how long has wicked been on broadway
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Wicked  (musical) Its original stars included Idina Menzel as Elphaba, Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda, and Joel Grey as the Wizard. The original Broadway production won three Tony Awards and six Drama Desk Awards, while its original cast album received a Grammy Award. Wicked celebrated its tenth anniversary on Broadway on October 30, 2013. On February 14, 2016, Wicked performed its 5124th performance with a 2 p.m. matinee, making Wicked the 10th longest-running Broadway show, passing Rent. A typical performance runs for approximately two hours and 30 minutes, plus a 15-minute intermission.
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Fisher Theatre Over the last 50 years, the Fisher Theatre has been a favorite venue of many of Broadway’s brightest stars, like Mary Martin, Carol Channing, Joel Grey, Bernadette Peters and Lynn Redgrave, and hosted the world premieres of HELLO DOLLY, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, SWEET CHARITY and GOLDEN BOY.emodeled as a live theatre in 1961 under management of the Nederlander Theatrical Corporation, the Fisher is now adorned with marble, Indian rosewood and walnut paneling, and crystal and bronze decorative work. The original 3,500 seats were scaled down to 2,089 to ensure an intimate atmosphere and optimal sightlines.
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Cats  (musical) The show made its debut on Broadway on 7 October 1982, at the Winter Garden Theatre. On 19 June 1997, Cats became the longest-running musical in Broadway history with 6,138 pe…rformances. It played a total of 7,485 performances in New York. Its New York record was surpassed on 9 January 2006 by The Phantom of the Opera, which was also composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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11 Longest-Running Broadway Shows “Mamma Mia!” held its final Broadway curtain call this past Saturday after 14 years and well over 5,000 historical performances. Do you know which other Broadway shows have enjoyed similarly impressive stretches? These are 11 of the Great White Way’s longest running shows. And here’s to keeping a good thing going!
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- Wicked is about the witches of Oz before Dorothy arrives. The play begins with Glinda confirming the death of the wicked witch. She then explains how Elphaba's(Wicked witch …of the west) mother cheated on her husband, the governor of Munchkinland, with a traveling merchant who kept drinking Green elixir.
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- Ladies’ Night with Mix 107.9. It’s Ladies Night every Wednesday at Hollywood Casino with Mix 107.9! Back by “popular” demand. Variety calls WICKED “a cultural phenomenon,” and it continues to break box office records across North America. Winner of more than 100 international awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, WICKED is “Broadway’s biggest blockbuster” (The New York Times). Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz.
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- defying Gravity For Over a decade. This is Oz, but not as you know it! Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked is the story of the unlikely friendship between the Wicked Witch of the West and The Good Witch, and how their stories formed the World of Oz long before Dorothy and Toto arrived on the scene.
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âWicked,â the Movie, Coming December 2019 ‘Wicked,’ the Movie, Coming December 2019. Stephen Daldry, the film’s director. LOS ANGELES — Years in the making, a screen version of the Broadway musical “Wicked” has finally been scheduled for release by Universal Pictures, for Dec. 20, 2019. Stephen Daldry, who will direct, has flirted with the project since at least 2012, and at one point appeared poised to make a version for release this year.
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broadwayThe Most Popular Broadway Musicals Ever Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman.
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Idina Menzel Idina Kim Menzel, born Mentzel on May 30, 1971, is an American actress, singer and songwriter. She is known for originating the role of Elphaba in the hit Broadway musical, Wicked, for her role as Maureen in Rent (musical and movie), the voice of main character Elsa in Frozen and for her recurring role as Shelby Corcoran on Glee since 2010.
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How long does wicked the play go for? and hour 2-4? Best Answer: 2 hours and 45 minutes. Act 1 is an hour and a half (1:30), then a fifteen (0:15) minute intermission, and Act 2 is an hour (1:00) long. So 2:45. Source(s): Seen Wicked twice.
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Chicago  (musical) What year did the play Chicago first appear on Broadway? opened on June 3, 1975 at the 46th Street Theatre, and ran for a total of 936 performances, closing on August 27, 1977.
