continues its record pace, setting new long-run totals for Broadway every night. It will play its 11,412th performance July 2. It still has almost 14 years to go before it passes the all-time U.S. long-run record holder, The Fantasticks, which played 17,162 during its original Off-Broadway run.
The Broadway revival of recently played its 7,700th performance, having surpassed ' total of 7,485 last year.
However, coming up quickly is , which will play its 7,350th performance later this month.
Mamma Mia!, which is scheduled to close in September, will hit 5,650 this weekend. It will be the eighth longest-running show in Broadway history.
Several other current shows are breaking longstanding old records. stands at 1,782 performances tonight, having recently surpassed original runs of Hair, and .
(934) and (928) have now run longer than , and , and are closing in on , and later this summer.
See a complete list of Broadway shows that have run more than 800 performances, plus some of Off-Broadway's most historic runs by .
