Musical Theater
- By Jupiter, Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on June 2 and ran for 421 performances
- Du Barry Was A Lady, London production opened at His Majesty's Theatre on October 22 and ran for 178 performances
- Let's Face It!, London production opened at the Hippodrome on November 19 and ran for 348 performances
- Priorities of 1942 Broadway Revue opened March 12 at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 353 performances.
- Show Time Broadway Revue opened September 16 at the Broadhurst Theatre and ran for 342 performances.
- Star and Garter Broadway Revue opened on June 24 at the Music Box Theatre and ran for 605 performances.
- Stars on Ice Broadway Revue opened July 2 at the Center Theatre and ran for 827 performances.
- This Is the Army Broadway Revue opened July 4 at the Broadway Theatre and ran for 113 performances.
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“I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.”
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Tony Pastor, the pioneer of vaudeville, played the theater in 1876.... He had been preceded by P.T. Barnum, and an occasional performer such as Professor Simmons, “Great, Weird, Wondrous, and Invincibly Incomprehensible ... Basiliconthamaturgist.””
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