At some point all long runners get touch ups however I have heard a lot about how the tour and broadway production are lacking. WICKED still gets rave reviews and that has been touring almost two decades. More on reddit.com

One thing my classical-music loving boyfriend taught me is that you have to recognize each performance as it’s own interpretation of a work. Over-listening to something beforehand can actually ruin the live show, because you’re expecting what you know and love. But the Toronto show is necessarily different from the Disney recording show, both sound different from the recording for the album, and they’ll all be different from every company that performs it. You have to walk into each performance expecting something new - like you’ve never seen it before. You cannot walk in with expectations or you will be disappointed. For what it’s worth, I hated the guy playing Washington the second time I saw it. He seemed too angry. But it was my boyfriends first time seeing or hearing it, and he absolutely loved it. He had nothing to compare it to. More on reddit.com

The Broadway theater is smaller, the merch selection is bigger in NYC, nothing else is discernibly different. Same set, same intermission, and all the actors are judged by the Cabinet (aka Lin, Tommy, Lac, and Blank). More on reddit.com

I've seen it twice live- The beauty of theater is the multiple takes from different actors. It's likely never going to get better than the original cast but there will be glimpses of greatness and parts that are done better or differently and keep it fresh. Sometimes you catch the show on a bad night with low energy and that's just theater... More on reddit.com