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Shows · 1960s · 1968

1968

78 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 1968.

Broadway opened 77 shows in 1968, far more than the years around it.

Biltmore Theatre, where Hair opened in 1968 · Epicgenius

Hair opened April 29, 1968 at Biltmore Theatre and ran 1,750 performances.

Playhouse Theatre closed.

Opened in 1968

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Undated: 1 opening

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown London

January: 10 openings

January 4, 1968 Saint Joan Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway 44 perf.
January 9, 1968 Exit the King Lyceum TheatreBroadway 47 perf.
January 10, 1968 Staircase Biltmore TheatreBroadway 61 perf.
January 11, 1968 Before You Go Henry Millers TheatreBroadway 29 perf.
January 13, 1968 Your Own Thing Orpheum TheatreOff-Broadway 933 perf.
January 16, 1968 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Helen Hayes TheatreBroadway 379 perf.
January 18, 1968 The Happy Time Broadway TheatreBroadway 286 perf.
January 25, 1968 I Never Sang for My Father Longacre TheatreBroadway 124 perf.
January 27, 1968 Darling of the Day George Abbott TheatreBroadway 31 perf.
January 31, 1968 Avanti! Booth TheatreBroadway 21 perf.

February: 10 openings

February 1, 1968 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway 154 perf.
February 4, 1968 Golden Rainbow Shubert TheatreBroadway 385 perf.
February 6, 1968 The Grand Music Hall of Israel Palace TheatreBroadway 63 perf.
February 7, 1968 The Price Morosco TheatreBroadway 429 perf.
February 14, 1968 Plaza Suite Plymouth TheatreBroadway 1,097 perf.
February 20, 1968 Les Ballets Africains Mark Hellinger TheatreBroadway
February 27, 1968 Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights John Golden TheatreBroadway 7 perf.
February 28, 1968 Cabaret Palace TheatreBroadway
February 28, 1968 Portrait of a Queen Henry Millers TheatreBroadway 60 perf.
February 29, 1968 Tiger at the Gates Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway 44 perf.

March: 6 openings

March 3, 1968 Here's Where I Belong Billy Rose TheatreBroadway 1 perf.
March 6, 1968 The Guide Hudson TheatreBroadway 5 perf.
March 13, 1968 Week-End Broadhurst TheatreBroadway 21 perf.
March 18, 1968 Loot Biltmore TheatreBroadway 22 perf.
March 19, 1968 The Cherry Orchard Lyceum TheatreBroadway 38 perf.
March 27, 1968 The Seven Descents of Myrtle Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway 29 perf.

April: 8 openings

April 4, 1968 The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N Alvin TheatreBroadway 29 perf.
April 10, 1968 George M! Palace TheatreBroadway 433 perf.
April 10, 1968 Leda Had a Little Swan Cort TheatreBroadway
April 18, 1968 Mike Downstairs Hudson TheatreBroadway 4 perf.
April 23, 1968 I'm Solomon Mark Hellinger TheatreBroadway 7 perf.
April 24, 1968 The Exercise John Golden TheatreBroadway 5 perf.
April 25, 1968 Cyrano de Bergerac Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway 52 perf.
April 29, 1968 Hair Biltmore TheatreBroadway 1,750 perf.

May: 6 openings

May 1, 1968 Soldiers Billy Rose TheatreBroadway 21 perf.
May 2, 1968 Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968 Booth TheatreBroadway 52 perf.
May 11, 1968 Happiness Is Just a Little Thing Called a Rolls Royce Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway 1 perf.
May 20, 1968 The Only Game in Town Broadhurst TheatreBroadway 16 perf.
May 25, 1968 Martha Graham and Dance Company George Abbott TheatreBroadway
May 28, 1968 The Venetian Twins Henry Millers TheatreBroadway 32 perf.

June: 2 openings

June 25, 1968 The Three Musketeers Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway 9 perf.
June 27, 1968 George Dandin Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway 4 perf.

July: 2 openings

July 2, 1968 Tartuffe Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway 6 perf.
July 25, 1968 Lovers Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway 148 perf.

