page_title: Broadhurst Theatre
section_title: Other notable productions
hierarchical_section_title: Broadhurst Theatre / Other notable productions
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the exterior of the Broadhurst Theatre, New York City, during the Broadway run of George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance
context_page_description: The Broadhurst Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 235 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan.
  It was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, a well-known theatre designer who had been working directly with the Shubert brothers; the Broadhurst opened September 27, 1917. Built back-to-back with the Majestic, it was meant to resemble the style of the neighboring Shubert and Booth theaters designed by Henry B. Herts, using less expensive brick and terra cotta materials on the discreetly neoclassical façades
  It was named after George Howells Broadhurst, an Anglo-American dramatist who came to America in 1886. In addition to writing plays, he managed theaters in Milwaukee, Baltimore, and San Francisco before he decided to open his own in association with the Shubert brothers. The theatre was constructed to house both musicals and plays, which it has done successfully for more than a century. It has been designated a New York City landmark.
  The Broadhurst opened on September 27, 1917 with George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance, the first New York production of the philosophical 1910 comedy. It ran for only 52 performances and was not performed on Broadway again until 1953.
context_section_description: 1917: Maytime
  1918: The George and Ira Gershwin composition "The Real American Folk Song" is included in Ladies First, the first time one of their co-written tunes is heard on the Great White Way.
  1919: Jane Cowl writes and stars in her popular romantic drama Smilin' Through. 175 performances.
  1923: The Dancers by Gerald du Maurier and Viola Tree, starring Richard Bennett
  1924: Dixie to Broadway, starring Florence Mills, is the first all-Black show to have a mainstream Broadway production.
  1924: Beggar on Horseback, a George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly collaboration, stars Roland Young.
  1928: The Ray Henderson-Buddy De Sylva-Lew Brown musical Hold Everything! introduces the public to "You're the Cream in My Coffee."
  1929: June Moon, a comedy by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner.
  1932: Leslie Howard produces and stars in Philip Barry's The Animal Kingdom opposite Ilka Chase.
  1933: Sidney Kingsley's Men in White stars Luther Adler and Morris Carnovsky and ultimately wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
  1935: Robert E. Sherwood's classic, The Petrified Forest, features Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart
  1935: Helen Hayes and Vincent Price enjoy a 517-performance run in Victoria Regina.
  1939: Doddi's Smith's Dear Octopus
  1939: Carmen Miranda, Brazilian singer made her debut on the American stages in The Streets of Paris.
  1940: Jimmy Durante, and Jackie Gleason in his Broadway debut in Keep Off the Grass.
  1944: Agatha Christie arrives on Broadway with Ten Little Indians.
  1945: Follow the Girls completed its 888-performance run at the Broadhurst.
  1946: Anita Loos' comedy hit, Happy Birthday, wins star Helen Hayes the first Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
  1948: Make Mine Manhattan, the Broadway debut of Sid Caesar.
  1951: Barbara Cook makes her Broadway debut in the short-lived Flahooley.
  1951: Seventeen, a musical, opens.
  1952: Pal Joey revival runs for 540 performances and wins Tony Award for Helen Gallagher.
  1956: Rosalind Russell has the title role in Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Auntie Mame.
  1958: France Nuyen and William Shatner co-star in Paul Osborn's The World of Suzie Wong.
  1959: Fiorello!, with a Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick score, is directed by George Abbott, stars Tom Bosley, and wins a Tony and the Pulitzer.
  1963: 110 in the Shade enjoys a 330-performance run with Robert Horton, Will Geer, Lesley Ann Warren, and Inga Swenson in her Broadway debut.
  1964: Oh, What a Lovely War! garners 4 Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, and wins the Theatre World Award.
  1965: Kelly - The biggest Broadway flop, it closed on the opening night.
  1966: Jill Haworth, Joel Grey, Jack Gilford, Lotte Lenya, and Bert Convy invite audiences to come to John Kander and Fred Ebb's Cabaret 1,165 times.
  1967: More Stately Mansions, one of Eugene O'Neill's lesser efforts, has an all-star cast including Ingrid Bergman, Arthur Hill, and Colleen Dewhurst.
  1968: The Only Game in Town by Frank D. Gilroy
  1969: Woody Allen, Tony Roberts, and Diane Keaton forsake the screen to star in Allen's Play It Again, Sam; The Fig Leaves Are Falling closes after only four performances.
  1970: Cry for Us All, a musical adaptation of the hit off-Broadway play Hogan's Goat, was far less successful than its source, closing after only eighteen previews and nine performances.
  1971: 70, Girls, 70 was an unsuccessful collaboration by Kander and Ebb.
  1972: Alan Arkin directs Jack Albertson and Sam Levene in Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys
  1974: Marlo Thomas makes her Broadway debut in Herb Gardner's Thieves, directed by Charles Grodin.
  1976: Katharine Hepburn and Christopher Reeve co-star in Enid Bagnold's drama A Matter of Gravity.
  1976: Larry Gelbart's Sly Fox, directed by Arthur Penn, stars George C. Scott, Jack Gilford, Gretchen Wyler, and Hector Elizondo.
  1978: Ann Reinking and Wayne Cilento star in director and choreographer Bob Fosse's Dancin'.
  1980: Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, with Ian McKellen, Tim Curry, and Jane Seymour, settles in for a 1181-performance run.
  1983: Alfonso Ribeiro plays the title role in The Tap Dance Kid with Hinton Battle, who win
caption: George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance at the Broadhurst Theatre (1917)
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