80 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 2005.

Broadway opened just 45 shows in 2005, but the ones that did open stayed: half of those runs lasted 93.5 performances or more.

Jersey Boys opened November 6, 2005 at August Wilson Theatre and ran 4,642 performances.

Opened in 2005

Undated: 37 openings

	Scrooge the Musical London PalladiumLondon
	A Raisin in the Sun Lyric TheatreLondon
	And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Gielgud TheatreLondon
	Asterisk 10 Lyric TheatreLondon
	Aurelia's Oratorio 5 Lyric TheatreLondon
	Billy Elliot the Musical Victoria Palace TheatreLondon
	Blue Man Group Gillian Lynne TheatreLondon
	Brontë 19 Lyric TheatreLondon
	Celebration Harold Pinter 1 Noël Coward TheatreLondon
	Dancing in the Streets Cambridge TheatreLondon
	David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre Apollo TheatreLondon
	Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller Gielgud TheatreLondon
	Ducktastic! Noël Coward TheatreLondon
	Hedda Gabler Tom Stoppard TheatreLondon
	Hymns Lyric TheatreLondon
	I Am My Own Wife Tom Stoppard TheatreLondon
	Julius Caesar Lyric TheatreLondon
	Mary Stuart Apollo TheatreLondon
	Nights at the Circus Christmas Lyric TheatreLondon
	Rhinoceros Lyric TheatreLondon
	Road to Nowhere Lyric TheatreLondon
	Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others Lyric TheatreLondon
	Some Girls by Neil LaBute Gielgud TheatreLondon
	Something Wicked This Way Comes Cambridge TheatreLondon
	Spamalot Shubert TheatreBroadway	1,575 perf.
	Stars Are Out Tonight Lyric TheatreLondon
	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Broadway	349 perf.
	The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Broadway	1,136 perf.
	The Dresser Tom Stoppard TheatreLondon
	The Magic Carpet 1 Lyric TheatreLondon
	The Royal Shakespeare Company's Macbeth Noël Coward TheatreLondon
	The RSC Dog in the Manger Playhouse TheatreLondon
	The RSC House of Desires Playhouse TheatreLondon
	The RSC's Twelfth Night Novello TheatreLondon
	The Shaughraun Noël Coward TheatreLondon
	The Vagina Monologues Wyndham's TheatreLondon
	The Witches Wyndham's TheatreLondon

June: 1 opening

June 17, 2003

The Producers London

January: 1 opening

January 23, 2005

Little Women Virginia TheatreBroadway

137 perf.

February: 2 openings

February 2, 2005	Good Vibrations Eugene Oneill TheatreBroadway	94 perf.
February 3, 2005	Brooklyn Boy Biltmore TheatreBroadway	62 perf.

March: 8 openings

March 3, 2005	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Imperial TheatreBroadway	627 perf.
March 17, 2005	Monty Python’s Spamalot Shubert TheatreBroadway	1,575 perf.
March 20, 2005	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Longacre TheatreBroadway	177 perf.
March 21, 2005	Children and Art New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
March 22, 2005	The Glass Menagerie Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway	120 perf.
March 23, 2005	Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed Helen Hayes TheatreBroadway	172 perf.
March 24, 2005	All Shook Up Palace TheatreBroadway	213 perf.
March 31, 2005	Doubt Walter Kerr TheatreBroadway	525 perf.

April: 7 openings

April 3, 2005	Julius Caesar Belasco TheatreBroadway	81 perf.
April 4, 2005	Steel Magnolias Lyceum TheatreBroadway	136 perf.
April 7, 2005	On Golden Pond Cort TheatreBroadway	93 perf.
April 10, 2005	The Pillowman Booth TheatreBroadway	185 perf.
April 18, 2005	The Light in the Piazza Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway	504 perf.
April 26, 2005	A Streetcar Named Desire Studio 54Broadway	73 perf.
April 28, 2005	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Hilton TheatreBroadway	285 perf.

