Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

By decade18 productions across 7 decades

1. 1910s 1
2. 1920s 3
3. 1930s 2
4. 1960s 4
5. 1970s 3
6. 1980s 1
7. 2000s 4

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.

Everything that played here18 productions

1919	Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella Opening date unknown · Transfer
1924	Rose Marie 1927 Opening date unknown · Original
1928	Show Boat Opening date unknown · Transfer
1928	Showboat 1929 Opening date unknown · Original
1931	Cavalcade 1932 Opening date unknown · Original
1934	Three Sisters Opening date unknown · Original
1964	Camelot January 5, 1963 · Transfer
1964	Camelot 1965 Opening date unknown · Original
1965	Hello Dolly! 1967 Opening date unknown · Original
1969	Mame 1970 Opening date unknown · Original
1970	The Great Waltz 1972 Opening date unknown · Original
1972	Gone Opening date unknown · Original
1974	Billy 1976 Opening date unknown · Original
1981	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 1983 Opening date unknown · Original
2000	The Witches of Eastwick 2001 Opening date unknown · Original
2001	My Fair Lady revival 2003 Opening date unknown · Original
2003	Anything Goes revival 2004 Opening date unknown · Original
2004	The Producers June 17, 2003 · Transfer

In the literature8 passages

• The production went on to run for 2,281 performances, again a huge achievement, especially given the much larger capacity of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (with more than 2,000 seats), compared to the Mark Hellinger on Broadway (approximately 1,500 seats). So successful was the London incarnation of the show that Columbia decided to recor…Loverly_The Life and Times of My Fair Lady (Broadway Legacies) - Dominic McHugh
• Novello’s best remembered and most performed show is The Dancing Years, which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in March 1939. In the plot the composer Rudi Kleber (the leading male role, played, as usual, by Novello himself) is in love with the opera singer Maria Ziegler (Mary Ellis), but their affair is thwarted through misunderst…Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music
• Source: Production of Oliver! at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Photograph by Catherine Ashmore. Copyright Oliver Productions Ltd. & Oliver Promotions Ltd.Oliver!_ A Dickensian Musical - Marc Napolitano
• He would outdo himself more than ten years later when he revived the show again, this time at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. While the Palladium version had come close to his ideal vision of what Oliver! could be, Drury Lane offered a unique opportunity to see this ideal reach fruition, primarily owing to the structural differences betwee…Oliver!_ A Dickensian Musical - Marc Napolitano
• Source: “Who Will Buy?” from Oliver! at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Photograph by Catherine Ashmore. Copyright Oliver Productions Ltd. & Oliver Promotions Ltd.Oliver!_ A Dickensian Musical - Marc Napolitano

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 18 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 17 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.