A lot has happened since 2018. Elections, COVID-19, Taylor Swift's engagement —it's been a busy time. But after all the history that was made in the years between then and now, something new is happening. Come September 1, the Tony-winning, spectacle-laden will have racked up 2,328 performances at the Lyric Theatre, which officially makes it Broadway's third-longest-running play, surpassing .

How to make this feat clearer: Well, since the two-part (now one singular) play premiered and swept up six Tony Awards in its cloak, there have been 19 movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That's a stretch of time.

But it's still not enough to beat , a 1939 comedy that held court for a staggering 3,224 performances, or , which ran on Broadway for 3,182 performances, from 1933 to 1941. And the

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