Ritz Theatre

By decade99 productions across 5 decades

1. 1920s 37
2. 1930s 44
3. 1940s 5
4. 1970s 5
5. 1980s 8

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

1985	Doubles May 8, 1985 · Morton Da Costa	277 perf.
1927	Excess Baggage December 26, 1927 · Melville Burke	216 perf.
1938	Pinocchio December 23, 1938 · Alexander Mamlet	197 perf.
1924	Old English December 23, 1924	183 perf.
1929	Broken Dishes November 5, 1929	178 perf.
1921	Bluebeard's Eighth Wife September 19, 1921 · Lester Lonergan	155 perf.
1924	Outward Bound January 7, 1924	144 perf.
1933	Double Door September 21, 1933	143 perf.

Ranked among the 98 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 here99 productions

1921	Bluebeard's Eighth Wife September 19, 1921 · Original	155 perf.
1921	Mary Stuart / A Man About Town March 21, 1921 · Original	40 perf.
1922	Banco September 20, 1922 · Original	69 perf.
1922	It Is the Law November 29, 1922 · Original	125 perf.
1922	Madame Pierre February 15, 1922 · Original	37 perf.
1922	The Advertising of Kate May 8, 1922 · Original	24 perf.
1923	In Love With Love August 6, 1923 · Original	128 perf.
1923	Robert E. Lee November 20, 1923 · Original	15 perf.
1923	The Business Widow December 20, 1923 · Original	32 perf.
1923	The Enchanted Cottage March 31, 1923 · Original	65 perf.
1923	The Humming Bird January 15, 1923 · Original	40 perf.
1923	The Sporting Thing To Do February 19, 1923 · Original	40 perf.
1924	Hassard Short's Ritz Revue September 17, 1924 · Original	109 perf.
1924	Old English December 23, 1924 · Original	183 perf.
1924	Outward Bound January 7, 1924 · Original	144 perf.
1924	Shooting Shadows June 26, 1924 · Original	12 perf.
1924	The Fatal Wedding June 2, 1924 · Revival	8 perf.
1925	A Kiss in a Taxi August 25, 1925 · Original	103 perf.
1925	The Man With a Load of Mischief October 26, 1925 · Original	16 perf.
1925	The Offense November 16, 1925 · Original	4 perf.
1925	Young Blood November 24, 1925 · Original	73 perf.
1926	90 Horse Power March 15, 1926 · Original	24 perf.
1926	A Weak Woman January 26, 1926 · Original	49 perf.
1926	Beau Gallant April 5, 1926 · Original	24 perf.
1926	Loose Ends November 1, 1926 · Original	40 perf.
1926	Potash and Perlmutter, Detectives August 31, 1926 · Original	47 perf.
1926	The Padre December 27, 1926 · Original	32 perf.
1926	This Woman Business December 7, 1926 · Original	47 perf.
1927	Bye, Bye, Bonnie January 13, 1927 · Original	125 perf.
1927	Excess Baggage December 26, 1927 · Original	216 perf.
1927	Playing the Game December 19, 1927 · Original	8 perf.
1927	The Legend of Leonora March 29, 1927 · Revival	16 perf.
1927	The Thief April 22, 1927 · Revival	83 perf.
1927	What the Doctor Ordered August 18, 1927 · Original	20 perf.
1928	The Great Power September 11, 1928 · Original	23 perf.
1929	Broken Dishes November 5, 1929 · Original	178 perf.
1929	Soldiers and Women September 2, 1929 · Original	64 perf.
1930	Cafe August 28, 1930 · Original	4 perf.
1930	Dear Old England March 25, 1930 · Original	23 perf.
1930	Nine Till Six September 27, 1930 · Original	25 perf.
1930	Purity December 25, 1930 · Original	12 perf.
1930	Schoolgirl November 20, 1930 · Original	28 perf.
1930	Sisters of the Chorus October 20, 1930 · Original	32 perf.
1930	This Man's Town March 10, 1930 · Original	8 perf.
1931	A Woman Denied February 25, 1931 · Original	37 perf.
1931	Adams' Wife December 28, 1931 · Original	8 perf.
1931	Alison's House May 11, 1931 · Revival
1931	She Means Business January 26, 1931 · Original	8 perf.
1931	The Great Man April 7, 1931 · Original	7 perf.
1931	Two Seconds October 9, 1931 · Original	59 perf.
1932	Air Minded February 10, 1932 · Original	13 perf.
1932	Money in the Air March 7, 1932 · Original	48 perf.
