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Broadway Closed 1866–1914 on this page61 productions

The Olympia Theatre (1514–16 Broadway at 44th Street), also known as Hammerstein's Olympia and later the Lyric Theatre and the New York Theatre, was a theater complex built by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I at Longacre Square (later Times Square) in Manhattan, New York City, opening in 1895. It consisted of a theater, a music hall, a concert hall, and a roof garden. Later, sections of the structure were substantially remodeled and used for both live theatre and for motion pictures. As a cinema, it was also known at various times as the Vitagraph Theatre and the Criterion Theatre. == History == According to The New York Times, the Olympia was a "massive gray stone building", and extended 203…

By decade61 productions across 4 decades

  1. 1860s 8
  2. 1890s 2
  3. 1900s 40
  4. 1910s 11

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

1899 The Man in the Moon April 24, 1899 · Carl Marwig 192 perf.
1908 Miss Innocence November 30, 1908 176 perf.
1900 The Giddy Throng December 24, 1900 · Frank Smithson 164 perf.
1902 The Hall of Fame February 5, 1902 · Ned Wayburn 137 perf.
1910 Naughty Marietta November 7, 1910 · Jacques Coini 136 perf.
1909 The Man Who Owns Broadway October 11, 1909 128 perf.
1908 The Soul Kiss January 28, 1908 · Herbert Gresham 122 perf.
1911 The Enchantress October 19, 1911 · Frederick G. Latham 112 perf.

Ranked among the 59 runs here that carry a performance count. 2 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here61 productions

1866 A Night in Rome October 17, 1866 · Revival 2 perf.
1866 Cendrillon December 13, 1866 · Original 36 perf.
1866 Griffith Gaunt November 7, 1866 · Original
1866 The Doctor of Alcantara October 3, 1866 · Revival 16 perf.
1867 A Bird of Paradise January 29, 1867 · Original 15 perf.
1867 Kenilworth February 18, 1867 · Original 12 perf.
1868 Paris and Helen April 13, 1868 · Original 65 perf.
1868 The Grand Duchess of Gérolstein June 17, 1868 · Revival 33 perf.
1899 In Gay Paree November 6, 1899 · Revival 48 perf.
1899 The Man in the Moon April 24, 1899 · Original 192 perf.
1900 A Million Dollars September 27, 1900 · Original 28 perf.
1900 Broadway to Tokio January 23, 1900 · Original 88 perf.
1900 Nell-Go-In October 31, 1900 · Original 25 perf.
1900 The Giddy Throng December 24, 1900 · Original 164 perf.
1901 The King's Carnival May 13, 1901 · Original 64 perf.
1902 King Highball September 6, 1902 · Original 33 perf.
1902 The Chaperons June 5, 1902 · Original 60 perf.
1902 The Hall of Fame February 5, 1902 · Original 137 perf.
1902 When Johnny Comes Marching Home December 16, 1902 · Original 71 perf.
1903 Ben Hur September 21, 1903 · Revival 96 perf.
1903 Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall December 14, 1903 · Original 40 perf.
1903 In Dahomey February 18, 1903 · Original 53 perf.
1904 Home Folks December 26, 1904 · Original 34 perf.
1904 Terence January 5, 1904 · Original 56 perf.
1904 The Maid and the Mummy July 25, 1904 · Original 42 perf.
1904 The Southerners May 23, 1904 · Original 36 perf.
1904 The Tenderfoot February 22, 1904 · Original 81 perf.
1904 Woodland November 21, 1904 · Original 100 perf.
1905 Hamlet February 14, 1905 · Revival 1 perf.
1905 Little Johnny Jones January 23, 1905 · Revival
1905 The Ham Tree August 28, 1905 · Original 90 perf.
1905 The Mayor of Tokio December 4, 1905 · Original 50 perf.
1906 Eileen Asthore October 22, 1906 · Original 16 perf.
1906 His Honor the Mayor May 28, 1906 · Revival 104 perf.
1906 Humpty Dumpty March 12, 1906 · Revival 24 perf.
1906 Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch September 17, 1906 · Revival 24 perf.
1906 The Ham Tree July 30, 1906 · Return-Engagement 40 perf.
1907 George Washington, Jr. February 11, 1907 · Return-Engagement 40 perf.
1907 The Land of Nod and The Song Birds April 1, 1907 · Original 17 perf.
1907 The Squaw Man March 25, 1907 · Revival 8 perf.
1907 The Vanderbilt Cup January 7, 1907 · Return-Engagement 48 perf.
1908 Cohan and Harris Minstrels [1908] August 3, 1908 · Original 32 perf.
1908 Mary's Lamb May 25, 1908 · Original 80 perf.
1908 Miss Innocence November 30, 1908 · Original 176 perf.
1908 The American Idea October 5, 1908 · Original 64 perf.
1908 The Soul Kiss January 28, 1908 · Original 122 perf.
1909 Cohan and Harris Minstrels [1909] August 16, 1909 · Return-Engagement 16 perf.
1909 Miss Innocence September 27, 1909 · Revival 16 perf.
1909 The Man Who Owns Broadway October 11, 1909 · Original 128 perf.
1909 The Sins of Society August 31, 1909 · Original 31 perf.
1910 A Skylark April 4, 1910 · Original 24 perf.
1910 Bright Eyes February 28, 1910 · Original 48 perf.
1910 Naughty Marietta November 7, 1910 · Original 136 perf.
1910 The Deacon and the Lady October 4, 1910 · Original 16 perf.
1910 The Merry Whirl May 30, 1910 · Original 24 perf.
1910 The Young Turk January 31, 1910 · Original 32 perf.
1911 Jumping Jupiter March 6, 1911 · Original 24 perf.
1911 The Enchantress October 19, 1911 · Revival 112 perf.
1912 The Pearl Maiden January 22, 1912 · Original 24 perf.
1914 Big Jim Garrity October 16, 1914 · Original 27 perf.
1914 The Traffic November 16, 1914 · Original 8 perf.

In the literature8 passages

  • Given the show’s financial and technical parameters, David Garfinkle and Martin McCallum had a pretty clear idea what kind of New York theatre they were looking for: a big one.Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger
  • When Mr. Brock was fifteen, he took a plane to New York City from his home in North Carolina, and, with no previous New York theatre experience, landed a part in Susan Stroman’s 2000 revival of The Music Man . Two years later, he chutzpahed his way into becoming assistant choreographer on Kathleen Marshall’s revival of Wonderful Town . Fo…Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger
  • New York Theatre Critics’ Reviews . New York: Critics’ Theatre Reviews, 1995. [Vols. 1–55, 1940–1994]Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block
  • 41 . Burns Mantle, “‘Pal Joey’ Smart and Novel,” Daily News , December 26, 1940, reprinted in New York Theatre Critics’ Reviews , vol. 1, 172.Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block
  • 43 . John Mason Brown, “‘Pal Joey’ Presented at The Ethel Barrymore,” New York Post , December 26, 1940; reprinted in New York Theatre Critics’ Reviews , vol. 1, 172.Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block

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 2 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.
  • How many seats.

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