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Shows · 1960s · 1966

1966

61 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 1966.

Broadway opened 58 shows in 1966: half of those runs were over within 46 performances. Mame broke that pattern, running 1,508 performances, 32.8 times the median.

Winter Garden Theatre, where Mame opened in 1966 · Epicgenius

Mame opened May 24, 1966 at Winter Garden Theatre and ran 1,508 performances.

Ziegfeld Theatre closed.

Opened in 1966

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Undated: 3 openings

Unknown Khartoum Prince Edward Theatre, London
Unknown The Matchgirls Gielgud Theatre, London
Unknown There's a Girl in My Soup Gielgud Theatre, London

January: 4 openings

January 4, 1966 UTBU Helen Hayes Theatre, Broadway 7 perf.
January 11, 1966 Malcolm Shubert Theatre, Broadway 7 perf.
January 19, 1966 The Wayward Stork 46th Street Theatre, Broadway 5 perf.
January 29, 1966 Sweet Charity Palace Theatre, Broadway 608 perf.

February: 8 openings

February 1, 1966 The Great Indoors Eugene Oneill Theatre, Broadway 7 perf.
February 2, 1966 Wait Until Dark Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway 373 perf.
February 3, 1966 The Condemned of Altona Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway 46 perf.
February 16, 1966 Philadelphia, Here I Come! Helen Hayes Theatre, Broadway 326 perf.
February 17, 1966 Hostile Witness Music Box Theatre, Broadway 156 perf.
February 22, 1966 Slapstick Tragedy Longacre Theatre, Broadway 7 perf.
February 25, 1966 Nathan Weinstein, Mystic, Connecticut Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway 3 perf.
February 26, 1966 First One Asleep, Whistle Belasco Theatre, Broadway 1 perf.

March: 10 openings

March 2, 1966 Where's Daddy? Billy Rose Theatre, Broadway 22 perf.
March 3, 1966 The Lion in Winter Ambassador Theatre, Broadway 92 perf.
March 6, 1966 3 Bags Full Henry Millers Theatre, Broadway 33 perf.
March 8, 1966 Chu Chem Locust Theatre, Broadway
March 10, 1966 Happily Never After Eugene Oneill Theatre, Broadway 4 perf.
March 18, 1966 Pousse-Café 46th Street Theatre, Broadway 3 perf.
March 23, 1966 Mark Twain Tonight! Longacre Theatre, Broadway 85 perf.
March 24, 1966 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway 100 perf.
March 25, 1966 The Best Laid Plans Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway 3 perf.
March 29, 1966 “It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman” Alvin Theatre, Broadway 129 perf.

May: 3 openings

May 3, 1966 Ivanov Shubert Theatre, Broadway 47 perf.
May 21, 1966 A Time for Singing Broadway Theatre, Broadway 41 perf.
May 24, 1966 Mame Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway 1,508 perf.

September: 6 openings

September 21, 1966 A Hand Is on the Gate Longacre Theatre, Broadway 20 perf.
September 21, 1966 Annie Get Your Gun Broadway Theatre, Broadway 78 perf.
September 22, 1966 A Delicate Balance Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway 132 perf.
September 26, 1966 Manuela Vargas Anta Playhouse, Broadway
September 27, 1966 Dinner at Eight Alvin Theatre, Broadway 127 perf.
September 29, 1966 Help Stamp Out Marriage! Booth Theatre, Broadway 20 perf.

October: 10 openings

October 4, 1966 The Investigation Ambassador Theatre, Broadway 103 perf.
October 5, 1966 The Killing of Sister George Belasco Theatre, Broadway 205 perf.
October 6, 1966 The Loves of Cass McGuire Helen Hayes Theatre, Broadway 20 perf.
October 13, 1966 The Alchemist Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway 52 perf.
October 18, 1966 The Apple Tree Shubert Theatre, Broadway 463 perf.
October 19, 1966 We Have Always Lived in the Castle Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway 9 perf.
October 24, 1966 How's the World Treating You? Music Box Theatre, Broadway 40 perf.
October 27, 1966 The Threepenny Opera Billy Rose Theatre, Broadway 13 perf.
October 27, 1966 Under the Weather Cort Theatre, Broadway 12 perf.
October 31, 1966 Gilbert Becaud on Broadway Longacre Theatre, Broadway 19 perf.

November: 9 openings

November 9, 1966 Let's Sing Yiddish Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway 107 perf.
November 9, 1966 The Rose Tattoo Billy Rose Theatre, Broadway 62 perf.
November 16, 1966 Les Ballets Africains Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway 85 perf.
November 16, 1966 The Apparition Theatre of Prague Cort Theatre, Broadway 21 perf.
November 17, 1966 Don't Drink the Water Morosco Theatre, Broadway 598 perf.
November 20, 1966 Cabaret Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway 1,165 perf.
November 24, 1966 Those That Play the Clowns Anta Playhouse, Broadway 4 perf.
November 26, 1966 Walking Happy Lunt Fontanne Theatre, Broadway 161 perf.
November 28, 1966 Hail Scrawdyke! Booth Theatre, Broadway 8 perf.

December: 8 openings

December 5, 1966 I Do! I Do! 46th Street Theatre, Broadway 560 perf.
December 6, 1966 My Sweet Charlie Longacre Theatre, Broadway 31 perf.
December 8, 1966 Yerma Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway 60 perf.
December 14, 1966 Agatha Sue, I Love You Henry Millers Theatre, Broadway 5 perf.
December 14, 1966 Breakfast At Tiffany’s Majestic Theatre, Broadway
December 15, 1966 A Joyful Noise Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway 12 perf.
December 21, 1966 The Star-Spangled Girl Plymouth Theatre, Broadway 261 perf.
December 27, 1966 At the Drop of Another Hat Booth Theatre, Broadway 105 perf.

Closed in 1966

January 1, 1966 The Playroom Brooks Atkinson Theatre, opened 1965 33 run
January 8, 1966 The Devils Broadway Theatre, opened 1965 63 run
January 23, 1966 The Country Wife Vivian Beaumont Theater, opened 1965 52 run
January 29, 1966 The Right Honourable Gentleman Billy Rose Theatre, opened 1965 118 run
March 5, 1966 Golden Boy Majestic Theatre, opened 1964 568 run
April 16, 1966 The Zulu and the Zayda Cort Theatre, opened 1965 179 run
April 23, 1966 Inadmissible Evidence Belasco Theatre, opened 1965 166 run
April 30, 1966 The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade Martin Beck Theatre, opened 1965 145 run
May 21, 1966 The Subject Was Roses Royale Theatre, opened 1964 832 run
June 11, 1966 On A Clear Day You Can See Forever Mark Hellinger Theatre, opened 1965 280 run
June 11, 1966 Skyscraper Lunt-Fontanne, opened 1965 248 run
June 11, 1966 The Royal Hunt of the Sun Anta Playhouse, opened 1965 261 run
June 18, 1966 You Can't Take It With You Lyceum Theatre, opened 1965 239 run
June 25, 1966 Generation Morosco Theatre, opened 1965 300 run
June 26, 1966 Any Wednesday Music Box Theatre, opened 1964 983 run
July 16, 1966 Half A Sixpence Broadhurst Theatre, opened 1965 512 run

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