Central Theatre

By decade11 productions across 2 decades

1. 1910s 3
2. 1920s 8

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

1918	Forever After September 9, 1918	312 perf.
1918	Somebody's Sweetheart December 23, 1918	224 perf.
1920	Afgar November 8, 1920 · Frank Collins	168 perf.
1920	As You Were January 27, 1920	143 perf.
1920	Poor Little Ritz Girl July 28, 1920 · Lew Fields	93 perf.
1924	The Melody Man May 13, 1924	80 perf.
1919	The Little Blue Devil November 3, 1919 · Oscar Eagle	74 perf.
1920	Always You January 5, 1920 · Oscar Eagle	66 perf.

Everything that played here11 productions

1918	Forever After September 9, 1918 · Original	312 perf.
1918	Somebody's Sweetheart December 23, 1918 · Original	224 perf.
1919	The Little Blue Devil November 3, 1919 · Original	74 perf.
1920	Afgar November 8, 1920 · Original	168 perf.
1920	Always You January 5, 1920 · Original	66 perf.
1920	As You Were January 27, 1920 · Original	143 perf.
1920	Poor Little Ritz Girl July 28, 1920 · Original	93 perf.
1921	Princess Virtue May 4, 1921 · Original	13 perf.
1924	The Melody Man May 13, 1924 · Original	80 perf.
1925	Solid Ivory November 16, 1925 · Original	32 perf.
1927	That French Lady March 15, 1927 · Original	47 perf.

In the literature1 passages

• Bagels and Yox was the first show to play at the refurbished Holiday Theatre, which originally opened in 1918 as the Central Theatre. Two years into its life the theatre made Broadway history: in January 1920, the musical Always You marked the Broadway debut of Oscar Hammerstein II as a lyricist and book writer, and the following July the…Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz

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 4 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.