Coronet Theatre

Longest runs hereby performances

1950	Tickets, Please! April 27, 1950 · Mervyn Nelson	245 perf.
1950	Happy as Larry January 6, 1950 · Burgess Meredith	3 perf.

Everything that played here2 productions

1950	Happy as Larry January 6, 1950 · Original	3 perf.
1950	Tickets, Please! April 27, 1950 · Original	245 perf.

In the literature8 passages

• 8 The Firstborn by Christopher Fry opened at the Coronet Theatre on 30 April 1958. It included incidental music by Bernstein. The cast was led by Anthony Quayle; it also included Michael Wager, a friend of the Bernsteins.Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein
• Theatre : Coronet Theatre (during run, the revue transferred to the Mark Hellinger Theatre)Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• As the Hartmans explained in the revue’s prologue (as they walked down the aisle of the Coronet Theatre to the stage), the revue’s original name had been a more commercial one, but unfortunately another show in town was already called South Pacific . However, their revue had much in common with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hit, because every…Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Theatre : 48th Street Theatre (during run, the musical transferred to the Coronet Theatre)Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• The Bird Cage by Arthur Laurents (Coronet Theatre, February 22, 1950, 21 performances)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.
• How many seats.
• Who built it.
• Any photograph of the building.