List of the 100 Longest-Running Broadway shows

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List of the 100 Longest-Running Broadway shows

This list contains the 100 longest-running shows on Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
. Unless otherwise noted, the run count listed is for the original Broadway production of the show. M denotes a musical, P denotes a play, R denotes a revue, D denotes a dance musical, and S denotes a special. All currently running shows are updated as of March 8, 2009.

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Performances

Comment

The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)

The Phantom of the Opera is a Musical theatre by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux....

January 26, 1988

8779

Currently running at the Majestic Theatre
7 Tony Awards in 1988, including Best Musical

Tony Award for Best Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....

Broadway's longest-running show and musical

Cats
Cats (musical)

Cats is a Musical theatre composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It introduced the song standard, 'Memory '....

October 7, 1982

September 10, 2000

7485

7 Tony Awards in 1983, including Best Musical

Tony Award for Best Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....

Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album

Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ...
in 1984

Les Misérables
Les Misérables (musical)

Les Mis?rables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a Musical theatre composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Sch?nberg with a libretto by Alain Boublil....

March 12, 1987

May 18, 2003

6680

8 Tony Awards in 1987, including Best Musical

Tony Award for Best Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....

Grammy Award for Best Musical Cast Show Album

Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ...
in 1988
Revival in 2006 (463 performances)

A Chorus Line
A Chorus Line

A Chorus Line is a Musical theater about seventeen Broadway theatre dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. The book was authored by James Kirkwood, Jr....

July 25, 1975

April 28, 1990

6137

9 Tony Awards in 1976, including Best Musical

Tony Award for Best Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....

A Special Tony Award

Special Tony Award

Special Tony Award includes Lifetime Achievement Award, Special Theatrical Event, Excellence in Theatre, and Special Tony Award:...
in 1984 for becoming Broadway's longest-running musical
Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Pulitzer Prize for Drama

The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than being the calendar year....
in 1976
Revival in 2006 (759 performances)

Oh! Calcutta!
Oh! Calcutta!

Oh! Calcutta! was a long-running avant-garde theatrical revue, created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of various sketches on sex-related topics, debuted in Off-Broadway in 1969....

September 24, 1976

August 6, 1989

5959

Revival
Original production in 1969 (1314 performances)
Broadway's longest running revue and revival

Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast (musical)

Beauty and the Beast is a musical theatre with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton, based on the Beauty and the Beast ....

April 18, 1994

July 29, 2007

5461

A Tony Award

Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
in 1994

Rent
Rent (musical)

Rent is a rock opera, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boh?me. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemianism Alphabet City, Manhattan, under the shadow of AIDS....

April 29, 1996

September 7, 2008

5123

4 Tony Awards in 1996, including Best Musical

Tony Award for Best Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....

Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ...
in 1996

Chicago
Chicago (musical)

Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical theatre set in Prohibition in the United States Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse....

November 14, 1996

5108

Currently running at the Ambassador Theatre

Ambassador Theatre (New York)

The Ambassador Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 219 West 49th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect Herbert J....

Revival
6 Tony Awards in 1997, including Best Revival of a Musical

Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical has been awarded since 1994. Before that time, both plays and musicals were considered together for the Tony Award for Best Revival....

Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

The Lion King
The Lion King (musical)

The Lion King is a Tony Award and Laurence Olivier Award-winning Musical theatre based on the The Lion King with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice....

November 13, 1997

4693

Currently running at the Minskoff Theatre

Minskoff Theatre

The Minskoff Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 1515 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan.The 1621-seat venue, designed by architects Kahn and Jacobs, is on the third floor of One Astor Plaza, an office tower constructed on the site of the legendary Astor Hotel....

6 Tony Awards in 1998, including Best Musical

Tony Award for Best Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....

Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ...
in 1999

10.

Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon

Miss Saigon is a West End theatre musical theatre by Claude-Michel Sch?nberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr....

April 11, 1991

January 28, 2001

4092

3 Tony Awards in 1991

11.

42nd Street
42nd Street (musical)

42nd Street is a musical theater with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin, and music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production won the Tony Award for Best Musical and became a long-running hit, and the show was produced in London in 1984 and its 2001 Broadway revival also won the Tony for Best Revival....

August 25, 1980

January 8, 1989

3486

2 Tony Awards in 1981, including Best Musical

Tony Award for Best Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....

Revival in 2001 (1524 performances)

12.

Grease
Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....

February 14, 1972

April 13, 1980

3388

Revivals in 1994 (1505 performances) and 2007 (554 performances)

13.

Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....

September 22, 1964

July 2, 1972

3242

9 Tony Awards in 1965, including Best Musical

Tony Award for Best Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....

A Special Tony Award

Special Tony Award

Special Tony Award includes Lifetime Achievement Award, Special Theatrical Event, Excellence in Theatre, and Special Tony Award:...
in 1972 for becoming Broadway's longest-running musical
Revivals in 1976 (167 performances), 1981 (53 performances), 1990, (241 performances), and 2004 (781 performances)

14.

Life with Father
Life with Father

Life with Father is the title of a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by Clarence Day, which was adapted into a 1939 Broadway play by Lindsay and Crouse, which was, in turn, made into a 1947 movie and a television series....

November 8, 1939

July 12, 1947

3224

Broadway's longest-running play

15.

