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A Chorus Line retook the record for most performances after Oh! Calcutta! closed. The longest running off-Broadway musical to date is The Fantasticks, which starred Jerry Orbach. When it closed on January 13, 2002, it had run for 42 years and 17,162 performances, making it the world's longest-running musical.
The following is a list of the top 25 highest-grossing Broadway musicals since 1982, based on data collected by the Broadway League.These grosses do not take into account the effects of inflation and as such the list is heavily skewed in favor of more recent Broadway shows.
Classification: Songs: Songs from musicals also: Theatre: Genres: Musical theatre: Songs from musicals. Articles about songs that are part of a musical. For songs written for musical films, see Category:Songs written for films. For songs from television, see Category:Television music
A Chorus Line is a 1975 musical conceived by Michael Bennett with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and a book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante.. Set on the bare stage of a Broadway theater, the musical is centered on seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line.
Rodgers (left) and Hammerstein (right) watching auditions at the St. James Theatre on Broadway in 1948. Rodgers and Hammerstein was a theater-writing team of composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together created a series of innovative and influential American musicals.
Jordan Smith, "Chandelier" -- Before winning Season 9, Jordan wowed the judges in his blind audition. With 55 million views, it's still the most popular video on the show's YouTube channel!
The last film in the "High School Musical" trilogy, "High School Musical 3: Senior Year," turns 15 on Tuesday, and you know what that means: It's time to revisit — and rank — all 11 songs from ...
The first section lists all Broadway and West End productions of musicals that have exceeded 2,500 performances, in order of greatest number of performances in either market. The second section lists, in alphabetical order, musicals that have broken historical long run records for musical theatre on Broadway, in the West End or Off-Broadway ...