Waitress is the first musical to have an all-female creative team!
In 2012, there were 12.4 million tickets sold for broadway shows!
Since Phantom of the Opera opened, they have created 300 custom masks!
The longest running show is… The Phantom of the Opera with over 11,400 since it opened it 1988.
Disney’s The Lion King is the first Broadway show to gross $1 Billion in revenue.
For the 2016-2017 season, total Broadway attendance reached 13,270,343 people, and the shows grossed $1,449,399,149. This was the highest grossing season in Broadway history, and the second-best attended.
Norm Lewis made history by being the first African-American actor to perform the titular role!
It took over 37,000 hours (the equivalent of about 4.22 years) to build all of the puppets and used in The Lion King musical.
The show-stopping song “Memory” from Cats has been recorded more than 150 times.
Belle’s yellow ball gown in Beauty and the Beast is one of the most memorable costumes in musical theatre: The original gown worn by Susan Egan in the Broadway production weighed nearly 40 pounds and was a mix of hoop, silk, brocade, flowers, beading, and bows. The dress was so elaborate that it didn’t even fit down the stairwell to Egan’s dressing room!
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