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Beauty and the Beast  (franchise) Seven new songs were written for the stage musical. Beauty ran on Broadway for 5,461 performances between 1994 and 2007, becoming Broadway's ninth longest-running production in history. The musical has grossed more than $1.4 billion worldwide and played in thirteen countries and 115 cities.
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- The answer might surprise you!” said Bob Hupp. “This rollicking new play with music is to Peter Pan what Wicked is to The Wizard of Oz. It was mesmerizing on Broadway: funny, touching and wildly inventive. This one is madcap fun: a dozen actors play over 100 parts.
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The Lion King steals The Phantom Of The Opera's crown as Broadway's all-time highest grossing show In comparison, The Lion King looks like a pup: It is the sixth longest-running show on Broadway with over 5,900 performances over 14 years and has sold just over 10 million tickets. The Lion King may now have won on Broadway, but Phantom is still a juggernaut elsewhere.
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Was broadways longest running musical comedy playing View Full Document. This is the end of the preview. Sign up to access the rest of the document. Unformatted text preview: Was Broadways longest running musical comedy, playing for five years on Broadway and touring nationally for ten. In London its run was the longest in the 300-year history of the Drury Lane Theater.
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Trivia The Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'The Phantom of the Opera' opened at the Majestic Theater on January 26, 1988 and has run for over 12,000 performances, making this production the longest running show on Broadway (January 2010).
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- A clever retelling of the classic Wizard of Oz story from the point of view of the witches, the incredible hit musical Wicked is returning to the stage at The Gammage Auditorium in Tempe, Arizona and tickets for all performances are now available!
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The Worldâs Longest-Running Musical Started Small â and Stayed Small But the slight story, simply staged, became the little musical that could. When it closed on this day, Jan. 13, in 2002, it ended a run of 42 years and 17,162 performances, making it the world’s longest-running musical. Nothing on Broadway even comes close to its tenure: the nearest is The Phantom of the Opera, which opened in 1988 and played its 10,000th performance in 2012.
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- In the background a large poster can be seen advertising the musical play Wicked, which originally featured Idina Menzel, who plays Nancy in Enchanted, in the starring role. Furthermore, Stephen Schwartz, who was the lyricist for Enchanted (2007), was both the composer and lyricist for Wicked (2009).
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- At the time of its closing the production will have played a total of 20,672 performances in NYC. After 55 years, off-Broadway's longest-running musical, The Fantasticks, will shutter on May 3. At the time of its closing the production will have played a total of 20,672 performances in NYC: 17,162 at the Sullivan Street Playhouse and 3,510 performances at the Snapple Theater Center. Directed by Tom Jones, The Fantasticks has a book and lyrics by Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt.
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- The Broadway.com Audience Choice Award-winning revival of Annie will close on January 5, 2014. At the time of closing the Tony-nominated revival will have played 38 previews and 487 regular performances at the Palace Theatre.
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- Screen and stage actor Taye Diggs played a short stint in the Broadway musical Wicked alongside his wife Idina Menzel. Menzel was the most popular choice for the role of Elphaba in last week's Playbill Poll, and we would love to see the real-life couple reunite in a possible film adaptation of Wicked.
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THE GOLDEN AGE OF MUSICAL THEATRE Transcript of THE GOLDEN AGE OF MUSICAL THEATRE. Conclusion. Fiddler on the Roof (1964; 3,242 performances) Had the first musical theatre run in history to surpass 3,000 performances. Fiddler held the record for the longest-running Broadway musical for almost 10 years until Grease. Nominated in 1965 for ten Tony Awards, won nine, including Best Musical.
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Wicked the Musical The musical is based on Gregory Maguire's bestselling 1995 novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, and serves as a prologue to Lyman Frank Baum's 1900 classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (as well as its movie equivalent, MGM's 1939 The Wizard of Oz).
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What are the Longest Running Broadway Shows? Also among the top 12 longest running Broadway shows are The Lion King ( currently playing at the Minskoff Theatre ) , A Chorus Line ( 1975-1990 ) , Beauty and the Beast ( 1994-2007 ) , Rent ( 1996-2008 ) , Mamma Mia ! ( currently playing at the Broadhurst Theatre ) , Oh , Calcutta ! ( 1976-1989 ) , Wicked ( currently playing at the Gershwin Theatre ...