Based in Houston, Texas, Salena Accardo is a results-oriented business leader. She has broad experience steering organizational growth through expanding product portfolios, adopting innovative technologies, forging strategic partnerships, and moving into emerging markets. She has industry experience in professional services (advisory and consulting), and financial services and high tech. . Salena Accardo efficiently uses structured data analysis to develop initiatives that enhance operations and oversees their implementation to achieve sustainable growth. Salena Accardo is currently a vice president of global services and delivery with Gartner. She leads the advisory practice, working with Fortune 500 companies and large public sector organizations to realize their goals through cloud adoption, digital transformation, enterprise governance, product management, and organizational change. Salena Accardo previously led Gartner’s Americas' Emerging Markets practice; Specially focused on the the Latin America region and Canada . She grew the practice by 40 percent ($14 million to $20 million) in two years. Prior to Gartner, Salena Accardo was the Director of IT- Retirement services, consumer division at AIG. She had direct oversight of a $250 million IT investment portfolio and a $50 million operational budget. She has previously served as a Portfolio Director for Blinds.com, where she defined new product verticals to increase sales by 50 percent and led the launch of global sales channels with entries in Mexico and Canada. Salena Accardo is an alumna of Louisiana State University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science. An avid proponent of support, she advocates for children's health through Hope Squad, and is a troop leader with the Girl Scouts of America.
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The Longest-Running Shows in Broadway History
Broadway theater is a cultural institution in New York City. There are 41 Broadway theaters in the Broadway Theater district, each of which has more than 500 seats, and many, including the Hudson Theatre and Winter Garden Theatre, have been in operation for more than 100 years. A testament to Broadway's history and popularity, 126 productions have exceeded 1,000 performances.
Many Broadway shows, especially plays, start as limited engagements, meaning they already have a predetermined closing date before opening. Others open without a closing date and their run is determined by ticket sales and commercial success. Thus, if a show is successful enough, the theater and production company will likely continue to run it until demand for tickets declines. The Phantom of the Opera is a good example of this.
A seven-time Tony Award winner, including Best Musical, The Phantom opened at the Majestic Theatre on January 9, 1988, and ran for 13,981 performances until closing on April 16, 2023. It is the longest-running show in Broadway history and has become synonymous with musical theater, with touring shows throughout the United States and United Kingdom and international productions in more than 20 countries, including China, Canada, Romania, and Thailand.
The acclaimed musical, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics provided by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, became the first Broadway show to reach 10,000 performances in February 2012 and was the most profitable show in theater history until 2014, when it was surpassed by The Lion King. Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman portrayed the lead roles of the Phantom and Christine Daae in the original West End and Broadway productions, and dozens of performers have since portrayed these characters.
The 1996 revival of Chicago, which won six Tony Awards, is the second-longest running Broadway show in history. It has been performed more than 10,920 times at three venues, including the Richard Rodgers Theatre, the same venue that hosted the original show for 936 performances beginning in 1975. It moved to the Shubert Theatre in February 1997 and has been shown at the Ambassador Theatre since 2003. It is the current longest-running show on Broadway, the longest-running revival, and the longest to have debuted on Broadway.
The Lion King, Wicked, and Cats round out the top five longest-running Broadway productions of all-time. The Lion King, produced by Disney Theatrical Productions, opened at the Orpheum Theatre in Minnesota before transferring to the New Amsterdam Theater on Broadway in October 1997. It relocated to the Minskoff Theatre in 2006 and has been playing there ever since, now exceeding 10,540 performances. It was the first Broadway show to earn $1 billion in cumulative gross and became the most financially successful entertainment production, stage or film, in 2014 with a global gross of more than $6.2 billion.
Wicked, which is also still playing, has been running for more than 8,080 performances at the Gershwin Theatre, the same venue at which it opened in October 2003. It surpassed Lloyd Webber's Cats as the fourth-longest running Broadway show on April 11, 2023, five days prior to another Lloyd Webber show, Phantom, ending its 35-year Broadway run. Cats, meanwhile, ran for 7,485 performances from October 1982 to September 2000. It was the first Broadway show to exceed 7,000 performances.
Six other shows - Les Miserables, A Chorus Line, Oh! Calcutta! (revival), Mamma Mia!, Beauty and the Beast, and Rent - have had more than 5,000 performances on Broadway.
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