re: Longest Musical You've seen
re: Longest Musical You've seen
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#0Longest Musical You've seen
Posted: 11/1/06 at 12:18pm
Coincidence:
I was just playing "Jennie" when my business partner came in.
He didn't recognize it and I mentioned that Mary Martin chose to do "Jennie" instead of "Hello, Dolly" which she was offered at the same time.
He saw the premier preview performance of "Hello, Dolly" in Detroit. He said it was over 4 hours long. (may be exageration)
I just received "Scarlett" 2 CD set. Original length over 3 hours.
I saw "Lord of the Rings" just over 3 hours.
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#1re: Longest Musical You've seen
Posted: 11/1/06 at 12:24pm
Torch Song Trilogy
EDIT: Oh wait! I didn't see longest MUSICAL......then I THINK it was Tarzan?
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Updated On: 11/1/06 at 12:24 PM
FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#3re: Longest Musical You've seen
Posted: 11/1/06 at 12:28pm
Yes, Les Mis is probably the longest musical I've seen. But I'm of the opinion that a show is only "too long" if there's something wrong with it. If it's good, I don't want it to end.
Long Day's Jouney Into Night, however (though brilliantly-cast), was indeed "long."
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#4re: Longest Musical You've seen
Posted: 11/1/06 at 12:48pm
Are we counting opera?
Some of those Russian and Wagner ones are REALLY long. Try four and five hours.
After Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, over four hours, and very long and dark and Russian, I was satiated in all things Russian for a couple years...
#5re: Longest Musical You've seen
Posted: 11/1/06 at 12:49pmLes Mis
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#6re: Longest Musical You've seen
Posted: 11/1/06 at 12:49pmDoes Ring Cycle count?
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#7re: Longest Musical You've seen
Posted: 11/1/06 at 12:49pmAint Broadway Grand...I thought it would never end.
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#8re: Longest Musical You've seen
Posted: 11/1/06 at 12:55pmlike nomdeplume said I have seen some REALLY long operas, up to 5 hours. But musical probably les mis
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#9re: Longest Musical You've seen
Posted: 11/1/06 at 1:27pm
Tarzan.
I am talking about actual time, not root-canal minutes.
I guess any performance that you think qualifies that YOU have actually seen. Has anyone seen "Einstein on the Beach"? 3:20
Isn't there a John Cage church bell piece that is still going on after more than 10 years now?
Updated On: 11/1/06 at 01:27 PM
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#10Song Cycles
Posted: 11/1/06 at 1:39pmIf you are going to include song cycles you have to tell how many meals you ate during the performance and if you did it with/without catheter.
spellingbee
Swing Joined: 10/27/06
#12Song Cycles
Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:08pmTime wise it may not be the longest, but Thou Shalt Not sure felt like it, it was interminable.
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#13Song Cycles
Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:08pm
The first week of previews of Chess in NY, the performances ran 3 1/2 - 4 hours. There were a multitude of tech problems and it was an event when the intermission was cut from 40 to 30 to 20 minutes.
We hit the streets at about midnight.
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Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#14Song Cycles
Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:13pmI've seen the video of Nicholas Nickleby. That's pretty damn long. I think it's the longest show to win the Tony for Best Play.
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ILUVTOMG
Stand-by Joined: 8/8/06
#15Longest musical
Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:23pmWoman of the Year. First act was one hour and 45 mins. second act was one hour. and it was just dreadful.
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#17Longest running ANYTHING
Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:30pm
The longest running ANYTHING i've ever seen, would have to be LES MISERABLES.
I never saw anything longer.
Here's the thing: I never tired after all that.
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#18Longest running ANYTHING
Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:36pmI saw a school production of "Pajama Game", and now, I love this show greatly, but the first act just dragged on-and-on, we're talking almost 2 hours here for just one act of the show! they messed up a little too much...
#19Longest running ANYTHING
Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:44pmForgive my ignorance, but what was the original run time for LES MISERABLES?
#20Longest running ANYTHING
Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:47pmI saw Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar in Madrid and it clocked in at 4 hours 20 minutes by the time the curtain call was finished. Granted, they said a special goodbye to one of the cast members, but that only took 3 or 4 minutes.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#21Longest running ANYTHING
Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:51pmOver the years, wasn't there time cut off of Les Mis, like it was originally 3:20 and then dropped to 3 hours? I saw it and remember it being 3.
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
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Trekkie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/7/06
#24Longest running ANYTHING
Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:58pmAnnie Get Your Gun draaaaaaaged.
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