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Shows · 1960s · 1964

1964

77 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 1964.

Broadway opened 74 shows in 1964: half of those runs were over within 49 performances. Fiddler on the Roof broke that pattern, running 3,242 performances, 66.2 times the median.

Imperial Theatre, where Fiddler on the Roof opened in 1964 · Cam Steeves from Saint John, Canada

Fiddler on the Roof opened September 22, 1964 at Imperial Theatre and ran 3,242 performances.

ANTA Washington Square Theatre opened.

Theatre 80 St. Marks opened.

Opened in 1964

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Undated: 2 openings

Camelot 1965 Theatre Royal, Drury LaneLondon
Little Me London

January: 6 openings

January 5, 1963 Camelot Theatre Royal, Drury LaneLondon
January 1, 1964 The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway 5 perf.
January 2, 1964 The Chinese Prime Minister Royale TheatreBroadway 108 perf.
January 16, 1964 Hello, Dolly! St. James TheatreBroadway 2,844 perf.
January 18, 1964 Dylan Plymouth TheatreBroadway 273 perf.
January 23, 1964 After The Fall Anta Washington Square TheatreBroadway 208 perf.

February: 12 openings

February 3, 1964 The Dybbuk Little TheatreBroadway 24 perf.
February 4, 1964 Josephine Baker Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway 16 perf.
February 6, 1964 Rugantino Mark Hellinger TheatreBroadway 28 perf.
February 10, 1964 Fair Game for Lovers Cort TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
February 11, 1964 The Passion of Josef D. Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway 15 perf.
February 16, 1964 Foxy Ziegfeld TheatreBroadway 72 perf.
February 17, 1964 Abraham Cochrane Belasco TheatreBroadway 1 perf.
February 18, 1964 Any Wednesday Music Box TheatreBroadway 983 perf.
February 20, 1964 Marco Millions Anta Washington Square TheatreBroadway 49 perf.
February 26, 1964 Children of the Shadows Little TheatreBroadway 17 perf.
February 26, 1964 The Deputy Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway 316 perf.
February 27, 1964 What Makes Sammy Run? 54th Street TheatreBroadway 540 perf.

March: 5 openings

March 11, 1964 Each Had Six Wings Little TheatreBroadway 14 perf.
March 12, 1964 But For Whom Charlie Anta Washington Square TheatreBroadway 47 perf.
March 25, 1964 A Murderer Among Us Morosco TheatreBroadway 1 perf.
March 26, 1964 Funny Girl Winter Garden TheatreBroadway 1,348 perf.
March 28, 1964 Never Live Over a Pretzel Factory Eugene Oneill TheatreBroadway 9 perf.

April: 9 openings

April 2, 1964 Sponono Cort TheatreBroadway 20 perf.
April 4, 1964 Anyone Can Whistle Majestic TheatreBroadway 9 perf.
April 5, 1964 The Seagull Belasco TheatreBroadway 16 perf.
April 6, 1964 The Crucible Belasco TheatreBroadway 16 perf.
April 7, 1964 High Spirits Alvin TheatreBroadway 375 perf.
April 9, 1964 Hamlet Lunt Fontanne TheatreBroadway 137 perf.
April 17, 1964 Cafe Crown Martin Beck TheatreBroadway 3 perf.
April 19, 1964 Baby Want a Kiss Little TheatreBroadway 148 perf.
April 23, 1964 Blues for Mister Charlie Anta PlayhouseBroadway 148 perf.

May: 5 openings

May 13, 1964 The Sunday Man Morosco TheatreBroadway 1 perf.
May 19, 1964 The White House Henry Millers TheatreBroadway 23 perf.
May 21, 1964 Roar Like a Dove Booth TheatreBroadway 20 perf.
May 25, 1964 The Subject Was Roses Royale TheatreBroadway 832 perf.
May 26, 1964 Fade Out— Fade In Mark Hellinger TheatreBroadway 271 perf.

June: 2 openings

June 2, 1964 Folies Bergère [1964] Broadway TheatreBroadway 191 perf.
June 22, 1964 The Three Sisters Morosco TheatreBroadway 119 perf.

September: 7 openings

September 11, 1964 Wiener Blut Lunt Fontanne TheatreBroadway 27 perf.
September 16, 1964 The Committee. Henry Millers TheatreBroadway 61 perf.
September 17, 1964 Traveller Without Luggage Anta PlayhouseBroadway 44 perf.
September 20, 1964 A Girl Could Get Lucky Cort TheatreBroadway 8 perf.
September 21, 1964 Absence of a Cello Ambassador TheatreBroadway 120 perf.
September 22, 1964 Fiddler on the Roof Imperial TheatreBroadway 3,242 perf.
September 30, 1964 Oh What a Lovely War Broadhurst TheatreBroadway 125 perf.