Tobacco Road
Tobacco Road (play)

Tobacco Road is a play by Jack Kirkland first performed in 1933, based on the Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell. The play ran on Broadway theatre for a total of 3,182 performances, becoming the longest running play in history at the time....

December 4, 1933

May 31, 1941

3182

Revivals in 1942 (34 performances), 1943 (66 performances), and 1950 (7 performances)

16.

Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia! is a jukebox musical with a book by Great Britain playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus....

October 28, 2001

3056

Currently running at the Winter Garden Theatre

Winter Garden Theatre

The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan.It was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....

17.

Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! (musical)

Hello, Dolly! is a Musical theater with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart , based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955....

January 16, 1964

December 27, 1970

2844

10 Tony Awards in 1964, including Best Musical

Tony Award for Best Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....

Revivals in 1975 (42 performances), 1978 (147 performances), and 1995 (116 performances)

18.

My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....

March 15, 1956

September 29, 1962

2717

6 Tony Awards in 1957, including Best Musical

Tony Award for Best Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....

Revivals in 1976 (377 performances), 1981 (120 performances), and 1993 (165 performances)

19.

Hairspray
Hairspray (musical)

Hairspray is a musical theatre with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan , based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray ....

August 16, 2002

January 4, 2009

2642

8 Tony Awards in 2003, including Best Musical

Tony Award for Best Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....

Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ...
in 2003

20.

The Producers
The Producers (musical)

The Producers is a comedy-Musical theater adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' The Producers , with lyrics by Brooks and music by Brooks and Glen Kelly....

April 19, 2001

April 22, 2007

2502

12 Tony Awards in 2001, including Best Musical

Tony Award for Best Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....

Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album

21.

