Play or Musical with the longest run time
Play or Musical with the longest run time
bwayboy22
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/12
#1Play or Musical with the longest run time
Posted: 11/27/16 at 2:00pm
Hi all!
I was just wondering what play or musical had the longest run time in history. Either in multiple parts (like the 8 and 1/2 hour 2 part Nicholas Nicklebly) or just in one shot! I tried googling it but all I get it results for longest running shows! Thanks!
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#2Play or Musical with the longest run time
Posted: 11/27/16 at 4:26pm
Paul Claudel's play, Le Soulier de Satin (The Satin Slipper) is 11 hours long.
#3Play or Musical with the longest run time
Posted: 11/27/16 at 4:46pm
The Iceman Cometh is all in one shot and it's nearly 5 hours long. Taylor Mac also just did a 24-hour performance piece, but I'm not sure if one could consider that a play in the traditional sense.
Rainah
Broadway Star Joined: 11/24/16
#4Play or Musical with the longest run time
Posted: 11/27/16 at 8:18pm
I know a theater company where I live did The Iliad as a 12 hour play. No intermission. (People were, however, allowed to come and go as they pleased)
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#5Play or Musical with the longest run time
Posted: 11/28/16 at 11:05am
Besides Iceman, my recent memory comes up with:
Long Day's Journey Into Night: ~ 4 hours
Ivo van Hove's Kings of War: ~4.5 hours
Angels in America: 3 hours + 3.5 hours = ~ 6.5 hours total
Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... = ~ 4 hours
Coast of Utopia: I believe the marathon performances (3 parts) ran 8 or 9 hours?
Updated On: 11/28/16 at 11:05 AM
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#6Play or Musical with the longest run time
Posted: 11/28/16 at 11:08am
Isn't The Flick pretty long?
#7Play or Musical with the longest run time
Posted: 11/28/16 at 11:28am
The Flick is a little over 3 hours, yes...
And bless anyone who can appreciate plays of this magnitude...as much as I wish I had the focus-span, they just aren't for me...
#8Play or Musical with the longest run time
Posted: 11/30/16 at 10:42pm
Robert Wilson likes to occupy time. His only show on Broadway (I think), A Letter To Queen Victoria, ran nearly four hours, his opera Einstein on the Beach is an intermissionless nearly five hours, and his "silent opera" The Life And Times of Joseph Stalin was a full twelve hours. I could swear he did a twenty-four hour show at some point. His longest was more like a progressive environmental installation piece in Iran called "Ka Mountain", which contained a full week of activity.
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#9Play or Musical with the longest run time
Posted: 11/30/16 at 11:04pm
Elevator Repair Service's adaptation of The Great Gatsby was around 6 hours, I believe.
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