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City Center

131 W. 55th St., New York, NY
Seats (approximate): 2750

The former Mecca Temple had a brief tenure as a legit venue, but it is not technically a Broadway theatre. The only City Center shows that are included in IBDB were Tony-eligible shows.


Theatre NamesNamed 
City Center

City CenterOpening Date
The Music Man
Musical, Revival, Comedy
Music by Meredith Willson; Book by Meredith Willson; Lyrics by Meredith Willson
06/05/1980
Guys and Dolls
Musical, Revival, Comedy
Music by Frank Loesser; Based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon; Book by Abe Burrows, Jo Swerling; Lyrics by Frank Loesser
04/28/1965
West Side Story
Musical, Revival, Drama
Music by Leonard Bernstein; Book by Arthur Laurents; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
04/08/1964
Pal Joey
Musical, Revival, Comedy
Music by Richard Rodgers; Book by John O'Hara; Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
05/29/1963
Brigadoon
Musical, Revival, Comedy
Music by Frederick Loewe; Book by Alan Jay Lerner; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
01/30/1963
Saint Joan
Play, Revival, Drama
Music by John Lambert
02/20/1962
Romeo and Juliet
Play, Original, Tragedy
Music by Nino Rota
02/13/1962
Macbeth
Play, Revival, Tragedy
02/06/1962
The Most Happy Fella
Musical, Revival, Comedy
Music by Frank Loesser; Libretto by Frank Loesser; Lyrics by Frank Loesser
02/10/1959
Carousel
Musical, Revival, Drama
Music by Richard Rodgers; Book by Oscar Hammerstein II; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
09/11/1957
A Streetcar Named Desire
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Tennessee Williams
02/15/1956
King Lear
Play, Revival, Tragedy
Musical score by Marc Blitzstein; Written by William Shakespeare
01/12/1956
Finian's Rainbow
Musical, Revival, Comedy
Music by Burton Lane; Book by E.Y. Harburg, Fred Saidy; Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
05/18/1955
South Pacific
Musical, Revival, Drama
Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Joshua Logan, Oscar Hammerstein II
05/04/1955
Guys and Dolls
Musical, Revival, Comedy
Music by Frank Loesser; Book by Abe Burrows, Jo Swerling; Lyrics by Frank Loesser
04/20/1955
The Wisteria Trees
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Joshua Logan
02/02/1955
The Time of Your Life
Play, Revival, Comedy
Music by Eddie Barefield, Max Marlin; Written by William Saroyan
01/19/1955
The Fourposter
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Jan De Hartog
01/05/1955
What Every Woman Knows
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by John Stix, James M. Barrie
12/22/1954
Carousel
Musical, Revival, Drama
Music by Richard Rodgers; Book by Oscar Hammerstein II; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
06/02/1954
Die Fledermaus
Musical, Revival, Opera
Book by Glenn Jordan; English Book and Lyrics By: Ruth Martin, Thomas Martin; Libretto by Richard Genee, Carl Haffner
05/19/1954
Show Boat
Musical, Revival, Drama
Music by Jerome Kern; Book by Oscar Hammerstein II; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
05/05/1954
Charley's Aunt
Play, Revival, Comedy, Farce
Written by Brandon Thomas
12/22/1953
Richard III
Play, Revival, History
Music by Alex North; Written by William Shakespeare
12/09/1953
The Shrike
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Joseph Kramm
11/25/1953
Cyrano de Bergerac
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Edmond Rostand
11/11/1953
Oklahoma!
Musical, Revival, Comedy
Music by Richard Rodgers; Book by Oscar Hammerstein II; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
08/31/1953
The Merchant of Venice
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by William Shakespeare
03/04/1953
Love's Labour's Lost
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by William Shakespeare
02/04/1953
First Lady
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by George S. Kaufman, Katharine Dayton
05/28/1952
Tovarich
Play, Revival, Comedy, Play with music
Written by Jacques Deval
05/14/1952
The Male Animal
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Elliott Nugent, James Thurber
04/30/1952
The Wild Duck
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Henrik Ibsen
12/26/1951
Idiot's Delight
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Robert E. Sherwood
05/23/1951
Dream Girl
Play, Revival, Comedy
Music by William Brooks; Written by Elmer Rice
05/09/1951
The Taming of the Shrew
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by William Shakespeare
04/25/1951
King Richard II
Play, Revival, History
Written by William Shakespeare
01/24/1951
The Royal Family
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman
01/10/1951
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Play, Revival, Comedy
12/27/1950
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Jean Giraudoux
06/13/1950
A Streetcar Named Desire
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Tennessee Williams
05/23/1950
Brigadoon
Musical, Revival, Comedy
Music by Frederick Loewe; Written by Alan Jay Lerner; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
05/02/1950
The Heiress
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Ruth Goetz, Augustus Goetz
02/08/1950
The Corn Is Green
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Emlyn Williams
01/11/1950
She Stoops to Conquer
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Oliver Goldsmith
12/28/1949
Man and Superman
Play, Revival, Comedy
05/16/1949
Medea
Play, Revival, Drama, Tragedy
Written by Euripides
05/02/1949
The Medium
Musical, Revival, Tragedy
Music by Gian-Carlo Menotti; Libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti
12/07/1948
The Telephone
