Play or Musical with the longest run time
Play or Musical with the longest run time
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/12
Play or Musical with the longest run time#1
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!
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
Play or Musical with the longest run time#2
Posted: 11/27/16 at 4:26pm
Paul Claudel's play, Le Soulier de Satin (The Satin Slipper) is 11 hours long.
Play or Musical with the longest run time#3
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.
Play or Musical with the longest run time#4
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)
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
Play or Musical with the longest run time#5
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
Play or Musical with the longest run time#6
Posted: 11/28/16 at 11:08am
Isn't The Flick pretty long?
Play or Musical with the longest run time#7
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...
Play or Musical with the longest run time#8
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.
Play or Musical with the longest run time#9
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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