"Sorry to you, Abie's Irish Rose! A lot has happened since 2018. Elections, COVID-19, Taylor Swift's engagement-it's been a busy time. But after all the history that was made in the years between then and now, something new is happening. Come September 1, the Tony-winning, spectacle-laden Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will have racked up 2,328 performances at the Lyric Theatre, which officially makes it Broadway's third-longest-running play, surpassing Abie's Irish Rose."
"But it's still not enough to beat Life with Father, a 1939 comedy that held court for a staggering 3,224 performances, or Tobacco Road, which ran on Broadway for 3,182 performances, from 1933 to 1941. And the title of longest-running Broadway show, full stop, is hardly within reach. That record is still held by the moody musical The Phantom of the Opera, with 13,981 performances."
"Guinness World Records has already crowned this wizarding venture the highest-grossing non-musical play in Broadway history, amassing over $430 million in ticket sales and shifting more than 3.5 million seats. These stats are particularly gratifying at a time when plays don't have these sorts of lengthy runs anymore. Sure, the IP is strong here, but this is a testament as much to the stagecraft as it is to the popularity of the boy who lived."
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child reached 2,328 performances at the Lyric Theatre, becoming Broadway's third-longest-running play and surpassing Abie's Irish Rose. The play won six Tony Awards and premiered in London in 2016 before opening on Broadway in 2018. Historical comparisons show longer runs for Life with Father (3,224) and Tobacco Road (3,182), while The Phantom of the Opera remains the longest with 13,981 performances. Guinness World Records named the play the highest-grossing non-musical play with over $430 million in ticket sales and more than 3.5 million seats sold. The production shifted from a two-part format to a single evening after a pandemic shutdown and later trimmed its runtime to just under three hours.
Read at Time Out New York
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