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#	Title		Opening date	Closing date	Performances	Comment
1.	The Phantom of the Opera The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) *The Phantom of the Opera* is a Musical theatre by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux....	M	1988-01-26January 26, 1988		8779	Currently running at the Majestic Theatre 7 Tony Awards in 1988, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Broadway's longest-running show and musical
2.	Cats Cats (musical) *Cats* is a Musical theatre composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It introduced the song standard, 'Memory '....	M	1982-10-07October 7, 1982	2000-09-10September 10, 2000	7485	7 Tony Awards in 1983, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1984
3.	Les Misérables Les Misérables (musical) *Les Mis?rables* , colloquially known as *Les Mis* or *Les Miz*, is a Musical theatre composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Sch?nberg with a libretto by Alain Boublil....	M	1987-03-12March 12, 1987	2003-05-18May 18, 2003	6680	8 Tony Awards in 1987, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Grammy Award for Best Musical Cast Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1988 Revival in 2006 (463 performances)
4.	A Chorus Line A Chorus Line *A Chorus Line* is a Musical theater about seventeen Broadway theatre dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. The book was authored by James Kirkwood, Jr....	M	1975-07-25July 25, 1975	1990-04-28April 28, 1990	6137	9 Tony Awards in 1976, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... A Special Tony Award Special Tony Award Special Tony Award includes Lifetime Achievement Award, Special Theatrical Event, Excellence in Theatre, and Special Tony Award:... in 1984 for becoming Broadway's longest-running musical Pulitzer Prize for Drama Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than being the calendar year.... in 1976 Revival in 2006 (759 performances)
5.	Oh! Calcutta! Oh! Calcutta! *Oh! Calcutta!* was a long-running avant-garde theatrical revue, created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of various sketches on sex-related topics, debuted in Off-Broadway in 1969....	R	1976-09-24September 24, 1976	1989-08-06August 6, 1989	5959	Revival Original production in 1969 (1314 performances) Broadway's longest running revue and revival
6.	Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast (musical) *Beauty and the Beast* is a musical theatre with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton, based on the Beauty and the Beast ....	M	1994-04-18April 18, 1994	2007-07-29July 29, 2007	5461	A Tony Award Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City.... in 1994
7.	Rent Rent (musical) *Rent* is a rock opera, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boh?me. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemianism Alphabet City, Manhattan, under the shadow of AIDS....	M	1996-04-29April 29, 1996	2008-09-07September 7, 2008	5123	4 Tony Awards in 1996, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Pulitzer Prize for Drama Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than being the calendar year.... in 1996 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1996
8.	Chicago Chicago (musical) *Chicago* is a Kander and Ebb musical theatre set in Prohibition in the United States Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse....	M	1996-11-14November 14, 1996		5108	Currently running at the Ambassador Theatre Ambassador Theatre (New York) The Ambassador Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 219 West 49th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect Herbert J.... Revival 6 Tony Awards in 1997, including Best Revival of a Musical Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical has been awarded since 1994. Before that time, both plays and musicals were considered together for the Tony Award for Best Revival.... Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1998 Original production in 1975 (936 performances) Broadway's longest-running revival of a musical
9.	The Lion King The Lion King (musical) *The Lion King* is a Tony Award and Laurence Olivier Award-winning Musical theatre based on the The Lion King with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice....	M	1997-11-13November 13, 1997		4693	Currently running at the Minskoff Theatre Minskoff Theatre The Minskoff Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 1515 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan.The 1621-seat venue, designed by architects Kahn and Jacobs, is on the third floor of One Astor Plaza, an office tower constructed on the site of the legendary Astor Hotel.... 6 Tony Awards in 1998, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1999
10.	Miss Saigon Miss Saigon *Miss Saigon* is a West End theatre musical theatre by Claude-Michel Sch?nberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr....	M	1991-04-11April 11, 1991	2001-01-28January 28, 2001	4092	3 Tony Awards in 1991
11.	42nd Street 42nd Street (musical) *42nd Street* is a musical theater with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin, and music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production won the Tony Award for Best Musical and became a long-running hit, and the show was produced in London in 1984 and its 2001 Broadway revival also won the Tony for Best Revival....	M	1980-08-25August 25, 1980	1989-01-08January 8, 1989	3486	2 Tony Awards in 1981, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Revival in 2001 (1524 performances)
12.	Grease Grease (musical) *Grease* is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....	M	1972-02-14February 14, 1972	1980-04-13April 13, 1980	3388	Revivals in 1994 (1505 performances) and 2007 (554 performances)
13.	Fiddler on the Roof Fiddler on the Roof *Fiddler on the Roof* is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....	M	1964-09-22September 22, 1964	1972-07-02July 2, 1972	3242	9 Tony Awards in 1965, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... A Special Tony Award Special Tony Award Special Tony Award includes Lifetime Achievement Award, Special Theatrical Event, Excellence in Theatre, and Special Tony Award:... in 1972 for becoming Broadway's longest-running musical Revivals in 1976 (167 performances), 1981 (53 performances), 1990, (241 performances), and 2004 (781 performances)
14.	Life with Father Life with Father *Life with Father* is the title of a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by Clarence Day, which was adapted into a 1939 Broadway play by Lindsay and Crouse, which was, in turn, made into a 1947 movie and a television series....	P	1939-11-08November 8, 1939	1947-07-12July 12, 1947	3224	Broadway's longest-running play
