Which is the longest running Broadway musical in history?
Chicago (musical) style is strongly identified with the show. Following a West End debut in 1979 which ran for 600 performances, "Chicago" was revived on Broadway in 1996, and a year later in the West End. The Broadway revival holds the record as the longest-running musical revival and the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. It is the second longest-running show in Broadway history, behind only "The Phantom of the Opera", having played its 7,486th performance on November 23, 2014, surpassing "Cats". The West End revival became the longest-running American musical in West End history. "Chicago" has been staged in numerous productions
Long-running musical theatre productions Long-running musical theatre productions 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 2,500 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 1866, in alphabetical order. The following is a list of musical theatre productions that have exceeded 2,500 performances in Broadway or West End theatres. The