76 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 1976.

Broadway's shows didn't last in 1976: half of the year's openings closed within 22.5 performances, one of the shortest medians of any year in this catalogue. Oh! Calcutta! broke that pattern, running 5,959 performances, 264.8 times the median.

Edison Theatre, where Oh! Calcutta! opened in 1976 · Found5dollar

Oh! Calcutta! opened September 24, 1976 at Edison Theatre and ran 5,959 performances.

Gallo Theatre closed.

Opened in 1976

Undated: 4 openings

	A season of Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everage Gielgud TheatreLondon
	Cilla at the Palace Victoria Palace TheatreLondon
	Lesley Cole The Life of Noel Coward Jonathan Cape London Theatre Royal HaymarketLondon
	Very Good Eddie London

January: 5 openings

January 4, 1976	Home Sweet Homer Palace TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
January 8, 1976	The Poison Tree Ambassador TheatreBroadway	5 perf.
January 11, 1976	Pacific Overtures Winter Garden TheatreBroadway	193 perf.
January 26, 1976	A Memory of Two Mondays / 27 Wagons Full of Cotton Playhouse TheatreBroadway	63 perf.
January 27, 1976	They Knew What They Wanted Playhouse TheatreBroadway	23 perf.

February: 4 openings

February 3, 1976	A Matter of Gravity Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	79 perf.
February 17, 1976	Rockabye Hamlet Minskoff TheatreBroadway	7 perf.
February 18, 1976	Mrs. Warren's Profession Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway	55 perf.
February 24, 1976	Knock Knock Biltmore TheatreBroadway	152 perf.

March: 6 openings

March 2, 1976	Bubbling Brown Sugar Anta PlayhouseBroadway	766 perf.
March 7, 1976	Geraldine Fitzgerald in Songs of the Street Circle In The Square TheatreBroadway	2 perf.
March 14, 1976	Me Jack, You Jill John Golden TheatreBroadway
March 17, 1976	Zalmen or The Madness of God Lyceum TheatreBroadway	22 perf.
March 18, 1976	The Lady from the Sea Circle In The Square TheatreBroadway	77 perf.
March 25, 1976	My Fair Lady St James TheatreBroadway	377 perf.

April: 8 openings

April 1, 1976	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Music Box TheatreBroadway	117 perf.
April 12, 1976	Secret Service Playhouse TheatreBroadway	13 perf.
April 13, 1976	Boy Meets Girl Playhouse TheatreBroadway	10 perf.
April 19, 1976	Shirley MacLaine Palace TheatreBroadway	14 perf.
April 20, 1976	The Heiress Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	23 perf.
April 25, 1976	Rex Lunt-Fontanne TheatreBroadway	49 perf.
April 27, 1976	So Long, 174th Street Harkness TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
April 28, 1976	The Belle of Amherst Longacre TheatreBroadway	116 perf.

May: 10 openings

May 1, 1976	The Threepenny Opera Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway	307 perf.
May 2, 1976	George Abbott...A Celebration Shubert TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 4, 1976	1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Mark HellingerBroadway	7 perf.
May 5, 1976	The Mikado Uris TheatreBroadway	9 perf.
May 6, 1976	Des Journées Entières Dans les Arbres Ambassador TheatreBroadway	12 perf.
May 6, 1976	The Pirates Of Penzance Uris TheatreBroadway	8 perf.
May 13, 1976	Legend Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway	5 perf.
May 16, 1976	H.M.S. Pinafore Uris TheatreBroadway	4 perf.
May 18, 1976	The Runner Stumbles Little TheatreBroadway	396 perf.
May 27, 1976	Something's Afoot Lyceum TheatreBroadway	61 perf.

June: 6 openings

June 3, 1976	Al Green / Ashford & Simpson Uris TheatreBroadway	7 perf.
June 9, 1976	The Paul Taylor Dance Company Billy Rose TheatreBroadway
June 10, 1976	California Suite Eugene Oneill TheatreBroadway	445 perf.
June 14, 1976	An Evening With Diana Ross Palace TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
June 22, 1976	Godspell Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	527 perf.
June 27, 1976	Pal Joey Circle In The Square TheatreBroadway	73 perf.

July: 1 opening

July 21, 1976

Guys and Dolls Broadway TheatreBroadway

239 perf.

