The long wait
Forty years or more between the original and the first revival the catalogue records. Very Good Eddie waited sixty years. The Boys from Syracuse, Anything Goes, The Three Musketeers — all of them left for dead and then not.
23 in the catalogue.
| 110 in the Shade | 1963 | earliest staging 2007 |
| Anything Goes | 1934 | earliest staging 1987 |
| Bells Are Ringing | 1956 | earliest staging 2001 |
| Bye Bye Birdie | 1960 | earliest staging 2009 |
| Flower Drum Song | 1958 | earliest staging 2002 |
| Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | 1949 | earliest staging 1995 |
| Gigi | 1973 | earliest staging 2015 |
| Golden Boy | 1964 | earliest staging 2012 |
| Good News! | 1927 | earliest staging 1974 |
| Love Life | 1948 | earliest staging 2005 |
| Merrily We Roll Along | 1981 | earliest staging 2023 |
| No, No, Nanette | 1925 | earliest staging 1971 |
| On A Clear Day You Can See Forever | 1965 | earliest staging 2011 |
| Pippin | 1972 | earliest staging 2013 |
| Promises, Promises | 1968 | earliest staging 2010 |
| South Pacific | 1949 | earliest staging 2008 |
| The Apple Tree | 1966 | earliest staging 2006 |
| The Boys from Syracuse | 1938 | earliest staging 2002 |
| The Three Musketeers | 1928 | earliest staging 1968 |
| The Threepenny Opera | 1954 | earliest staging 2006 |
| Very Good Eddie | 1915 | earliest staging 1975 |
| Whoopee | 1928 | earliest staging 1979 |
| Wonderful Town | 1953 | earliest staging 2003 |