70 shows opened on Broadway and in the West End in 2009.

Broadway opened just 45 shows in 2009, but the ones that did open stayed: half of those runs lasted 85 performances or more.

Rock of Ages opened April 7, 2009 at Brooks Atkinson Theatre and ran 2,328 performances.

Opened in 2009

Undated: 25 openings

	A View From the Bridge Tom Stoppard TheatreLondon
	Alan Cumming I Bought a Blue Car Today Vaudeville TheatreLondon
	An Inspector Calls Novello TheatreLondon
	An Inspector Calls Wyndham's TheatreLondon
	Avenue Q Gielgud TheatreLondon
	Calendar Girls Noël Coward TheatreLondon
	Carrie's War Apollo TheatreLondon
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Novello TheatreLondon
	Comedians Lyric TheatreLondon
	Duet for One Vaudeville TheatreLondon
	Ed Byrne Different Class Vaudeville TheatreLondon
	Enjoy by Alan Bennett Gielgud TheatreLondon
	Hamlet Wyndham's TheatreLondon
	Jack and the Beanstalk Lyric TheatreLondon
	Madame de Sade Wyndham's TheatreLondon
	Punk Rock 3 Lyric TheatreLondon
	Sister Act London PalladiumLondon
	Spamalot London
	Speaking in Tongues Tom Stoppard TheatreLondon
	Spring Awakening Novello TheatreLondon
	The RSC's A Midsummer Night's Dream Novello TheatreLondon
	The RSC's The Taming of the Shrew Novello TheatreLondon
	The Shawshank Redemption Wyndham's TheatreLondon
	Three Days of Rain Apollo TheatreLondon
	Woman in Mind Vaudeville TheatreLondon

January: 4 openings

January 15, 2009	Soul of Shaolin Marquis TheatreBroadway	21 perf.
January 22, 2009	The American Plan Samuel J Friedman TheatreBroadway	70 perf.
January 23, 2009	Spring Awakening Lyric TheatreBroadway
January 25, 2009	Hedda Gabler American Airlines TheatreBroadway	74 perf.

February: 2 openings

February 5, 2009	You're Welcome America Cort TheatreBroadway	46 perf.
February 19, 2009	The Story of My Life Booth TheatreBroadway	5 perf.

March: 9 openings

March 1, 2009	Guys and Dolls Nederlander TheatreBroadway	121 perf.
March 9, 2009	33 Variations Eugene Oneill TheatreBroadway	85 perf.
March 15, 2009	Blithe Spirit Shubert TheatreBroadway	145 perf.
March 19, 2009	West Side Story Palace TheatreBroadway	748 perf.
March 22, 2009	God of Carnage Bernard B Jacobs TheatreBroadway	452 perf.
March 24, 2009	Impressionism Gerald Schoenfeld TheatreBroadway	56 perf.
March 26, 2009	Exit the King Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway	93 perf.
March 29, 2009	Irena's Vow Walter Kerr TheatreBroadway	105 perf.
March 31, 2009	Hair Al Hirschfeld TheatreBroadway	519 perf.

April: 9 openings

April 2, 2009	Reasons To Be Pretty Lyceum TheatreBroadway	85 perf.
April 7, 2009	Rock of Ages Brooks Atkinson TheatreBroadway	2,328 perf.
April 15, 2009	Next to Normal Booth TheatreBroadway	733 perf.
April 16, 2009	Joe Turner's Come and Gone Belasco TheatreBroadway	69 perf.
April 19, 2009	Mary Stuart Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	137 perf.
April 26, 2009	The Philanthropist American Airlines TheatreBroadway	73 perf.
April 29, 2009	Accent on Youth Samuel J Friedman TheatreBroadway	71 perf.
April 30, 2009	9 to 5: The Musical Marquis TheatreBroadway	148 perf.
April 30, 2009	Waiting for Godot Studio 54Broadway	84 perf.

August: 1 opening

August 2, 2009

Burn the Floor Longacre TheatreBroadway

185 perf.

September: 1 opening

September 29, 2009

A Steady Rain Gerald Schoenfeld TheatreBroadway

80 perf.

October: 11 openings

October 1, 2009	Superior Donuts Music Box TheatreBroadway	109 perf.
October 4, 2009	Wishful Drinking Studio 54Broadway	118 perf.
October 6, 2009	Hamlet Broadhurst TheatreBroadway	72 perf.
October 8, 2009	The Royal Family Samuel J Friedman TheatreBroadway	77 perf.
October 11, 2009	Oleanna John Golden TheatreBroadway	65 perf.
October 15, 2009	Bye Bye Birdie Henry Millers TheatreBroadway	117 perf.
October 19, 2009	Memphis Shubert TheatreBroadway	1,165 perf.
October 22, 2009	After Miss Julie American Airlines TheatreBroadway	53 perf.
October 25, 2009	Brighton Beach Memoirs Nederlander TheatreBroadway	9 perf.
October 26, 2009	Chance & Chemistry Minskoff TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
October 29, 2009	Finian’s Rainbow St James TheatreBroadway	92 perf.

November: 6 openings

November 9, 2009	Bernadette Peters: A Special Concert for Broadway Barks Because Broadway Cares Minskoff TheatreBroadway	1 perf.
November 9, 2009	The 24 Hour Plays 2009 American Airlines TheatreBroadway
November 15, 2009	Ragtime Neil Simon TheatreBroadway	65 perf.
November 19, 2009	In the Next Room Lyceum TheatreBroadway	60 perf.
November 22, 2009	Irving Berlin’s White Christmas Marquis TheatreBroadway	51 perf.
November 23, 2009	Fela! Eugene O’Neill TheatreBroadway	463 perf.

December: 2 openings

December 6, 2009	Race Ethel Barrymore TheatreBroadway	297 perf.
December 13, 2009	A Little Night Music Walter Kerr TheatreBroadway	425 perf.

January 4, 2009	13 Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, opened 2008	105 run
January 4, 2009	Boeing-Boeing Longacre Theatre, opened 2008	279 run
January 4, 2009	Dividing the Estate Booth Theatre, opened 2008	50 run
January 4, 2009	Grease Brooks Atkinson Theatre, opened 2007	554 run
January 4, 2009	Hairspray Neil Simon Theatre, opened 2002	2,642 run
January 4, 2009	Irving Berlin’s White Christmas Marquis Theatre, opened 2008	53 run
January 4, 2009	Liza's at the Palace.... Palace Theatre, opened 2008	22 run
January 4, 2009	Slava's Snowshow Helen Hayes Theatre, opened 2008	35 run
January 4, 2009	Young Frankenstein Hilton Theatre, opened 2007	485 run
January 11, 2009	All My Sons Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, opened 2008	101 run
January 11, 2009	Gypsy St. James Theatre, opened 2008	332 run
January 11, 2009	Spamalot Shubert Theatre, opened 2005	1,575 run
January 18, 2009	Spring Awakening Eugene O'Neill Theatre, opened 2006	859 run
February 8, 2009	Equus Broadhurst Theatre, opened 2008	156 run
February 22, 2009	Speed-the-Plow Ethel Barrymore Theatre, opened 2008	140 run
March 1, 2009	Pal Joey Studio 54, opened 2008	85 run
June 28, 2009	August: Osage County Imperial Theatre, opened 2007	648 run
August 30, 2009	The Little Mermaid Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, opened 2008	685 run
September 13, 2009	Avenue Q John Golden Theatre, opened 2003	2,534 run