What Show has had the Most Productions Open at the Same Time.

[Timon3]

What Show has had the Most Productions Open at the Same Time.#1

Posted: 6/17/26 at 4:48pm

Broadway

National Tour 

London

International Productions?

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

What Show has had the Most Productions Open at the Same Time.#2

Posted: 6/17/26 at 5:11pm

I would assume it's one of the Cameron Mackintosh musicals or WICKED?

HAMILTON probably doesn't win for all-time, but by early 2019 it had Broadway + four U.S. tours + London. Which is an impressively fast rollout four years after its world premiere.

If you're not talking about first-class replica productions, it's probably something like FIDDLER or SOUND OF MUSIC.

Updated On: 6/17/26 at 05:11 PM

[TheatreMonkey]

What Show has had the Most Productions Open at the Same Time.#3

Posted: 6/17/26 at 5:23pm

Currently, The Lion King has to be up there at the top. 

[sassylash3s]

What Show has had the Most Productions Open at the Same Time.#4

Posted: 6/17/26 at 5:23pm

I wonder if any show can compete with the number of Gilbert and Sullivan productions that sprang up during their heyday in the late 1800’s. Apparently as many as 8 (unauthorized!) productions of HMS Pinafore ran in New York simultaneously in 1879.

[Tag]

What Show has had the Most Productions Open at the Same Time.#5

Posted: 6/17/26 at 7:17pm

Les Mis & Mamma Mia are tied with 14 productions each that played concurrently according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

Updated On: 6/17/26 at 07:17 PM

[steve.sometime]

What Show has had the Most Productions Open at the Same Time.#6

Posted: 6/17/26 at 11:08pm

This year, in late April and early May, there were three productions of 1776 on the East Coast: at Ford's Theatre in DC, Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, and Papermill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few more happening in other parts of the country.