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Broadway Closed 1919–1938 on this page53 productions

The 44th Street Theatre was a Broadway theater at 216 West 44th Street in the Theater District of Manhattan in New York City from 1912 to 1945. It was originally named Weber and Fields' Music Hall when it opened in November 1912 as a resident venue for the comedy duo Weber and Fields, but was renamed to the 44th Street Theatre in December 1913 after their tenure at the theatre ended. It should not be confused with the Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall, often referred to as simply Weber and Fields' Music Hall and also known as Weber's Music Hall or Weber's Theatre, which was used by both Weber and Fields or just Weber from 1896 through 1912. The 44th Street Theatre's rooftop theatre, the…

By decade53 productions across 3 decades

  1. 1910s 1
  2. 1920s 48
  3. 1930s 4

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

1926 Gertie November 15, 1926 248 perf.
1920 Lassie April 6, 1920 · Edward Royce 159 perf.
1927 Her First Affaire August 22, 1927 136 perf.
1920 My Golden Girl February 2, 1920 · J. Clifford Brooke 105 perf.
1927 The Mystery Man January 26, 1927 100 perf.
1926 Henry-Behave August 23, 1926 96 perf.
1931 The Wonder Bar March 17, 1931 · William Mollison 76 perf.
1919 Come Along April 8, 1919 · Edward Royce 47 perf.

Ranked among the 52 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 here53 productions

1919 Come Along April 8, 1919 · Original 47 perf.
1920 Don't Tell September 27, 1920 · Original 6 perf.
1920 Lassie April 6, 1920 · Original 159 perf.
1920 My Golden Girl February 2, 1920 · Original 105 perf.
1922 Our Nell December 4, 1922 · Original 40 perf.
1923 A Thousand Generations and One May 8, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 Another Way Out May 11, 1923 · Revival 1 perf.
1923 Boccaccio's Untold Tale May 7, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 None Are So Blind May 8, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 Punk, or The Amateur Rehearsal May 9, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 The Clock May 9, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 The Crowsnest May 9, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 The Little Stone House May 10, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife May 9, 1923 · Revival 1 perf.
1923 The Mistletoe Bough May 11, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 The Monkey's Paw May 11, 1923 · Revival 1 perf.
1923 The Pot Boiler May 10, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 The Revolt of the Mummies May 7, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 The Rut May 7, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 The Trysting Place May 7, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 The Will O' the Wisp May 10, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 Three Pills in a Bottle May 11, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 Thursday Evening May 8, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 Torches May 10, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1923 Under Conviction May 8, 1923 · Original 1 perf.
1924 Schemers September 15, 1924 · Original 16 perf.
1926 A Puppet-Play May 7, 1926 · Original 1 perf.
1926 Brains May 3, 1926 · Original 1 perf.
1926 El Cristo May 7, 1926 · Original 1 perf.
1926 Gertie November 15, 1926 · Original 248 perf.
1926 Half an Hour May 6, 1926 · Revival 1 perf.
1926 Henry-Behave August 23, 1926 · Original 96 perf.
1926 His Children May 3, 1926 · Original 1 perf.
1926 May Night May 4, 1926 · Original 1 perf.
1926 Release May 3, 1926 · Original 1 perf.
1926 Roads and Rain May 5, 1926 · Original 1 perf.
1926 Simon's Hour May 5, 1926 · Original 1 perf.
1926 St. Simeon Stylites May 6, 1926 · Original 1 perf.
1926 The Bells April 13, 1926 · Revival 15 perf.
1926 The Brass Doorknob May 7, 1926 · Original 1 perf.
1926 The Cajun May 5, 1926 · Original 1 perf.
1926 The Dove May 6, 1926 · Revival 1 perf.
1926 The Last Man In May 5, 1926 · Original 1 perf.
1926 The Valiant May 4, 1926 · Original 1 perf.
1926 The Weasel May 4, 1926 · Original 1 perf.
1927 Her First Affaire August 22, 1927 · Original 136 perf.
1927 Spring Song December 20, 1927 · Original 13 perf.
1927 The Mystery Man January 26, 1927 · Original 100 perf.
1929 The Booster October 24, 1929 · Original 12 perf.
1931 The Wonder Bar March 17, 1931 · Original 76 perf.
1935 Mister Noah and March of Rhyme December 22, 1935 · Original
1937 Fickle Women December 15, 1937 · Original 1 perf.
1938 Reunion April 11, 1938 · Original 1 perf.

In the literature2 passages

  • A stylishly mounted, somewhat less elaborate variation on the Ziegfeld Follies format was the Greenwich Village Follies (Ziegfeld even threatened to sue over the use of the Follies name), which came along in 1919 and lasted through eight editions up to 1928. The guiding light was director John Murray Anderson, who made his professional de…Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell
  • Many theaters were built by the Shuberts for their star performers, and named after them. The Ethel Barrymore is the only one of these that’s still an existing Broadway theater. The Shuberts also had involvement in the Maxine Elliott Theatre on 39th Street, the Nora Bayes Theatre on 49th Street and others that are now gone.Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 2 PART 1, The - Jennifer Tepper

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 9 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.

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