre, opened 1938	235 run
June 30, 1939	Pinocchio Ritz Theatre, opened 1938	197 run
July 8, 1939	What a Life Biltmore Theatre, opened 1938	538 run
July 15, 1939	Leave It to Me! Imperial Theatre, opened 1938	291 run
July 22, 1939	Outward Bound Playhouse Theatre, opened 1938	255 run
November 25, 1939	Abe Lincoln in Illinois Plymouth Theatre, opened 1938	472 run