Who wrote it, who was in it, which theatre, how long it ran, and every recording of it.
24 years ago today
Opened at the American Airlines Theatre on August 18, 2002, and played 73 performances. We hold 3 recordings of it.
15 shows opened on August 18 →
Try Sondheim, Gwen Verdon, or the Shubert Theatre.
Read it off the sleeve, the spine or the disc itself, and we will tell you which staging it documents — which cast, which year, which theatre.
Try CDTER 1186, or Atlantic if you can only read the label.
The same show, taped by different casts in different years. Every one of these has at least two recordings, and telling them apart is not always easy.
Company
10 recordings
An American in Paris
6 recordings
Beetlejuice
6 recordings
Cabaret
6 recordings
Chess
6 recordings
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
6 recordings
Romeo + Juliet
6 recordings
The King and I
6 recordings
The Phantom of the Opera
6 recordings
The Wiz
6 recordings
Everything
5 recordings
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
5 recordings
How many times each one played, counting its longest-running production.
The Phantom of the Opera
13,981 performances
at the Majestic Theatre
The Lion King
1997 · New Amsterdam Theatre
10,000 performances
Aladdin
2014 · New Amsterdam Theatre
9,999 performances
Chicago
1975 · Richard Rodgers Theatre
9,999 performances
Wicked
2003 · Gershwin Theatre
8,500 performances
Cats
1982 · Winter Garden Theatre
7,485 performances
Les Miserables
1987 · Broadway Theatre
6,680 performances
A Chorus Line
1975 · Shubert Theatre
6,137 performances
Mamma Mia !
2001 · Winter Garden Theatre
5,758 performances
Rent
1996 · Nederlander Theatre
5,123 performances
The Book of Mormon
2011 · Eugene O'Neill Theatre
5,000 performances
Jersey Boys
2005 · August Wilson Theatre
4,642 performances
A collection is a question the catalogue can answer. Seven rotate by the day of the week; the rest sit still.
Today's collection
These shows have a production listed that opened before the show was written. Gypsy has stagings from 1903 and 1929, decades before the 1959 musical, because two different works ended up filed under the same title. We show both and mark them rather than picking one.
Stop the World — I Want to Get Off. Follow the Girls. Hold Everything! Let 'Em Eat Cake. Look, Ma, I'm Dancin'! The imperative title is the sound of a musical comedy shouting from across the…
A straight play with the songs added. Pygmalion became My Fair Lady, Green Grow the Lilacs became Oklahoma!, and Charley's Aunt became Where's Charley?
8 shows together, 1930 to 1963. Most of the standards came out of partnerships like this one.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn "A New Musical". Carnival in Flanders "A Musical Comedy". For a few years in the early fifties the billing was part of the title, because the producers were nervous…
The Black Crook, The Red Mill, The Pink Lady, The Green Pastures, The Color Purple. A century and a half of shows named for a colour.
Sally. Irene. Sinbad. Maytime. Gypsy. Hair. Chicago. Rent. One word on the marquee, and it has worked for a hundred years.
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