The barns

Fourteen hundred seats and up. The Hippodrome held 5,300 and needed a show with an elephant in it. The economics of a big house decide what can be staged in it, which is why the spectacle never went away.

33 theatres in the catalogue.

1905–1939	Hippodrome 5,300 seats	2 productions
1932–1954	Center Theatre 3,700 seats	58 productions
1823–1895	Niblo's Garden 3,200 seats
1922–1990	Earl Carroll Theatre 3,000 seats	20 productions
	Apollo Victoria Theatre 2,328 seats	8 productions
	London Palladium 2,286 seats	31 productions
1663	Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 2,196 seats	18 productions
	Dominion Theatre 2,163 seats	24 productions
	Lyceum Theatre 2,100 seats	3 productions
1972	George Gershwin Theatre 1,933 seats	74 productions
1998	Lyric Theatre 1,930 seats	151 productions
1924	Broadway Theatre 1,761 seats	184 productions
1903	New Amsterdam Theatre 1,747 seats	151 productions
1913	Palace Theatre 1,743 seats	77 productions
1973	Minskoff Theatre 1,710 seats	41 productions
1927	St. James Theatre 1,710 seats	101 productions
1921–1962	New Century Theatre 1,700 seats	94 productions
1927	Majestic Theatre 1,645 seats	126 productions
1927–1966	Ziegfeld Theatre 1,638 seats	40 productions
1930	Prince Edward Theatre 1,618 seats	13 productions
1986	Marquis Theatre 1,611 seats	43 productions
1930–1989	Mark Hellinger Theatre 1,603 seats	62 productions
	Victoria Palace Theatre 1,557 seats	28 productions
1911	Winter Garden Theatre 1,526 seats	146 productions
1910	Lunt-Fontanne Theatre 1,519 seats	143 productions
	Adelphi Theatre 1,500 seats
1927–1959	Hammerstein's Theatre 1,500 seats	3 productions
1913	Shubert Theatre 1,460 seats	182 productions
1924	Al Hirschfeld Theatre 1,437 seats	173 productions
1928–1970	Adelphi Theatre 1,434 seats	55 productions
1923	Imperial Theatre 1,417 seats	78 productions
	Shaftesbury Theatre 1,416 seats	2 productions
	Palace Theatre 1,400 seats

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