Playhouse Theatre

• Cleavage (Original Off-Broadway Production, 1982)
  June 23, 1982 - June 23, 1982
• Simply Heavenly (Original Broadway Production, 1957)
  August 20, 1957 - October 12, 1957
• Trouble in Tahiti (Original Broadway Production, 1955)
  April 19, 1955 - May 28, 1955
• Fools Rush In (Original Broadway Production, 1934)
  December 25, 1934 - January 4, 1935
• Kitty's Kisses (Original Broadway Production, 1926)
  May 6, 1926 - October 2, 1926
• Up She Goes (Original Broadway Production, 1922)
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Built: 1911
Venue Status:
Demolished: 1969
Seating Capacity: 900

Location Info

137 W. 48th St.
New York, NY Find on Google

• Playhouse Theatre (1911)

The Springtime for Hitler sequence in the 1968 Mel Brooks film The Producers was shot at this theatre.

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The theatre, along with surrounding buildings, was razed in 1969 when Rockefeller Center was expanded. The McGraw-Hill building now stands on the site.

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This theatre mostly hosted plays. Only a handful of musicals played here.

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William Brady built the theatre. It opened on April 15, 1911. Brady managed it until his death in 1944 when the Shuberts purchased it. They ran it as a legitimate house until 1949. ABC leased theatre for their radio station from 1949 - 1952.