In 2003, Christopher Trumbo mounted a Broadway play based on his father's letters called Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, in which a wide variety of actors played his father during the run, including Nathan Lane, Tim Robbins, Brian Dennehy, Ed Harris, Chris Cooper and Gore Vidal.

The casts of the Off Broadway production of Avenue Q in New York City and the Avenue Q National Tour in Dallas dedicated their May 28 performances to his memory, and the actors playing the Coleman role paid tribute to him from the stage at the performances ' conclusions.

The film, produced in 1913, showed the play's Broadway actors reciting every line of dialogue, resulting in a stiff film that Pickford later called " one of the worst I ever made ... it was deadly.

He gave the ensemble more freedom than Broadway dancers had previously been given to interpret their roles, and the dancers were thrilled to be treated like actors instead of just choreographed bodies.

Although nearly all of the adult actors repeat their original Broadway roles, all of the original children have, ironically, outgrown their roles and are replaced by new actors.

With his many years with the Group Theater and Actors Studio in New York City and later triumphs on Broadway, he became famous " for the power and intensity of his actors ' performances.

In 1930, Broadway scouts searched for actors to work in the " talkies ", the new medium of sound film.

Also, legendary actors Anthony Quinn and Anne Bancroft were also advised to anglicize their names, as their respective names, ' Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca ' and ' Anna Maria Louisa Italiano ' were considered too ' ethnic ' for Hollywood and Broadway at the time.

For his screen adaptation of the play The Member of the Wedding ( 1952 ), Zinnemann chose the 26-year-old Julie Harris as the film's 12-year-old protagonist, although she had created the role on Broadway just as the two other leading actors, Ethel Waters and Brandon deWilde, had.

( There are traditionally no Broadway performances on Sunday nights, allowing the actors to perform without impacting the Broadway show.

The film tells the story of a girl from a family of great Broadway actors who contemplates leaving show business and getting married.

Being near to both Broadway theaters and Actors Studio training school the area has long been a home to actors learning and practicing their craft.

Given the lower costs in the past and its proximity to Broadway theaters, the neighborhood is a haven for aspiring actors.

Prior to at least 1871 it had stood on Broadway outside ' a well-known resort of actors and showmen '.

Among her stage performances was the title role in Catherine was Great ( 1944 ) on Broadway, in which she spoofed the story of Catherine the Great of Russia, surrounding herself with an " imperial guard " of tall, muscular young actors.

By the end of the 1930s, MCA would become the largest talent agency in the world with over 700 clients which includes movie stars, recording artists, Broadway actors, radio stars, producers, and directors.

Years earlier, during a casual conversation with some fellow actors on Broadway, Sullavan predicted Stewart would become a major Hollywood star.

In the early years of talking pictures, Paramount was known for contracting Broadway actors with experienced vocals and impressive background references.

" Thigpen's family and close friends established a non-profit foundation, The Lynne Thigpen-Bobo Lewis Foundation, to help young actors and actresses learn how to survive and succeed in New York theater and to mentor the next generation of Broadway stars.

Due to Divine's portrayal of Edna Turnblad in the original comedy-film version of Hairspray, later musical adaptations of Hairspray have commonly placed male actors in the role of Edna, including Harvey Fierstein and others in the 2002 Broadway musical, and John Travolta in the 2007 musical film.

According to the journal, " The Subject Was Roses opened on Broadway with a producer who had never produced a Broadway play ; a director who had never directed one ; a scenic artist who had never designed one ; a general manager who had never managed one ; and three actors who were virtually unknown.

The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York who appeared in Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Dead End in 1935.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

Kronenberger, however, disliked the ending, calling it " an outright blunder " done " in the corniest Broadway fashion ".

Tomei has also done substantial work in the theater, including taking lead roles on Broadway in Wait Until Dark ( 1998 ) and Oscar Wilde's Salomé ( 2003 ) alongside Al Pacino and Dianne Wiest as well as many Off-Broadway plays such as Tony Kushner's Slavs!

If that original show ( Broadway Open House ) had been done five years later, they may have changed their minds, because they did a lot of the same kind of humor we did later ... Any time a performer dies in the process of doing a television series or a Broadway show, it's a difficult proposition how to proceed in good taste.

Gen. George Marshall approved a Broadway production of a wartime musical for the army, allowing Berlin to conduct the arrangements and rehearsals at Camp Upton much like he had done during World War I. Sgt.

Among his published orchestra medleys for Broadway shows ( including some for which others had done the original pit orchestrations ) are those for Oklahoma !, Carousel, Allegro, Finian ’ s Rainbow, Brigadoon, Lady in the Dark, Kiss Me, Kate, South Pacific, Roberta, The King and I, Me and Juliet, My Fair Lady, Gigi, Flower Drum Song, The Sound of Music, Camelot, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, and Funny Girl, as well as extended “ symphonic picture ” settings of The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady.