1932	Ruth Draper November 14, 1932 · Revival	24 perf.
1933	Before Morning February 9, 1933 · Original	28 perf.
1933	Double Door September 21, 1933 · Original	143 perf.
1933	It Happened Tomorrow May 5, 1933 · Original	11 perf.
1933	Strange Gods April 15, 1933 · Original	9 perf.
1934	All Rights Reserved November 6, 1934 · Original	31 perf.
1934	And Be My Love January 18, 1934 · Original	4 perf.
1934	First Episode September 17, 1934 · Original	40 perf.
1934	Furnished Rooms May 29, 1934 · Original	15 perf.
1934	Good-bye Please October 24, 1934 · Original	2 perf.
1934	Her Majesty the Widow June 18, 1934 · Original	32 perf.
1934	Piper Paid December 25, 1934 · Original	15 perf.
1934	So Many Paths December 6, 1934 · Original	28 perf.
1934	The Wind and the Rain February 1, 1934 · Original	119 perf.
1934	The Wooden Slipper January 3, 1934 · Original	5 perf.
1935	Abide With Me November 21, 1935 · Original	36 perf.
1935	Hell Freezes Over December 28, 1935 · Original	25 perf.
1935	Petticoat Fever March 4, 1935 · Original	137 perf.
1935	Prisoners of War January 28, 1935 · Original	8 perf.
1935	The Eldest February 11, 1935 · Original	24 perf.
1937	As You Like It October 30, 1937 · Revival	17 perf.
1937	Hymn to the Rising Sun May 6, 1937 · Revival	10 perf.
1937	Love in My Fashion December 3, 1937 · Original	2 perf.
1937	On Location September 27, 1937 · Original	8 perf.
1937	Power February 23, 1937 · Original	118 perf.
1937	Unto Such Glory May 6, 1937 · Revival	10 perf.
1938	Murder in the Cathedral February 16, 1938 · Revival	21 perf.
1938	Pinocchio December 23, 1938 · Original	197 perf.
1938	Time and the Conways January 3, 1938 · Original	32 perf.
1942	Harlem Cavalcade May 1, 1942 · Original	49 perf.
1942	New Faces of 1943 December 22, 1942 · Original	94 perf.
1943	I'll Take the High Road November 9, 1943 · Original	7 perf.
1943	The First Million April 28, 1943 · Original	5 perf.
1943	Tobacco Road September 4, 1943 · Revival	66 perf.
1971	Dance of Death April 28, 1971 · Original	5 perf.
1971	Soon January 12, 1971 · Original	3 perf.
1972	Children! Children! March 7, 1972 · Original	1 perf.
1972	Hurry, Harry October 12, 1972 · Original	2 perf.
1973	No Sex Please, We're British February 20, 1973 · Original	16 perf.
1983	The Flying Karamazov Brothers May 10, 1983 · Original	39 perf.
1984	Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare January 19, 1984 · Revival	37 perf.
1985	Dancing in the End Zone January 3, 1985 · Original	28 perf.
1985	Doubles May 8, 1985 · Original	277 perf.
1986	Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood January 23, 1986 · Original	13 perf.
1987	A Month of Sundays April 16, 1987 · Original	4 perf.
1987	Late Nite Comic October 15, 1987 · Original	4 perf.
1987	Penn & Teller December 1, 1987 · Original	130 perf.

In the literature3 passages

• duced Morosco Theatre, Oct. 13, 1932. Law. Play. Written 1922. Produced Ritz Theatre, Nov. 19, 1922. Based on the novel of the same name by Hayden 10.McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 4 (O-S)
• Leigh finally brought Chu Chem to Broadway’s Ritz Theatre (now the Walter Kerr) on March 17, 1989. Surprisingly enough, it failed.More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin
• BROTHERS (RITZ THEATRE) Presented by Mace Neufeld and Viacom International, Inc.; Associate Producers, Harold Thau. Robert Courson: Setting and Costumes. Robert Fletcher: Lighting. Marc B. Weiss; General Management. Richard Horner. Lynne Stuart; Company Managers, Leonard Soloway. Ken-in K. Clark; Sound. Bob Kerzman; Props, Walter Murphy;…Theatre World, 1982-83 Season, v. 39 (Willis)

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 62 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.