Cole Porter’s musical Anything Goes opened on November 21, 1934. The Theatre Guild’s production of Maxwell Anderson’s Mary of Scotland with Helen Hayes in the title role played on the Alvin’s stage in 1933.
Merman offered an exciting rendition of “I Got Rhythm.” The musical also introduced the well-known standards “Embraceable You,” and “But Not for Me.” In 1932, Jerome Kern’s Music in the Air was a huge success. It was George and Ira Gershwin’s Girl Crazy featuring Ginger Rogers, Allen Kearns, Willie Howard, William Kent, the Foursome, and Ethel Merman making her Broadway debut. One of the theatre’s momentous musicals opened on October 14, 1930. The outstanding score included treasured songs such as “He Loves and She Loves,” “’S Wonderful,” “My One and Only,” “The Babbit and the Bromide,” and the title song. On November 22, 1927, the Alvin had a promising beginning with the opening of the popular musical Funny Face starring Fred and Adele Astaire, Allen Kearns, William Kent, Victor Moore, and Betty Compton. Simon had another one of his plays, Jake’s Women, staged in the space in 1992. In 1985, Biloxi Blues, the second play in his series, played at the venue.
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Brighton Beach Memoirs was the first in an autobiographical series about Simon’s childhood and his family, and it marked a new phase in his writing career. It was felt that Simon, one of America’s most successful playwrights, certainly deserved the honor. The Alvin was rechristened the Neil Simon in 1983 after a successful run of Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs. Aarons took the first two letters of his first name and Freedley the first three of his to create the name “Alvin.” Aarons and Freedley eventually built their own theatre, now known as the August Wilson Theatre.
In 1927, The Neil Simon Theatre was known as the Alvin it was named after the men who constructed it and produced shows there-Alex Aarons and Vinton Freedley.
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