Last week, for example, the Roundabout Theater Company announced it would increase the top price for the hit revival of "Cabaret" to $90.

This began with a hit 1963 revival of Private Lives in London and then New York.

He danced on Broadway, most recently in a featured role in the hit revival of "Guys and Dolls."

The hit revival of the Gershwins's "Oh, Kay!"

(The huge hit revival of "Chicago" comes from that series.)

And the Lincoln Center Theater's recent hit revival, with a rewritten book, has enhanced its historical status.

That's the recurring joke in Broadway's new hit revival of "Wonderful Town."

Still, a move to Broadway has a precedent in "Chicago," the hit revival that began as an Encores!

For the second time in six months, the playwright, whose work is being celebrated in Signature's one-author-a-season style, has delivered a hit revival for the theater.

Last season, the series initiated the hit revival of "Chicago," whose hard-shelled cynicism seems utterly contemporary even as its score parodies 1920's vaudeville styles.