re: Longest Musical You've seen

[ErinDillyFan]

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]

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?

Updated On: 11/1/06 at 12:24 PM

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 12:25pm

Les Mis was very very long.

[Mother's Younger Brother]

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]

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...

[MotorTink]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 12:49pm

Les Mis

[Necromancer07707]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 12:49pm

Does Ring Cycle count?

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 12:49pm

Aint Broadway Grand...I thought it would never end.

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 12:55pm

like nomdeplume said I have seen some REALLY long operas, up to 5 hours. But musical probably les mis

[ErinDillyFan]

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]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 1:39pm

If 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]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 1:52pm

Camelot - the first Act alone was about 2 hours....ugh!

[FrontRowCenter2]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:08pm

Time wise it may not be the longest, but Thou Shalt Not sure felt like it, it was interminable.

[WOSQ]

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.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:13pm

I'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.

[ILUVTOMG]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:23pm

Woman of the Year. First act was one hour and 45 mins. second act was one hour. and it was just dreadful.

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:29pm

The liner notes for Scarlett say that the play based on "Gone with the Wind" that was written for the Tokyo stage was set in two parts over two nights, 5 hours & 4 hours or 9 hours total.

[Josh Freilich]

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.

[TWSFan4Ever]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:36pm

I 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...

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:44pm

Forgive my ignorance, but what was the original run time for LES MISERABLES?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:47pm

I 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.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:51pm

Over 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]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:55pm

MY FAIR LADY is very long.

[So what...I sing]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:56pm

MY FAIR LADY....wow can that show drag.

[Trekkie2]

Posted: 11/1/06 at 3:58pm

Annie Get Your Gun draaaaaaaged.