Longest Running Off Broadway Runs

As of January 11, 2007

17,162 Fantasticks (1960 Sullivan Street Playhouse)

8,006 *Tubes (Blue Man Group) (1991 Astor Place Theatre)

8,613 *Perfect Crime (May 27/08) (now in 20th year) (1987 Courtyard Playhouse/Second Stage/47th Street Theatre/Intar/Harold Clurman/moved to Duffy in 1994/Snapple Theatre 2005)

8,300+ (as of May 1/04) *Tony n' Tina's Wedding (1988 Washington Square Church, moved to St. Luke's and then to St. John's Church, with reception at Vinnie Black's Coliseum in Edison Hotel)

5,800+ *Stomp (13th anniversary Feb 27, 2007) (1994 Orpheum)

5,003 *I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (as of closing July 27/08) (starts 12th year as of Aug 1/08) (1996 Westside Theatre, Upstairs)

3,672 Nunsense (1985 Cherry Lane)

2,611 Threepenny Opera (1955 Theatre de Lys)

2,475 De La Guarda (1998 Daryl Roth Theatre)

2,371+ (now in 9th year July 28,2007) *Naked Boys Singing(2000 Actor's Playhouse - show moving to Theatre 4, 424 West 55th Street, on March 10/04; John Houseman Theatre Sept 2004; Julia Miles Theatre (3 perf a week; Oct 14 moves to Dodger Stages)

2,332 Forbidden Broadway (1982-87 Edition - Palssons Supper Club)

2,209 Little Shop of Horrors (1982 opened at WPA Theatre & transferred to Orpheum)

2,124 Godspell (1971 Cherry Lane; 1971 Promenade - 1976 moved to Broadway's Broadhurst, transferred to Plymouth 1976, transferred to Ambassador 1977 for additional 527 performances - total on and off Broadway - 2,645)

2,024 Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (1985 Provincetown Playhouse)

1,847 Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1968 Village Gate)

1,811 Forever Plaid (1990 Steve McGraws)

1,785 Vanities (1976 Chelsea Westside)

1,702 *Donkey Show (Club El Flamingo)

1,604+ Menopause the Musical (closes May 14/06)(2002 Theatre Four,Playhouse 91)

1,597 You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (1967 Theatre 80 St. Marks)

1,408 Blacks (1961 St. Marks Playhouse)

1,381 Vagina Monologues (1999)

1,372 One Mo' Time (1979 Village Gate)

1,360 Grandma Sylvia's Funeral (1994 Soho Playhouse)

1,327 Let My People Come (1974 Village Gate)

1,268 Late Night Catechism (1996 St. Luke’s Church)

1,248+ *Altar Boys (July 22/07) (2 yrs as of Mar 1/07) (2005 New World Stages - formerly Dodger)

l,200 Donkey Show (1999 Club El Flamingo)

1,195 Driving Miss Daisy (1987 Playwrights Horizon)

1,166 Hot L Baltimore (1973 Circle in the Square)

1,165 I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road (1978 Public Theatre)

1,143 Little Mary Sunshine (1959 Orpheum)

1,126 Steel Magnolias (1987 Lucille Lortel)

1,115 Late Night Catechism (1996)

1,114 El Grande de Coca Cola (1973 Mercer Arts Center)

1,109 Proposition (2001 )

1,105 Vagina Monologues (1996 Westside Theater)

1,096 Our Sinatra (Alconquin’s Oak Room 1999, Blue Angel 1999, 1999 Reprise Room @ Dillon’s, 2003 Birdland (142))

1,069 Beau Jest (1991 Lambs)

1,052 Jewtopia (as closing Apr 29/07) (2004 Westside Theatre)

1,036 Tamara (1987 Park Avenue Armory)

1,025 One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1971 Mercer-Hansberry)

1004 Slava's Snowshow (2004 Union Square Theatre) (closed Jan 14/07)

1,000 Boys in the Band (1968 Theatre Four)

1,000 Fool For Love (1983 Circle Repertory)

990 Other Peoples Money (1989 Minetta Lane)

983 Forbidden Broadway's 20th Anniversary

971 Cloud 9 (1981 Theatre de Lys)

953 Secrets Every Smart Traveller Should Know (2001 Triad - moved to Ibis Theatre)

947 Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (1981 Playwrights Horizon)

933 Your Own Thing (1968 Orpheum)

931 Curly McDimple (1967 Bert Wheeler)

928 Leave It to Jane (revival) (1959 Sheridan Square Playhouse)

871 Mad Show (1966 New)

857 Hedwig and the Angry Inch (1998 Jane Street Theater)

850 Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back (2001 Douglas Fairbanks)

840 When Pigs Fly (1996 Phoenix)

832 Mono (2000 Surf Reality)

831 Mad Show (1966 New/moved to Mark Hellinger)

831 Scrambled Feet (1979 Village Gate)

819 Effect of the Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1970 Mercer-O'Casey

800 Over the River and Through the Woods (1998 John Houseman)

796 Late Night Catechism (1997 St. Luke’s Church)

780 View From the Bridge (revival) (1965 Sheridan Square Playhouse)

763 Boyfriend (revival)(1958 Cherry Lane)

762 True West (1982 Cherry Lane)

754 Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act (1998)