15.	Tobacco Road Tobacco Road (play) *Tobacco Road* is a play by Jack Kirkland first performed in 1933, based on the Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell. The play ran on Broadway theatre for a total of 3,182 performances, becoming the longest running play in history at the time....	P	1933-12-04December 4, 1933	1941-05-31May 31, 1941	3182	Revivals in 1942 (34 performances), 1943 (66 performances), and 1950 (7 performances)
16.	Mamma Mia! Mamma Mia! *Mamma Mia!* is a jukebox musical with a book by Great Britain playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus....	M	2001-10-28October 28, 2001		3056	Currently running at the Winter Garden Theatre Winter Garden Theatre The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan.It was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....
17.	Hello, Dolly! Hello, Dolly! (musical) *Hello, Dolly!* is a Musical theater with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart , based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955....	M	1964-01-16January 16, 1964	1970-12-27December 27, 1970	2844	10 Tony Awards in 1964, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Revivals in 1975 (42 performances), 1978 (147 performances), and 1995 (116 performances)
18.	My Fair Lady My Fair Lady *My Fair Lady* is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....	M	1956-03-15March 15, 1956	1962-09-29September 29, 1962	2717	6 Tony Awards in 1957, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Revivals in 1976 (377 performances), 1981 (120 performances), and 1993 (165 performances)
19.	Hairspray Hairspray (musical) *Hairspray* is a musical theatre with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan , based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray ....	M	2002-08-16August 16, 2002	2009-01-04January 4, 2009	2642	8 Tony Awards in 2003, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 2003
20.	The Producers The Producers (musical) *The Producers* is a comedy-Musical theater adapted by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan from Brooks' The Producers , with lyrics by Brooks and music by Brooks and Glen Kelly....	M	2001-04-19April 19, 2001	2007-04-22April 22, 2007	2502	12 Tony Awards in 2001, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 2002 Most Tony Awards won by a production
21. (tied)	Cabaret Cabaret (musical) *Cabaret* is a Musical theater with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander. The 1966 Broadway theatre production became a hit and spawned an acclaimed 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....	M	1998-03-19March 19, 1998	2004-01-04January 4, 2004	2377	Revival 4 Tony Awards in 1998, including Best Revival of a Musical Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical has been awarded since 1994. Before that time, both plays and musicals were considered together for the Tony Award for Best Revival.... Original production in 1966 (1165 performances), and revival in 1987 (261 performances)
21. (tied)	Annie	M	1977-04-21April 21, 1977	1983-01-02January 2, 1983	2377	7 Tony Awards in 1977, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1978 Revival in 1997 (239 performances)
23.	Man of La Mancha Man of La Mancha *Man of La Mancha* is a musical theater with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece Don Quixote....	M	1965-11-22November 22, 1965	1971-06-26June 26, 1971	2328	5 Tony Awards in 1966, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Revivals in 1972 (140 performances), 1977 (124 performances), 1992 (108 performances), and 2002 (304 performances)
24.	Abie's Irish Rose Abie's Irish Rose Abie's Irish Rose is a Broadway theatre comedy Play by Anne Nichols about an Irish people Roman Catholic Church girl who marries a young Jewish man, over the objections of both of their families....	P	1922-05-23May 23, 1922	1927-10-01October 1, 1927	2327	Revivals in 1937 (46 performances) and 1954 (20 performances)
25.	Avenue Q Avenue Q *Avenue Q* is a Musical theatre conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, who wrote the music and lyrics, and directed by Jason Moore . The book is by Jeff Whitty....	M	2003-07-31July 31, 2003		2318	Currently running at the John Golden Theatre John Golden Theatre The John Golden Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 252 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan. Designed in a Moorish architecture along with the adjacent Royale Theatre by architect Herbert J.... 3 Tony Awards in 2004, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....
26.	Wicked Wicked (musical) *Wicked* is a musical theatre with songs and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. The story is based on the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a parallel novel of L....	M	2003-10-30October 30, 2003		2214	Currently running at the George Gershwin Theatre George Gershwin Theatre The George Gershwin Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 222 West 51st Street in midtown-Manhattan in the Paramount Plaza building.... 3 Tony Awards in 2004 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 2005
27.	Oklahoma! Oklahoma! *Oklahoma!* is the first musical theater written by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs ....	M	1943-03-31March 31, 1943	1948-05-29May 29, 1948	2212	A Special Tony Award Special Tony Award Special Tony Award includes Lifetime Achievement Award, Special Theatrical Event, Excellence in Theatre, and Special Tony Award:... in 1993 for the show's 50th anniversary Revivals in 1951 (100 performances), 1953 (40 performances), 1979 (293 performances), and 2002 (388 performances)
28.	Smokey Joe's Cafe Smokey Joe's Cafe *Smokey Joe's Cafe* is a musical theatrical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including rock and roll, rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller....	R	1995-03-02March 2, 1995	2000-01-16January 16, 2000	2036
29.	Pippin Pippin (musical) *Pippin* is a musical theater with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production, also contributed to the libretto....	M	1972-10-23October 23, 1972	1977-06-12June 12, 1977	1944	5 Tony Awards in 1973
30.	South Pacific South Pacific (musical) *South Pacific* is a 1949 in music#Musical theater with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan....	M	1949-04-07April 7, 1949	1954-01-16January 16, 1954	1925	10 Tony Awards in 1950, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Pulitzer Prize for Drama Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than being the calendar year.... in 1950 Revivals in 1955 (15 performances) and 2008 (389 performances, currently running at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre Vivian Beaumont Theatre The Vivian Beaumont Theater is a theatre in New York City in the United States. It is located at Lincoln Center, 150 West 65th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.... )
