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.
| The Fantasticks | 1960 | earliest staging 2006 |
| The Father | 1789 | earliest staging 1928 |
| The Flowering Peach | 1954 | earliest staging 1994 |
| The Fool's Revenge | 1864 | earliest staging 1905 |
| The Gypsy Baron | 1886 | earliest staging 1945 |
| The Hunchback | 1832 | earliest staging 1902 |
| The Lady of Lyons | 1838 | earliest staging 1902 |
| The Lady of the Camellias | 1917 | earliest staging 1963 |
| The Little Black Book | 1932 | earliest staging 1972 |
| The Lyons Mail | 1858 | earliest staging 1901 |
| The Man Who Came to Dinner | 1939 | earliest staging 1980 |
| The Man Who Had All the Luck | 1944 | earliest staging 2002 |
| The Marriage of Figaro | 1930 | earliest staging 1985 |
| The Merchant of Venice | 1768 | earliest staging 1899 |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | 1789 | earliest staging 1910 |
| The Miracle Worker | 1959 | earliest staging 2010 |
| The Misanthrope | 1905 | earliest staging 1968 |
| The Octoroon | 1859 | earliest staging 1929 |
| The Philadelphia Story | 1939 | earliest staging 1980 |
| The Price | 1911 | earliest staging 1968 |
| The Rainmaker | 1954 | earliest staging 1999 |
| The Real Thing | 1911 | earliest staging 1984 |
| The Rivals | 1778 | earliest staging 1899 |
| The School for Scandal | 1785 | earliest staging 1869 |
| The Streets of New York, or Poverty is No Crime | 1869 | earliest staging 1931 |
| The Taming of the Shrew | 1768 | earliest staging 1894 |
| The Three Musketeers | 1928 | earliest staging 1968 |
| The Trip to Bountiful | 1953 | earliest staging 2013 |
| The Winslow Boy | 1947 | earliest staging 2013 |
| The Winter's Tale | 1795 | earliest staging 1899 |
| Time and the Conways | 1938 | earliest staging 2017 |
| Torch Song | 1930 | earliest staging 2018 |
| Travesties | 1974 | earliest staging 2018 |
| Twelfth Night | 1804 | earliest staging 1869 |
| Very Good Eddie | 1915 | earliest staging 1975 |
| Virginius | 1820 | earliest staging 1907 |
| Voices | 1916 | earliest staging 1972 |
| Whoopee | 1928 | earliest staging 1979 |
| Wonderful Town | 1953 | earliest staging 2003 |