All Best Musical Winners Ranked by Number of Performances- Page 2
All Best Musical Winners Ranked by Number of Performances
#25All Best Musical Winners Ranked by Number of Performances
Posted: 2/12/26 at 9:20pm
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.
#26All Best Musical Winners Ranked by Number of Performances
Posted: 2/13/26 at 3:39am
It is quite amazing to see how some of the recent musicals are already near the top of the list. God time is flying. Equally near the bottom of the list too a couple of the more niche artistic ones too.
When my goodbye post was removed: “but I had a great dramatic finish!!!!”
#27All Best Musical Winners Ranked by Number of Performances
Posted: 2/13/26 at 11:20am
I really don't want to see Passion stay at the bottom of the list forever, but I also can't bring myself to root for a show worthy of the big award to flop hard. I guess I'll have to wait until the Tony nominators and voters do something ridiculous, along the lines of awarding the Tony to Queen of Versailles.
carlisle14
Stand-by Joined: 1/2/15
#28All Best Musical Winners Ranked by Number of Performances
Posted: 2/13/26 at 12:36pm
Phantom really is amazing. To think that Lion King opened in Nov of 1997 and still has a couple more years to go to beat out Phantom. That's crazy.
Phantom4ever
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/17/07
#29All Best Musical Winners Ranked by Number of Performances
Posted: 2/13/26 at 2:33pm
It will be more like six and a half years before Lion King beats Phantom in performance count.
dan94
Stand-by Joined: 5/17/15
#30All Best Musical Winners Ranked by Number of Performances
Posted: 2/13/26 at 4:23pm
DCDrama2 said: "This is really interesting. I'd love to see revival stagings and performances added next to the original count just for kicks.
Ex: Cats - 7,485 (1:593)"
This thread is fascinating. I was also interested to see how everything landed with revivals. I added up performances from all revivals, equalled a total, and indicated what place they would fall if revivals were included.
4. Les Miserábles - 6,680 (+1,487 = 8,167) - 3
3. Cats - 7,485 (+593 = 8,078) - 4
5. A Chorus Line - 6,137 (+759 = 6,896) - 5
10. 42nd Street - 3,486 (+1,524 = 5,010) - 7
11. Fiddler on the Roof - 3,242 (+1,673 = 4,915) - 9
40. Cabaret - 1,165 (+3,618 = 4,783) - 10
13. My Fair Lady - 2,717 (+1,107 = 3,824) - 12
12. Hello, Dolly! - 2,844 (+855 = 3,699) - 14
34. The King and I - 1,246 (+2,165 = 3,411) - 15
18. Annie - 2,377 (+726 = 3,103) - 16
19. Man of La Mancha - 2,328 (+676 = 3,004) - 17
22. South Pacific - 1,925 (+1,011 = 2,936) - 18
36. Guys and Dolls - 1,200 (+1,549 = 2,749) - 19
31. The Music Man - 1,375 (+1,093 = 2,468) - 24
23. La Cage aux Folles - 1,761 (+662 = 2,423) - 25
30. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - 1,417 (+1,021 = 2,438) - 26
42. Kiss Me, Kate - 1,077 (+1,014 = 2,091) - 29
30. The Sound of Music - 1,443 (+533 = 1,976) - 30
29. Evita - 1,567 (+337 = 1,904) - 31
49. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - 964 (+871 = 1,835) - 32
25. The Wiz - 1,672 (+155 = 1,827) - 33
27. Ain’t Misbehavin’ - 1,604 (+179 = 1,783) - 34
28. Spamalot - 1,575 (+164 = 1,739) - 35
35. 1776 - 1,217 (+438 = 1,655) - 37
44. Damn Yankees - 1,019 (+519 = 1,538) - 39
72. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 557 (+943 = 1,500) - 40
48. Sunset Boulevard - 977 (+450 = 1,427) - 41
61. Company - 705 (+581 = 1,286) - 43
43. The Pajama Game - 1,063 (+194 = 1,257) - 44
71. Wonderful Town - 559 (+497 = 1,056) - 49
67. A Little Night Music - 601 (+425 = 1,026) - 50
60. Nine - 729 (+283 = 1,012) - 51
55. Spring Awakening - 859 (+135 = 994) - 54
65. The Mystery of Edwin Drood - 608 (+136 = 744) - 65
66. Bye Bye Birdie - 607 (+117 = 724) - 66
From a spot perspective, Sweeney Todd gained the most, moving up 32 spots. That is also without counting the Off Broadway Pie Shop revival, runs with NYCO, and NYPhil concerts. It's had double the life in revivals than it had in its original run.
I was surprised to see Dolly actually lost ground. It's had a number of revivals, they just don't seem to run all that long. I am also surprised with how low Bye Bye Birdie remains. It has the reputation for being such a classic, but the original did not run terribly long, and the only revival has been a limited Roundabout run.
#31All Best Musical Winners Ranked by Number of Performances
Posted: 2/14/26 at 1:32am
This is such cool work, thank you for sharing.
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