Wicked sold out for four years straght. Any other show able to do this?

I was on broadway.com and on the main page it says happy fourth birthday wicked. That got me wondering. Has there ever been another show other then Wicked to be sold out non stop for four years?

It seems to me that most shows after this period of time start to die down in ticket sales just a tad. It seems to me that after this point in time in a shows life the hype has died down and there are people who are able to get tickets.

So, back to my qustion. Has there ever been another show on broadway that has been constently sold out for four years plus?

I was thinking the Lion king but after the four year mark you were able to get tickets. True that it is still a top selling show but it is a top selling show that you can easilly get a tickiet to. The same is not true for Wicked.

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If only a system of keeping records and filing had been invented when Phantom of the Opera opened...

There have been random weeks where they haven't hit 100%. And, the first few months didn't sell out at all.

Lion King??

I doubt Jersey Boys will stay completely sold out once the original boys leave.

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Wicked was actually offered on TDF for several weeks after it opened. So much for the myth.

Just wait in a couple or so years. Things change and new trends happen.

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The Little Mermaid is the new Wicked....

....hahaha!!

"I doubt Jersey Boys will stay completely sold out once the original boys leave."


About 95% of JB's nightly audience has no clue who they are watching on stage, even after the entire performance. They are going for the Four Seasons and will continue to go long after the guys leave. The same thoughts were around when Chenoweth and eventually Menzel left Wicked.

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Yes, aside from a couple of weeks here and there during the slow months, CATS, PHANTOM and LION KING were all sold out pretty much non-stop for the first several years of their runs.

I imagine if anyone has stats for them, long-running hits like MY FAIR LADY, FIDDLER and A CHORUS LINE were all probably sold out for their first several years as well.

And no, if you went over to the August Wilson Theater right now and asked them, 99.9% of the people in the audience at JERSEY BOYS couldn't name the four leads in the show by name unless they read them to you out of the Playbill. The "show" is the star there (and The Four Seasons' music), not Young and company.

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I quite agree!

RENT was totally sold out for its first two and a half years or so (though in the upper 90s for the next several years). The CHICAGO revival really was only totally soldout the first year and then alternated between soldout weeks and weeks in the upper 90s for a couple of years afterwards (you can see the box office histories of both shows by looking them up in the "Bway Grosses" to the left).

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There have been random weeks where they haven't hit 100%. And, the first few months didn't sell out at all.

When you are talking about a 4 year run in the biggest house on Broadway - I don't really count "random weeks" and the "first few months" as a detriment in the whole scheme of things. Basically, it's pretty much been sold out for 4 years and counting.....