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.
Mame opened May 24, 1966 at Winter Garden Theatre and ran 1,508 performances.
Ziegfeld Theatre closed.
Opened in 1966
UndatedJanuaryFebruaryMarchMaySeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember
Undated: 3 openings
| Khartoum Prince Edward TheatreLondon | ||
| The Matchgirls Gielgud TheatreLondon | ||
| There's a Girl in My Soup Gielgud TheatreLondon |
January: 4 openings
| January 4, 1966 | UTBU Helen Hayes TheatreBroadway | 7 perf. |
| January 11, 1966 | Malcolm Shubert TheatreBroadway | 7 perf. |
| January 19, 1966 | The Wayward Stork 46th Street TheatreBroadway | 5 perf. |
| January 29, 1966 | Sweet Charity Palace TheatreBroadway | 608 perf. |
February: 8 openings
| February 1, 1966 | The Great Indoors Eugene Oneill TheatreBroadway | 7 perf. |
| February 2, 1966 | Wait Until Dark Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway | 373 perf. |
| February 3, 1966 | The Condemned of Altona Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway | 46 perf. |
| February 16, 1966 | Philadelphia, Here I Come! Helen Hayes TheatreBroadway | 326 perf. |
| February 17, 1966 | Hostile Witness Music Box TheatreBroadway | 156 perf. |
| February 22, 1966 | Slapstick Tragedy Longacre TheatreBroadway | 7 perf. |
| February 25, 1966 | Nathan Weinstein, Mystic, Connecticut Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway | 3 perf. |
| February 26, 1966 | First One Asleep, Whistle Belasco TheatreBroadway | 1 perf. |
March: 10 openings
| March 2, 1966 | Where's Daddy? Billy Rose TheatreBroadway | 22 perf. |
| March 3, 1966 | The Lion in Winter Ambassador TheatreBroadway | 92 perf. |
| March 6, 1966 | 3 Bags Full Henry Millers TheatreBroadway | 33 perf. |
| March 8, 1966 | Chu Chem Locust TheatreBroadway | |
| March 10, 1966 | Happily Never After Eugene Oneill TheatreBroadway | 4 perf. |
| March 18, 1966 | Pousse-Café 46th Street TheatreBroadway | 3 perf. |
| March 23, 1966 | Mark Twain Tonight! Longacre TheatreBroadway | 85 perf. |
| March 24, 1966 | The Caucasian Chalk Circle Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway | 100 perf. |
| March 25, 1966 | The Best Laid Plans Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway | 3 perf. |
| March 29, 1966 | “It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman” Alvin TheatreBroadway | 129 perf. |
May: 3 openings
| May 3, 1966 | Ivanov Shubert TheatreBroadway | 47 perf. |
| May 21, 1966 | A Time for Singing Broadway TheatreBroadway | 41 perf. |
| May 24, 1966 | Mame Winter Garden TheatreBroadway | 1,508 perf. |
September: 6 openings
| September 21, 1966 | A Hand Is on the Gate Longacre TheatreBroadway | 20 perf. |
| September 21, 1966 | Annie Get Your Gun Broadway TheatreBroadway | 78 perf. |
| September 22, 1966 | A Delicate Balance Martin Beck TheatreBroadway | 132 perf. |
| September 26, 1966 | Manuela Vargas Anta PlayhouseBroadway | |
| September 27, 1966 | Dinner at Eight Alvin TheatreBroadway | 127 perf. |
| September 29, 1966 | Help Stamp Out Marriage! Booth TheatreBroadway | 20 perf. |
October: 10 openings
| October 4, 1966 | The Investigation Ambassador TheatreBroadway | 103 perf. |
| October 5, 1966 | The Killing of Sister George Belasco TheatreBroadway | 205 perf. |
| October 6, 1966 | The Loves of Cass McGuire Helen Hayes TheatreBroadway | 20 perf. |
| October 13, 1966 | The Alchemist Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway | 52 perf. |
| October 18, 1966 | The Apple Tree Shubert TheatreBroadway | 463 perf. |
| October 19, 1966 | We Have Always Lived in the Castle Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway | 9 perf. |
| October 24, 1966 | How's the World Treating You? Music Box TheatreBroadway | 40 perf. |
| October 27, 1966 | The Threepenny Opera Billy Rose TheatreBroadway | 13 perf. |
| October 27, 1966 | Under the Weather Cort TheatreBroadway | 12 perf. |
| October 31, 1966 | Gilbert Becaud on Broadway Longacre TheatreBroadway | 19 perf. |
November: 9 openings
| November 9, 1966 | Let's Sing Yiddish Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway | 107 perf. |
| November 9, 1966 | The Rose Tattoo Billy Rose TheatreBroadway | 62 perf. |
| November 16, 1966 | Les Ballets Africains Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway | 85 perf. |
| November 16, 1966 | The Apparition Theatre of Prague Cort TheatreBroadway | 21 perf. |
| November 17, 1966 | Don't Drink the Water Morosco TheatreBroadway | 598 perf. |
| November 20, 1966 | Cabaret Broadhurst TheatreBroadway | 1,165 perf. |
| November 24, 1966 | Those That Play the Clowns Anta PlayhouseBroadway | 4 perf. |
| November 26, 1966 | Walking Happy Lunt Fontanne TheatreBroadway | 161 perf. |
| November 28, 1966 | Hail Scrawdyke! Booth TheatreBroadway | 8 perf. |
December: 8 openings
| December 5, 1966 | I Do! I Do! 46th Street TheatreBroadway | 560 perf. |
| December 6, 1966 | My Sweet Charlie Longacre TheatreBroadway | 31 perf. |
| December 8, 1966 | Yerma Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway | 60 perf. |
| December 14, 1966 | Agatha Sue, I Love You Henry Millers TheatreBroadway | 5 perf. |
| December 14, 1966 | Breakfast At Tiffany’s Majestic TheatreBroadway | |
| December 15, 1966 | A Joyful Noise Mark Hellinger TheatreBroadway | 12 perf. |
| December 21, 1966 | The Star-Spangled Girl Plymouth TheatreBroadway | 261 perf. |
| December 27, 1966 | At the Drop of Another Hat Booth TheatreBroadway | 105 perf. |