733 Isn't It Romantic (1983 Playwrights Horizon)

728 Dime a Dozen (1962 Plaza 9 Music Hall)

725 Pocket Watch (1966 Actors Playhouse)

722 Connection (1959 Living Theatre)

714 Passion of Dracula (1977 Cherry Lane)

713 Love, Janis – (2001 Village Theatre)

707 Adaptation/Next (1969 Greenwich Mews)

704 Oh Calcutta (1969 Eden)

692 Scuba Duba (1967 New)

686 Foreigner (1984 Astor Place)

685 Knack....(1964 New)

675 Fully Committed (2003 Lyric Stage)

674 Club (1976 Circle in the Square Downtown)

672 Balcony (1960 Circle in the Square Downtown)

666 Penn and Teller (1985 Westside Arts)

654 Dinner With Friends (2001 Variety Arts)

638+ Vagina Monologues – (closed Jan 26/03) (1996 Here/1999 Westside Theatre)

634 Countess (1999 Greenwich St. Theatre - moved to Samuel Beckett 1999)

634 America Hurrah (1966 Pocket Theatre)

632 Cookin'(closing Aug/05) (2004 Minetta Lane)

628+ *Fantasticks (revival) as of closing Feb 24/08 (2006 Snapple Theater Center-Jerry Orbach Theater)

626 Oil City Symphony (1987 Circle in the Square Downtown)

624 Prince and the Pauper (2002 Lambs Theatre)

618 Countess ( 2004 Samuel Beckett)

615 Wit (1998 MCC Theatre)

608 Exonerated (2002 45 Bleecker)

608 Exonerated (

607 Drumstick (2005 New World Stages)

607 Hogan's Goat (1965 St. Clement's Church)

601 Master Class ( )

600 Trojan Women (1963 Circle in the Square)

600 Criss Angel: Mindfreak (2001 World Underground Theater)

600 Beehive (1986 Top of the Gate - Village Gate Upstairs)

600 Trojan Women (1963 Circle in the Square Downtown)

592 Six Characters in Search of an Author (1963 Martinique)

586 Syringa Tree (2000 NY Theater Workshop)

583 Dining Room (1982 Astor Place)

582 Three Tall Women (1994 Vineyard Theater)

582 Krapp's Last Tape/Zoo Story (1960 Provincetown Playhouse)

578 Pinter Plays (Dumbwaiter and The Collection) (1962 Cherry Lane)

576 Forbidden Broadway (1990-91 edition - Palsson's Supper Club)

575 Dames at Sea (1968 Bouwerie Lane)

574 Musical of Musicals-the Musical (2004 York,Dodger Stages)

571 Crucible (revival/transfer) (1958 Martinique)

565 Iceman Cometh (revival) (1956 Circle in the Square Downtown)

557 Last Night of Ballyhoo ( )

552 Forbidden Broadway 2001: A Spoof Odyssey (2001 Douglas Fairbanks)

545 Wit (1998 Union Square Theatre/MCC Theater)

545 Hostage (revival/transfer)(1961 One Sheridan Square)

543 What's a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State Like This? (1973 Upstairs at Jimmys)

534 Forbidden Broadway (1988-89 edition - Palsson's Supper Club)

534 Gross Indecency: Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (1997 Minetta Lane)

533 Sound of Music (revival) ( )

533 Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (1987 Westside Arts)

529 Six Characters in Search of an Author (revival) (1963 Martinique/Repertory Actors Theatre)

526 Forbidden Broadway: 20th Anniversary Celebration (2002 Apollo Theater)

526 All in the Timing (1994 )

513 Oleanna (1992 Orpheum)

511 Making Porn (1995 Actor's Playhouse)

509 Dirtiest Show in Town (1970 Astor Place)

504 Happy Ending/Day of Absence (1965 St. Mark's Playhouse)

501 A Shayna Maidel (1987 Westside Arts)

501 Greater Tuna (1982 Circle in the Square Downtown)

500 *My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, and I'm in Therapy (Jan 17/08) (2006 Little Shubert,Westside Theatre)

500 Fantasticks (revival) (2006 Snapple Theatre Centre (Jerry Orbach Theatre)

500 Boys From Syracuse (revival) (1963 Theatre Four)

500 Syringa Tree (Mar 9/02) (2001 Playhouse 91)

494 Sideman ( 1998 Criterion Center Stage/transfer John Golden)

493 Doubt (2005 Walter Kerr)

452 Puppetry of the Penis (2001 John Houseman)

450 How I Learned to Drive (1998 Century Theatre)

425 Marijuana-Logues (2004 Actors Playhouse)

400 Underneath the Lintel (2001 Soho Playhouse)

384 Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (2006 Zipper)

100 *Fuerzabruta (Jan 18/08) (2007 Daryl Roth)

100 *Walmartopia (Dec 4/07)(closes Dec 30/07)(2007 Minetta Lane)