It's an interesting fact that Andrew Lloyd Webber got a Broadway production before he ever got a West End one for one of his earliest shows Jesus Christ Superstar, and he does now also hold the record for the longest running Broadway show of all time in the still-ongoing Phantom of the Opera, thus eclipsing such homegrown Broadway greats as Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, or Stephen Sond…
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:41AM on April 6, 2012