When we think of long-running shows in New York City, our minds instantly go to the two big ones: The Phantom of the Opera , the longest-running musical in Broadway history, and Chicago , the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. But a few blocks away or downtown there are plenty of smaller shows defying the odds with astonishingly long runs off-Broadway. Here's our list of 11 venerable classics that have defied expectations for years. Perfect Crime opened April 18, This year, on December 12, Warren Manzi's Perfect Crime celebrates its 13,th performance since opening in And it shows no signs of slowing down, even though audiences are often scarce and the plot is believed to be so indecipherable that the theater offers an answer key to patrons following each performance.
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This is a selected list of the longest-running musical theatre productions in history divided into two sections. The first section lists all Broadway and West End productions of musicals that have exceeded 2, 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 , since , in alphabetical order. The following is a list of musical theatre productions that have exceeded 2, performances in Broadway or West End theatres. The following is an annotated alphabetical list of other musicals that set records for long runs.
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Category Broadway. The New York theater has always been more daring than movies or television. Before she hit it big on screen, legendary sex symbol Mae West was raising eyebrows along with her skirts in plays she wrote and starred in. Religion is another hot topic that playwrights and composers have been unafraid to explore, with depictions of an unconventional Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary making the stage. While the list of eyebrow-raising productions is a long one, here are our picks for the 10 most scandalous productions of the past or so years, both on and Off-Broadway:.