On June 6, 1954, Seventh Avenue became southbound and Eighth Avenue became northbound south of Broadway.

He initially gained popularity for recreating the role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a Tennessee Williams play that had established him as a Broadway star during its 1947-49 stage run ; and for his Academy Award-winning performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), as well as for his iconic portrayal of the rebel motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One ( 1953 ), which is considered to be one of the most famous images in pop culture.

Hammerstein also wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen with an all-black cast that became a 1943 Broadway musical and a 1954 film.

In 1954, Sondheim wrote both music and lyrics for Saturday Night, which was never produced on Broadway and was shelved until a 1997 production at London's Bridewell Theatre.

* March 7 – The Broadway musical version of Peter Pan, which had opened in 1954 starring Mary Martin, is presented on television for the first time by NBC-TV with its original cast, as an installment of Producers ' Showcase.

Her next major success was in the role of Peter in the Broadway production of Peter Pan in October 1954, with Martin winning the Tony Award.

The Broadway production from 1954 was subsequently performed on NBC television in RCA's compatible color in 1955, 1956 and 1960.

* Peter Pan ( 1954 ) ( Broadway )

Among the Broadway hits he staged were Junior Miss ( 1941 ), Dear Ruth ( 1944 ) and Anniversary Waltz ( 1954 ).

Despite the fact Wouk had already worked the material from the novel into a stage play, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which premiered on Broadway in January 1954 and ran for a year, Herman Wouk's attempt at writing the screenplay was considered " a disaster " by director Edward Dmytryk, and he was replaced by Stanley Roberts, who later quit when told to cut the film down to two hours.

Another legendary Richard was Maurice Evans, who first played the role at the Old Vic in 1934 and then created a sensation in his 1937 Broadway performance, revived it in New York in 1940 and then immortalised it on television for the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1954.

She performed in several Broadway productions in the 1950s and married actor Logan Ramsey in 1954.

It opened on Broadway in February 1951, and a film adaptation was released in 1954.

Haney danced with Bob Fosse in the 1953 film version of Kiss Me, Kate, and when he landed his first Broadway choreographing assignment, The Pajama Game ( 1954 ), he recommended that Haney be cast in a small dancing part.

Belafonte in John Murray Anderson's Almanac on Broadway theatre | Broadway, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1954

Gielgud quickly rose to the status of being one of the top directors for Binkie Beaumont's H. M. Tennent, Ltd. production company in London's West End Theatre and later on Broadway, his productions including Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1945 ), The Glass Menagerie ( 1948 ), The Heiress ( 1949 ), his own adaptation of The Cherry Orchard ( 1954 ), The Potting Shed ( 1958 ), Five Finger Exercise ( 1959 ), Peter Ustinov's comedy Half Way Up a Tree ( 1967 ), and Private Lives ( 1972 ).

In 1954 a friend, Paul Gregory, whom Garner had met while attending Hollywood High School, persuaded Garner to take a non-speaking role in the Broadway production of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, where he was able to study actor Henry Fonda night after night.

She won good reviews for her role on Broadway in 1954 as Laura in Tea and Sympathy, opposite Anthony Perkins.

The play opened on Broadway on December 8, 1954 at the 46th Street Theatre ( now the Richard Rodgers Theatre ), less than a year after the publication of the novel.

The musical's original 1954 London production ran for 2, 078 performances, making it briefly the third-longest running musical in West End or Broadway history ( after Chu Chin Chow and Oklahoma!

The Boy Friend opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on September 30, 1954 and closed on November 26, 1955 after 485 performances.

The Boy Friend for the Players ' Theatre was written in 1953 and went on to be produced in the West End at Wyndhams Theatre in January 1954 and on Broadway in 1954, introducing Julie Andrews in her Broadway debut.

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

In March 1954, a rough cut still missing several musical numbers was assembled, and Cukor had mixed feelings about it.

The Judgment of Paris was burlesqued in the 1954 musical The Golden Apple.

used dialogue from Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs, Carousel used dialogue from Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, My Fair Lady took most of its dialogue word-for-word from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Man of La Mancha took most of its dialogue from the 1959 television play I, Don Quixote ( from which it was adapted ), and the 1954 musical version of Peter Pan used J. M.

* Donald O ' Connor sang it on the silver screen in 20th Century Fox's musical There's No Business Like Show Business in 1954.

Most notably, Cyril Ritchard played Captain Hook in the 1954 musical adaptation which starred Mary Martin as Peter Pan.

The 1954 movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a classic film musical about seven lumberjack brothers who, in the spirit of the Roman story of the The Rape of the Sabine Women, decide to kidnap brides for themselves from the neighboring town.

The first great Off-Broadway musical was the 1954 revival of the Brecht / Weill Threepenny Opera.

Comden and Green contributed additional lyrics to the 1954 musical Peter Pan, translated and streamlined Die Fledermaus for the Metropolitan Opera, and collaborated with Styne on songs for the play-with-music Say, Darling.

He appeared as a musical judge in an episode of ABC's Jukebox Jury, which aired in the 1953 – 1954 season.

In 1954 he travelled with his young wife Myrto Altinoglou to Paris where he entered the Conservatory and studied musical analysis under Olivier Messiaen and conducting under Eugene Bigot.

His time in Paris, 1954 – 1959, was his second period of musical writing and a time of intense artistic creation.

A musical theatre version of the play was created by Noël Coward in 1954 under the title After the Ball.

Sister Sledge is an American musical group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in 1971 and consisting of four sisters: Kim Sledge ( born August 21, 1957 ), Debbie Sledge ( born July 9, 1954 ), Joni Sledge ( born September 13, 1955 ), and Kathy Sledge ( born January 6, 1959 ).

* October 15 – A TV version of the musical Brigadoon is telecast on ABC as a special, using an updated script and story line and re-introducing some of the songs cut from the 1954 movie.

The musical style known in Brazil as " Brazilian rock n ' roll " dates back to a Portuguese-version cover of " Rock Around the Clock " in 1954.

The musical was adapted to the screen in 1954, and scored a Best Actress Oscar nomination for leading lady Dorothy Dandridge.

A musical version of the Archy and Mehitabel was recorded July 7, 1953 & April 9, 1954 titled archy and mehitabel with Carol Channing as Mehitabel and Eddie Bracken as Archy.

Bride kidnapping is also a central plot device in the Hollywood musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ( 1954 ).

* Lonesome Polecat, written by Johnny Mercer & Gene de Paul for the musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ( 1954 ), was later recorded by Bobby Darin and the McGuire Sisters.

In the famous Mary Martin musical version of the play, which opened on Broadway in 1954 and was first televised in 1955, Tinker Bell was represented by a darting light, as on stage, accompanied by bell-like sounds.