Manhattan Opera House

By decade40 productions across 4 decades

1. 1900s 1
2. 1910s 26
3. 1920s 12
4. 1930s 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

1917	Chu Chin Chow October 22, 1917 · E. Lyall Swete	208 perf.
1912	The Whip November 22, 1912	163 perf.
1914	Life October 24, 1914 · Frank Hatch	161 perf.
1937	The Eternal Road January 7, 1937 · Max Reinhardt	153 perf.
1910	Hans, the Flute Player September 20, 1910 · Jacques Coini	79 perf.
1913	Hop o' My Thumb November 26, 1913 · Ernest D'Auban	46 perf.
1919	The Luck of the Navy October 14, 1919 · Percy Hutchison	32 perf.
1918	The Voice of McConnell December 25, 1918 · Sam Forrest	30 perf.

Ranked among the 17 runs here that carry a performance count. 23 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here40 productions

1908	Louise January 3, 1908 · Original
1910	Hans, the Flute Player September 20, 1910 · Original	79 perf.
1912	An Aztec Romance September 16, 1912 · Original	8 perf.
1912	As You Like It September 30, 1912 · Revival
1912	Macbeth September 30, 1912 · Revival
1912	Much Ado About Nothing September 30, 1912 · Revival
1912	Romeo and Juliet September 30, 1912 · Revival
1912	The Merchant of Venice September 30, 1912 · Revival
1912	The Taming of the Shrew September 30, 1912 · Revival
1912	The Whip November 22, 1912 · Original	163 perf.
1912	Twelfth Night September 30, 1912 · Revival
1913	As You Like It September 22, 1913 · Revival
1913	Hamlet September 22, 1913 · Revival
1913	Hop o' My Thumb November 26, 1913 · Revival	46 perf.
1913	If I Were King September 22, 1913 · Revival
1913	Macbeth September 22, 1913 · Revival
1913	Romeo and Juliet September 22, 1913 · Revival
1913	The Old Homestead September 1, 1913 · Revival
1913	The Taming of the Shrew September 22, 1913 · Revival
1913	Twelfth Night September 22, 1913 · Revival
1914	Life October 24, 1914 · Revival	161 perf.
1917	Chu Chin Chow October 22, 1917 · Original	208 perf.
1918	Experience January 22, 1918 · Revival	23 perf.
1918	The Garden of Allah February 25, 1918 · Revival	24 perf.
1918	The Voice of McConnell December 25, 1918 · Original	30 perf.
1919	Forbidden December 20, 1919 · Original	18 perf.
1919	The Luck of the Navy October 14, 1919 · Original	32 perf.
1920	Wo Die Lerche Singt December 27, 1920 · Original	5 perf.
1921	Iphigenia in Aulis April 17, 1921 · Revival	1 perf.
1921	The Three Musketeers May 19, 1921 · Original	5 perf.
1923	Hamlet November 26, 1923 · Revival	24 perf.
1926	Cancionera May 17, 1926 · Original
1926	Don Juan Tenorio May 17, 1926 · Original
1926	Dona Maria La Brava May 17, 1926 · Original
1926	El Caudal De Los Hijos May 17, 1926 · Original
1926	La Condesa Maria May 17, 1926 · Original
1926	La Malquerida May 17, 1926 · Original
1926	Locura de Amor May 17, 1926 · Original
1927	Broken Wings December 8, 1927 · Original	17 perf.
1937	The Eternal Road January 7, 1937 · Original	153 perf.

In the literature3 passages

• Der Weg der Verheissung (biblical drama, Franz Werfel), 1934–35 [incomplete]; revised by Weill and Ludwig Lewisohn as The Eternal Road, New York, Manhattan Opera House, 7 January 1937.Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton
• 92 . Meyer Weisgal, . . . So Far, 116–17. The Eternal Road ended up being one of the last major theatrical productions at the Manhattan Opera House before it became a meeting hall in 1940. Having built the venue in 1906 in direct competition with the Metropolitan Opera House, Oscar Hammerstein ended up selling it to the head of the Met, O…Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton
• Argentine in her native language at the Manhattan Opera House, from which playhouse Angelo Musco has just pulled up stakes after a long run of Italian comedy in Italian. And the Irish Players are pleasantly housed at the Hudson, where, without any sign of a riot (happily or unhappily) they have brought The Plough and the Stars beautifully…sim_theatre-arts_1928-01_12_1

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 23 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 16 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.