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Moreover, the Broadway League did not begin collecting gross data until June 1984. [1] 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.
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 ...
Cabin in the Sky is a musical with music by Vernon Duke, book by Lynn Root, and lyrics by John Latouche.The musical opened on Broadway in 1940. [1] The show is described as a "parable of Southern Negro Life with echoes of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom (which would be turned into the musical Carousel) and Marc Connelly's The Green Pastures."
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 ...
Best Foot Forward is a 1941 musical with songs by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, and a book by John Cecil Holm.Produced by George Abbott, the production opened on Broadway on October 1, 1941, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre after an out-of-town tryout, where it ran for 326 performances.
Honeymoon Lane was a popular Broadway musical by Eddie Dowling, who wrote the book and also starred with music by James F. Hanley.The musical was a big success and ran for nearly a year from 20 September 1926 at the Knickerbocker Theatre on Broadway. [1]