Record Runs at Broadway Theatres

[bare_nakedlady]

Posted: 9/8/06 at 11:13pm

With the announcement of Avenue Q breaking the Performance record at the Golden theatre, I thought it would be fun to make a list of Record runs at other theatres. Please feel free to correct or add. Some shows moved theatres so I don't have an accurate number of performances at that theatre I'm just going by how long it played.

If the theatre had a different name at the time the record was made, it is listed in parenthesis.

48th Street Theatre (Demolished) - Harvey - 1775
Al Hirschfeld (Martin Beck) - Man of La Mancha - 3 yrs
Ambassador - Chicago (Revival) - 3 yrs 8 mons
August Wilson (Virginia) - Smokey Joe's Cafe - 2036
Belasco - Frankie and Johnny... - 243
Bernard B. Jacobs(Royale) - Grease - 7 yrs 1 mon
Biltmore - Hair - 1750
Booth - Butterflies are Free - 1128
Broadhurst - Amadeus - 1181
Broadway - Miss Saigon - 4097
Brooks Atkinson - Same Time, Next Year - 3 yrs 2 mons
Cadillac Winter Garden - Cats - 7485
Cort - The Magic Show - 1920
Edison (closed) - Oh! Calcutta! (Revival) - 5959
Eugene O'Neill (Forrest) - Tobacco Road - 6 yrs 8 mons
Gerald Schoenfeld (Plymouth) - Jekyll and Hyde - 1543
George Gershwin - Wicked - 1188
Helen Hayes (Little) - Gemini - 1819
Henry Miller (Closed) - Urinetown - 965
Hilton Theatre (Ford Center) - 42nd Street (Revival) - 1524
Imperial - Les Miserables - 12 yrs 7 mons
John Golden - Avenue Q - 1296
Longacre - Children of a Lesser God - 887
Lunt-Fontanne - Beauty and the Beast - 6 yrs
Lyceum - Born Yesterday - 2 yrs 9 mons
Majestic - The Phantom of the Opera - 7757
Mark Hellinger (Closed) - My Fair Lady - 5 yrs 9 mons
Marquis - Me and My Girl - 1420
Minskoff - Sunset Boulevard - 977
Music Box - Deathtrap - 3 yrs 11 mons
Nederlander - Rent - 4305
New Amsterdam - The Lion King - 8 yrs 6 mons
Neil Simon - Hairspray - 1688
Palace - Beauty and the Beast - 5 yrs
Richard Rodgers (46th St) - The Best Little Whorehouse... - 1584
St. James - Hello, Dolly! - 2844
Shubert - A Chorus Line - 6137
Studio 54 - Cabaret (Revival) - 5 yrs 1 mon
Vivian Beaumont - Contact - 1010
Walter Kerr - Proof - 917


The Producers is only 606 behind Hello, Dolly! Will it make it??

Updated On: 9/9/06 at 11:13 PM

[mr14]

Posted: 9/9/06 at 2:54am

Thank you for the info! The Belasco record is only 243 performers, wow. Beauty and the Beast holds the record for 2 theatres, I did not know that.

[Producer2]

Posted: 9/9/06 at 10:14am

HOORAY FOR GEMINI!!!!!!!!!

[mikem]

Posted: 9/9/06 at 11:59am

The Belasco record is 243, while the next lowest is 887. The Belasco really is cursed.