For a time the Hippodrome was the largest and most successful theater in New York. The Hippodrome featured lavish spectacles complete with circus animals, diving horses, opulent sets, and 500-member choruses. Until the end of World War I, the Hippodrome housed all sorts of spectacles then switched to musical extravaganzas, including Good Times which ran for 456 performances from 1920-21. and Better Times, which ran for 405 performance in 1922-23.
If anyone was planning Best of All Possible Times, they took too long. Demolished in 1939.
