The Overture The lyrics for the show were written by lyrics by <PERSON> and music was written by <PERSON> It is the longest running musical on Broadway On Monday, January 9, 2006, surpassed Cats with performance number 7486 Has been in the same theatre, The Majestic Theatre, since 1988 Over 10 million audience members have attended the Broadway production It has played to over 100 million people in 22 countries in 113 cities around the world