69 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 2008.

Broadway opened just 42 shows in 2008, but the ones that did open stayed: half of those runs lasted 95.5 performances or more.

Billy Elliot opened November 13, 2008 at Imperial Theatre and ran 1,312 performances.

Opened in 2008

Undated: 28 openings

	An Audience Apollo TheatreLondon
	Bill Bailey's Tinselworm Gielgud TheatreLondon
	Carl Rosa Opera presented a Gilbert and Sullivan season Gielgud TheatreLondon
	Divas Apollo TheatreLondon
	Eürobeat Almost Eurovision Novello TheatreLondon
	Evita London
	God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza Gielgud TheatreLondon
	Hairspray London
	Imagine This Gillian Lynne TheatreLondon
	Into the Hoods Novello TheatreLondon
	Parade London
	Piaf Vaudeville TheatreLondon
	Rain Man Apollo TheatreLondon
	Rent London
	Rock of Ages OffBroadway
	Shrek the Musical Broadway	441 perf.
	Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello Gielgud TheatreLondon
	Spyski/The Importance of Being Ernest Lyric TheatreLondon
	That Face Tom Stoppard TheatreLondon
	The Deep Blue Sea Vaudeville TheatreLondon
	The Drowsy Chaperone London
	The Female of the Species Vaudeville TheatreLondon
	The Harder They Come Playhouse TheatreLondon
	The Importance of Being Earnest Vaudeville TheatreLondon
	The Magic Flute Tom Stoppard TheatreLondon
	The RSC's Hamlet Novello TheatreLondon
	The Vortex Apollo TheatreLondon
	Twelfth Night Wyndham's TheatreLondon

January: 4 openings

January 10, 2008	The Little Mermaid Lunt-Fontanne TheatreBroadway	685 perf.
January 15, 2008	The 39 Steps American Airlines TheatreBroadway	771 perf.
January 17, 2008	November Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway	205 perf.
January 24, 2008	Come Back, Little Sheba Biltmore TheatreBroadway	58 perf.

February: 2 openings

February 21, 2008	Sunday in the Park with George Studio 54Broadway	149 perf.
February 28, 2008	Passing Strange Belasco TheatreBroadway	165 perf.

March: 4 openings

March 6, 2008	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	125 perf.
March 9, 2008	In the Heights Richard Rodgers TheatreBroadway	1,184 perf.
March 27, 2008	Gypsy St. James TheatreBroadway	332 perf.
March 31, 2008	You May Now Worship Me Eugene Oneill TheatreBroadway	1 perf.

April: 6 openings

April 3, 2008	South Pacific Vivian Beaumont TheatreBroadway	996 perf.
April 8, 2008	Macbeth Lyceum TheatreBroadway	52 perf.
April 17, 2008	A Catered Affair Walter Kerr TheatreBroadway	116 perf.
April 24, 2008	Cry-Baby Marquis TheatreBroadway	68 perf.
April 27, 2008	The Country Girl Bernard B Jacobs TheatreBroadway	97 perf.
April 30, 2008	Thurgood Booth TheatreBroadway	126 perf.

May: 5 openings

May 1, 2008	Les Liaisons Dangereuses American Airlines TheatreBroadway	77 perf.
May 4, 2008	Boeing-Boeing Longacre TheatreBroadway	279 perf.
May 6, 2008	Glory Days Circle In The Square TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
May 7, 2008	Top Girls Biltmore TheatreBroadway	63 perf.
May 19, 2008	Mandy Patinkin on Broadway Gerald Schoenfeld TheatreBroadway	1 perf.

June: 1 opening

June 26, 2008

Cirque Dreams Broadway TheatreBroadway

70 perf.

July: 1 opening

July 17, 2008

[title of show] Lyceum TheatreBroadway

102 perf.

September: 2 openings

September 18, 2008	A Tale Of Two Cities Al Hirschfeld TheatreBroadway	60 perf.
September 25, 2008	Equus Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	156 perf.

October: 7 openings

October 2, 2008	The Seagull Walter Kerr TheatreBroadway	94 perf.
October 5, 2008	13 Bernard B. Jacobs TheatreBroadway	105 perf.
October 7, 2008	A Man for All Seasons American Airlines TheatreBroadway	73 perf.
October 14, 2008	To Be Or Not To Be Samuel J Friedman TheatreBroadway	40 perf.
October 16, 2008	All My Sons Gerald Schoenfeld TheatreBroadway	101 perf.
October 23, 2008	Speed-the-Plow Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway	140 perf.
October 27, 2008	The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken Gershwin TheatreBroadway	1 perf.

November: 5 openings

November 13, 2008	Billy Elliot Imperial TheatreBroadway	1,312 perf.
November 17, 2008	American Buffalo Belasco TheatreBroadway	8 perf.
November 17, 2008	The 24 Hour Plays 2008 American Airlines TheatreBroadway
November 20, 2008	Dividing the Estate Booth TheatreBroadway	50 perf.
November 23, 2008	Irving Berlin’s White Christmas Marquis TheatreBroadway	53 perf.

December: 4 openings

December 3, 2008	Liza's at the Palace.... Palace TheatreBroadway	22 perf.
December 4, 2008	Sunset Boulevard London
December 7, 2008	Slava's Snowshow Helen Hayes TheatreBroadway	35 perf.
December 18, 2008	Pal Joey Studio 54Broadway	85 perf.

January 6, 2008	Cymbeline Vivian Beaumont Theater, opened 2007	40 run
January 6, 2008	Cyrano de Bergerac Richard Rodgers Theatre, opened 2007	56 run
January 6, 2008	Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas St James Theatre, opened 2007	96 run
January 6, 2008	Les Miserables Broadhurst Theatre, opened 2006	463 run
January 12, 2008	Mary Poppins Prince Edward Theatre, opened 2004
January 20, 2008	The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee , opened 2005	1,136 run
February 24, 2008	A Bronx Tale Walter Kerr Theatre, opened 2007	111 run
February 24, 2008	The Color Purple Broadway Theatre, opened 2005	910 run
March 2, 2008	The Farnsworth Invention Music Box Theatre, opened 2007	104 run
March 9, 2008	Is He Dead? Lyceum Theatre, opened 2007	105 run
March 9, 2008	Rock 'n' Roll Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, opened 2007	123 run
March 30, 2008	The Seafarer Booth Theatre, opened 2007	133 run
April 13, 2008	The Homecoming Cort Theatre, opened 2007	137 run
June 29, 2008	Curtains Al Hirschfeld Theatre, opened 2007	511 run
July 19, 2008	South Pacific Prince of Wales Theatre, opened 1988
August 17, 2008	A Chorus Line Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, opened 2006	759 run
September 7, 2008	Rent Nederlander Theatre, opened 1996	5,123 run
September 28, 2008	Xanadu Helen Hayes Theatre, opened 2007	512 run
October 19, 2008	Legally Blonde Palace Theatre, opened 2007	595 run