Broadway's All-Time Box Office Champions

Discover the musicals and plays that have earned the most revenue in Broadway history, showcasing their enduring popularity and financial success.

The top 3

  1. Top 3 Highest-Grossing Broadway Musicals: The Lion King leads as the highest-grossing Broadway musical with over $2 billion, followed by Wicked with over $1.8 billion, and The Phantom of the Opera with over $1.3 billion.
  2. Top 3 Highest-Grossing Broadway Plays: While musicals dominate the highest-grossing lists, accurate historical gross data for plays before 1984 is scarce, as The Broadway League only began collecting this data in June 1984.
  3. Most Expensive Broadway Productions Ever: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark holds the record as the most expensive Broadway production, costing around $75 million, followed by Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at $68 million, and Moulin Rouge! at $28 million.

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