May: 3 openings

May 1, 2005	Glengarry Glen Ross Royale TheatreBroadway	137 perf.
May 1, 2005	Love Life Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway	8 perf.
May 4, 2005	Sweet Charity Al Hirschfeld TheatreBroadway	279 perf.

June: 3 openings

June 1, 2005	After the Night and the Music Biltmore TheatreBroadway	38 perf.
June 9, 2005	Mark Twain Tonight! Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway	15 perf.
June 16, 2005	The Constant Wife American Airlines TheatreBroadway	77 perf.

July: 2 openings

July 11, 2005	Primo Music Box TheatreBroadway	35 perf.
July 17, 2005	The Blonde in the Thunderbird Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway	9 perf.

August: 1 opening

August 14, 2005

Lennon Broadhurst TheatreBroadway

49 perf.

September: 1 opening

September 26, 2005

On the Twentieth Century New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway

1 perf.

October: 6 openings

October 6, 2005	A Naked Girl on the Appian Way American Airlines TheatreBroadway	69 perf.
October 13, 2005	Latinologues Helen Hayes TheatreBroadway	93 perf.
October 18, 2005	Absurd Person Singular Biltmore TheatreBroadway	56 perf.
October 20, 2005	In My Life Music Box TheatreBroadway	61 perf.
October 24, 2005	The 24 Hour Plays 2005 American Airlines TheatreBroadway
October 27, 2005	The Odd Couple Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway	249 perf.

November: 4 openings

November 6, 2005	Jersey Boys August Wilson TheatreBroadway	4,642 perf.
November 10, 2005	Souvenir Lyceum TheatreBroadway	68 perf.
November 17, 2005	The Woman in White Marquis TheatreBroadway	109 perf.
November 21, 2005	Seascape Booth TheatreBroadway	55 perf.

December: 4 openings

December 1, 2005	The Color Purple Broadway TheatreBroadway	910 perf.
December 8, 2005	A Touch of the Poet Studio 54Broadway	50 perf.
December 11, 2005	Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life Gerald Schoenfeld TheatreBroadway	72 perf.
December 12, 2005	A Wonderful Life Shubert TheatreBroadway	1 perf.

Closed in 2005

January 1, 2005	Bombay Dreams Broadway Theatre, opened 2004	284 run
January 2, 2005	42nd Street , opened 2001	1,524 run
January 2, 2005	Dracula, The Musical Belasco Theatre, opened 2004	157 run
January 2, 2005	Golda's Balcony Helen Hayes Theatre, opened 2003	493 run
January 2, 2005	Laugh Whore Cort Theatre, opened 2004	66 run
January 9, 2005	'night, Mother Royale Theatre, opened 2004	65 run
January 23, 2005	The Rivals Vivian Beaumont Theater, opened 2004	45 run
January 30, 2005	Pacific Overtures Studio 54, opened 2004	69 run
January 30, 2005	Whoopi Lyceum Theatre, opened 2004	72 run
January 30, 2005	Wonderful Town , opened 2003	497 run
February 5, 2005	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street , opened 2000
February 6, 2005	Gem of the Ocean Walter Kerr Theatre, opened 2004	72 run
April 17, 2005	Democracy Brooks Atkinson Theatre, opened 2004	173 run
May 1, 2005	Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance Music Box Theatre, opened 2004	163 run
May 15, 2005	Twelve Angry Men American Airlines Theatre, opened 2004	228 run
June 12, 2005	700 Sundays Broadhurst Theatre, opened 2004	163 run
June 26, 2005	Brooklyn Plymouth Theatre, opened 2004	284 run
June 26, 2005	La Cage aux Folles Marquis Theatre, opened 2004	229 run
September 4, 2005	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang , opened 2002
December 11, 2005	Movin’ Out Richard Rodgers Theatre, opened 2002	1,303 run

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