Gaiety Theatre

By decade43 productions across 4 decades

1. 1900s 2
2. 1910s 13
3. 1920s 26
4. 1930s 2

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	Lightnin' August 26, 1918	1,291 perf.
1916	Turn to the Right! August 17, 1916	435 perf.
1910	Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford September 19, 1910	424 perf.
1909	The Fortune Hunter September 4, 1909	345 perf.
1914	Daddy Long Legs September 28, 1914	264 perf.
1927	Tommy January 10, 1927	232 perf.
1922	Loyalties September 27, 1922 · Basil Dean	220 perf.
1912	Officer 666 January 29, 1912 · George M. Cohan	192 perf.

Ranked among the 42 runs here that carry a performance count. 1 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here43 productions

1909	The Fortune Hunter September 4, 1909 · Original	345 perf.
1909	The House Next Door April 12, 1909 · Original	88 perf.
1910	Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford September 19, 1910 · Original	424 perf.
1911	The First Lady in the Land December 4, 1911 · Original	64 perf.
1912	Officer 666 January 29, 1912 · Original	192 perf.
1914	Along Came Ruth February 23, 1914 · Original	56 perf.
1914	Cordelia Blossom August 26, 1914 · Original	16 perf.
1914	Daddy Long Legs September 28, 1914 · Original	264 perf.
1915	Sadie Love November 29, 1915 · Original	80 perf.
1915	Search Me August 11, 1915 · Original	13 perf.
1915	She's in Again May 17, 1915 · Original	48 perf.
1916	Turn to the Right! August 17, 1916 · Original	435 perf.
1917	General Post December 24, 1917 · Original	72 perf.
1918	Lightnin' August 26, 1918 · Original	1,291 perf.
1918	Sick-a-Bed February 25, 1918 · Original	80 perf.
1921	Alias Jimmy Valentine December 8, 1921 · Revival	46 perf.
1921	Golden Days November 1, 1921 · Original	40 perf.
1921	The Wheel August 29, 1921 · Original	49 perf.
1921	The Wren October 10, 1921 · Original	24 perf.
1922	Elsie Janis and Her Gang [1922] January 16, 1922 · Original	56 perf.
1922	Loyalties September 27, 1922 · Original	220 perf.
1922	Madeleine and the Movies March 6, 1922 · Original	80 perf.
1922	The Drums of Jeopardy May 29, 1922 · Original	8 perf.
1923	Aren't We All? May 21, 1923 · Original	32 perf.
1923	If Winter Comes April 2, 1923 · Original	40 perf.
1924	Close Harmony December 1, 1924 · Original	24 perf.
1924	Garden of Weeds April 28, 1924 · Original	16 perf.
1924	Her Way Out June 23, 1924 · Original	24 perf.
1924	Mme. Simone March 21, 1924 · Original
1924	Rain September 1, 1924 · Revival	96 perf.
1924	The Youngest December 22, 1924 · Original	104 perf.
1924	We Moderns March 11, 1924 · Original	22 perf.
1925	By the Way December 28, 1925 · Original	176 perf.
1925	Tell Me More April 13, 1925 · Original	32 perf.
1925	The Family Upstairs August 17, 1925 · Original	72 perf.
1925	These Charming People October 6, 1925 · Original	107 perf.
1926	Love in a Mist April 12, 1926 · Original	118 perf.
1926	On Approval October 18, 1926 · Original	96 perf.
1926	Sandalwood September 22, 1926 · Original	39 perf.
1926	Service For Two August 30, 1926 · Original	24 perf.
1927	Tommy January 10, 1927 · Original	232 perf.
1931	Peter Flies High November 9, 1931 · Original	8 perf.
1932	Collision February 16, 1932 · Original	7 perf.

In the literature6 passages

• Between the early Edwardian musical comedies of the Gaiety Theatre and the recent megamusicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber is a largely forgotten era in the history of the British musical of some twenty-five years. Between 1935 and 1960, 127 new British musicals were presented in the West End, but only a handful have survived into today’s acti…Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music
• Brighouse was the author of many one-act plays that appear in some fifty anthologies. The plays that were produced at the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester include The Doorway (1909), Dealing in Futures (1909), The Polygon (1911), Lonesome Like (1911), and Spring in Bloomsbury (1911). He also wrote The Price of Coal (1911); The Oak Settle (191…McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C)
• duced Hampstead, Everyman Theatre, Oct. 18, 1926. 2. I'll Leave It to You. Light comedy, 3 acts. Written 1919. Published 1920. Produced Manchester, Gaiety Theatre, May 3, 1920; London, New Theatre, July 21, 1920.McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C)
• duced Dublin, Gaiety Theatre, Feb. 28, 1955. 19. The Drums of Father Ned. Comic fantasy. Written 1958. Produced 20.McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 4 (O-S)
• 16. In Chancery. Fantastic comedy, 3 acts. Published 1905; Produced Edinburgh, Lyceum Theatre, Sept. 19, 1884; London, Gaiety Theatre, Dec. 24, 1884. 17. The Magistrate. Farce, 3 acts. Published 1892. Produced Court Theatre, Mar. 21, 1885. 18. (Adaptation). Mayfair. Play. Produced St. James's Theatre, Oct. 31, 1885. Based on Victorien Sar…McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 4 (O-S)

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 1 of these run lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 33 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.
• How many seats.
• Who built it.
• Any photograph of the building.