The long wait
Forty years or more between the original and the first revival the catalogue records. Very Good Eddie waited sixty years. The Boys from Syracuse, Anything Goes, The Three Musketeers — all of them left for dead and then not.
159 in the catalogue.
| 110 in the Shade | 1963 | earliest staging 2007 |
| A Man for All Seasons | 1961 | earliest staging 2008 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | 1826 | earliest staging 1906 |
| A Raisin in the Sun | 1959 | earliest staging 2004 |
| A Regular Fix | 1869 | earliest staging 1937 |
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois | 1938 | earliest staging 1993 |
| Accent on Youth | 1934 | earliest staging 2009 |
| After Midnight | 1904 | earliest staging 2013 |
| After The Fall | 1964 | earliest staging 2004 |
| All God's Chillun Got Wings | 1924 | earliest staging 1975 |
| All My Sons | 1947 | earliest staging 1987 |
| An Inspector Calls | 1947 | earliest staging 1994 |
| Angela | 1928 | earliest staging 1969 |
| Antony and Cleopatra | 1846 | earliest staging 1909 |
| Anything Goes | 1934 | earliest staging 1987 |
| Aren't We All? | 1923 | earliest staging 1985 |
| Arsenic and Old Lace | 1941 | earliest staging 1986 |
| As You Like It | 1786 | earliest staging 1869 |
| Barefoot in the Park | 1963 | earliest staging 2006 |
| Bells Are Ringing | 1956 | earliest staging 2001 |
| Billy | 1909 | earliest staging 1969 |
| Blithe Spirit | 1941 | earliest staging 1987 |
| Boeing-Boeing | 1965 | earliest staging 2008 |
| Born Yesterday | 1946 | earliest staging 1989 |
| Breakfast At Tiffany’s | 1966 | earliest staging 2013 |
| Brothers | 1928 | earliest staging 1983 |
| Bus Stop | 1955 | earliest staging 1996 |
| Bye Bye Birdie | 1960 | earliest staging 2009 |
| Camille | 1853 | earliest staging 1908 |
| Come Back, Little Sheba | 1950 | earliest staging 2008 |
| Cox and Box | 1879 | earliest staging 1934 |
| Cymbeline | 1767 | earliest staging 1923 |
| Design For Living | 1933 | earliest staging 1984 |
| Die Fledermaus | 1900 | earliest staging 1954 |
| Dreams | 1869 | earliest staging 1935 |
| Exit the King | 1968 | earliest staging 2009 |
| Flower Drum Song | 1958 | earliest staging 2002 |
| for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf | 1976 | earliest staging 2022 |
| Francesca da Rimini | 1855 | earliest staging 1901 |
| Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 1949 | earliest staging 1995 |
| George Dandin | 1924 | earliest staging 1968 |
| Gigi | 1973 | earliest staging 2015 |
| Girofle-Girofla | 1875 | earliest staging 1926 |
| Going Up | 1917 | earliest staging 1976 |
| Golden Boy | 1964 | earliest staging 2012 |
| Good News! | 1927 | earliest staging 1974 |
| Hamlet | 1761 | earliest staging 1865 |
| Happy Days | 1919 | earliest staging 1968 |
| Holiday | 1928 | earliest staging 1973 |
| Honour | 1895 | earliest staging 1998 |
| In the Next Room | 1923 | earliest staging 2009 |
| In the Summer House | 1953 | earliest staging 1993 |
| Ingomar | 1851 | earliest staging 1904 |
| Inherit the Wind | 1955 | earliest staging 1996 |
| Ink | 1927 | earliest staging 2019 |
| Ivanov | 1923 | earliest staging 1966 |
| Jane Eyre | 1958 | earliest staging 2000 |
| John Bull's Other Island | 1905 | earliest staging 1948 |
| Julius Caesar | 1794 | earliest staging 1864 |
| Junk | 1927 | earliest staging 2017 |