Princess Theatre

By decade115 productions across 6 decades

1. 1900s 26
2. 1910s 41
3. 1920s 36
4. 1930s 1
5. 1940s 5
6. 1980s 6

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

1937	Pins And Needles November 27, 1937 · Charles Friedman	1,108 perf.
1982	Pump Boys and Dinettes February 4, 1982	573 perf.
1917	Oh, Boy! February 20, 1917 · Edward Royce, Robert Milton	463 perf.
1915	Very Good Eddie December 23, 1915 · Frank Sadler	341 perf.
1924	My Son September 17, 1924	278 perf.
1906	The Great Divide October 3, 1906	238 perf.
1918	Oh, Lady! Lady! February 1, 1918 · Edward Royce, Robert Milton	219 perf.
1918	Oh, My Dear! November 27, 1918 · Robert Milton	189 perf.

Ranked among the 84 runs here that carry a performance count. 31 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here115 productions

1902	Heidelberg December 15, 1902 · Original	40 perf.
1902	The Night of the Party October 6, 1902 · Original	80 perf.
1903	Candida December 9, 1903 · Original	133 perf.
1903	The Consul January 19, 1903 · Original	24 perf.
1903	The Frisky Mrs. Johnson February 9, 1903 · Original	80 perf.
1903	The Man Who Stole the Castle April 20, 1903 · Original	48 perf.
1903	The Sacrament of Judas December 21, 1903 · Original	16 perf.
1904	An African Millionaire April 4, 1904 · Original	8 perf.
1904	Jack's Little Surprise August 25, 1904 · Original	21 perf.
1904	King Richard III December 5, 1904 · Revival
1904	Othello December 5, 1904 · Revival
1904	Richelieu December 5, 1904 · Revival
1904	Rosmersholm March 28, 1904 · Original	8 perf.
1904	The Climbers November 14, 1904 · Revival	24 perf.
1904	The House of Burnside December 26, 1904 · Original
1904	The West Point Cadet September 30, 1904 · Original	3 perf.
1905	Love in Idleness January 30, 1905 · Original
1905	Sweet Lavender January 9, 1905 · Revival
1905	The Passport February 13, 1905 · Revival
1905	The Trifler March 16, 1905 · Original	4 perf.
1905	Who Goes There? February 20, 1905 · Original	24 perf.
1905	Zira September 21, 1905 · Original	128 perf.
1906	For Love's Sweet Sake February 12, 1906 · Original	8 perf.
1906	Grierson's Way January 18, 1906 · Original	12 perf.
1906	The Great Divide October 3, 1906 · Original	238 perf.
1907	A Doll's House January 14, 1907 · Revival	28 perf.
1913	A Pair of White Gloves September 27, 1913 · Original
1913	En Deshabille September 27, 1913 · Original
1913	Fear September 27, 1913 · Revival
1913	Felice September 27, 1913 · Original
1913	Food April 13, 1913 · Original
1913	Hari-Kari September 27, 1913 · Original
1913	It Can Be Done September 27, 1913 · Original
1913	Phipps September 27, 1913 · Original
1913	Russia September 27, 1913 · Original
1913	The Bride September 27, 1913 · Original
1913	The Eternal Mystery September 27, 1913 · Original
1913	The Fountain September 27, 1913 · Original
1913	The Hard Man September 27, 1913 · Original
1913	The Kiss in the Dark September 27, 1913 · Original
1913	The Neglected Lady September 27, 1913 · Original
1914	Across the Border October 17, 1914 · Original
1914	Little Face October 17, 1914 · Original
1914	Marrying Money March 18, 1914 · Original	45 perf.
1914	Nettie October 17, 1914 · Original
1914	Phipps October 17, 1914 · Revival
1914	The Cat and the Cherub October 17, 1914 · Revival
1914	The Denial October 17, 1914 · Original
1914	The Fog October 17, 1914 · Original
1914	The Forest of Happy Dreams October 17, 1914 · Original
1914	The Goal October 17, 1914 · Original
1915	Hobson's Choice November 2, 1915 · Original	135 perf.
1915	Maternity January 6, 1915 · Original	21 perf.
1915	Nobody Home April 20, 1915 · Original	135 perf.
1915	The Critic January 25, 1915 · Revival	16 perf.
1915	The Unborn November 29, 1915 · Original	16 perf.
1915	Very Good Eddie December 23, 1915 · Original	341 perf.
1916	Go to It October 24, 1916 · Original	23 perf.
1916	Such Is Life November 25, 1916 · Original	9 perf.
1917	'Ception Shoals January 10, 1917 · Original	37 perf.
1917	Oh, Boy! February 20, 1917 · Original	463 perf.
1917	Six Months' Option November 29, 1917 · Original	28 perf.
1918	Jonathan Makes a Wish September 10, 1918 · Original	23 perf.
1918	Oh, Lady! Lady! February 1, 1918 · Original	219 perf.
1918	Oh, My Dear! November 27, 1918 · Original	189 perf.
1919	Nightie-Night September 9, 1919 · Original	154 perf.
1919	Toot Sweet May 7, 1919 · Original	45 perf.
1920	Blue Bonnet August 28, 1920 · Original	73 perf.
1920	Mrs. Jimmie Thompson March 29, 1920 · Original	64 perf.
1920	The Mandarin November 9, 1920 · Original	15 perf.
1920	Tick-Tack-Toe February 23, 1920 · Original	32 perf.
1921	Diff'rent February 4, 1921 · Original	100 perf.
1921	Pagans January 4, 1921 · Original	15 perf.
1921	Suzette November 24, 1921 · Original	4 perf.
1921	The Married Woman December 24, 1921 · Revival	51 perf.
1921	The Mask of Hamlet August 22, 1921 · Original	8 perf.
1921	The Spring September 21, 1921 · Original	21 perf.
1922	Desert Sands February 13, 1922 · Original	16 perf.
1922	Six Characters in Search of an Author October 30, 1922 · Original	136 perf.
1922	The First Fifty Years March 13, 1922 · Original	48 perf.
1922	The Red Geranium May 8, 1922 · Original	16 perf.
1923	Mister Malatesta February 26, 1923 · Original	96 perf.
1923	White Desert October 18, 1923 · Original	12 perf.
1924	Alloy October 27, 1924 · Original	16 perf.
1924	My Son September 17, 1924 · Original	278 perf.
1924	The Steam Roller November 10, 1924 · Original	40 perf.
1925	Barefoot October 19, 1925 · Original	29 perf.
1925	Brother Elks September 14, 1925 · Original	16 perf.
1925	Jack in the Pulpit January 6, 1925 · Original	7 perf.
1925	Me November 23, 1925 · Original	32 perf.
1925	The Family Failing June 9, 1925 · Original	1 perf.
1925	The Little Poor Man August 5, 1925 · Original	37 perf.
1926	Buy, Buy, Baby October 7, 1926 · Original	12 perf.
1926	Easter One Day More March 18, 1926 · Original	28 perf.
1926	Naked November 8, 1926 · Original	32 perf.
1926	The Great Adventure December 22, 1926 · Revival	45 perf.
1926	The Unchastened Woman February 16, 1926 · Revival	31 perf.
1926	What's the Use September 6, 1926 · Original	9 perf.
1927	Bottomland June 27, 1927 · Original	19 perf.
1927	Goat Alley April 20, 1927 · Revival	13 perf.
1928	Meek Mose February 6, 1928 · Original	24 perf.
1929	Adam's Apple June 10, 1929 · Original	16 perf.
1929	He Walked in Her Sleep April 4, 1929 · Original	21 perf.
1937	Pins And Needles November 27, 1937 · Revival	1,108 perf.
1947	As We Forgive Our Debtors March 9, 1947 · Original	5 perf.
1947	O'Daniel February 23, 1947 · Original	5 perf.
1947	The Great Campaign March 30, 1947 · Original	5 perf.
1947	The Wanhope Building February 9, 1947 · Original	5 perf.
1947	Virginia Reel April 13, 1947 · Original	5 perf.
1980	Censored Scenes From King Kong March 6, 1980 · Original	5 perf.
1980	Fearless Frank June 15, 1980 · Original	12 perf.
1981	Animals April 22, 1981 · Original	1 perf.
1981	This Was Burlesque June 23, 1981 · Revival	28 perf.
1982	Pump Boys and Dinettes February 4, 1982 · Original	573 perf.
1984	The Babe May 17, 1984 · Original	5 perf.

