Repeat Visits?

Some similarities to danieljohnson14 above..

Phantom - genuinely lost count; used to go at least once a year but not been since 2016 for various reasons. Overdue a trip but current reports put me off.
Charlie - 5 times in the final 2 years.
Company - 3 also. It's the current obsession and not ashamed to say that I have a day planned soon for 2 sittings to get my final fix.

Not a show per say, but overdosed on the Moulin Rouge DVD years ago and find it hard to sit through now.

Where do I start?! Wicked was my first repeat-visit WE show, notching up 62 viewings in the first 3 years of the WE run. by that point most of the people I'd liked in the original cast had left & I'd pretty much had enough of it. I've seen it 5 times in the subesquent decade so I can still enjoy it occasionally, in a slightly nostalgic way.

After that I went through several WE shows which closed before I had time to get bored with them: Zorro (22), Lend Me A Tenor (11), Crazy For You (10) & Top Hat (26). Plus dipping in and out of some of the long runners depending on who was in various casts: Phantom (30), Les Mis (15) & Mamma Mia (10).

Up to that point I'd only done lots of repeat-viewing of musicals (opera productions not running long enough to ever allow it), apart from seeing The 39 Steps every year or so (8 viewings over 7 years). Then Mischief Theatre happened & I think all the board regulars know where this is going! A quick tot-up shows that I've currently seen them 169 times, spread across the various shows. Handily, by the time I get bored with repeat-viewing one Mischief show they're onto the next one. I've seen TCAABR the most at 65 times & think I've about hit my limit with that recently.

Wicked x5, but after my sixth in July, I’m calling it a day.

Kinky Boots and Six x2, But I wish I could see both more.

Everything else I’ve only seen one (I think).

So - Les Mis - 10 times in 30 years, most of it in the first 5 years at the Palace. But 3 times in the last year for visitors - its amazing after a 15 year break I still found it heart breaking and amazing.
Dreamgirls - 5 times - thank goodness for the £20 back of the stalls seats - and the lovely box office man who laughed whenever he saw me and upgraded us to centre stalls twice.
La Cage Aux Folles at The Playhouse 4 times - mainly Barrowman ( I’ve drawn a veil over Graham Norton ).
Wicked - 5 times - mainly with visitors.
42nd Street 3 times - God bless Claire Halse.
A Little Night Music at the RNT - 3 times with the lovely Dame Judi.
Sweet Charity - 3 times at the Menier - still one of my favourites.
Hamilton - 4 times in Dec/Jan 2017/8
Oh and don’t tell anyone but I’ve seen Company 3 times in the last week.
The only ones I overegged were the early Les Mis’ as I didn’t live in London at the time and had a 3 hour trek by the time I got home. And Wicked was in its early days and very very fangirly.

I remember seeing that, in Bath, but once was sufficient for me. I did however have a similar urgent need for a repeat view after seeing a semi-staged performance of Yeomen of the Guard at the RFH in 2012. I discovered that the only other performance was taking place in Liverpool the following weekend. Yes, I went to Liverpool.

I don't have time to see shows often rather than see more shows but not really inclined. Always prioritise plays I haven't seen and, after that, productions I haven't seen.

Having said that I've seen Phantom and Les Mis three times and Jesus Christ Superstar three times - but that was three different productions. Seen a fair number of plays more than once but can only recall seeing Jerusalem and The Tempest (Fiennes as Prospero) twice with the same production.

Actually, with my two trips to Kinky Boots were within 5 days of each other. I went on a Monday and saw Kayi Ushe and Joel Harper Jackson, then I went back on the Saturday and saw Callum Francis’ last matinee and Daniel Conway’s Charlie debut show.

Book of Mormon - 11 times
Les Mis - 7 or 8 times I believe

Those are the two I've seen most times. I saw both of them for the first time in 2013.

I went to the last four shows of 42nd Street. They were two lots of back to back two show days. Four shows in two days must be my record and I can't imagine I would ever do that again

One was the muck up matinee and the final show of anything is always special. I couldnt do four of the same "standard" shows.

Wicked used to be my go-to show and there wasn't a single trip to London where I didn't see the show at least once, usually even more often. Currently, I'm at 133 times with the record being 30 times in 2014, but with Wicked London's questionable and uninspired casting decisions (it all started with Emma Hatton), I've lost all interest in the show and haven't been for quite some time. And unless they cast someone I really, really want to see (Rachel John please), I have absolutely no interest in returning. Heck, I even haven't seen the current cast and if it posted closing notice, I wouldn't even care.
I've seen Book of Mormon 27 times, but, very much like Wicked, their casting (and keeping) of Brian Sears drove me away and now I'm down to maybe once a year, if at all.

Another one is Memphis, also at 27 times but all during the one year it ran in London. The first cast was absolute perfection and I still miss the show so dearly that I'd go out of my way to see it again. Sadly I can't stand the Broadway cast (especially their weird Huey), so the DVD is no proper replacement. They should have filmed the West End production professionally - or at least the Broadway replacement cast with Adam Pascal.

I've seen Avenue Q 27 times, mostly the various UK tours, plus the Off-Broadway production a few times. Never actually seen it in London.

Sadly, I missed Sheridan Smith in Legally Blonde, but nonetheless seen the show 20 times, and Susan McFadden was a (more than) worthy replacement going by the cast recording. No matter how ill-tempered I was, I always left the theatre with a huge smile. Luckily, there's the professional MTV recording of the Broadway production.

Newsies is at 14, only once on Broadway, but I travelled to the US three times to see the US tour (in Washington DC, St Louis and San Diego).

With the advantage of old age I can say, I've seen many shows several times such as Starlight Express and Cats which were my go-to musicals in the 90s and each totalling around 30-40 times now, followed by other long-runs like Phantom and Les Mis at 10-20 times (often across various places and countries).

Guess Cats was the one I've seen in most places: Hamburg, Vienna, London, New York, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Copenhagen plus the more recent tours here (Berlin, Oberhausen, finally at home in Cologne). Followed by Les Miserables (Vienna, Amsterdam, Antwerp, London, Duisburg plus non-replica productions in Bonn and Tecklenburg Open-Air)

In the last 20 years I rarely managed to revisit the same shows more often as I don't bother with Germany anymore and there are always so many new shows to see in London.

Although last year was an exception - saw that little rock jukebox musical at the Dominion 8 times in as many months (and once in Germany, though I'd like to banish that one from my mind) and ended up seeing 42nd Street 3 times, because I mostly went for Ashley Day and he was off the first two times!

Now I'm home and with access to my spreadsheet I can add properly to this!

So Rebecca, to my shame I saw 3 times in 2 weeks. I still know not why...

The first time I saw Rent in New York, I saw it on the 22nd December and was back again on the 26th! overall I've seen Rent less than some of you might think, only 10 times overall, one of which being Rent: Remixed which really doesn't count....

Angels I've seen 7 times (both parts) and a stay Millennium in 2007....of course I did see it twice in one week (both parts) which all told is what, over 60 hours of it?

I did accidentally see Wicked twice in one week once, when friends booked after I already had tickets. But I was young, and Idina was in it so....I'm shocked to realise I've only seen it 5 times over the years, it really felt like more.

Oh wait...I've seen it a half time extra...I left the Welsh language version I saw because it was, well awful. 

I think this is the only play in this thread with what I think of as a ‘musical level’ of repeat visits :-) I’ve been wondering, do we have any other examples of plays that inspire the same sort of fandom? What is it about musicals that keeps people coming back?