The production stars who succeeded Tony Award winner in the lead role on Sept. 15. Lea is a recent graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.
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Curious Incident is joining an exclusive club on Broadway these days 鈥� a long-running non-musical play. Still selling an average of more than 70 percent of its tickets nearly 14 months into its run, ' drama about a young man who sets out to solve a mystery has already run longer than 12 of the 16 Tony-winning Best Plays of the past decade, and is on track to surpass in January.
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Here is a comparison of the shows that won the Tony Award for Best Play each year since the beginning of the 21st century, along with the number of Broadway performances they played:
2015 鈥� Curious Incident: 500 as of Dec. 19, 2015, and counting.
2014 鈥� : 131
2013 鈥� : 189
2012 鈥� : 157
2011 鈥� : 718
2010 鈥� : 101
2009 鈥� : 452
2008 鈥� : 648
2007 鈥� : (combined total of three parts) 121
2006 鈥� : 185
2005 鈥� Doubt: 525
2004 鈥� : 360
2003 鈥� : 355
2002 鈥� 309
2001 鈥� : 917
2000 鈥� : 32
The last non-musical play to run more than 1,000 performances on Broadway opened more than 30 years ago now: Neil Simon's 1982 Brighton Beach Memoirs, which stayed for 1,299 performances.
It's been decades since non-musical "straight plays" routinely outran musicals. opened in 1939 and ran 3,224 performances; opened in 1933 and stayed for 3,182; Abie's Irish Rose bowed in 1922 and kept bowing 2,327 times. The two longest runs since 1970 were (1977) 1,819 performances, and (1978) 1,793 performances.
