Longest Running Shows on Broadway

Here is the list of longest running shows on Broadway as of September 12, 2006. Interestingly, they are all musicals.

While The Fantasticks is the world's longest running musical, it ran Off-Broadway, so it doesn't make this list.

1) Phantom of the Opera
Majestic Theater
Previewed January 9, 1988
Opened January 26, 1988
Still running
Total Performances: 7,767

2) Cats
Winter Garden Theater
Previewed September 23, 1982
Opened October 7, 1982
Closed September 10, 2000
Total Performances: 7,485

3) Les Miserables
Broadway Theater (through 10/14/1990)
Imperial Theater (through closing)
Previewed February 28, 1987
Opened March 12, 1987
Closed May 18, 2003
Total Performances: 6,680

4) A Chorus Line
Schubert Theater
Opened July 25, 1975
Closed April 28, 1990
Total Performances: 6,137

5) Oh! Calcutta! (1976 revival)
Edison Theater
Opened September 24 1976
Closed August 6, 1989
Total Performances: 5,959

6) Beauty and the Beast
Palace Theater (through 9/5/1999)
Lunt-Fontane Theater
Previewed March 9,1994
Opened April 18, 1994
Still running
Total Performances: 5,093

7) Rent
Nederlander Theater
Previewed April 16, 1996
Opened April 29, 1996
Still playing
Total Performances: 4,315

8) Chicago (1996 revival)
Richard Rodgers Theatre (through 2/9/1997)
Shubert Theatre (through 1/26/2003)
Ambassador Theatre
Previewed October 23, 1996
Opened November 14, 1996
Still running
Total performances 4,093

9) Miss Saigon
Broadway Theater
Previewed March 23, 1991
Opened April 11, 1991
Closed January 28, 2001
Total Performances: 4,092

10) Lion King
New Amsterdam Theatre
Previewed October 15, 1997
Opened November 13, 1997
Still running
Total Performances: 3,676