Bijou Theatre

• Aaah Oui Genty! (Original Broadway Production, 1981)
  April 9, 1981 - May 3, 1981
• Shakespeare's Cabaret (Broadway Transfer, 1981)
  January 21, 1981 - March 8, 1981
• A Kurt Weill Cabaret (Broadway Revival, 1979)
  May 6, 1980 - June 1, 1980
• A Kurt Weill Cabaret (Broadway Revival, 1979)
  December 26, 1979 - March 4, 1980
• A Kurt Weill Cabaret (Broadway Revival, 1979)
  November 5, 1979 - November 25, 1979
• Ride the Winds (Original Broadway Production, 1974)
  May 16, 1974 - May 18, 1974
• Sextet (Original Broadway Production, 1974)
  March 3, 1974 - March 10, 1974
• Cranks (Broadway Production, 1956)
  November 26, 1956 - no date entered yet
• Cranks (Broadway Production, 1956)
  November 26, 1956 - December 28, 1956
• Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure... (Broadway Production, 1955)
  October 10, 1955 - December 3, 1955
• Blues, Ballads and Sin Songs (Broadway Concert, 1954)
  October 4, 1954 - October 15, 1954
• Sue, Dear (Original Broadway Production, 1922)
  September 18, 1922 - September 30, 1922
• International Soirée (Original Broadway Production, 1958)
  no date entered yet - no date entered yet

Built: 1917
Closed: year not entered yet
Demolished: 1982
Seating Capacity: 600

Location Info

209 W. 45th St.
New York, NY Find on Google

• Bijou Theatre (1917)
• CBS Studio No. 62 (1951)
• D. W. Griffin Theatre (1962)
• Bijou Theatre (1973)
• Toho Cinema (1963)

Built as a legitimate theatre. In 1935, it became New York's first all-cartoon cinema when the building was used as cinema and theatre in a rotating schedule. It was closed from 1937 to 1943.

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The Astor Theatre next door was renovated in 1959 and the Bijou gave up some of its space to that building.

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In 1962, it showed art films, then Japanese filme, and soon returned to occasional legitimate use.

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Demolished in 1982 following a bitter battle with protestors along with the Morosco, Astor, Victoria and Helen Hayes to make way for the Marriott Marquis Hotel (which houses the Marquis Theatre).