Most unlucky broadway theatre?

If one goes back in time, an unlucky theatre was the 54th ST. Theatre, variously named the Adelphi and the George Abbott. It was east of Broadway and further uptown than the vast majority of theatres. It was also a theatre where shows that originated elsewhere transferred to die. In the mid 1950's, the famous half hour HONEYMOONERS TV show starring Jackie Gleason, Audrey Meadows and Art Carney was filmed there. In addition to its unlucky status, it was unattractive. It was torn down probably in the 1960's. I doubt that it would ever have achieved status as a landmarked theatre which would have saved it from the wrecking ball.

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What about the Lyceum?

Ghetto Klown: 95
The Scottsboro Boys: 49
Looped: 33
In The Next Room: 60
Reasons To Be Pretty: 85
[title of show]: 102
Is He Dead?: 105

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I believe the Belasco has not originated a show that has run more than 300 performances in something like 40 or 50 years. I thought that streak was going to be broken with Women on the Verge, but we all know how that turned out. . .

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wasn't the Gershwin a flop house prior to WICKED?

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I'm not educated enough to make an assessment on the unluckiest, but damn the Cort has been doing great lately! (Well, put aside born yesterday.....though it had one of personal favs of the season, nina)

Updated On: 7/28/11 at 05:35 PM

I remember reading an article in the mid-90s - possibly The Times - about the curse of the Broadhurst Theatre, speaking about the closing of the Sondheim/Furth Getting Away with Murder (whatever happened to this play???). Scanning it's tenants on IBDB, I don't see many long-runs.
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Tony Randall's National Actors Theatre played the old but beautiful Lyceum, not the Belasco. Randall's ambitious project yielded few successes either financially or critically, but there were three exceptions: THREE MEN ON A HORSE and Neil Simon's THE SUNSHINE BOYS, both starring Randall and Jack Klugman who had been recovering from major throat surgery and had to re-learn how to speak and especially how to project from the stage. Klugman was valiantly successful, especially in the hilarious production of THE SUNSHINE BOYS. A third success was a wonderful production of INHERIT THE WIND starring the great George C. Scott and Charles Durning, but at the Royale Theatre in 1996. Scott was quite ill at the time and at one performance Tony Randall as a sort of stand-by stepped into his role in mid-performance. This was to be George C. Scott's final theatre appearance. He certainly went out with a bang!

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The first season of Randall's National Actors Theatre was indeed at the Belasco. They did The Crucible, A Little Hotel on the Side and The Master Builder there. All three were sub par, but Master Builder was especially awful.

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The Mark Hellinger. Not because of the flops, but because it's a church now.

"The Mark Hellinger. Not because of the flops, but because it's a church now."

Well, if you put it that way, then the Helen Hayes, The Morosco, and the Bijou, which were torn down for the Marquis. At least the Hellinger remains, and in its glory, too.