Wicked The Musical: By the Numbers

WICKED THE MUSICAL BY THE NUMBERS Longest Running Show in Broadway History 11 Phantom of the Opera Cats Chicago Les Miserables The Lion King WíCKED A Chorus Line RENT Oh Calcutta! Beauty and the Beast Rent Mamma Mia Miss Saigon 10 Productions of 10 the Musical Running Worldwide A U.K. TOUR 2 CONCURRENT NORTH AMERICAN NATIONAL TOURS LONDON SOUTH KOREA (SEOUL) NEW YORK JAPAN (TOKYO) LATIN AMERICA (MEXICO CITY) PHILIPPINES (MANILA-JAN 2014) AUSTRALIA - NEW ZEALAND (AUCRLAND) (1 Broadway's #1 Show for Nine Consecutive Years Won 3 Tony Awards, 7 Drama Desk Awards & A Grammy Award in 2004 Wicked recovered its $14 million investment in 14 months (most shows take two to three years) Its estimated 28 million people have seen Wicked, amounting to a $2.2 billion in cumulative gross sales The 1900 seat Gershwin Theatre operates at 99% capacity 250 Ibs of dry ice are used per show on Broadway The dragon's wingspan is the same Cessna 172 as a The animal masks take 2 to 3 hourS to apply and the person loses most of their senses actors change from a mob to students in a minute and a half %D IZ Houses could be powered with the electricity used in one performance The scenery weighs 175,000 lbs & needs five miles of cable to automate it SOURCES en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest-running_Broadway_shows (BROADWAY TOUR www.broadwayworld.com/article/WICKED-to-Become-11th-Longest-Running -Show-in-Broadway-History-94-20130903 mentalfloss.com/article/22914/quick-9-nine-wicked-facts www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/theater-dance/wicked-world-composer-ly ricist-stephen-schwartz-reflects-on-his-oz-with-a-twist-show-312825/ www.wickedthemusical.com/files/marketing/press_materials/Fun_Facts.pdf II