Every show that played Broadway and the West End.
Who wrote it, who was in it, which theatre, how long it ran, and every recording of it.
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109 years ago today
Leave It to Jane
Opened at the Longacre Theatre on August 28, 1917, and played 167 performances.
Sheet music cover, 1917. Music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse. Published by T. B. Harms & Co., New York
Opened on August 28
24 productions opened on this date, from 1865 to 1984.
The longest runs on Broadway Every show, longest run first
How many times each one played, counting its longest-running production.
The Phantom of the Opera
13,981 performances
at the Majestic Theatre
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The Lion King
1997 · New Amsterdam Theatre
10,000 performances
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Aladdin
2014 · New Amsterdam Theatre
9,999 performances
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Chicago
1975 · Richard Rodgers Theatre
9,999 performances
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Wicked
2003 · Gershwin Theatre
8,500 performances
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Cats
1982 · Winter Garden Theatre
7,485 performances
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Les Miserables
1987 · Broadway Theatre
6,680 performances
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A Chorus Line
1975 · Shubert Theatre
6,137 performances
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Mamma Mia !
2001 · Winter Garden Theatre
5,758 performances
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Rent
1996 · Nederlander Theatre
5,123 performances
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The Book of Mormon
2011 · Eugene O'Neill Theatre
5,000 performances
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Jersey Boys
2005 · August Wilson Theatre
4,642 performances
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Today's collection
Shows that played once
Shows that played once. Some are disasters — six opened and shut at the Nora Bayes in 1923 alone. Others are benefits and galas that were only ever meant to happen once. The data records how long a show ran, not what it was for, so we cannot tell you which is which.
- Barack on Broadway 2012 · New Amsterdam Theatre · 1 performance
- 8 2011 · Eugene Oneill Theatre · 1 performance
- Camelot 2011 · Shubert Theatre · 1 performance
- She Loves Me 2011 · Stephen Sondheim Theatre · 1 performance
- The Visit 2011 · Ambassador Theatre · 1 performance
- Brigadoon 2010 · Shubert Theatre · 1 performance
- Bernadette Peters: A Special Concert for Broadway Barks Because Broadway Cares 2009 · Minskoff Theatre · 1 performance
- Chance & Chemistry 2009 · Minskoff Theatre · 1 performance
Staged again and again
Show Boat, Porgy and Bess, Gypsy, Oklahoma!, Fiddler. Shows revived three times or more.
- Hamlet 1761
- Macbeth 1768
- The Merchant of Venice 1768
One-word titles
Sally. Irene. Sinbad. Maytime. Gypsy. Hair. Chicago. Rent. Titles cut down to a single word.
- Cato 1750
- Hamlet 1761
- Cymbeline 1767
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
22 shows together, 1925 to 1942.
- Dearest Enemy 1925
- Garrick Gaieties 1925
- Betsy 1926
"A New Musical"
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn "A New Musical". Carnival in Flanders "A Musical Comedy". For a few years in the early fifties the billing was part of the title, because the producers were nervous…
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn “A New Musical” 1951
- Three Wishes for Jamie “A New Musical Play” 1952
- Anna Russell and Her Little Show “An Intimate Revue” 1953
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- 9,808 of the 10,373 shows here have no recording listed. Plenty of them were never recorded. Others were, and we have not found the record yet. If you have seen one, that is a gap you can close.
- 9,594 shows have no picture on their page. A programme cover, a window card or a sleeve scan fills one in.
- Cast lists run thin before 1950. If you have a playbill, you have something we do not.
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