September: 13 openings

September 14, 1976	Checking Out Longacre TheatreBroadway	15 perf.
September 15, 1976	for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf Booth TheatreBroadway	742 perf.
September 16, 1976	Debbie Minskoff TheatreBroadway	14 perf.
September 19, 1976	Going Up John Golden TheatreBroadway	49 perf.
September 20, 1976	I Have a Dream Ambassador TheatreBroadway	88 perf.
September 21, 1976	A Texas Trilogy: Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	21 perf.
September 22, 1976	A Texas Trilogy: The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	22 perf.
September 23, 1976	A Texas Trilogy: The Oldest Living Graduate Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	20 perf.
September 24, 1976	Oh! Calcutta! Edison TheatreBroadway	5,959 perf.
September 25, 1976	Porgy and Bess Uris TheatreBroadway	122 perf.
September 26, 1976	Days in the Trees Circle In The Square TheatreBroadway	69 perf.
September 27, 1976	Kings Alvin TheatreBroadway	4 perf.
September 27, 1976	Siamsa Palace TheatreBroadway	8 perf.

October: 5 openings

October 9, 1976	The Robber Bridegroom BiltmoreBroadway	145 perf.
October 11, 1976	Wheelbarrow Closers Bijou TheatreBroadway	8 perf.
October 19, 1976	Best Friend Lyceum TheatreBroadway	8 perf.
October 20, 1976	Poor Murderer Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway	87 perf.
October 21, 1976	The Innocents Morosco TheatreBroadway	12 perf.

November: 7 openings

November 1, 1976	Don't Step on My Olive Branch Playhouse TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
November 9, 1976	No Man's Land Longacre TheatreBroadway	47 perf.
November 23, 1976	Chinese Acrobats of Taiwan Minskoff TheatreBroadway	16 perf.
November 23, 1976	Natalie Cole Winter Garden TheatreBroadway	6 perf.
November 23, 1976	The Eccentricities of a Nightingale Morosco TheatreBroadway	24 perf.
November 28, 1976	Comedians Music Box TheatreBroadway	145 perf.
November 30, 1976	Herzl Palace TheatreBroadway	8 perf.

December: 7 openings

December 7, 1976	Bing Crosby on Broadway Uris TheatreBroadway	12 perf.
December 14, 1976	Sly Fox Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	495 perf.
December 16, 1976	The Night of the Iguana Circle In The Square TheatreBroadway	77 perf.
December 20, 1976	Music Is St. James TheatreBroadway	8 perf.
December 21, 1976	Barry Manilow on Broadway Uris TheatreBroadway	12 perf.
December 22, 1976	Your Arms Too Short to Box With God Lyceum TheatreBroadway	429 perf.
December 28, 1976	Fiddler on the Roof Winter Garden TheatreBroadway	167 perf.

Closed in 1976

January 4, 1976	Candide Broadway Theatre, opened 1974	740 run
January 4, 1976	Dance With Me Mayfair Theatre, opened 1975	396 run
January 4, 1976	Kennedy's Children John Golden Theatre, opened 1975	72 run
January 4, 1976	Sherlock Holmes Broadhurst Theatre, opened 1974	471 run
January 4, 1976	The Ritz Longacre Theatre, opened 1975	400 run
January 10, 1976	Murder Among Friends Biltmore Theatre, opened 1975	17 run
January 25, 1976	Hamlet Vivian Beaumont Theater, opened 1975	47 run
February 1, 1976	A Musical Jubilee St James Theatre, opened 1975	92 run
February 1, 1976	American Ballet Theatre Uris Theatre, opened 1975
February 8, 1976	Angel Street Lyceum Theatre, opened 1975	52 run
February 8, 1976	Sweet Bird of Youth Harkness Theatre, opened 1975	48 run
February 15, 1976	Habeas Corpus Martin Beck Theatre, opened 1975	95 run
February 22, 1976	The Glass Menagerie Circle In The Square Theatre, opened 1975	77 run
March 6, 1976	Absurd Person Singular Music Box Theatre, opened 1974	591 run
March 13, 1976	Travesties Ethel Barrymore Theatre, opened 1975	156 run
May 2, 1976	Yentl Eugene Oneill Theatre, opened 1975	223 run
June 18, 1976	The Norman Conquests: Table Manners Morosco Theatre, opened 1975	76 run
June 19, 1976	The Norman Conquests: Living Together Morosco Theatre, opened 1975	76 run
June 19, 1976	The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden Morosco Theatre, opened 1975	76 run
July 18, 1976	The Royal Family Helen Hayes Theatre, opened 1975	233 run
September 5, 1976	Very Good Eddie Booth Theatre, opened 1975	304 run
December 5, 1976	Me and Bessie Ambassador Theatre, opened 1975	453 run

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