Talk:List of the 100 Longest-Running Broadway shows

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[edit] Run count?

How exactly is the run count being figured? Is it the total number of performances to take place on Broadway between all productions of the show, the number of performances for the original Broadway production, the number of performances for the longest running production, etc.? I was just slightly confused by the way the numbers are being figured, so I thought it might help if we could clarify things a bit. —Mears man (talk) 04:30, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Seems it should be the total number of runs 'till today, but it looks like it's quite a bit off sometimes. The King and I for instance had, after the article, 1246+695+191+780=2912 runs, whereas the article only shows the 1246 for the original showing. For other shows, it matches quite exactly the amount in the article. --PaterMcFly (talk) 07:54, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Okay. I filled in most of the chart myself using this as a source, but because I wasn't sure how we were doing it I just went with the longest run of the show, whether it be the original production or a revival (I indicated if it was a revival in the chart), and I filled in any information I could find about other productions in the comments section. If you feel this chart should account for all the showing between every production of the show on Broadway I wouldn't object to that, although it probably would take quite a bit of time to get through all 100 of them. —MearsMan ^talk 15:09, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

It's probably fine like that, since it's also much easier to get the sources for that listing. (IBDB provides it via Advanced search almost immediatelly). However, I've already done most of the work to get the overall numbers while translating the article to german. See de:Liste der 100 am häufigsten am Broadway gezeigten Darbietungen for the numbers. The order of some of the shows differ quite much from this list, though. I haven't completed everything yet, since it's quite a bit of work (as you said) and there could as well be an AfD request coming up soon. --PaterMcFly (talk) 20:12, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

I would doubt that there would be an AfD, or at least a successful one, as this used to be a category and the CFD discussion was overwhelming in favor of listifying. Ma^t_chups 02:45, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I maybe made myself not clear enough: I talked about an AfD request on de:WP, not here. Those are much more common, and there are a lot more reasons for deletion than here. --PaterMcFly (talk) 06:03, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sources

I'm sure anyone reading this already knows these sources, and I admit that these sources are pretty obvious, but just for the record:

• Internet Broadway Database [1]--search for the individual show;
• Info Please [2]-- has a listing, as of 9/2007 (as of now).

I'll look around for other sources, but not until next week. JeanColumbia (talk) 18:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)