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However, the clever publicity stunt allowed the musical to continue to run and it eventually turned a small profit. Newman won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and nominations went to Bean for Best Featured Actor and Kidd's choreography. An original cast recording was released by Columbia Records. A revival production was ...
Hence, accurate pre-1984 gross data is not available and this list should not be considered accurate for musicals that premiered on Broadway before that year. The Lion King sits at the top, with a Broadway gross of $2 billion. Dates refer to original Broadway productions, with notes added for future productions that outran the Broadway run.
I Am What I Am (Broadway musical song) I Believe in You (Frank Loesser song) I Dreamed a Dream; I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store) I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg (song) I Love a Piano; I Wanna Be Loved by You; I Wish It So; I'll Be Seeing You (song) I'll Never Fall in Love Again; I'll Put You Together Again; I'll See ...
A Special Tony Award in 1984 for becoming Broadway's longest-running musical; Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976; First ever Broadway production with 4,000, 5,000 and 6,000+ performances; Revival in 2006 (759 performances) 8 Oh! Calcutta! (1976 revival) R 5,959 [8] September 24, 1976: August 6, 1989: Original production in 1969 (1,314 performances)
The Sound of Music (1965) In one of the most classic musical films to date, Julie Andrews plays a governess who wins the hearts of the Von Trapp family in Nazi-era Austria. The result is a beloved ...
The Night That Made America Famous is a 1975 musical revue featuring the songs of Harry Chapin. The music consists of a combination of songs written for the musical and songs from Chapin's four previous albums, the latter including "What Made America Famous?", a song about a plumber who rescues a group of hippies from a fire. A lyric from that ...
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.
In 1967, Robby Krieger, the guitarist for L.A. band the Doors, wrote the hit single "Light My Fire" in the living room of his parents' Pacific Palisades home.