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Music Box Theatre

239 W. 45th St., New York, NY
Seats (approximate): 1025

Charles Howard Crane and E. George Kiehler (Associate), architects. Built by Sam H. Harris and Irving Berlin for Berlin's "Music Box Revues" (1921-1924). Upon Harris' death, his interest went to Berlin. It was co-owned by the Berlin estate and the Shubert Organization until 2007, when the Shuberts took over full onwership.

Built: 1921

Theatre NamesNamed 
Music Box Theatre1921Opened February 22, 1921

Music Box TheatreOpening Date
Lend Me a Tenor
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Ken Ludwig
04/04/2010
Superior Donuts
Play, Original,
Written by Tracy Letts
10/01/2009
August: Osage County
Play, Original,
Written by Tracy Letts
04/29/2008
The Farnsworth Invention
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Aaron Sorkin
12/03/2007
Deuce
Play, Original,
Written by Terrence McNally
05/06/2007
The Vertical Hour
Play, Original,
Written by David Hare
11/30/2006
Festen
Play, Original, Drama
A dramatization by David Eldridge
04/09/2006
In My Life
Musical, Original,
Music by Joseph Brooks; Book by Joseph Brooks; Lyrics by Joseph Brooks
10/20/2005
Primo
Play, Original, Solo
Adapted by Antony Sher
07/11/2005
Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance
Play, Original, Comedy
Music by Wayne Barker; Devised and written by Barry Humphries; Lyrics by Wayne Barker, Barry Humphries
11/21/2004
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Tennessee Williams
11/02/2003
Amour
Musical, Original, Romantic Comedy
Music by Michel Legrand; French Libretto by Didier van Cauwelaert
10/20/2002
Fortune's Fool
Play, Original, Comedy
04/02/2002
The Dinner Party
Play, Original,
Written by Neil Simon
10/19/2000
Macbeth
Play, Revival, Tragedy
Written by William Shakespeare
06/15/2000
Amadeus
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Peter Shaffer
12/15/1999
Closer
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Patrick Marber
03/25/1999
The Diary of Anne Frank
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich
12/04/1997
Barrymore
Play, Original,
Written by William Luce
03/25/1997
State Fair
Musical, Original, Comedy
Music by Richard Rodgers; Book by Louis Mattioli, Tom Briggs; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
03/27/1996
Swinging on a Star
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Johnny Burke, Arthur Johnston, Joe Bushkin, Erroll Garner, Harold Spina; Book by Michael Leeds; Lyrics by Johnny Burke
10/22/1995
Blood Brothers
Musical, Original,
Music by Willy Russell; Book by Willy Russell; Lyrics by Willy Russell
04/25/1993
A Small Family Business
Play, Original,
Written by Alan Ayckbourn
04/27/1992
Park Your Car in Harvard Yard
Play, Original,
Written by Israel Horovitz
11/07/1991
Lucifer's Child
Play, Original, Solo
Written by William Luce
04/04/1991
A Few Good Men
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Aaron Sorkin
11/15/1989
Welcome to the Club
Musical, Original,
Music by Cy Coleman; Book by A. E. Hotchner; Lyrics by A. E. Hotchner, Cy Coleman
04/13/1989
Spoils of War
Play, Original,
Written by Michael Weller
11/10/1988
Mail
Musical, Original,
Music by Michael Rupert; Book by Jerry Colker; Lyrics by Jerry Colker
04/14/1988
Sweet Sue
Play, Original,
01/08/1988
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Christopher Hampton
04/30/1987
Loot
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Joe Orton
04/07/1986
Hay Fever
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Noël Coward
12/12/1985
The Octette Bridge Club
Play, Original,
Written by P. J. Barry
03/05/1985
Alone Together
Play, Original,
Written by Lawrence Roman
10/21/1984
End of the World
Play, Original,
Written by Arthur Kopit
05/06/1984
Open Admissions
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Shirley Lauro
01/29/1984
Brothers
Play, Original,
Written by George Sibbald
11/09/1983
Agnes of God
Play, Original, Drama
Written by John Pielmeier
03/30/1982
Special Occasions
Play, Original,
Written by Bernard Slade
02/07/1982
Deathtrap
Play, Original, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy
Written by Ira Levin
02/26/1978
Side by Side by Sondheim
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Stephen Sondheim; Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
04/18/1977
Comedians
Play, Original,
Written by Trevor Griffiths
11/28/1976
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Edward Albee
04/01/1976
Absurd Person Singular
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Alan Ayckbourn
10/08/1974
Rainbow Jones
Musical, Original,
Music by Jill Williams; Book by Jill Williams; Lyrics by Jill Williams
02/13/1974
Veronica's Room
Play, Original, Thriller
Written by Ira Levin
10/25/1973