31.	The Magic Show The Magic Show *The Magic Show* is a musical theatre in one act composed and with lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Bob Randall . It starred magician Doug Henning....	M	1974-05-28May 28, 1974	1978-12-31December 31, 1978	1920
32.	Aida Aida (musical) *Aida* is a rock musical in two acts based on Giuseppe Verdi's Italian-language Aida by the same name, the scenario of which was written by Auguste Mariette....	M	2000-03-23March 23, 2000	2004-09-05September 5, 2004	1852	4 Tony Awards in 2000 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 2001
33.	Gemini Gemini (play) *Gemini* is a play by Albert Innaurato.Set in the backyard of a middle class South Philadelphia neighborhood early in the summer of 1973, the comedy-drama focuses on the 21st birthday celebration of Harvard student and Maria Callas fan Francis Geminiani....	P	1977-05-21May 21, 1977	1981-09-06September 6, 1981	1819
34.	Deathtrap Deathtrap (play) *Deathtrap* is a 1978 play by Ira Levin that involves many plot twists. It was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play and holds the record as the longest-running comedy-thriller on Broadway theatre....	P	1978-02-26February 26, 1978	1982-06-13June 13, 1982	1793
35.	Harvey Harvey (play) *Harvey* is a 1944 play by American playwright Mary Coyle Chase. Directed by Antoinette Perry, the play premiered on 1 November 1944 at the 48th Street Theatre on Broadway where it was staged for 1,775 performances before closing on January 15 1949....	P	1944-11-01November 1, 1944	1949-01-15January 15, 1949	1775	Pulitzer Prize for Drama Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than being the calendar year.... in 1945 Revival in 1970 (79 performances)
36.	Dancin' Dancin' Dancin' is a musical revue first produced in 1978, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, who won a Tony Award for the choreography. The show is a tribute to the art of dance, and the music is a collection of mostly American songs, many with a dance theme from a wide variety of styles, from operetta to jazz to classical music to marche...	D	1978-03-27March 27, 1978	1982-06-27June 27, 1982	1774	2 Tony Awards in 1978 Broadway's longest-running dance musical
37.	La Cage aux Folles	M	1983-08-21August 21, 1983	1987-11-15November 15, 1987	1761	6 Tony Awards in 1984, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Revival in 2004 (229 performances)
38.	Hair Hair (musical) *Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical* is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot....	M	1968-04-29April 29, 1968	1972-07-01July 1, 1972	1750	Grammy Award for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1969 Revivals in 1977 (43 performances) and 2004 (1 benefit performance)
39.	The Wiz The Wiz *The Wiz* is a 1975 in music#Musical theatre, based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, exclusively featuring African American actors....	M	1975-01-05January 5, 1975	1979-01-28January 28, 1979	1672	7 Tony Awards in 1975, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1976 Revival in 1984 (13 performances)
40.	Born Yesterday Born Yesterday Plot An uncouth, corrupt tycoon, Harry Brock, brings his showgirl mistress Billie Dawn with him to Washington, D.C. When Billie's ignorance becomes a liability to Brock's business dealings, he hires a journalist, Paul Verrall, to educate his girlfriend....	P	1946-02-04February 4, 1946	1949-12-31December 31, 1949	1642	Revival in 1989 (153 performances)
41.	Crazy for You Crazy for You *Crazy for You* is a musical theater with a book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Billed as ?The New Gershwin Musical Comedy?, it is largely based on the songwriting team?s 1930 production, Girl Crazy, but interpolates songs from several other productions as well....	M	1992-02-19February 19, 1992	1996-01-07January 7, 1996	1622	3 Tony Awards in 1992, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....
42.	Ain't Misbehavin' Ain't Misbehavin' Ain't Misbehavin' is a musical revue with a book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr., music by Fats Waller, and lyrics by various writers....	R	1978-05-09May 9, 1978	1982-02-21February 21, 1982	1604	3 Tony Awards in 1978, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1979 Revival in 1988 (176 performances)
43.	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas *The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas* is a Musical theatre with a book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson and music and lyrics by Carol Hall....	M	1978-06-19June 19, 1978	1982-03-27March 27, 1982	1584	2 Tony Awards in 1979 Revivals in 1982 (63 performances), and 2006 (1 benefit performance)
44.	Spamalot Spamalot *Monty Python's Spamalot* is a musical theatre "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of Broadway theatre....	M	2005-03-17March 17, 2005	2009-01-11January 11, 2009	1575	3 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 2006
45.	Mary, Mary Mary, Mary (play) *Mary, Mary* is a play by Jean Kerr.The plot focuses on wisecracking cynic Mary and infuriatingly sensible Bob, on the verge of divorce following a nine-month separation, who meet at his apartment in the hope they can avert an audit by the Internal Revenue Service....	P	1961-03-08March 8, 1961	1964-12-12December 12, 1964	1572
46.	Evita	M	1979-09-25September 25, 1979	1983-06-26June 26, 1983	1567	7 Tony Awards in 1980, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1981
47.	The Voice of the Turtle The Voice of the Turtle (play) *The Voice of the Turtle* is a Comedy Broadway theatre play by John William Van Druten dealing with the challenges of the single life in New York City during World War II....	P	1943-12-08December 8, 1943	1948-01-03January 3, 1948	1557
48.	Jekyll & Hyde Jekyll & Hyde (musical) *Jekyll & Hyde* is a Broadway theatre based on the novel, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The original stage conception was by Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn....	M	1997-04-28April 28, 1997	2001-01-07January 7, 2001	1543
49.	Barefoot in the Park Barefoot in the Park *Barefoot in the Park* is a play by Neil Simon.Its focus is on newlywed couple Corie and Paul Bratter, who are setting up house in a minuscule fifth-floor walkup apartment in a downtown-Manhattan brownstone....	P	1963-10-23October 23, 1963	1967-06-25June 25, 1967	1530	A Tony Award Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City.... in 1964 Revival in 2006 (109 performances)
