49th Street Theatre

By decade62 productions across 2 decades

1. 1920s 41
2. 1930s 21

Counted from the productions we hold, which are Broadway and a partial West End. A quiet decade here can mean a dark theatre and can mean a gap in the record.

Longest runs hereby performances

1922	Whispering Wires August 7, 1922 · J. C. Huffman	352 perf.
1925	One of the Family December 22, 1925	238 perf.
1923	For All of Us October 15, 1923	216 perf.
1923	Give and Take January 15, 1923 · W. H. Gilmore	172 perf.
1922	Chauve-Souris [1922] February 4, 1922 · Nikita Balieff	153 perf.
1926	The Judge's Husband September 27, 1926 · Thomas Coffin Cooke	120 perf.
1924	The Werewolf August 25, 1924	112 perf.
1924	The Outsider March 3, 1924	104 perf.

Ranked among the 60 runs here that carry a performance count. 2 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here62 productions

1921	Face Value December 26, 1921 · Original	41 perf.
1922	Chauve-Souris [1922] February 4, 1922 · Original	153 perf.
1922	Whispering Wires August 7, 1922 · Original	352 perf.
1923	Connie Goes Home September 6, 1923 · Original	20 perf.
1923	For All of Us October 15, 1923 · Original	216 perf.
1923	Give and Take January 15, 1923 · Original	172 perf.
1923	Thumbs Down August 6, 1923 · Original	24 perf.
1923	What's Your Wife Doing? October 1, 1923 · Original	72 perf.
1924	Badges December 3, 1924 · Original	101 perf.
1924	Cheaper to Marry April 15, 1924 · Original	71 perf.
1924	Gypsy Jim January 14, 1924 · Original	48 perf.
1924	Nancy Ann March 31, 1924 · Original	40 perf.
1924	The Outsider March 3, 1924 · Original	104 perf.
1924	The Strong February 26, 1924 · Original	2 perf.
1924	The Werewolf August 25, 1924 · Original	112 perf.
1925	Chauve-Souris [1925] January 14, 1925 · Original	61 perf.
1925	Courting September 12, 1925 · Original	41 perf.
1925	Lady of the Rose May 19, 1925 · Original	8 perf.
1925	O, Nightingale April 15, 1925 · Original	29 perf.
1925	One of the Family December 22, 1925 · Original	238 perf.
1926	Don Q., Jr. January 27, 1926 · Original	34 perf.
1926	The Adorable Liar August 30, 1926 · Original	32 perf.
1926	The Judge's Husband September 27, 1926 · Original	120 perf.
1926	The Right Age to Marry February 15, 1926 · Original	33 perf.
1927	Ballyhoo January 4, 1927 · Original	7 perf.
1927	Fallen Angels December 1, 1927 · Original	36 perf.
1927	Menace March 14, 1927 · Original	24 perf.
1927	Scalawag March 29, 1927 · Original	7 perf.
1927	Synthetic Sin October 10, 1927 · Original	24 perf.
1927	The Fanatics November 7, 1927 · Original	16 perf.
1927	The Tightwad April 16, 1927 · Original	9 perf.
1928	A Lady for a Night April 16, 1928 · Original	8 perf.
1928	Killers March 13, 1928 · Original	23 perf.
1928	The Phantom Lover September 4, 1928 · Original	15 perf.
1928	The Wild Duck November 19, 1928 · Revival	80 perf.
1929	Decision May 27, 1929 · Original	64 perf.
1929	Great Scott September 2, 1929 · Original	16 perf.
1929	Hedda Gabler February 2, 1929 · Revival	25 perf.
1929	The Come-On Man April 22, 1929 · Original	24 perf.
1929	The Patriarch November 25, 1929 · Original	15 perf.
1929	Thunder in the Air November 11, 1929 · Original	16 perf.
1930	Bird in Hand November 10, 1930 · Revival	65 perf.
1930	Insult September 15, 1930 · Original	24 perf.
1930	Marigold October 8, 1930 · Original	13 perf.
1930	The Challenge of Youth January 20, 1930 · Original	24 perf.
1931	Barbara's Wedding / The Father October 8, 1931 · Original	20 perf.
1931	Bloody Laughter December 4, 1931 · Original	35 perf.
1931	The Good Companions October 1, 1931 · Original	68 perf.
1931	Topaze February 16, 1931 · Revival	8 perf.
1932	Peacock October 11, 1932 · Original	7 perf.
1932	Wolves January 6, 1932 · Original	29 perf.
1933	Birthright November 21, 1933 · Revival	7 perf.
1934	Birthday December 26, 1934 · Original	13 perf.
1934	Tomorrow's Harvest December 5, 1934 · Original	4 perf.
1934	When in Rome February 27, 1934 · Original	7 perf.
1935	A Woman of the Soil March 25, 1935 · Original	24 perf.
1936	The Water Carrier December 24, 1936 · Original
1936	Truly Valiant January 9, 1936 · Original	1 perf.
1937	Borderline February 9, 1937 · Original
1937	How Come, Lawd? September 30, 1937 · Original	2 perf.
1937	Money Mad May 24, 1937 · Original	1 perf.
1938	Power February 12, 1938 · Revival	15 perf.

What this page does not know

• What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here outside it: concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed production.
• How long 2 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 54 of these runs ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that they certainly closed. Nobody wrote down the date.
• When the building opened.
• How many seats.
• Who built it.
• Any photograph of the building.