Sleuth
Play, Original, Mystery, Thriller
Written by Anthony Shaffer
11/12/1970
Inquest
Play, Original,
Written by Donald Freed
04/23/1970
Charles Aznavour
Special, Original, Solo, Concert
02/03/1970
Love Is a Time of Day
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by John Patrick
12/22/1969
Angela
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Sumner Arthur Long
10/30/1969
The Watering Place
Play, Original,
Written by Lyle Kessler
03/12/1969
Harkness Ballet
Special, Original,
01/13/1969
Losers
Play, Original,
Written by Brian Friel
09/17/1968
Winners
Play, Original,
Written by Brian Friel
09/17/1968
There's a Girl in My Soup
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Terence Frisby
10/18/1967
The Homecoming
Play, Original,
Written by Harold Pinter
01/05/1967
Wait Until Dark
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Frederick Knott
11/28/1966
How's the World Treating You?
Play, Original,
Written by Roger Milner
10/24/1966
Hostile Witness
Play, Original,
Written by Jack Roffey
02/17/1966
Any Wednesday
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Muriel Resnik
02/18/1964
Love and Kisses
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Anita Rowe Block
12/18/1963
Have I Got a Girl for You!
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Irving Cooper
12/02/1963
Semi-Detached
Play, Revival, Satire
Written by David Turner
10/07/1963
Dear Me, The Sky is Falling
Play, Original,
Written by Leonard Spigelgass
03/02/1963
The Beauty Part
Play, Original, Comedy
Music by Don Walker; Written by S. J. Perelman
12/26/1962
Infidel Caesar
Play, Original,
Written by Gene Wesson
04/28/1962
Romulus
Play, Original,
Written by Friedrich Duerrenmatt
01/10/1962
Daughter of Silence
Play, Original,
Written by Morris L. West
11/30/1961
A Far Country
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Henry Denker
04/04/1961
Once There Was a Russian
Play, Original,
Written by Sam Spewack
02/18/1961
Invitation to a March
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Arthur Laurents
10/29/1960
Five Finger Exercise
Play, Original,
Written by Peter Shaffer
12/02/1959
The Pleasure of His Company
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Samuel Taylor
06/15/1959
Rashomon
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin
01/27/1959
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Play, Original, Drama
Written by William Inge
12/05/1957
Miss Lonelyhearts
Play, Original,
Café music by Jule Styne; Written by Howard Teichmann
10/03/1957
Table by the Window
Play, Original,
Written by Terence Rattigan
10/25/1956
Table Number Seven
Play, Original,
Written by Terence Rattigan
10/25/1956
The Ponder Heart
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Joseph A. Fields, Jerome Chodorov
02/16/1956
Bus Stop
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by William Inge
03/02/1955
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by George S. Kaufman, Howard Teichmann
05/10/1954
Picnic
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by William Inge
02/19/1953
Touchstone
Play, Original,
Written by William Stucky
02/03/1953
The Male Animal
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Elliott Nugent, James Thurber
05/15/1952
Much Ado About Nothing
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by William Shakespeare
05/01/1952
Flight Into Egypt
Play, Original, Drama
Written by George Tabori
03/18/1952
Affairs of State
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Louis Verneuil
11/06/1950
Daphne Laureola
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by James Bridie
09/18/1950
Lost in the Stars
Musical, Original, Tragedy
Music by Kurt Weill; Book by Maxwell Anderson; Lyrics by Maxwell Anderson
10/30/1949
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Joseph Stein, Will Glickman
05/04/1949
They Knew What They Wanted
Play, Revival, Comedy
Written by Sidney Howard
02/16/1949
Summer and Smoke
Play, Original,
Written by Tennessee Williams
10/06/1948
Willie the Weeper
Special, Original,
Music by Jerome Moross; Lyrics by John La Touche
05/18/1948
Susanna and the Elders
Special, Revival,
Music by Jerome Moross; Lyrics by John La Touche
05/18/1948
The Eccentricities of Davey Crockett
Special, Original,
Music by Jerome Moross; Lyrics by John La Touche
05/18/1948
The Cup of Trembling
Play, Original,
Written by Louis Paul
04/20/1948
The Linden Tree
Play, Original,
Written by J.B. Priestley
03/02/1948
John Loves Mary
Play, Original, Comedy, Farce
Written by Norman Krasna
03/17/1947
Christopher Blake
Play, Original, Drama
Written by Moss Hart
11/30/1946
A Flag Is Born
Play, Original,
Written by Ben Hecht
10/21/1946
Mr. Peebles and Mr. Hooker
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Edward E. Paramore, Jr.
10/10/1946
