8) Les Misérables - Original
Broadway Gross: $406.26 million
Opening Date: 03/12/1987
Closing Date: 05/18/2003
Playbill Synopsis: Relentless policeman Javert pursues escaped convict Jean Valjean over decades through the tumult of revolutionary France. Valjean becomes a mayor, agrees to raise the daughter of dying prostitute and joins the fight for freedom.