These grosses do not take into account the effects of inflation and as such the list is heavily skewed in favor of more recent Broadway shows.
The following is a list of the top 10 highest-grossing musical theatre franchises worldwide based on limited available data.
The following figures include revenue grossed from ticket sales in theatres across the world.
[23][24] Note that the following gross figures are nominal, not adjusted for inflation, and do not take into account rising ticket prices.
The Broadway League did not begin collecting admissions data until June 1984.