A Commonplace Book

Category: Broadway, Off-Broadway...

  • attending the opening night of a Broadway musical
  • driving cross country, playing and singing the scores of Broadway musicals
  • Broadway show matinees
  • in the 1890s the brilliantly lighted street became known as the Great White Way
  • the number of theaters rose from about 20 in 1900 to an all-time high of 80 in 1925
  • by 1980 there were only 40 theaters and few were on Broadway itself, most being between 41st and 53rd Streets
  • off-Broadway refers mainly to the lower budgets and size and scale of the production as well as the more lenient union regulations governing minimum wages and number of personnel
  • Broadway has been very good to me. But then I've been very good to Broadway. (Ethel Merman)
  • The longest-running Rodgers and Hammerstein productions: Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, and the King and I
  • the longest-running musicals on Broadway: Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Les Miserables, A Chorus Line, Beauty and the Beast

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