2,355 ways in

A collection is a question the catalogue can answer: how many shows have an exclamation mark in the title, say.

Week7

Winners of the Tony for Best Musical 74 productions Winners of the Tony for Best Musical, every year from 1949 on.

Older than the show they belong to 127 shows These shows have a production listed that opened before the show was written. Gypsy has stagings from 1903 and 1929, decades before the 1959 musical, because two different works en…
Set outside America 75 shows Shows set outside America: Paris, Vienna, Siam, and a few kingdoms that only ever existed on a stage.
Before 1920 3,030 shows The Black Crook in 1866 through to 1919. Recording barely existed for most of this, so what survives is paper.
Shows that played once 407 productions Shows that played once. Some are disasters. Six opened and shut at the Nora Bayes in 1923 alone. Others are benefits and galas that were only ever meant to happen once. The data re…
Runs past 2,000 performances 39 productions Runs of 2,000 performances or more. Phantom of the Opera gave 13,981. The Lion King has passed ten thousand and is still going.
Revivals that outran the original 247 shows 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.

Themes29

Crossings22

People10

Company7

Songs44

Titles12

Titles with an exclamation mark 177 shows Titles with an exclamation mark. Oh, Kay! Lady, Be Good! Hit The Deck! Hooray For What! Nearly all of them are from before 1940. Then it stopped.

Sources5

From a novel 21 shows Somebody read it first. Cry, the Beloved Country became Lost in the Stars; Voltaire became Candide; a 1957 novel about San Francisco became Flower Drum Song.

Places3

Hollywood 17 shows Shows about Hollywood, written mostly by people who had worked there. Matched on the name anywhere in the synopsis, so these are shows about the place rather than shows set in it.

Form4

Jukebox 12 shows Built from songs that already existed. Jersey Boys, Movin' Out, Rock of Ages, Million Dollar Quartet, Mamma Mia!

Shape14

Runs7

Staged again and again 215 shows Show Boat, Porgy and Bess, Gypsy, Oklahoma!, Fiddler. Shows revived three times or more.

