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Chicago The Musical
Chicago failed first. It opened in June 1975, ran 936 performances, spent its whole life in the shadow of A Chorus Line, and closed. The revival that resurrected it twenty-one years later was a concert staging with no set, no costumes to speak of and the band pushed on stage because there was nowhere else to put them — and that cheap idea is the version now playing its fourth decade at the Ambassador Theatre.
- Cities
- 37
- Home theatre
- Ambassador Theatre
- Open run
- New York, since 14 November 1996
- Running time
- 2 hours 30 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission
- On sale
- 30 of 37 runs
- Last checked
- 22 September 2026
It is the longest-running American musical in Broadway history and the second-longest-running show of any kind, past 11,000 performances and still selling. This year it also plays Tokyo, Osaka and Dubai; next year, thirty-three theatres across Britain and Ireland.
Below is every run this site tracks — the theatre, the dates and whoever is actually selling the tickets — plus what the show is, how it got here, and the numbers you can watch tonight for nothing.
Where it plays
Soonest first. Every city has its own page, with the theatre, the dates and the seller.
New York
The revival's first preview was on 23 October 1996 and it opened on 14 November.
Playing since 14 November 1996 · Ambassador Theatre
Dubai
The first Broadway theatrical production ever staged at Coca-Cola Arena, brought in by Marquee Global Events and Orbis Global Events: eight performances over five days in December, in a room that holds seventeen thousand people.
16 – 20 December 2026 · Coca-Cola Arena
Wimbledon
The tour opens here.
5 – 13 February 2027 · New Wimbledon Theatre
Plymouth
The tour's second stop, and its first outside London: five nights at the Theatre Royal.
16 – 20 February 2027 · Theatre Royal Plymouth
Cardiff
Six nights at the Wales Millennium Centre, which opened in November 2004 — one of the few buildings on this tour younger than the theatres it otherwise plays.
22 – 27 February 2027 · Wales Millennium Centre
Sheffield
Five nights at the Sheffield Lyceum, in the week the tour turns north.
2 – 6 March 2027 · Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
Tours
Read on
About the show
The story, the staging, the songs people leave humming, and what kind of night out the musical is.
History
Two acquittals in 1924, a reporter's play in 1926, a Fosse musical in 1975, and a concert staging in 1996 that has been running ever since.
The songs
The running order of the musical's 1996 revival — the version now playing everywhere on this site's calendar — with who sings what and why it is there.
Watch online
The numbers the production publishes itself and the musical's cast recordings on the rights holders' channels, playing on the page.
Tickets
Thirty-seven runs of the musical in one table — city, theatre, dates, and who is selling. Sales happen on the seller's own site.
Two minutes, no ticket
What it looks and sounds like, from channels the rights holders run themselves.
All That Jazz — official video
The musical's opening number, and the production's own film of it. Velma sings the audience into a nightclub while a murder happens behind her.
Chicago The Musical · checked 29 August 2026
CHICAGO on Broadway: All That Jazz
The same number from the musical's Broadway company — the bare stage, the band behind the cast, the Fosse vocabulary intact.
Chicago The Musical · checked 29 August 2026
Things people ask about Chicago The Musical
How long is Chicago The Musical?
2 hours 30 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission, as the Ambassador Theatre in New York publishes it. A touring stop gives its own figure on its page where its seller states one.
Where is Chicago The Musical playing next?
Dubai, at the Coca-Cola Arena: 16 – 20 December 2026. It is the first of 34 dated runs still to come.
Where is Chicago The Musical playing with no closing date?
At the Ambassador Theatre in New York. The run has been going since 14 November 1996, with no closing date announced.