In the literature8 passages

• More than anybody, it was Jerome Kern (1885-1945) who, starting with his Princess Theatre revues, brought maturity to the nascent American form. Kern was, in fact, strongly influenced by the central European operetta, for some of his earliest successes had been with songs interpolated into American productions of European musicals. Someti…Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey
• Hoping that it would be the first in a series of Australian musicals, Thring opened Collits’ Inn at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne on 23 December 1933 starring Gladys Moncrieff (1892-1976), Australia’s most popular star of light opera who had made her name in the English operetta The Maid of the Mountains in Melbourne in 1921. This exp…Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey
• Although there is no reason to doubt Kern’s aspiration “to apply modern art to light music as Debussy and those men have done to more serious work,” 20 it was not until Show Boat that Kern was able to fully realize these goals. Kern had, of course, previously created complete scores for an impressive series of precocious integrated musica…Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block
• When, in 1914, producer F. Ray Comstock was having difficulty filling his 299-seat Princess Theatre (then on 39th Street near 6th Avenue), theatrical and literary agent Elisabeth Marbury suggested that they jointly sponsor a series of modern musical comedies, all with music written by Jerome Kern and librettos by Guy Bolton. The aim was t…Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell
• For Oh, Boy! , their third Princess Theatre Musical and the third longest running book musical of the 1910’s, Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton were joined by British humorist P. G. Wodehouse, who helped give the characters the flavor of transplanted silly-ass Englishmen. Again the settings were modern and modest, the songs fitted the story, and…Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell

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 31 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 80 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.
• Who built it.