In the program, Club president Erdman Harris ' 20 described the new production: " We hope that a new day has dawned, that ‘ Jazz ’ will be forever relegated to a back seat, that Broadway will cease to be the idol of those who create the shows, that their staging shall be done in Princeton by Princeton men, and that the authorities and graduates will approve what is being done to elevate the standard of a society whose value in student life has been seriously questioned.

The Broadway, whose parent company had been purchased by Federated was done away with in 1996, and was replaced by one of the first Bloomingdale's stores on the West Coast.

According to musical theatre scholar Scott Miller in his 1996 book, From Assassins to West Side Story, " Pippin is a largely under-appreciated musical with a great deal more substance to it than many people realize ... Because of its 1970s pop style score and a somewhat emasculated licensed version for amateur productions which is very different from the original Broadway production, the show now has a reputation for being merely cute and harmlessly naughty ; but if done the way director Bob Fosse envisioned it, the show is surreal and disturbing.

He has done stage acting, including the Broadway play The Graduate along with Alicia Silverstone and Kathleen Turner.

Columbia bought the film rights to Pal Joey, which Kelly had done on Broadway, hoping to pair up Kelly and Hayworth again, but MGM refused to loan him out, and instead the film was made with Frank Sinatra playing the lead.

Much of her early work was done with director Vinnette Carroll, the first African-American woman to direct on Broadway.

For example, a Browning trap version of the Superposed over/under, the Broadway ( from $350 up, depending on grade ), differs from standard models in that it is equipped with a full beavertail fore end, a cushion recoil pad and a barrel-wide ventilated rib for fast sighting.

In the 18th century, Broadway ended at the town commons north of Wall Street, where traffic continued up the East Side of the island via Eastern Post Road and the West Side via Bloomingdale Road.

A view up Broadway from Bowling Green, with the Chrysler Building visible in the background

" Mary Philips, in her own stage hit A Touch of Brimstone ( 1935 ), refused to give up her Broadway career to go to Hollywood with Bogart.

It was not until 1924 that Ira and George Gershwin teamed up to write the music for their first Broadway hit Lady, Be Good !.

On being discharged, he took up acting professionally, working on radio, television and Broadway.

Grammer's former Juilliard classmate and Broadway co-star Patinkin suggested Grammer to the New York casting director, and he got what was supposed to be a six-episode job, but ended up as a regular cast member.

In 1962, the BBC commissioned a pilot for a television series of satirical sketches based on the Establishment club, but it was not picked up straight away and Cook went to New York for a year to perform in Beyond The Fringe on Broadway.

opens on Broadway, heralds a new era in " integrated " stage musicals, becomes an instantaneous stage classic, and goes on to be Broadway's longest-running musical up to that time ( 1948 ).

One of them, the " Dark Lord of the Dance ", shows Voldemort teaming up with Harry on Broadway.

( One British visitor to the Broadway performance was said to have stood up and shouted ' rotters!

Connelly had contributed to several Broadway musicals before teaming up with his most important collaborator, George S. Kaufman, in 1921.

They wrote a comic opera together, but no producer would pick it up, so they wrote songs to put in other Broadway shows.

The backers for the Broadway show must decide now whether it's time to pack up or replace Gideon as the director.

In March 2007, the band revealed that they have recently teamed up with screenwriter Aaron Sorkin to produce a Broadway musical based on the album.

This " fertile breeding ground, away from the pressures of commercial production and critical brickbats, helped give a leg up to hundreds of future Broadway greats.

Southall is made up of five electoral wards for local council elections: Dormers Wells, Lady Margaret, Norwood Green, Southall Broadway and Southall Green, which all elect councillors to Ealing Council.

The ground floor of the building is occupied largely by a single retail unit-currently a Marks and Spencer supermarket-and smaller retail units along the Broadway, the remainder taken up with access to the other floors.

Shaffer occasionally teamed up with the Not Ready for Prime-Time Players off the show as well, including work on Gilda Radner's highly successful Broadway show and as the musical director for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd whenever they recorded or performed as The Blues Brothers.

New York City's newest Chinatowns have recently sprung up in Elmhurst, Queens north of Queens Boulevard on Broadway, on Avenue U in the Homecrest section of Brooklyn, as well as in Bensonhurst, also in Brooklyn.

Holly and April end up as rivals in auditions for parts in Broadway musicals, as well as for the affections of an architect they are each attracted to ( Sam Waterston ).

Chelsea Square looking north up Broadway after Great Fire of 1908

Black Flag were also performing that night at the Mabuhay Gardens downstairs from On Broadway, and Black Flag singer Henry Rollins, a longtime fan of the band, came up to watch the Misfits ' soundcheck.

Two hotels were quickly put up, including the three-story Broadway hotel which set the city apart as an important town in early-day Oklahoma.

Disney followed up Who Framed Roger Rabbit and its commercially successful 1988 fully animated feature Oliver & Company with The Little Mermaid, an adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale with songs by Broadway composers Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.