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

Opened in 2005

UndatedJuneJanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember

Undated: 37 openings

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

June: 1 opening

June 17, 2003

The Producers , London

January: 1 opening

January 23, 2005

Little Women Virginia Theatre, Broadway

137 perf.

February: 2 openings

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

March: 8 openings

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

April: 7 openings

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

May: 3 openings

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

June: 3 openings

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

July: 2 openings

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

August: 1 opening

August 14, 2005

Lennon Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway

49 perf.

September: 1 opening

September 26, 2005

On the Twentieth Century New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway

1 perf.

October: 6 openings

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

November: 4 openings

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

December: 4 openings

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