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.
| King Henry IV, Part II | 1822 | earliest staging 1946 |
| King Henry V | 1804 | earliest staging 1900 |
| King Henry VIII | 1799 | earliest staging 1946 |
| King John | 1769 | earliest staging 1909 |
| King Lear | 1754 | earliest staging 1905 |
| La Dame aux Camelias | 1857 | earliest staging 1904 |
| Legend | 1930 | earliest staging 1976 |
| Little Boy Blue | 1867 | earliest staging 1911 |
| Liza | 1922 | earliest staging 1974 |
| Loose Ends | 1926 | earliest staging 1979 |
| Louis XI | 1858 | earliest staging 1901 |
| Love for Love | 1750 | earliest staging 1925 |
| Love Life | 1948 | earliest staging 2005 |
| Macbeth | 1768 | earliest staging 1849 |
| Machinal | 1928 | earliest staging 2014 |
| Man and Boy | 1963 | earliest staging 2011 |
| Man and Superman | 1905 | earliest staging 1947 |
| Manon Lescaut | 1901 | earliest staging 1944 |
| Mary Stuart | 1900 | earliest staging 1957 |
| Medea | 1858 | earliest staging 1920 |
| Merrily We Roll Along | 1981 | earliest staging 2023 |
| Morning's at Seven | 1939 | earliest staging 1980 |
| Mr. Pickwick | 1903 | earliest staging 1952 |
| No, No, Nanette | 1925 | earliest staging 1971 |
| Old Acquaintance | 1940 | earliest staging 2007 |
| Old Times | 1971 | earliest staging 2015 |
| On A Clear Day You Can See Forever | 1965 | earliest staging 2011 |
| Once in a Lifetime | 1930 | earliest staging 1978 |
| Our American Cousin | 1858 | earliest staging 1908 |
| Phèdre | 1910 | earliest staging 1963 |
| Pippin | 1972 | earliest staging 2013 |
| Plaza Suite | 1968 | earliest staging 2022 |
| Princess Ida | 1884 | earliest staging 1925 |
| Promises, Promises | 1968 | earliest staging 2010 |
| Pygmalion | 1869 | earliest staging 1914 |
| Richard III | 1953 | earliest staging 2013 |
| Richelieu | 1839 | earliest staging 1904 |
| Ring Round the Moon | 1950 | earliest staging 1999 |
| Romeo and Juliet | 1754 | earliest staging 1869 |
| Saratoga | 1870 | earliest staging 1959 |
| School | 1869 | earliest staging 1913 |
| She Stoops to Conquer | 1773 | earliest staging 1905 |
| South Pacific | 1949 | earliest staging 2008 |
| Star and Garter | 1900 | earliest staging 1942 |
| Stepping Out | 1929 | earliest staging 1987 |
| Summer and Smoke | 1948 | earliest staging 1996 |
| Sweeney Todd | 1924 | earliest staging 1989 |
| Sylvia | 1923 | earliest staging 2015 |
| Taboo | 1922 | earliest staging 2003 |
| The Apple Tree | 1966 | earliest staging 2006 |
| The Beggar's Opera | 1750 | earliest staging 1854 |
| The Big Knife | 1949 | earliest staging 2013 |
| The Boys from Syracuse | 1938 | earliest staging 2002 |
| The Circle | 1921 | earliest staging 1989 |
| The Comedy of Errors | 1923 | earliest staging 1987 |
| The Critic | 1786 | earliest staging 1915 |
| The Daughter of the Regiment | 1870 | earliest staging 1918 |
| The Deep Blue Sea | 1952 | earliest staging 1998 |
| The Desert Flower | 1868 | earliest staging 1924 |
| The Diary of Anne Frank | 1955 | earliest staging 1997 |