Musical, Revival,
Music by Gian-Carlo Menotti; Libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti
12/07/1948
Show Boat
Musical, Revival, Drama
Music by Jerome Kern; Book by Oscar Hammerstein II; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
09/19/1948
The Insect Comedy
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Josef Capek, Karel Capek
06/03/1948
S. S. Glencairn
Play, Revival,
05/20/1948
The Alchemist
Play, Revival,
Music by Deems Taylor; Written by Ben Jonson
05/06/1948
Angel Street
Play, Revival, Thriller
Written by Patrick Hamilton
01/22/1948
Volpone
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Ben Jonson
01/08/1948
Up in Central Park
Musical, Revival, Comedy
Music by Sigmund Romberg; Written by Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields
05/19/1947
Andrea Chenier
Special, Original, Opera
Music by Umberto Giordano; Libretto by Luigia Mica
04/09/1947
Bloomer Girl
Musical, Revival, Comedy
Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg
01/06/1947
Ariadne Auf Naxos
Special, Original, Opera
Music by Richard Strauss; Libretto by Hugo Von Hofmannstahl
10/10/1946
Hamlet
Play, Revival, Tragedy
06/03/1946
Madame Butterfly
Special, Revival, Opera
Music by Giacomo Puccini
05/15/1946
The Pirates of Penzance
Musical, Revival, Comedy, Operetta
Libretto by W. S. Gilbert
05/12/1946
Rigoletto
Special, Revival, Opera
Music by Giuseppe Verdi; Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
05/09/1946
Carmen Jones
Musical, Revival,
Music by Georges Bizet; Libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II
04/07/1946
The Desert Song
Musical, Revival, Operetta
Music by Sigmund Romberg; Libretto by Frank Mandel, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II
01/08/1946
Little Women
Play, Revival, Drama
12/23/1945
The Tempest
Play, Revival, Comedy
Music by David Diamond; Written by William Shakespeare
11/12/1945
Flying Dutchman
Special, Original, Opera
Music by Richard Wagner; Libretto by Richard Wagner
10/10/1945
The Gypsy Baron
Special, Revival, Opera
10/06/1945
Faust
Special, Revival, Opera
Music by Charles Gounod; Libretto by Michel Carré, L Barbier
10/05/1945
The Bartered Bride
Special, Original, Opera
Music by Bedrich Smetana; English Version By: Joan Cross, Eric Crozier
10/03/1945
La Traviata
Special, Revival, Opera
Music by Giuseppe Verdi; Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
09/30/1945
Carmen
Special, Revival, Opera
Music by Georges Bizet; Libretto by Ludovic Halévy, Henri Meilhac
09/30/1945
La Bohème
Musical, Revival, Drama, Opera, Tragedy
Music by Giacomo Puccini; Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica
09/29/1945
Cavalleria Rusticana
Special, Revival, Melodrama, Opera
Music by Pietro Mascagni; Libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, Guido Menasci
09/28/1945
Pagliacci
Special, Revival, Opera
Music by Ruggiero Leoncavallo; Libretto by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
09/28/1945
La Tosca
Special, Revival, Opera
Music by Giacomo Puccini; Libretto by Victorien Sardou, Giuseppe Giacosa
09/27/1945
Othello
Play, Revival, Drama, Tragedy
Music by Tom Bennett; Written by William Shakespeare
05/22/1945
Carmen Jones
Musical, Revival,
Music by Georges Bizet
05/02/1945
You Can't Take It With You
Play, Revival, Comedy, Farce
Written by George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
03/26/1945
La Vie Parisienne
Musical, Revival, Comedy, Opera
Music by Jacques Offenbach; Musical Version By: Antal Dorati; Lyrics by Felix Brentano, Louis Verneuil; Musical Version By: Marian Farquhar
01/12/1945
The Cherry Orchard
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Anton Chekov
01/01/1945
Little Women
Play, Revival, Drama
Book by Louisa May Alcott; Written by Marian De Forest
12/12/1944
La Tosca
Special, Revival, Opera
Music by Giacomo Puccini; Libretto by Victorien Sardou, Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica
11/15/1944
The Gypsy Baron
Special, Original, Opera
11/14/1944
La Traviata
Special, Revival, Opera
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
11/12/1944
Cavalleria Rusticana
Special, Revival, Melodrama, Opera
Music by Pietro Mascagni; Written by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, Guido Menasci
11/11/1944
Pagliacci
Special, Revival, Opera
Written by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
11/11/1944
La Bohème
Musical, Revival, Drama, Opera, Tragedy
Music by Giacomo Puccini
11/10/1944
Manon Lescaut
Play, Revival, Drama
Music by Giacomo Puccini; Book by Marcel Prevost
11/09/1944
The Merry Widow
Musical, Revival, Operetta
Music by Franz Lehar, Robert Stoltz; Lyrics by Adrian Ross; Special Lyrics by: Edward Gilbert
10/07/1944
Harriet
Play, Revival,
Written by Colin Clements, Florence Ryerson
09/27/1944
The New Moon
Musical, Original, Romantic Comedy
Music by Sigmund Romberg; Book by 2d, Frank Mandel, Laurence Schwab, Oscar Hammerstein II
05/17/1944
La Traviata
Special, Revival, Opera
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
05/08/1944
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Special, Revival, Ballet, Dance
04/09/1944
Martha
Musical, Original, Opera
Music by Friedrich Von Flotow; Book by Friedrich Von Flotow; Libretto by Friedrich Von Flotow
02/22/1944
Porgy and Bess
Musical, Original, Opera
Music by George Gershwin; Book by Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward; Lyrics by DuBose Heyward, Ira Gershwin
02/07/1944
The American Ballad Singers
Special, Original,
02/06/1944
Our Town
Play, Original, Drama
Book by Thornton Wilder
01/10/1944
Paul Draper and Larry Adler
Special, Original, Revue
12/31/1943
The Patriots
Play, Original,
Book by Sidney Kingsley
12/20/1943
Susan and God
Play, Original, Comedy
Book by Rachel Crothers
12/13/1943