Apollo Theatre

By decade24 productions across 2 decades

1. 1920s 19
2. 1930s 5

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

1926	George White's Scandals [1926] June 14, 1926	432 perf.
1930	Flying High March 3, 1930 · George White, Edward Clark Lilley	357 perf.
1923	Poppy September 3, 1923 · Dorothy Donnelly Choreogrer: Julian Alfred	346 perf.
1927	Manhattan Mary September 26, 1927	264 perf.
1932	Take A Chance November 26, 1932 · Edgar MacGregor	243 perf.
1928	George White's Scandals [1928] July 2, 1928 · Russell Markert	240 perf.
1931	George White's Scandals [1931] September 14, 1931	202 perf.
1924	George White's Scandals [1924] June 30, 1924	196 perf.

Everything that played here24 productions

1920	Jimmie November 17, 1920 · Original	71 perf.
1921	Love Birds March 15, 1921 · Original	103 perf.
1921	Macbeth February 17, 1921 · Revival	28 perf.
1921	Nature's Nobleman November 14, 1921 · Original	74 perf.
1922	Daffy Dill August 22, 1922 · Original	71 perf.
1922	Johannes Kreisler December 20, 1922 · Original	65 perf.
1922	Lady Bug April 17, 1922 · Original	5 perf.
1923	How Come? April 16, 1923 · Original	40 perf.
1923	Poppy September 3, 1923 · Original	346 perf.
1924	George White's Scandals [1924] June 30, 1924 · Original	196 perf.
1924	The Sap December 15, 1924 · Original	32 perf.
1925	George White's Scandals [1925] June 22, 1925 · Original	169 perf.
1925	The Fourflusher April 13, 1925 · Original	56 perf.
1925	The Valley of Content January 13, 1925 · Original	39 perf.
1926	George White's Scandals [1926] June 14, 1926 · Original	432 perf.
1927	Manhattan Mary September 26, 1927 · Original	264 perf.
1928	George White's Scandals [1928] July 2, 1928 · Original	240 perf.
1929	George White's Scandals [1929] September 23, 1929 · Original	161 perf.
1929	Harlem February 20, 1929 · Original	93 perf.
1930	Flying High March 3, 1930 · Original	357 perf.
1931	George White's Scandals [1931] September 14, 1931 · Original	202 perf.
1931	The House Beautiful March 12, 1931 · Original	108 perf.
1932	Take A Chance November 26, 1932 · Original	243 perf.
1933	Blackbirds of 1933 December 2, 1933 · Original	25 perf.

In the literature8 passages

• Ethel hand-delivered Bragg’s letter to White at Forty-second Street’s Apollo Theatre, where the Scandals were always staged and where White gave her the once-over. He had high standards of feminine beauty and was known for dismissing chorus girls who didn’t make the grade as “dog faces.” Ethel was far from being a stunning beauty, but she…Ethel Merman_ A Life - Brian Kellow
• Keep Your Hair On! Music by John Addison; lyrics and book by John Cranko. Apollo Theatre, 13 February 1958. PC: Rachel Roberts, Betty Marsden, Barbara Windsor, Erik Mörk. MN: True Party Song; Rain; Just a Misfit; Toni’s a Phoney; Crowning Glory; Crocodile Tears; One Day; Patent Leather Pumps; A Martyr for the Truth; Help the Lady, Dave; N…Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright
• 10. Nymphs and Satires , made up of white and black artists, was an entertainment seen at the Apollo Theatre in 1965.Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright
• A feyness calculated to bewitch the most dewy-eyed of theatregoers infected The Fantasticks (Apollo Theatre, 7 September 1961; 44), the first of three shows by composer Harvey Schmidt and his librettist-lyricist Tom Jones to reach London. None would achieve the success they enjoyed in New York. There, The Fantasticks ran for an astounding…West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright
• 2 Certainly, the London production seen at the Apollo Theatre in 1968 was presented as a musical.West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright

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.
• When 7 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.
• Who built it.