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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.
Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. It is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee , and focuses on her mother, Rose , whose name has become synonymous with "the ultimate show business mother ."
Sixty-five years after it first premiered on Broadway, “Gypsy” is still known as one of the greatest theater masterpieces of the 20th century. There have been stellar productions of the play ...
The Black Crook, which ran from 1866 to 1868, was the first Broadway show to run for over one year. [127]This is a list of shows that have held the record for being the longest-running show (including straight plays and musicals) on Broadway since 1853.
Audra McDonald will portray the ultimate stage mom, Mama Rose, in the upcoming Broadway revival of “Gypsy.” George C. Wolfe, a Tony winner for “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches ...
So Gypsy engineered a fling with film producer/director Otto Preminger. Erik was the result - his 1944 birth documented in Life Magazine! But until he was 22, his mother refused to reveal who his ...
The Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical has been awarded since 1994. Before that time, both plays and musicals were considered together for the Tony Award for Best Revival . The award is given to the producers of the best musical play which has already appeared on Broadway in a previous production, or is regarded as being in the common ...
1. ‘The Lion King’ Total Gross: $1.68 billion Average Ticket Price: $107 Seats Sold: 15.71 million Total Performances: 9,335 Original Broadway Run: Nov. 13, 1997–present Revival Run(s): N/A ...