John Gielgud directed Richard Burton in a Broadway production at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in 1964 – 5, the longest-running Hamlet in the U. S. to date.

opens on Broadway, heralds a new era in " integrated " stage musicals, becomes an instantaneous stage classic, and goes on to be Broadway's longest-running musical up to that time ( 1948 ).

This musical premiered in London's West End in 1981 and on Broadway in 1982, and went on to become the longest-running Broadway show in history, until it was beaten by another Andrew Lloyd Webber show, The Phantom of the Opera.

It is the longest-running Broadway production of this play at 157 performances.

The Fantasticks, the longest-running musical in theatre history, spent its original 42-year run Off Broadway.

The 1939 Broadway production ran for over seven years to become the longest-running non-musical play on Broadway, a record that it still holds.

This production plays exactly a year, and is the longest-running Broadway revival up to that time.

It has become the longest-running revival in Broadway history, and the 2002 film version was also a great success, including an Oscar nomination for the collaboration.

In 2011 Perry was featured as an historical figure when The Neo-Futurists devised a show about the longest-running failure in Broadway history, J. Frank Davis ' The Ladder.

It is the second longest-running musical in the world after The Fantasticks, the second longest-running West End show after The Mousetrap, and the third longest-running show in Broadway history.

As of September 2011, Miss Saigon is still the eleventh longest-running Broadway musical in musical theatre history.

As of September 2011, Miss Saigon is still the 11th longest-running Broadway musical in musical theatre history.

Despite the show's considerable success ( Horne still holds the record for the longest-running solo performance in Broadway history ), she did not capitalize on the renewed interest in her career by undertaking many new musical projects.

Smokey Joe's Cafe was also nominated for seven Tony awards, and became the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history.

This does not apply to theatres with addresses on Broadway, such as the Winter Garden Theatre which has housed several Tony Award-winning productions as well as two of the top ten longest-running musicals in Broadway history -- Cats and Mamma Mia !.

It ran for 6, 137 performances, becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history up to that time.

This was Neil Simon's longest-running hit, and the tenth longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history.

The show starred Zero Mostel as Tevye and ran for 3242 performances, setting the record ( since surpassed ) for longest-running Broadway show.

On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production, after the United States soap opera As the World Turns ended.

William Roache has played Ken Barlow continuously from 1960 on the British soap Coronation Street, which is also the longest-running television soap in the world still in production.

In 1963, the BBC began production of the longest-running science-fiction television series ever, Doctor Who, about a time travelling alien called the Doctor.

It has aired at that time since, for 36 years, making 60 Minutes not only the longest-running prime time program currently in production, but also the television program ( excluding daily programs such as evening newscasts or breakfast shows ) broadcasting for the longest length of time at a single time period each week in U. S. television history.

Upon closing, the production had played four preview and 644 regular performances, making it the longest-running production of the play in its history.

In 2005, That's So Raven became the network's highest-rated series since the network's move to basic cable ; as well as being the first original series to beat the 65-episode limit ( the highly controversial programming rule implemented in 1998, had guaranteed any original series would end after 65 episodes to prevent production costs from increasing ; however this rule is no longer enforced ); the series eventually hit 100 episodes, becoming the channel's longest-running original series until October 2011 and became the first to spawn a spin-off, Cory in the House.

This became the longest-running production of a Shakespearean play presented in the United States, a record that it still holds.

As of July 2007, it remains the longest-running program to air continuously in the Los Angeles area, almost 50 years after production ended.

This show has became one of the most popular and longest-running Nicktoons in history ( even receiving its own Star ), and did not cease production until 2004.

In production since 1966, it is one of the longest-running television programs in broadcast history.

Although it did not achieve the success of most of their earlier productions, it was the longest-running production to premiere at the Savoy Theatre in the 1890s.

In late 1934, she starred in the school's production of Alien Corn, speaking foreign languages, playing the piano, and receiving rave reviews in what was then the longest-running play in the department's history.

His prominent roles included originating the character of El Gallo in The Fantasticks, the longest-running musical play in history, Chuck Baxter in the original production of Promises, Promises ( for which he won a Tony Award ), Julian Marsh in 42nd Street and Billy Flynn in the original production of Chicago.

The production held the record for the longest-running one-woman show in Broadway history until Golda's Balcony, starring Tovah Feldshuh, surpassed it by forty performances.

General Hospital ( commonly abbreviated GH ) an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest-running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns.

Concurrently, it is the world's third longest-running scripted drama series currently in production after British serials The Archers and Coronation Street, as well as the world's second-longest televised soap opera still in production.

From 1960 to 1972, he starred in My Three Sons, one of the longest-running television series in the United States.

Her longest-running play was the 1927 hit Tommy in which she starred with Sidney Toler, which ran for 232 performances and became the play for which she was most remembered.

This 1946 revival of Show Boat, which starred Jan Clayton, Charles Fredericks, Carol Bruce, Ralph Dumke, and Kenneth Spencer, was the longest-running revival of a show up to that time.

The longest-running Broadway production ran 232 performances in 1923 and starred Walter Hampden, who returned to the role on the Great White Way in 1926, 1928, 1932, and 1936.

Tree's longest-running revival, Henry VIII, ran for a sensational 254 consecutive performances from 1 September 1910 to 8 April 1911.

Philosophical Transactions is the oldest and longest-running scientific journal in the world, having first been published in March 1665 by the first Secretary of the Society Henry Oldenburg.

The original Broadway production, directed by Edward Royce, opened on November 18, 1919 at the Vanderbilt Theatre, where it ran for 675 performances, at the time the record for the longest-running show in Broadway history, one it maintained for nearly two decades.