Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

May still be running1 open on the record

These opened in the last three years and carry no closing date. That is the strongest claim the data supports — an unrecorded closing looks exactly like a run still going, and the file was last checked in August 2026. A run that closed last week is still sitting in this list.

By decade93 productions across 11 decades

1. 1910s 44
2. 1920s 22
3. 1930s 1
4. 1950s 2
5. 1960s 5
6. 1970s 5
7. 1980s 2
8. 1990s 3
9. 2000s 1
10. 2010s 6
11. 2020s 2

Counted from the productions we hold, which are Broadway and a partial West End. A quiet decade here can mean a dark theatre and can mean a gap in the record.

Longest runs hereby performances

Ranked among the 80 runs here that record a performance count. 13 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here93 productions

In the literature8 passages

• The musical has been revived on Broadway numerous times, including the production’s longest Broadway run on September 6, 1979, which starred Sandy Duncan and opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre for 578 performances. There have also been four mostly limited-engagement revivals with Cathy Rigby: on December 13, 1990 (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre;…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Theatre : Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (during run, the musical transferred to the Mark Hellinger Theatre)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The Old Globe Theatre was built in 1935 for the presentation of abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays as part of the California Pacific International Exposition. At the conclusion of the exposition in 1937, a not-for-profit group leased the theater from the city. In January 1981 the theater's board of directors established the Globe as…ebooks/Donahue, Tim & Patterson, Jim/Stage Money_ The Business of the Professional Theater - Tim Donahue & Jim Patterson.txt
• Channing opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on October 19, 1995, and remained there until January 28, 1996. For both this and the previous revival, an Al Hirschfeld drawing of her in her second-act dress and headdress served as the production’s logo. Wasn’t she the real symbol of the show?ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• And yet, only 1,053 days later, on July 1, 2000, its musical version opened at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. A mere 117 days later, it was on Broadway.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt

What this page does not know

• What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here outside it — concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed production.
• How long 13 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 20 of these runs ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that they certainly closed — nobody wrote down the date.
• Who built it.