fashionguru_23 said: "lachri5 said: "From Spring Awakening started preview on 11/16/06, until The Producers closed on 4/22/07, there were 7 Best Musical winners running on Broadway, plus 1 future winner:
- Spring Awakening
- Jersey Boys
- Spamalot
- Avenue Q
- Hairspray
- The Producers
- Rent
- The Phantom of the Opera
I believe it would be 9 shows, because The Lion King was also running."
Yes, I believe 9 is the most that have ever run at the same time, although I'm not 100% certain on that. But this would also have been true in Spring and Summer of 2008 (same shows you listed but swap Producers for In the Heights) and Fall of 2008 (swap Rent for Billy Elliot--Rent closed about 3 weeks before Billy Elliot started performances, otherwise there would have been 10 running at the same time then).
If we're talking about shows, though (as in shows that have won Best Musical but not necessarily the original production), there were actually 12 Best Musical winners running at once in Spring 2007 (the ones you listed including Lion King plus revivals of Les Miserables, A Chorus Line and Company). So not quite the same thing, but still pretty cool that you could have seen any one of 12 Best Musical winners at once.
Updated On: 3/9/22 at 09:53 AM
