All Best Musical Winners Ranked by Number of Performances

Here’s hoping Moulin Rouge is able to break the 1K performance mark. Tourists seem to REALLY love it.

What an interesting post. Thank you for all the effort to compile this.

So, with approximately 416 performance equaling a year, this means only three shows have won the Best Musical Tony and failed to run at least a year.

Ummm. Moulin Rouge and Hadestown are also still running and should still be open when Phantom closes, unless you know something we don’t?

Hadestown will likely not be running on Broadway past January. For the most part, their total gross by week has decreased starting around mid-late June. Not a good sign.

Moulin Rouge! is up in the air. It's a very expensive show to run.

jagman1062 said: "How have you accounted for the shows still running and projected to be running after January15? Did you estimate the number of performances these shows will have had on January 15 or are their numbers a snapshot of what was reported on the day you gathered the data? Just curious."



I didn't make that clear, but ''A Strange Loop'' is the only one with numbers from january. The other winners still open have the current numbers as of October 9.



I will update eventually if anyone else closes.



I did make a quick math and by the end of 2023, ''Hamilton'' will likely be #11 ahead of ''Hello, Dolly!''

It was very good to do the list, I still can believe Sondheim has 2 shows in the top 10 of winners with least performances, and that one of them is Sweeney!

I updated the data, put ''Kimberly'' on the list and noticed that ''Loop'' ended up with the amount of official performances as ''Hallelujah'', but played few previous.

Those are the ''Best Musical'' winners still playing on Broadway:

2. The Lion King - 10,025

8. The Book of Mormon - 4,423

14. Hamilton - 2,637

39. Hadestown - 1,108

49. Moulin Rouge! - 961

75. Kimberly Akimbo - 252

Hamilton is about to EXCEED Hairspray?! Does time really move THAT fast?!

Thanks for compiling this list and updating it. With a couple of exceptions (Hadestown, Moulin Rouge), recent winners (A Strange Loop, Band's Visit, Fun Home, Kimberly Akimbo etc.) have not run very long for Best Musical winner. I am betting the winner of the Best Musical Tony this year follows that trend and runs 1-2 years at most. None of the new shows this year have that commercial aspect of it to sustain a 5-10 year run IMO. Does anybody think "Book Of Mormon" will run long enough to surpass "Cats" in the #3 slot? Will "Hamilton" be one of those shows that runs forever?

Yearly update, including ''The Outsiders'' on the list - already ahead of some winners.

Those are the ''Best Musical'' winners still playing on Broadway:

2. The Lion King - 10,825

6. The Book of Mormon - 5,215 +1 surpassing ''Rent''

10. Hamilton - 3,429 (+1 now being top 10

21. Hadestown - 1,900 +7 (almost top 20)

23. Moulin Rouge! - 1,753 +9 (same)

72. The Outsiders - 458 (already counted the next 8 days so I could start ahead of ''Redhead'')



Who's joining the list?

How interesting. If you had asked me to guess, I would have been positive that a show like Moulin Rouge wouldn't have yet surpassed treasured classics like South Pacific, The Sound of Music, and The King and I. Has the business model changed to allow shows longer runs (seems counterintuitive to the fact that everything is more expensive to run these days), or am I just overestimating the popularity of those shows back in the day?

EDSOSLO858 said: "Hadestownwill likely not be running on Broadway past January. For the most part, their total gross by week has decreased starting around mid-late June. Not a good sign.

Moulin Rouge!is up in the air. It's a very expensive show to run."

Funny to see how long the Hadestown death watch has been going.