79 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 2006.

Broadway opened just 43 shows in 2006, but the ones that did open stayed: half of those runs lasted 98 performances or more.

Mary Poppins opened November 16, 2006 at New Amsterdam Theatre and ran 2,619 performances.

Opened in 2006

Undated: 36 openings

	The Sound of Music London PalladiumLondon
	A Voyage Round My Father Wyndham's TheatreLondon
	Aurélia's Oratorio 12 Lyric TheatreLondon
	Avenue Q Noël Coward TheatreLondon
	Billy Elliot London
	Blackbird Noël Coward TheatreLondon
	Caroline, or Change London
	Chicago Cambridge TheatreLondon
	Company London
	Cymbeline Lyric TheatreLondon
	Dancing in the Streets Playhouse TheatreLondon
	Dirty Dancing The Classic Story on Stage 2011 Aldwych TheatreLondon
	Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Apollo TheatreLondon
	Eh Joe Tom Stoppard TheatreLondon
	Florodora West End revivalLondon
	Footloose The Musical Novello TheatreLondon
	Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan Gielgud TheatreLondon
	Honour Wyndham's TheatreLondon
	Metamorphosis Lyric TheatreLondon
	Movin’ Out Apollo Victoria TheatreLondon
	pool Lyric TheatreLondon
	Stones in His Pockets by Marie Jones Duchess TheatreLondon
	The Creeper Playhouse TheatreLondon
	The History Boys Wyndham's TheatreLondon
	The Odyssey Lyric TheatreLondon
	The Rocky Horror Show Playhouse TheatreLondon
	The RSC's A Midsummer Night's Dream Novello TheatreLondon
	The RSC's As You Like It Novello TheatreLondon
	The RSC's Much Ado About Nothing Novello TheatreLondon
	The RSC's The Comedy of Errors Novello TheatreLondon
	The RSC's The Crucible and The Canterbury Tales Gielgud TheatreLondon
	The Wolves in the Walls Lyric TheatreLondon
	The Woman in White London
	Titanic London
	Watership Down Lyric TheatreLondon
	Wicked Apollo Victoria TheatreLondon

January: 1 opening

January 26, 2006

Bridge & Tunnel Helen Hayes TheatreBroadway

213 perf.

February: 4 openings

February 2, 2006	Rabbit Hole Biltmore TheatreBroadway	77 perf.
February 16, 2006	Barefoot in the Park Cort TheatreBroadway	109 perf.
February 16, 2006	The Wedding Singer Al Hirschfeld TheatreBroadway	285 perf.
February 23, 2006	The Pajama Game American Airlines TheatreBroadway	129 perf.

March: 2 openings

March 12, 2006	Ring of Fire Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway	57 perf.
March 30, 2006	Well Longacre TheatreBroadway	52 perf.

April: 7 openings

April 9, 2006	Festen Music Box TheatreBroadway	49 perf.
April 17, 2006	Awake and Sing! Belasco TheatreBroadway	80 perf.
April 19, 2006	Three Days of Rain Bernard B Jacobs TheatreBroadway	70 perf.
April 20, 2006	The Threepenny Opera Studio 54Broadway	77 perf.
April 23, 2006	The History Boys Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	185 perf.
April 25, 2006	Lestat Palace TheatreBroadway	39 perf.
April 30, 2006	Hot Feet Hilton TheatreBroadway	97 perf.

May: 6 openings

May 1, 2006	The Drowsy Chaperone Marquis TheatreBroadway	674 perf.
May 3, 2006	The Lieutenant of Inishmore Lyceum TheatreBroadway	142 perf.
May 4, 2006	Faith Healer Booth TheatreBroadway	117 perf.
May 7, 2006	The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial Gerald Schoenfeld TheatreBroadway	17 perf.
May 9, 2006	Shining City Biltmore TheatreBroadway	80 perf.
May 10, 2006	Tarzan Richard Rodgers TheatreBroadway	486 perf.

August: 3 openings

August 15, 2006	Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway Helen Hayes TheatreBroadway	27 perf.
August 16, 2006	The Fantasticks Snapple Theater Center/ Jerry Orbach TheaterOff-Broadway	678 perf.
August 17, 2006	Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me Bernard B. Jacobs TheatreBroadway	165 perf.

September: 1 opening

September 28, 2006

70 perf.

October: 7 openings

October 5, 2006	A Chorus Line Gerald Schoenfeld TheatreBroadway	759 perf.
October 11, 2006	Heartbreak House American Airlines TheatreBroadway	79 perf.
October 12, 2006	Losing Louie Biltmore TheatreBroadway	53 perf.
October 16, 2006	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas August Wilson TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
October 23, 2006	The 24 Hour Plays 2006 American Airlines TheatreBroadway
October 25, 2006	Butley Booth TheatreBroadway	94 perf.
October 26, 2006	The Times They Are A-Changin' Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway	28 perf.

November: 8 openings

November 2, 2006	Grey Gardens Walter Kerr TheatreBroadway	307 perf.
November 8, 2006	Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas Hilton TheatreBroadway	107 perf.
November 9, 2006	Les Miserables Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	463 perf.
November 13, 2006	The Little Dog Laughed Cort TheatreBroadway	112 perf.
November 16, 2006	Mary Poppins New Amsterdam TheatreBroadway	2,619 perf.
November 27, 2006	The Coast of Utopia [Part 1 - Voyage] Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway	44 perf.
November 29, 2006	Company Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway	246 perf.
November 30, 2006	The Vertical Hour Music Box TheatreBroadway	117 perf.

December: 4 openings

December 7, 2006	High Fidelity Imperial TheatreBroadway	13 perf.
December 10, 2006	Spring Awakening Eugene O'Neill TheatreBroadway	859 perf.
December 14, 2006	The Apple Tree Studio 54Broadway	99 perf.
December 21, 2006	The Coast of Utopia [Part 2 - Shipwreck] Vivian Beaumont TheaterBroadway	43 perf.

January 8, 2006	Fiddler on the Roof Minskoff Theatre, opened 2004	781 run
January 8, 2006	Seascape Booth Theatre, opened 2005	55 run
January 8, 2006	Souvenir Lyceum Theatre, opened 2005	68 run
January 29, 2006	A Touch of the Poet Studio 54, opened 2005	50 run
February 19, 2006	Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, opened 2005	72 run
February 19, 2006	The Woman in White Marquis Theatre, opened 2005	109 run
June 4, 2006	The Odd Couple Brooks Atkinson Theatre, opened 2005	249 run
July 2, 2006	Doubt Walter Kerr Theatre, opened 2005	525 run
July 2, 2006	The Light in the Piazza Vivian Beaumont Theater, opened 2005	504 run
September 3, 2006	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Imperial Theatre, opened 2005	627 run
September 3, 2006	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street , opened 2005	349 run