50.	42nd Street 42nd Street (musical) *42nd Street* is a musical theater with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin, and music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production won the Tony Award for Best Musical and became a long-running hit, and the show was produced in London in 1984 and its 2001 Broadway revival also won the Tony for Best Revival....	M	2001-05-02May 2, 2001	2005-01-02January 2, 2005	1524	Revival 2 Tony Awards in 2001, including Best Revival of a Musical Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical has been awarded since 1994. Before that time, both plays and musicals were considered together for the Tony Award for Best Revival.... Original production in 1980 (3486 performances)
51.	Dreamgirls Dreamgirls *Dreamgirls* is a Broadway theatre musical theater, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen. Based upon the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as The Supremes, The Shirelles, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and others, Dreamgirls follows the story of a young female singing trio from Chicago, Illinoi...	M	1981-12-20December 20, 1981	1985-08-11August 11, 1985	1521	6 Tony Awards in 1982 Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1983 Revivals in 1987 (177 performances) and 2001 (1 benefit performance)
52.	Mame MAME MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software, with the intent of preserving gaming history and preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten....	M	1966-05-24May 24, 1966	1970-01-03January 3, 1970	1508	3 Tony Awards in 1966 Grammy Award for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1967 Revival in 1983 (41 performances)
53.	Grease Grease (musical) *Grease* is a musical theater by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s....	M	1994-05-11May 11, 1994	1998-01-25January 25, 1998	1505	Revival Original production in 1972 (3388 performances) and revival in 2007 (554 performances)
54.	Same Time, Next Year Same Time, Next Year *Same Time, Next Year* is 1975 comedy Play by Bernard Slade. The plot focuses on two people, married to others, who meet for a romantic tryst once a year for two dozen years....	P	1975-03-14March 14, 1975	1978-09-03September 3, 1978	1453	A Tony Award Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City.... in 1975
55.	Arsenic and Old Lace Arsenic and Old Lace (play) *Arsenic and Old Lace* is a play by United States of America playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the Arsenic and Old Lace starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra....	P	1941-01-10January 10, 1941	1944-06-17June 17, 1944	1444	Revival in 1986 (221 performances)
56.	The Sound of Music The Sound of Music *The Sound of Music* is a musical theater with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse....	M	1959-11-16November 16, 1959	1963-06-15June 15, 1963	1443	5 Tony Awards in 1960, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Grammy Award for Best Show Album (Original Cast) Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1961 Revival in 1998 (533 performances)
57.	Me and My Girl Me and My Girl *Me and My Girl* is a musical play with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay. It takes place in the late 1930s in Hampshire, Mayfair, and Lambeth....	M	1986-08-10August 10, 1986	1989-12-31December 31, 1989	1420	3 Tony Awards in 1987
58.	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying *How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying* is a musical theatre with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ....	M	1961-10-14October 14, 1961	1965-03-06March 6, 1965	1417	7 Tony Awards in 1962, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Pulitzer Prize for Drama Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than being the calendar year.... in 1962 Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1962 Revival in 1995 (548 performances)
59.	Hellzapoppin'	R	1938-09-22September 22, 1938	1941-12-17December 17, 1941	1404
60.	The Music Man The Music Man *The Music Man* is a musical theatre with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson. The show is based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey....	M	1957-12-19December 19, 1957	1961-04-15April 15, 1961	1375	6 Tony Awards in 1958, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album (Broadway or TV) Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1959 Revivals in 1980 (21 performances) and 2000 (699 performances)
61.	Jersey Boys Jersey Boys *Jersey Boys* is a documentary film-style musical theatre based on the lives of one of the most successful 1960s rock 'n roll groups, The Four Seasons ....	M	2005-11-06November 6, 2005		1371	Currently running at the August Wilson Theatre 4 Tony Awards in 2006, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 2007
62.	Funny Girl	M	1964-03-26March 26, 1964	1967-07-01July 1, 1967	1348	Grammy Award for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1965 Revival in 2002 (1 benefit performance)
63.	Mummenschanz Mummenschanz Mummenschanz is a unique Swiss mime troupe who perform a surreal mask and prop oriented style. Founded in 1972 by Bernie Sch?rch, Andres Bossard and the Italo-American Floriana Frassetto....	S	1977-03-30March 30, 1977	1980-04-20April 20, 1980	1326	Broadway's longest-running special
64.	Oh! Calcutta! Oh! Calcutta! *Oh! Calcutta!* was a long-running avant-garde theatrical revue, created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of various sketches on sex-related topics, debuted in Off-Broadway in 1969....	R	1969-06-17June 17, 1969	1972-08-12August 12, 1972	1314	Revival in 1976 (5959 performances)
65.	Movin' Out Movin' Out (musical) *Movin' Out* is a jukebox musical featuring the songs of Billy Joel.Conceived by Twyla Tharp, the musical tells the story of a generation of United States youth growing up on Long Island, New York during the 1960s and their experiences with the Vietnam War....	D	2002-10-24October 24, 2002	2005-12-11December 11, 2005	1303	2 Tony Awards in 2003
66.	Brighton Beach Memoirs Brighton Beach Memoirs *Brighton Beach Memoirs* is a play by Neil Simon. It was made into a movie that was released in 1986.Set in Brooklyn, New York's Brighton Beach in 1937, the semi-autobiographical coming-of-age comedy is the first play in what is known as Simon's "Eugene Trilogy." The small cast consists of Eugene, his brother Stanley and their parents Kat...	P	1983-03-27March 27, 1983	1986-05-11May 11, 1986	1299	2 Tony Awards in 1983
67.	Angel Street (also known as Gas Light)	P	1941-12-05December 5, 1941	1944-12-30December 30, 1944	1295	Revivals in 1948 (14 performances) and 1975 (52 performances)
68.	Lightnin	P	1918-08-26August 26, 1918	1921-08-27August 27, 1921	1291	Revival in 1938 (54 performances)
69.	Promises, Promises Promises, Promises *Promises, Promises* is a musical theatre based on the 1960 film The Apartment by Billy Wilder. The music is by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, and book by Neil Simon....	M	1968-12-01December 1, 1968	1972-01-01January 1, 1972	1281	2 Tony Awards in 1969 Grammy Award for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1970
