Eden Theatre

By decade4 productions across 2 decades

1. 1960s 1
2. 1970s 3

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

1972	Gease February 14, 1972 · Tom Moore	3,388 perf.
1972	Grease February 14, 1972 · Tom Moore	3,388 perf.
1969	Oh! Calcutta! June 17, 1969 · Margo Sappington	1,314 perf.
1973	Smith May 19, 1973 · Neal Kenyon	17 perf.

Everything that played here4 productions

1969	Oh! Calcutta! June 17, 1969 · Original	1,314 perf.
1972	Gease February 14, 1972 · Original	3,388 perf.
1972	Grease February 14, 1972 · Original	3,388 perf.
1973	Smith May 19, 1973 · Original	17 perf.

In the literature8 passages

• Once the score was in place, Waissman and Fox mounted a production at the Eden Theatre and opened on February 14, 1972. But they soon realized they’d made a mistake. The theater was technically a Broadway house, because it had more than the requisite 499 seats. But it was far from the Broadway district, located on Second Avenue and Twelft…B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia
• A surprise runaway hit, Grease opened at the Off-Broadway Eden Theatre (formerly the Phoenix), then moved on Broadway to the Broadhurst and then the Royale. And there it remained until April 13, 1980, for a record run that was not overtaken until A Chorus Line danced past the mark. The show, which began life as a five-hour amateur product…Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell
• - Small, and Garn Stephens Eden Theatre : opened February 721 972 ——Broadhurst Theatre ves June 7, 1972More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin
• DOUGLAS WATT, DAILY NEWS The Eden Theatre is a-tingle. Grease, which opened there last night, is a lively and funny musical—as well as the dancingest one in town—that brings back the look and sound of the teenage world of the late 1950s with glee. It’s a winner. Rydell High’s class of ’59 is a spirited one composed largely of delinquents.…More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin
• i EDEN THEATRE Opened Tuesday, June 17, 1969* Hillard Elkins in association with Michael White, Gor-Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis)

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 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.
• How many seats.
• Who built it.