October: 9 openings

October 1, 1964 The Last Analysis Belasco TheatreBroadway 28 perf.
October 6, 1964 Cambridge Circus Plymouth TheatreBroadway 23 perf.
October 7, 1964 Beekman Place Morosco TheatreBroadway 29 perf.
October 13, 1964 The Physicists Martin Beck TheatreBroadway 55 perf.
October 15, 1964 The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Longacre TheatreBroadway 101 perf.
October 20, 1964 Golden Boy Majestic TheatreBroadway 568 perf.
October 27, 1964 Ben Franklin in Paris Lunt-Fontanne TheatreBroadway 215 perf.
October 28, 1964 A Severed Head Royale TheatreBroadway 29 perf.
October 29, 1964 The Changeling Anta Washington Square TheatreBroadway 32 perf.

November: 11 openings

November 8, 1964 I Was Dancing Lyceum TheatreBroadway 16 perf.
November 9, 1964 Comedy in Music Opus 2 John Golden TheatreBroadway 192 perf.
November 10, 1964 Something More! Eugene O’NeillBroadway 15 perf.
November 11, 1964 Luv Booth TheatreBroadway 901 perf.
November 12, 1964 Conversation at Midnight Billy Rose TheatreBroadway 4 perf.
November 14, 1964 Poor Bitos Cort TheatreBroadway 17 perf.
November 18, 1964 The Owl and the Pussycat Anta PlayhouseBroadway 427 perf.
November 19, 1964 P.S. I Love You Henry Millers TheatreBroadway 12 perf.
November 21, 1964 Zizi Broadway TheatreBroadway 49 perf.
November 23, 1964 Bajour Shubert TheatreBroadway 232 perf.
November 30, 1964 Slow Dance on the Killing Ground Plymouth TheatreBroadway 88 perf.

December: 9 openings

December 1, 1964 One by One Belasco TheatreBroadway 7 perf.
December 2, 1964 Poor Richard Helen Hayes TheatreBroadway 118 perf.
December 3, 1964 Incident at Vichy Anta Washington Square TheatreBroadway 99 perf.
December 7, 1964 Ready When You Are, C.B.! Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway 80 perf.
December 15, 1964 Beyond the Fringe '65 Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway 30 perf.
December 15, 1964 I Had a Ball Martin Beck TheatreBroadway 199 perf.
December 17, 1964 Alfie! Morosco TheatreBroadway 21 perf.
December 22, 1964 Hughie Royale TheatreBroadway 51 perf.
December 29, 1964 Tiny Alice Billy Rose TheatreBroadway 167 perf.

Closed in 1964

January 4, 1964 Spoon River Anthology Booth Theatre, opened 1963 111 run
January 5, 1964 The Beautiful Bait Morosco Theatre, opened 1963 8 run
January 11, 1964 She Loves Me Eugene O'Neill Theatre, opened 1963 301 run
January 25, 1964 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Cort Theatre, opened 1963 82 run
February 1, 1964 Marathon '33 Anta Playhouse, opened 1963 48 run
February 1, 1964 Stop the World- I Want to Get Off Shubert Theatre, opened 1962 555 run
February 8, 1964 Chips With Everything Plymouth Theatre, opened 1963 149 run
February 15, 1964 The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Martin Beck Theatre, opened 1963 123 run
February 29, 1964 The Private Ear and The Public Eye Morosco Theatre, opened 1963 163 run
March 14, 1964 Enter Laughing Henry Millers Theatre, opened 1963 419 run
March 14, 1964 The Girl Who Came to Supper Broadway, opened 1963 112 run
March 28, 1964 Luther St James Theatre, opened 1963 211 run
May 9, 1964 A Case of Libel Longacre Theatre, opened 1963 242 run
May 16, 1964 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Billy Rose Theatre, opened 1962 664 run
May 30, 1964 Beyond the Fringe John Golden Theatre, opened 1962 667 run
June 20, 1964 Nobody Loves an Albatross Lyceum Theatre, opened 1963 212 run
July 25, 1964 Here’s Love Shubert Theatre, opened 1963 334 run
August 8, 1964 110 in the Shade Broadhurst Theatre, opened 1963 330 run
August 29, 1964 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Alvin Theatre, opened 1962 964 run
November 14, 1964 Oliver! Imperial Theatre, opened 1963 774 run
December 12, 1964 Mary, Mary Helen Hayes Theatre, opened 1961 1,572 run

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