Jolsons 59th Street Theatre

By decade56 productions across 3 decades

1. 1920s 51
2. 1930s 4
3. 1940s 1

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

1924	The Student Prince December 2, 1924 · J. C. Huffman	608 perf.
1927	My Maryland September 12, 1927 · J. C. Huffman	312 perf.
1921	Bombo October 6, 1921 · J. C. Huffman	218 perf.
1922	The World We Live In October 31, 1922 · John Cromwell	111 perf.
1927	The Nightingale January 3, 1927 · Lewis Morton	96 perf.
1929	Mlle. Modiste October 7, 1929 · Milton Aborn	48 perf.
1929	Chauve-Souris [1929] January 22, 1929 · Nikita Balieff	47 perf.
1923	The Blue Bird December 23, 1923	33 perf.

Ranked among the 44 runs here that carry a performance count. 12 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here56 productions

1921	Bombo October 6, 1921 · Original	218 perf.
1922	Some Party April 15, 1922 · Original	17 perf.
1922	The World We Live In October 31, 1922 · Original	111 perf.
1923	An Enemy of the People November 20, 1923 · Revival
1923	Cymbeline October 2, 1923 · Revival	15 perf.
1923	Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man December 5, 1923 · Original
1923	In the Claws of Life November 29, 1923 · Original	3 perf.
1923	Irene April 2, 1923 · Revival	16 perf.
1923	Ivanov November 26, 1923 · Original	5 perf.
1923	Mistress of the Inn November 21, 1923 · Original	7 perf.
1923	The Blue Bird December 23, 1923 · Revival	33 perf.
1923	The Brothers Karamazoff February 26, 1923 · Original	10 perf.
1923	The Cherry Orchard January 22, 1923 · Original	18 perf.
1923	The Death of Pazukhin November 20, 1923 · Original
1923	The Lady from the Provinces February 26, 1923 · Original	10 perf.
1923	The Lower Depths January 15, 1923 · Revival	20 perf.
1923	The Three Sisters January 29, 1923 · Original	10 perf.
1923	Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch January 8, 1923 · Original	24 perf.
1923	Uncle Vanya November 20, 1923 · Original
1924	An Enemy of the People February 5, 1924 · Return-Engagement	2 perf.
1924	Blossom Time May 19, 1924 · Revival	24 perf.
1924	Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man February 16, 1924 · Return-Engagement	2 perf.
1924	In the Claws of Life January 1, 1924 · Return-Engagement
1924	Ivanov January 21, 1924 · Return-Engagement	7 perf.
1924	L'Homme et Ses Fantomes November 10, 1924 · Original
1924	L'Homme qui Assassina November 10, 1924 · Original
1924	Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme November 10, 1924 · Original
1924	Le Procuteur Hallers November 10, 1924 · Original
1924	Mistress of the Inn January 1, 1924 · Return-Engagement
1924	The Brothers Karamazoff January 14, 1924 · Return-Engagement	4 perf.
1924	The Cherry Orchard January 18, 1924 · Return-Engagement	8 perf.
1924	The Death of Pazukhin February 11, 1924 · Return-Engagement	12 perf.
1924	The Lower Depths January 25, 1924 · Return-Engagement	3 perf.
1924	The Merchant of Venice November 10, 1924 · Revival
1924	The Student Prince December 2, 1924 · Original	608 perf.
1924	The Taming of the Shrew November 10, 1924 · Revival
1924	Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch February 1, 1924 · Return-Engagement	2 perf.
1924	Uncle Vanya January 28, 1924 · Return-Engagement	14 perf.
1925	Lysistrata December 14, 1925 · Original	8 perf.
1926	Blossom Time March 8, 1926 · Revival	16 perf.
1926	Girofle-Girofla November 22, 1926 · Revival	10 perf.
1927	My Maryland September 12, 1927 · Original	312 perf.
1927	The Nightingale January 3, 1927 · Original	96 perf.
1929	Babes in Toyland December 23, 1929 · Revival	32 perf.
1929	Chauve-Souris [1929] January 22, 1929 · Original	47 perf.
1929	Mlle. Modiste October 7, 1929 · Revival	48 perf.
1929	Naughty Marietta October 21, 1929 · Revival	16 perf.
1929	Robin Hood November 18, 1929 · Revival	31 perf.
1929	Sweethearts September 21, 1929 · Revival	17 perf.
1929	The Fortune Teller November 4, 1929 · Revival	16 perf.
1929	Trois Jeunes Filles Nues March 4, 1929 · Original	8 perf.
1930	Sir Harry Lauder April 21, 1930 · Original	9 perf.
1930	The Chocolate Soldier January 27, 1930 · Revival	25 perf.
1930	The Prince of Pilsen January 13, 1930 · Revival	16 perf.
1930	The Serenade March 4, 1930 · Revival	15 perf.
1942	Comes the Revelation May 26, 1942 · Original	2 perf.

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 12 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 15 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.
• When the building opened.
• How many seats.
• Who built it.
• Any photograph of the building.