Technical Facts about the Original Production

On 9 January 2006 the New York production overtook Cats to become the longest-running show in Broadway history with its 7,486 th On 7 July 2014 it celebrated its 11,000 th performance on Broadway.

The original cast recording was the first in British musical history to enter the charts at number one.

Won over 70 major theatre awards including 3 Olivier Awards, an Evening Standard Award, 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical, 7 Drama Desk Awards and 5 Outer Critic Circle Awards.

Played in 15 different languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Danish, Polish, Swedish, Castilian, Hungarian, Dutch, Korean, Portuguese, Mexican Spanish, Estonian and Russian.

Played for almost 30 years and over 12,000 performances at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London.

The box office revenues are higher than any film or stage play in history, including Titanic, ET, Star Wars and Avatar.

The countries are England, United States of America, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, Eire, Austria, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Scotland, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Wales, Estonia, Russia, Singapore, Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Philippines, China, Czech Republic, Thailand, Turkey and Finland.

Played to over 140 million people in 33 countries in 166 cities around the world with an estimated gross of $6 billion.

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