Center Theatre

By decade58 productions across 2 decades

1. 1930s 6
2. 1940s 52

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

1944	Hats Off to Ice June 22, 1944 · Catherine Littlefield	889 perf.
1942	Stars on Ice July 2, 1942 · Catherine Littlefield	827 perf.
1949	Howdy, Mr. Ice of 1950 May 26, 1949 · Sonart Productions, Inc. (William H. Burke, Production Director; Arthur M. Wirtz, Executive Director)	430 perf.
1947	Icetime of 1948 May 28, 1947 · Catherine Littlefield	422 perf.
1948	Howdy, Mr. Ice June 24, 1948 · Catherine Littlefield	406 perf.
1946	Icetime June 20, 1946 · Sonart Productions, Inc. (William H. Burke, Production Director; Arthur M. Wirtz, Executive Director)	405 perf.
1943	Stars on Ice June 24, 1943 · Catherine Littlefield	403 perf.
1941	It Happens on Ice July 15, 1941 · Catherine Littlefield	386 perf.

Ranked among the 43 runs here that carry a performance count. 15 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here58 productions

1934	The Great Waltz September 22, 1934 · Original	298 perf.
1935	The Great Waltz August 5, 1935 · Return-Engagement	49 perf.
1936	White Horse Inn October 1, 1936 · Original	223 perf.
1937	Virginia September 2, 1937 · Original	60 perf.
1939	Swingin' The Dream November 29, 1939 · Original	13 perf.
1939	The American Way July 17, 1939 · Return-Engagement	80 perf.
1940	Gizelle January 12, 1940 · Original
1940	It Happens on Ice October 10, 1940 · Original	276 perf.
1941	It Happens on Ice July 15, 1941 · Return-Engagement	386 perf.
1942	Stars on Ice July 2, 1942 · Original	827 perf.
1943	Stars on Ice June 24, 1943 · Revival	403 perf.
1944	Aida April 28, 1944 · Revival	2 perf.
1944	Carmen April 26, 1944 · Revival	2 perf.
1944	Faust April 29, 1944 · Revival	2 perf.
1944	Hats Off to Ice June 22, 1944 · Original	889 perf.
1944	Il Trovatore April 30, 1944 · Revival
1944	La Bohème April 30, 1944 · Revival
1944	La Traviata April 27, 1944 · Revival
1944	Rigoletto April 29, 1944 · Revival
1946	Aida May 1, 1946 · Revival	2 perf.
1946	Carmen May 4, 1946 · Revival	2 perf.
1946	Cavalleria Rusticana May 8, 1946 · Revival	1 perf.
1946	Faust May 9, 1946 · Revival	1 perf.
1946	Icetime June 20, 1946 · Original	405 perf.
1946	Il Trovatore May 4, 1946 · Revival	2 perf.
1946	La Bohème May 5, 1946 · Revival	2 perf.
1946	La Tosca May 6, 1946 · Revival	1 perf.
1946	La Traviata May 3, 1946 · Revival	1 perf.
1946	Madame Butterfly May 2, 1946 · Revival	2 perf.
1946	Pagliacci May 8, 1946 · Revival	1 perf.
1946	Rigoletto May 5, 1946 · Revival	1 perf.
1946	The Barber of Seville May 7, 1946 · Revival	1 perf.
1947	Aida April 26, 1947 · Revival	3 perf.
1947	Carmen April 23, 1947 · Revival	3 perf.
1947	Cavalleria Rusticana April 29, 1947 · Revival	1 perf.
1947	Faust May 2, 1947 · Revival	1 perf.
1947	Icetime of 1948 May 28, 1947 · Original	422 perf.
1947	Il Trovatore April 27, 1947 · Revival	1 perf.
1947	La Bohème April 27, 1947 · Revival	2 perf.
1947	La Tosca April 30, 1947 · Revival	1 perf.
1947	La Traviata April 26, 1947 · Revival	3 perf.
1947	Madame Butterfly April 24, 1947 · Revival	3 perf.
1947	Pagliacci April 29, 1947 · Revival	1 perf.
1947	Rigoletto April 25, 1947 · Revival	2 perf.
1947	The Barber of Seville May 4, 1947 · Revival	1 perf.
1948	Aida April 14, 1948 · Revival
1948	Carmen April 14, 1948 · Revival	21 perf.
1948	Cavalleria Rusticana April 14, 1948 · Revival
1948	Faust April 14, 1948 · Revival
1948	Howdy, Mr. Ice June 24, 1948 · Original	406 perf.
1948	Il Trovatore April 14, 1948 · Revival
1948	La Bohème April 14, 1948 · Revival
1948	La Tosca April 14, 1948 · Revival
1948	La Traviata April 14, 1948 · Revival
1948	Madame Butterfly April 14, 1948 · Revival
1948	Rigoletto April 14, 1948 · Revival
1948	The Barber of Seville April 14, 1948 · Revival
1949	Howdy, Mr. Ice of 1950 May 26, 1949 · Original	430 perf.

In the literature8 passages

• • The Drowsy Chaperone , a woozy musical comedy from Canada whose American premiere was at the Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles. It closed December 30, 2007, after playing 674 performances and grossing $63.5 million.Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson
• The chiefs of the biggest not-for-profit theaters make big salaries. Some question if the salaries are commensurate with the duties. Andre Bishop, artistic director of the Lincoln Center Theatre, who was paid more than four hundred thousand dollars in the 2007 season, said, “I receive a handsome salary and worked 35 years to get it…. The…Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson
• Remember that three not-for-profit theaters produce on Broadway: the Lincoln Center Theatre, the Manhattan Theatre Club, and Roundabout Theatre. They are sometimes called the super-nfps. By producing on Broadway, these organizations and the artists whose work appears on their Broadway stages are eligible for Tony Awards. Perhaps because o…Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson
• The Lincoln Center Theatre operates the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, a Broadway stage, the Mitzi Newhouse, an off-Broadway house, and it is building a new off-off-Broadway theater that seats ninety-nine. Part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the 1960s campus holding the performing spaces for the New York Philharmonic, the Metrop…Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson
• Only in 1985, after years of disuse, was a successful organization formed that revived the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. Lincoln Center Theatre (LCT) was the country's largest not-for-profit theater, but as in 2008, The Roundabout wields a bigger budget. The total budgets for the Kennedy Center and the Center Group in Los Angeles are as large…Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson

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 15 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 1 of these run ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that they certainly closed. Nobody wrote down the date.