70.	The King and I The King and I *The King and I* is a musical theatre by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II based on the book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon....	M	1951-03-29March 29, 1951	1954-03-20March 20, 1954	1246	5 Tony Awards in 1952, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Revivals in 1977 (695 performances), 1985 (191 performances), and 1996 (780 performances)
71.	Cactus Flower Cactus Flower *Cactus Flower* is a farce by Abe Burrows. It played for years on Broadway theatre before being adapted by I.A.L. Diamond into a Cactus Flower directed by Gene Saks....	P	1965-12-08December 8, 1965	1968-11-23November 23, 1968	1234
72. (tied)	Sleuth Sleuth (play) *Sleuth* is a 1970 play written by Anthony Shaffer. The play is set in the Wiltshire, England manor house of Andrew Wyke, an immensely successful mystery writer....	P	1970-11-12November 12, 1970	1973-10-13October 13, 1973	1222	A Tony Award Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City.... in 1971, Best Play Tony Award for Best Play The Tony Award is an annual award celebrating achievements in live United States theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway theatre in New York....
72. (tied)	Torch Song Trilogy Torch Song Trilogy *Torch Song Trilogy* is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing Jewish people drag queen living in New York City in the late 1970 and 1980s....	P	1982-06-10June 10, 1982	1985-05-19May 19, 1985	1222	2 Tony Awards in 1983, including Best Play Tony Award for Best Play The Tony Award is an annual award celebrating achievements in live United States theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway theatre in New York....
74.	1776 1776 (musical) *1776* is a Tony Award winning musical theatre with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone. It is based on the events leading to the writing and signing of the United States Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1776....	M	1969-03-16March 16, 1969	1972-02-13February 13, 1972	1217	3 Tony Awards in 1969, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Revival in 1997 (333 performances)
75.	Equus Equus (play) *Equus* is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious/zoophilia with horses....	P	1974-10-24October 24, 1974	1977-10-02October 2, 1977	1209	2 Tony Awards in 1975, including Best Play Tony Award for Best Play The Tony Award is an annual award celebrating achievements in live United States theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway theatre in New York.... Revival in 2008 (156 performances)
76.	Sugar Babies Sugar Babies *Sugar Babies* is a musical theater comedy conceived by Ralph G. Allen and Harry Rigby, with music by Jimmy McHugh, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and Al Dubin and various others....	R	1979-10-08October 8, 1979	1982-08-28August 28, 1982	1208
77.	Guys and Dolls Guys and Dolls *Guys and Dolls* is a musical theater, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon....	M	1950-11-24November 24, 1950	1953-11-28November 28, 1953	1200	5 Tony Awards in 1951, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Revivals in 1955 (16 performances), 1965 (15 performances), 1976 (239 performances), 1992 (1143 performances), and 2009 (9 performances, currently running at the Nederlander Theatre Nederlander Theatre David T. Nederlander Theatre is a 1,232-seat Broadway theatre located at 208 West 41st Street, in New York City . One of the Nederlander Organization's nine Broadway theatres, the legacy of the theatre began with David Tobias Nederlander, for whom the theatre is named.... )
78.	Amadeus Amadeus *Amadeus* is a stage play playwright in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, loosely based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri....	P	1980-12-17December 17, 1980	1983-10-16October 16, 1983	1181	5 Tony Awards in 1981, including Best Play Tony Award for Best Play The Tony Award is an annual award celebrating achievements in live United States theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway theatre in New York.... Revival in 1999 (173 performances)
79.	Cabaret Cabaret (musical) *Cabaret* is a Musical theater with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander. The 1966 Broadway theatre production became a hit and spawned an acclaimed 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....	M	1966-11-20November 20, 1966	1969-09-06September 6, 1969	1165	8 Tony Awards in 1967, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Grammy Award for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1968 Revivals in 1987 (261 performances) and 1998 (2377 performances)
80.	Mister Roberts Mister Roberts (play) *Mister Roberts* is a 1948 Tony Award-winning play based on the 1946 novel by Thomas Heggen Mister Roberts and adapted with Joshua Logan.The novel began as a collection of short stories about Heggen's experiences aboard the USS Virgo in the Oceania during World War II....	P	1948-02-18February 18, 1948	1951-01-06January 6, 1951	1157	5 Tony Awards in 1948, including Best Play Tony Award for Best Play The Tony Award is an annual award celebrating achievements in live United States theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway theatre in New York....
81.	Annie Get Your Gun Annie Get Your Gun (musical) *Annie Get Your Gun* is a musical theater with lyrics and music written by Irving Berlin and a book by Herbert Fields and his sister Dorothy Fields....	M	1946-05-16May 16, 1946	1949-02-12February 12, 1949	1147	Revivals in 1966 (78 performances) and 1999 (1045 performances)
82.	Guys and Dolls Guys and Dolls *Guys and Dolls* is a musical theater, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon....	M	1992-04-14April 14, 1992	1995-01-08January 8, 1995	1143	Revival 4 Tony Awards in 1992, including Best Revival of a Musical Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical has been awarded since 1994. Before that time, both plays and musicals were considered together for the Tony Award for Best Revival.... Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1993 Original production in 1950 (1200 performances) and revivals in 1955 (16 performances), 1965 (15 performances), 1976 (239 performances), and 2009 (9 performances, currently running at the Nederlander Theatre Nederlander Theatre David T. Nederlander Theatre* is a 1,232-seat Broadway theatre located at 208 West 41st Street, in New York City . One of the Nederlander Organization's nine Broadway theatres, the legacy of the theatre began with David Tobias Nederlander, for whom the theatre is named.... )
83.	The Seven Year Itch The Seven Year Itch *The Seven Year Itch* is a three-act play by George Axelrod. The titular phrase, which refers to declining interest in a monogamous relationship after seven years of marriage, has been used by psychologists....	P	1952-11-20November 20, 1952	1955-08-13August 13, 1955	1141	A Tony Award Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City.... in 1953
