Longest-Running Broadway Shows of All Time

Source: Wikipedia - List of the Longest-Running Broadway Shows

Longest-Running Broadway Shows of All Time

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Key Findings

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The Phantom of the Opera leads in Total Performances with 13,981.

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Average Total Performances: 8,350 · median: 7,083.

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Gap: The Phantom of the Opera is 2.5× larger than The Book of Mormon.

About This Dataset

Longest-Running Broadway Shows of All Time

Broadway's most-performed productions by total number of performances. The Phantom of the Opera leads with 13,981 shows before closing in 2023. Chicago, The Lion King, Wicked and The Book of Mormon remain in active runs and continue to climb.

Analysis

The Phantom of the Opera (13,981) still leads the all-time list even after closing in 2023, holding a roughly 2,300-performance cushion over the currently running Chicago revival (11,680) and The Lion King (11,305). Those two are the only other productions past 11,000 and, still active, may eventually challenge Phantom. A clear tier break drops to Wicked (8,843) and then Cats (7,485), after which the field settles below 7,000. Musicals overwhelmingly dominate - nine of the ten are sung-through or score-driven shows - and four titles remain open, meaning this ranking is still being rewritten performance by performance every week.

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Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart

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Data Points

10 categories · 1 year

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Top Value

13,981

The Phantom of the Opera

Total Performances · All Time

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All Time

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Methodology & source

Data source: Wikipedia - List of the Longest-Running Broadway Shows
Coverage: 10 entities · 10 observations
Measure: Total Performances
Last updated: 12 July 2026
Compiled by: The ANYSTAT team, from the source above

How the figures are calculated

Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.

Rankings & Full Data

10 records · Total Performances · ranked by All Time

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#	Category	All Time
🥇	The Phantom of the Opera	13,981
🥈	Chicago (1996 revival)	11,680
🥉	The Lion King	11,305
4	Wicked	8,843
5	Cats	7,485
6	Les Misérables	6,680
7	A Chorus Line	6,137
8	Oh! Calcutta! (1976 revival)	5,959
9	Mamma Mia!	5,758
10	The Book of Mormon	5,667

Data Sources & References

All external sources cited in this dataset

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest-running_Broadway_shows Visit ↗

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