Theatre Thursday :: a sad collection of percentages.

27 May

There are currently 22 musicals running on Broadway.  Main Broadway, not off-Broadway; that would skew this tally considerably.  But here we go.

  • 45% are based on films, television shows, books, or plays.
  • 27% are jukebox musicals.
  • 27% are musicals I’ve seen (22% seen on tour, 4% seen actually in New York).
  • 22% won their respective Tony (Best Musical or Best Revival of a Musical).
  • 18% have been running 10+ years.
  • Only 13% are revivals.
  • 13% are original material.
  • 9% were in part written by Sir Elton John.
  • 4% (a whopping one musical) is an original musical that is not a revival.
  • 4% are something I’d want to see and have not already seen.

…well, hm.

–your fangirl heroine.

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