84.	The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee *The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee* is a one act musical theatre comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn and a book by Rachel Sheinkin....	M	2005-05-02May 2, 2005	2008-01-20January 20, 2008	1136	2 Tony Awards in 2005
85.	Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk	M	1996-04-25April 25, 1996	1999-01-10January 10, 1999	1135	4 Tony Awards in 1996
86.	Butterflies Are Free Butterflies Are Free *Butterflies Are Free* is a play by Leonard Gershe.Loosely based on the life of attorney Scarsdale, New York#Notable People, the plot revolves around a Manhattan blind man whose controlling mother disapproves of his relationship with a free-spirited hippie....	P	1969-10-21October 21, 1969	1972-07-02July 2, 1972	1128	A Tony Award Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City.... in 1970
87.	Pins and Needles Pins and Needles *Pins and Needles* is a musical theatre revue with a book by Arthur Arent, Marc Blitzstein, Emmanuel Eisenberg, Charles Friedman, David Gregory , Joseph Schrank, Arnold B....	R	1937-11-27November 27, 1937	1940-06-22June 22, 1940	1108
88.	Plaza Suite Plaza Suite *Plaza Suite* is a play by Neil Simon.It is composed of three acts, each involving different characters but all set in Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel....	P	1968-02-14February 14, 1968	1970-10-03October 3, 1970	1097	A Tony Award Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City.... in 1968
89.	Fosse Fosse *Fosse* is a Tony Award winning three-act musical theatre revue showcasing the choreography of Bob Fosse.After 21 previews, the original Broadway theatre production, conceived and directed by Richard Maltby, Jr....	D	1999-01-14January 14, 1999	2001-08-25August 25, 2001	1093	3 Tony Awards in 1999, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....
90.	They're Playing Our Song They're Playing Our Song *They're Playing Our Song* is a musical theatre with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and music by Marvin Hamlisch.In a story based on the real-life relationship of Hamlisch and Sager, a wisecracking composer finds a new, offbeat lyricist, but initially the match is not one made in heaven....	M	1979-02-11February 11, 1979	1981-09-06September 6, 1981	1082
91.	Kiss Me, Kate Kiss Me, Kate *Kiss Me, Kate* is a Musical theater with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew....	M	1948-12-30December 30, 1948	1951-07-28July 28, 1951	1077	5 Tony Awards in 1949, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Revivals in 1952 (8 performances) and 1999 (881 performances) First show to win the Tony Award for Best Musical, among other Tony awards
92.	Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope *Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope* is a musical theatre revue with music and lyrics by Micki Grant.The all-singing, all-dancing show celebrates the African American experience with a series of pseudo-inspirational tunes focusing on such topics as rat-infested tenements and slumlords, the joy and strife of ghetto life, student protests, black...	R	1972-04-19April 19, 1972	1974-10-27October 27, 1974	1065	Grammy Award for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 1973
93.	The Pajama Game The Pajama Game *The Pajama Game* is a musical based on the novel 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Pike Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross ....	M	1954-05-13May 13, 1954	1956-11-24November 24, 1956	1063	3 Tony Awards in 1955, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Revivals in 1973 (65 performances) and 2006 (129 performances)
94.	Shenandoah Shenandoah (musical) *Shenandoah* is a 1975 Broadway theatre musical theatre with music by Gary Geld, lyrics by Peter Udell, and a book by Udell, Philip Rose and James Lee Barrett, based on Barrett's original screenplay for the 1965 film Shenandoah ....	M	1975-01-07January 7, 1975	1977-08-07August 7, 1977	1050	2 Tony Awards in 1975 Revival in 1989 (32 performances)
95.	Annie Get Your Gun Annie Get Your Gun (musical) *Annie Get Your Gun* is a musical theater with lyrics and music written by Irving Berlin and a book by Herbert Fields and his sister Dorothy Fields....	M	1999-03-04March 4, 1999	2001-09-01September 1, 2001	1045	Revival 2 Tony Awards in 1999, including Best Revival of a Musical Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical has been awarded since 1994. Before that time, both plays and musicals were considered together for the Tony Award for Best Revival.... Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album The Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album has been awarded since 1959. The award has had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Original Cast Album ... in 2000 Original production in 1946 (1147 performances) and revival in 1966 (78 performances)
96.	The Teahouse of the August Moon	P	1953-10-15October 15, 1953	1956-03-24March 24, 1956	1027	3 Tony Awards in 1954, including Best Play Tony Award for Best Play The Tony Award is an annual award celebrating achievements in live United States theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway theatre in New York.... Pulitzer Prize for Drama Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918.From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway 'season' rather than being the calendar year.... in 1954
97.	Damn Yankees Damn Yankees *Damn Yankees* is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross . The story is a Works based on Faust of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball....	M	1955-05-05May 5, 1955	1957-10-12October 12, 1957	1019	7 Tony Awards in 1956, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949.... Revival in 1994 (718 performances)
98.	Grand Hotel Grand Hotel (musical) *Grand Hotel* is a musical theater with a book by Luther Davis and music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest , with additional lyrics and music by Maury Yeston....	M	1989-11-12November 12, 1989	1992-04-25April 25, 1992	1017	5 Tony Awards in 1990
99.	Contact Contact (musical) *Contact: The Musical* is a musical theater "dance play" that was developed by Susan Stroman and John Weidman, with its "book" by Weidman and both choreography and direction by Stroman....	D	2000-03-30March 30, 2000	2002-09-01September 1, 2002	1010	4 Tony Awards in 2000, including Best Musical Tony Award for Best Musical This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949....
100.	Never Too Late	P	1962-11-26November 26, 1962	1965-04-24April 24, 1965	1007

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