Revivals that outran the original

Revivals that ran longer than the original. Chicago managed 936 performances in 1975 and 9,999 when it came back. Candide ran 73 nights in 1956 and returned for 740.

247 in the catalogue.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	1949	199 → 740
Goat Alley	1921	5 → 13
Golden Boy	1964	250 → 568
Grand Hotel	1989	459 → 1,077
Gypsy	1959	1 → 702
Happiness	1914	5 → 136
Hay Fever	1925	49 → 124
Head Over Heels	2018	100 → 188
Hedda Gabler	1898	1 → 117
Hide and Seek	1957	7 → 9
Hughie	1964	51 → 56
If Booth Had Missed	1931	1 → 21
Il Trovatore	1927	1 → 2
Ink	1927	15 → 87
Ivanov	1923	5 → 51
Jane Eyre	1958	52 → 209
Junk	1927	9 → 77
Kempy	1922	38 → 46
Kenilworth	1867	12 → 39
Kind Lady	1935	82 → 107
Kismet	1953	184 → 583
La Bohème	1927	1 → 228
La Bête	1991	25 → 101
La Traviata	1927	1 → 7
Lalla Rookh	1859	30 → 50
Legend	1930	1 → 5
Les Ballets Africains	1959	48 → 85
Life	1902	7 → 161
Little Boy Blue	1867	36 → 184
Little Eyolf	1907	2 → 8
Little Nell and the Marchioness	1867	26 → 28
Little Red Riding Hood	1872	17 → 24
Loose Ends	1926	40 → 284
Loot	1968	22 → 96
Lorelei	1974	7 → 320
Lovely Lady	1925	21 → 164
Lysistrata	1925	8 → 252
Man and Boy	1963	54 → 57
Man and Superman	1905	192 → 295
Marcelle	1900	24 → 68
Maritana	1848	3 → 8
Martha Graham and Company	1943	2 → 8
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary	1905	14 → 86
Maurice Chevalier	1955	18 → 46
Merrily We Roll Along	1981	155 → 352
Met-A-Mora	1848	2 → 6
Morning's at Seven	1939	44 → 564
Mother Goose	1899	10 → 105
Mrs. Warren's Profession	1905	1 → 65
Night Hawk	1925	87 → 144
No Man's Land	1976	47 → 68
No Place to Be Somebody	1969	16 → 39
No, No, Nanette	1925	321 → 861
Noah	1935	45 → 46
Oh! Calcutta!	1969	1,314 → 5,959
On Your Toes	1936	315 → 505
Once Upon a Time	1905	8 → 24
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1963	82 → 121
Orpheus Descending	1957	68 → 97
Outward Bound	1924	144 → 255

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