Biggest hit
Biggest hit
Schuyler
Featured Actor Joined: 5/20/03
#0Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 11:33amWhich show currently running do you think is the biggest "hit"
#1re: Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 11:35amMamma Mia! and Hairspray.
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#2re: re: Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 11:38am
Obviously, Phantom of the Opera is the biggest hit. It is currently the longest running show on Broadway. In London, it is Les Miserables.
I doubt if any of the newer shows will run longer than POTO. Mamma Mia probably will come closest due to its international appeal and the amount of tourism in NYC.
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bernadette88
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#3re: re: re: Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:01pmWhat? I wasn't aware that POTO had passed it's number of shows against Cats...As far as I knew Cats was still the longest running musical...???
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#4re: re: re: re: Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:03pm**rolls eyes** CATS is still the longest running, with Les Mis in second and POTO in third.. but out odf the shows CURRENTLY open, operating, and ruunning, Phantom is the longest running
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#5re: re: re: re: re: Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:07pmsome disparaging rumours say that ALW/RUG is keeping POTO open long enough to pass Mackintosh's LES MIZ for the #2 slot...ego, ego, ego...
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#6re: re: re: re: re: re: Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:10pmOut of all of these which show do you think is the actual best out of all of them, my vote is for Les Mis as leaps and bounds above the others.
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broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#7re: re: re: re: re: re: Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:10pmPerhaps Lloyd webber and CanMac feel the need to have the biggest and longest three shows and keep on building because they have have a Freudian complex when it comes to size......
#8re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:11pm
It goes back to the old mine is bigger than yours...I'm suprised you didn't just come out and say that bg2.
Everything is sexual with you, why didn't you make a joke out of it. Hahah just giving you a hard time BG2.
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Updated On: 12/27/03 at 12:11 PM
#9re: re: re: re: re: re: Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:12pmMaybe I said it wrong. Phantom of the Opera is the longest-running show currently open on Broadway. Does that make more sense?
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TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#10re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:16pmi would agree that i liked the mix of score/story/spectacle in LES MIZ (original version) the best...i'm a pretty big fan of Trevor Nunn, however...
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys.
"I guarantee that we'll have tough
times. I guarantee that at some point
one or both of us will want to get out.
But I also guarantee that if I don't
ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for
the rest of my life..."
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#11re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 12:18pm
Son.. feel free to give me a hard time.. or any time.. whenever you like.. mwah!!
I WAS gonna just say it, but as Phantom and I discussed, sometimes a shrouded comment is more clever. 
BroadwayNYC
Featured Actor Joined: 12/4/03
#12re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 9:56pm
Being the biggest Bernadette Peters fan, I am prone to say that GYPSY is the current biggest hit on broadway. But many will disagree 
But I think Hairspray and the Producers are probably the current biggest hits on broadway. Two shows that I really don't care for at all.
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#13re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 9:59pmI'm gonna go with Hairspray, and probably Wicked. Just arriving on the scene, the large, large Gershwin has broke a record for selling tickets.
#14re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Biggest hit
Posted: 12/27/03 at 11:30pm
Phantom is the most financially successful musical according to the Guiness Book of World Records 2004.
Billy I highly doubt you can call Wicked the biggest hit on Broadway right now. It hasn't proved its staying power, that is the difference between a hit and a fling.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
Updated On: 12/27/03 at 11:30 PM
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