Recordings8

Rights13

Eras25

Partnerships14

Composer101

Lyricist75

Book61

Directed by36

Choreographed by36

Produced by9

On stage1585

Careers6

Houses208

At the Lyceum Theatre 321
At the James Earl Jones Theatre 256
At the Booth Theatre 248
At the Longacre Theatre 218
At the Belasco Theatre 214
At the Playhouse Theatre 193
At the Broadhurst Theatre 188
At the Brooks Atkinson Theatre 187
At the Nederlander Theatre 187
At the Wallacks Theatre 186
At the Broadway Theatre 184
At the Shubert Theatre 182
At the Bijou Theatre 179
At the Empire Theatre 176
At the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre 175
At the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 175
At the Ethel Barrymore Theatre 174
At the Al Hirschfeld Theatre 173
At the John Golden Theatre 169
At the Morosco Theatre 167
At the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre 163
At the Knickerbocker Theatre 162
At the Hudson Theatre 156
At the Lyric Theatre 151
At the New Amsterdam Theatre 151
At the Winter Garden Theatre 146
At the Music Box Theatre 144
At the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre 143
At the 48th Street Theatre 135
At the Garrick Theatre 135
At the Dalys Theatre 132
At the Majestic Theatre 126
At the Ambassador Theatre 125
At the Henry Millers Theatre 125
At the Neil Simon Theatre 125
At the Maxine Elliotts Theatre 122
At the Vivian Beaumont Theater 122
At the Fulton Theatre 118
At the American Airlines Theatre 116
At the Princess Theatre 115
At the American Theatre 109
At the Casino Theatre 108
At the Haverlys 14th Street Theatre 105
At the Helen Hayes Theater 105
At the August Wilson Theatre 104
At the Comedy Theatre 103
At the Eugene O'Neill Theatre 103
At the Star Theatre 103
At the Circle in the Square Theatre 101
At the St. James Theatre 101
At the Ritz Theatre 99
At the New Century Theatre 94
At the Garden Theatre 93
At the Liberty Theatre 88
At the Richard Rodgers Theatre 88
At the 44th Street Theatre 87
At the Helen Hayes Theatre 81
At the Imperial Theatre 78
At the Palace Theatre 77
At the City Center 76
At the Anta Playhouse 75
At the George Gershwin Theatre 74
At the Herald Square Theatre 74
At the Hoyts Theatre 74
At the Criterion Theatre 73
At the Vanderbilt Theatre 73
At the Grand Opera House 68
At the 39th Street Theatre 67
At the Gielgud Theatre 63
At the 49th Street Theatre 62
At the Mark Hellinger Theatre 62
At the Provincetown Playhouse 62
At the New York Theatre 61
At the Niblos Garden 59
At the Center Theatre 58
At the Greenwich Village Theatre 58
At the Park Theatre 57
At the Jolsons 59th Street Theatre 56
At the Adelphi Theatre 55
At the Manhattan Theatre 55
At the Peoples Theatre 55
At the Studio 54 54
At the Fifth Avenue Theatre 53
At the Nora Bayes Theatre 53
At the Tom Stoppard Theatre 53
At the Belmont Theatre 52
At the Apollo Theatre 51
At the Academy Of Music 50
At the Olympic Theatre 49
At the Waldorf Theatre 48
At the Vaudeville Theatre 47
At the Aldwych Theatre 45
At the Eugene Oneill Theatre 44
At the George M Cohans Theatre 44
At the Todd Haimes Theatre 44
At the Astor Theatre 43
At the Gaiety Theatre 43
At the Marquis Theatre 43
At the Noël Coward Theatre 43
At the Punch And Judy Theatre 42
At the Wyndham's Theatre 42
At the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre 41
At the Minskoff Theatre 41
At the Theatre Masque 41
At the Manhattan Opera House 40
At the Woods Museum And Metropolitan 40
At the Ziegfeld Theatre 40
At the Savoy Theatre 39
At the Theatre Republic 39
At the Times Square Theatre 39
At the Criterion Center Stage Right 36
At the Klaw Theatre 36
At the Phoenix Theatre 36
At the Frolic Theatre 35
At the Civic Repertory Theatre 33
At the Novello Theatre 33
At the Bandbox Theatre 32
At the Duchess Theatre 31
At the London Palladium 31
At the Windsor Theatre 31
At the Sam H Harris Theatre 30
At the Trafalgar Theatre 30
At the Murray Hill Theatre 29
At the Neighborhood Playhouse 28
At the Victoria Palace Theatre 28
At the Union Square Theatre 27
At the Erlangers Theatre 26
At the West End Theatre 26
At the Dalys 63rd Street Theatre 25
At the Harold Pinter Theatre 25
At the Dominion Theatre 24
At the Hackett Theatre 24
At the Harris Theatre 24
At the John Street Theatre 24
At the New Theatre 22
At the Victoria Theatre 22
At the Dalys Fifth Avenue Theatre 21
At the Earl Carroll Theatre 20
At the Palmers Theatre 20
At the Prince of Wales Theatre 20
At the Standard Theatre 20
At the Hayes Theater 19
At the Hippodrome Theatre 19
At the Laura Keenes Theatre 19
At the Booths Theatre 18
At the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane 18
At the Frazee Theatre 18
At the Cosmopolitan Theatre 16
At the Webers Music Hall 16
At the Hampdens Theatre 15
At the President Theatre 15
At the Berkeley Lyceum Theatre 14
At the Edison Theatre 14
At the Avon Theatre 13
At the Charles Hopkins Theatre 13
At the Prince Edward Theatre 13
At the Sondheim Theatre 13
At the Wallacks Lyceum Theatre 13
At the Weber And Fields Broadway Music Hall 13
At the Chanins 46th Street Theatre 12
At the Cherry Lane Theatre 12
At the Madison Square Theatre 12
At the 52nd Street Theatre 11
At the Bramhall Playhouse 11
At the Central Theatre 11
At the International Theatre 11
At the New Yorker Theatre 11
At the Stephen Sondheim Theatre 11
At the Thalia Theatre 11
At the Cohan And Harris 10
At the American Laboratory 9
At the Barbizon Plaza Theatre 9
At the Cambridge Theatre 9
At the Circle Theatre 9
At the Craig Theatre 9
At the Harlem Opera House 9
At the Lafayette Theatre 9
At the Lincoln Square Theatre 9
At the Abbeys Theatre 8
At the Apollo Victoria Theatre 8
At the Bowery Theatre 8
At the Carnegie Lyceum 8
At the New Bowery Theatre 8
At the @sohoplace 8
At the Worrell Sisters New York Theatre 8
At the ANTA Washington Square Theatre 7
At the Burtons Chambers Street Theatre 7
At the Century Promenade 7
At the Chanin Auditorium 7
At the Gillian Lynne Theatre 7
At the Harkness Theatre 7
At the Madison Square Roof Garden 7
At the Experimental Theatre 6
At the Her Majesty's Theatre 6
At the Holiday Theatre 6
At the Jardin de Paris 6
At the Lexington Theatre 6
At the Nassau Street Theatre 6
At the Abbeys Park Theatre 5
At the Barnums American Museum 5
At the Barnums New American Museum 5
At the Edyth Totten Theatre 5
At the Mayfair Theatre 5
At the Mercury Theatre 5
At the Miners Fifth Avenue Theatre 5
At the Pikes Opera House 5
At the Rialto Theatre 5
At the Waverley Theatre 5

Buildings14

The Krapp houses 15
Renamed 36
Renamed twice or more 13
Demolished, dark, or gone 259
The barns 33
Under seven hundred seats 23
Open for a century 33
Landmarked 25
Off Broadway 15
Houses that held a monster 40
Houses that never held a hit 139
Who built it 46
The last show before the name changed 24
The first show under the new name 24