September: 8 openings

September 3, 1968 Pantagleize Lyceum TheatreBroadway 9 perf.
September 13, 1968 The Show Off Lyceum TheatreBroadway 19 perf.
September 18, 1968 Lovers and Other Strangers Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway 70 perf.
September 24, 1968 The Cuban Thing Henry Millers TheatreBroadway 1 perf.
September 25, 1968 Woman Is My Idea Belasco TheatreBroadway 5 perf.
September 26, 1968 The Man in the Glass Booth Royale TheatreBroadway 264 perf.
September 29, 1968 Noël Coward's Sweet Potato Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway 44 perf.
September 30, 1968 Box / Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung Billy Rose TheatreBroadway 12 perf.

October: 14 openings

October 2, 1968 The Death of Bessie Smith / The American Dream Billy Rose TheatreBroadway 12 perf.
October 3, 1968 Marlene Dietrich Mark Hellinger TheatreBroadway 67 perf.
October 3, 1968 The Great White Hope Alvin TheatreBroadway 546 perf.
October 6, 1968 Gilbert Becaud Sings Love Cort TheatreBroadway 17 perf.
October 7, 1968 The Cocktail Party Lyceum TheatreBroadway 44 perf.
October 9, 1968 Krapp's Last Tape / The Zoo Story Billy Rose TheatreBroadway 5 perf.
October 9, 1968 The Megilla of Itzik Manger John Golden TheatreBroadway 78 perf.
October 9, 1968 The Misanthrope Lyceum TheatreBroadway 86 perf.
October 11, 1968 The Flip Side Booth TheatreBroadway 4 perf.
October 12, 1968 Happy Days Billy Rose TheatreBroadway 3 perf.
October 16, 1968 We Bombed in New Haven Ambassador TheatreBroadway 85 perf.
October 20, 1968 Her First Roman Lunt Fontanne TheatreBroadway
October 23, 1968 Maggie Flynn Anta PlayhouseBroadway 82 perf.
October 24, 1968 Rockefeller and the Red Indians Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway 4 perf.

November: 4 openings

November 7, 1968 King Lear Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway 72 perf.
November 14, 1968 A Cry of Players Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway 72 perf.
November 16, 1968 Zorba Imperial TheatreBroadway 305 perf.
November 28, 1968 Morning, Noon and Night Henry Millers TheatreBroadway 52 perf.

December: 7 openings

December 1, 1968 Promises, Promises Shubert TheatreBroadway 1,281 perf.
December 3, 1968 The Goodbye People Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway 7 perf.
December 5, 1968 Jimmy Shine Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway 161 perf.
December 17, 1968 The House of Atreus Billy Rose TheatreBroadway 20 perf.
December 18, 1968 The Sudden & Accidental Re-Education of Horse Johnson Belasco TheatreBroadway 5 perf.
December 22, 1968 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Billy Rose TheatreBroadway 10 perf.
December 26, 1968 Forty Carats Morosco TheatreBroadway 780 perf.

Closed in 1968

January 13, 1968 Hallelujah, Baby! Martin Beck Theatre, opened 1967 293 run
January 13, 1968 How to Be a Jewish Mother Hudson Theatre, opened 1967 20 run
January 13, 1968 Illya Darling Mark Hellinger Theatre, opened 1967 320 run
January 20, 1968 The Birthday Party Booth Theatre, opened 1967 126 run
January 20, 1968 The Little Foxes Vivian Beaumont Theater, opened 1967 100 run
February 10, 1968 Everything in the Garden Plymouth Theatre, opened 1967 84 run
February 24, 1968 Something Different Cort Theatre, opened 1967 111 run
March 2, 1968 More Stately Mansions Broadhurst Theatre, opened 1967 142 run
April 20, 1968 Don't Drink the Water Morosco Theatre, opened 1966 598 run
June 8, 1968 Spofford Anta Playhouse, opened 1967 202 run
June 15, 1968 How Now, Dow Jones Lunt Fontanne Theatre, opened 1967 220 run
June 15, 1968 I Do! I Do! 46th Street Theatre, opened 1966 560 run
June 22, 1968 Pantagleize Lyceum Theatre, opened 1967 50 run
June 22, 1968 The Show Off Lyceum Theatre, opened 1967 69 run
July 27, 1968 There's a Girl in My Soup Music Box Theatre, opened 1967 322 run
October 19, 1968 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Alvin Theatre, opened 1967 420 run
November 23, 1968 Cactus Flower Royale Theatre, opened 1965 1,234 run

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