I Remember Mama
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by John Van Druten
10/19/1944
Over 21
Play, Original,
Written by Ruth Gordon
01/03/1944
Feathers in a Gale
Play, Original,
Written by Pauline Jamerson, Reginald Lawrence
12/21/1943
Star and Garter
Musical, Original, Revue
"Brazilian Nuts" music by Dorival Caymmi; "I Don't Get It" music by Doris Tauber; "Robert the Roue" music by Frank McCue; "Star and Garter Girls," "For A Quarter" and "Turkish Oomph" music by Lester Lee; "The Bunny" music by Harold J. Rome; "The Girl on the Police Gazette" and "Blues in the Night" music by Harold Arlen; "Brazilian Nuts" lyrics by Albert Stillman; "I Don't Get It" lyrics by Sis Willner; "Robert the Roue" lyrics by Al Dubin; "Star and Garter Girls," "For A Quarter" and "Turkish Oomph" lyrics by Jerry Seelen; "The Bunny" lyrics by Harold J. Rome; "The Girl on the Police Gazette" lyrics by Harold Arlen
06/24/1942
A Kiss for Cinderella
Play, Revival,
Written by James M. Barrie
03/10/1942
The Land Is Bright
Play, Original,
Written by Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman
10/28/1941
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
10/16/1939
From Vienna
Musical, Original, Revue
Book by David Gregory, Werner Michel, Lothar Metzl, Hans Weigel, Jura Soyfer, Peter Hammerschlag
06/20/1939
Set to Music
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Noël Coward; Sketches by Noël Coward; Lyrics by Noël Coward
01/18/1939
Elsie Janis
Special, Original, Drama, Solo
01/01/1939
Sing Out the News
Musical, Original, Revue
Ballet music by Will Irwin; Music by Harold J. Rome; Sketches by Charles Friedman; Lyrics by Harold J. Rome
09/24/1938
I'd Rather Be Right
Musical, Original, Comedy
Music by Richard Rodgers; Book by George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart; Lyrics by Lorenz Hart
05/23/1938
Of Mice and Men
Play, Original, Drama
Written by John Steinbeck
11/23/1937
Young Madame Conti
Play, Original, Melodrama
03/31/1937
Stage Door
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman
10/22/1936
First Lady
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by George S. Kaufman, Katharine Dayton
11/26/1935
If This Be Treason
Play, Original,
Written by Dr. John Haynes Holmes, Reginald Lawrence
09/23/1935
Ceiling Zero
Play, Original,
Written by Frank Wead
04/10/1935
Rain
Play, Revival, Drama
Written by Clemence Randolph, John Colton
02/12/1935
Merrily We Roll Along
Play, Original,
Written by George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
09/29/1934
As Thousands Cheer
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Irving Berlin; Book by Moss Hart; Lyrics by Irving Berlin
09/30/1933
Dinner at Eight
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman
10/22/1932
Of Thee I Sing
Musical, Original, Comedy
Music by George Gershwin; Book by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind; Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
12/26/1931
The Third Little Show
Musical, Original, Revue
Book by Dwight Deere Wiman
06/01/1931
Once in a Lifetime
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
09/24/1930
Topaze
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Marcel Pagnol
02/12/1930
The Little Show
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Arthur Schwartz; Lyrics by Howard Dietz
04/30/1929
Paris
Musical, Original, Comedy
Music by Cole Porter; Book by Martin Brown; Lyrics by Cole Porter, E. Ray Goetz
10/08/1928
Paris Bound
Play, Original, Comedy
Written by Philip Barry
12/27/1927
The Spider
Play, Original, Mystery, Melodrama
Written by Fulton Oursler, Lowell Brentano
06/13/1927
Chicago
Play, Original, Comedy
12/30/1926
Mozart
Play, Original, Comedy, Play with music
Book by Sacha Guitry; Prologue by Brian Hooker; Lyrics by Sacha Guitry
11/22/1926
L'Illusioniste
Play, Original,
Written by Sacha Guitry
11/22/1926
Gentle Grafters
Play, Original,
Written by Owen Davis
10/27/1926
Cradle Snatchers
Play, Original, Comedy, Farce
Written by Norma Mitchell, Russell Medcraft
09/07/1925
Music Box Revue [1924]
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Irving Berlin; Lyrics by Irving Berlin
12/01/1924
Earl Carroll's Vanities [1924]
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Earl Carroll; Book by Earl Carroll, Ralph Spence; Lyrics by Earl Carroll
09/10/1924
Music Box Revue [1923]
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Irving Berlin; Lyrics by Irving Berlin
09/22/1923
Music Box Revue [1922-23]
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Irving Berlin; Book by Irving Berlin; Lyrics by Irving Berlin
10/23/1922
Music Box Revue [1921]
Musical, Original, Revue
Music by Irving Berlin; Book by T. J. Gray, Frances Nordstrom, George V. Hobart, William Collier; Lyrics by Irving Berlin
09/22/1921