He had seen it in the lineup at Police Headquarters in New York, in Broadway night clubs and Seventh Avenue pool rooms, in the criminal courts.

Several of these double entries have been collected by Ben Bagley and Michael McWhinney, along with Rodgers and Hart songs that disappeared permanently en route to New York and others that reached Broadway but have not become part of the constantly heard Rodgers and Hart repertory, in a delightfully refreshing album, Rodgers And Hart Revisited ( Spruce Records, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York ).

* Times Square is a major commercial intersection in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.

Loewe retired to Palm Springs, California while Lerner went through a series of musicals, some successful, some not, with such composers as André Previn ( Coco ), John Barry ( Lolita, My Love ), Leonard Bernstein ( 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ), Burton Lane ( Carmelina ) and Charles Strouse ( Dance a Little Closer, based on the film, Idiot's Delight, nicknamed Close A Little Faster by Broadway wags because it closed on opening night ).

At Madison Square, location of the Flatiron Building, Broadway crosses Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street.

At Herald Square, Broadway crosses Sixth Avenue ( the Avenue of the Americas ).

One famous stretch near Times Square, where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue in midtown Manhattan, is the home of many Broadway theatres, housing an ever-changing array of commercial, large-scale plays, particularly musicals.

At the southwest corner of Central Park, Broadway crosses Eighth Avenue at West 59th Street ; on the site of the former New York Coliseum convention center is the new shopping center at the foot of the Time Warner Center, headquarters of Time Warner.

At the intersection of Columbus Avenue and West 65th Street, Broadway passes by the Juilliard School and Lincoln Center, both well-known performing arts landmarks, as well as a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( the Mormon or LDS Church ), known as the Manhattan New York Temple.

At 107th Street Broadway intersects with West End Avenue to form Straus Park with its Titanic Memorial by Augustus Lukeman.

( NY 9A splits off Broadway at Ashburton Avenue in Yonkers.

) After leaving New York City, it is the main north – south street of western Yonkers, New York through Sleepy Hollow ( known as ether North or South Broadway in most sections ), before becoming Albany Post Road ( and Highland Avenue ) at the northern border of Sleepy Hollow, New York.

From south to north, Broadway at one point or another runs over or under the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, the BMT Broadway Line, the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, and the IND Eighth Avenue Line:

* The IRT Lexington Avenue Line runs under Broadway from Bowling Green to Fulton Street ( trains ).

* The IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line runs under and over Broadway from Times Square to 168th Street ( trains ), and from 218th Street to its terminal in the Bronx at Van Cortlandt Park – 242nd Street ( train ).

For the next few years, Cukor alternated between Rochester in the summer months and Broadway in the winter.

After six impoverished years, Pickford allowed one more summer to land a leading role on Broadway, planning to quit acting if she failed.

Wilder himself played the Stage Manager on Broadway for two weeks and later in summer stock productions.

After working several years as a director of amateur theatrical groups and an entertainment director at summer resorts, he scored his first Broadway hit with Once in a Lifetime ( 1930 ), a farce about the arrival of the sound era in Hollywood.

Washington was last seen onstage in the summer of 1990 in the title role of the Public Theater's production of Shakespeare's Richard III and in 2005, after a 15-year hiatus, he appeared onstage again in another Shakespeare play as Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar on Broadway.

" The name itself was originally inspired by Margot Stevenson, the Broadway ingénue who would later be chosen to voice Lane opposite Welles ' Shadow during " the 1938 Goodrich summer season of the radio drama.

In the summer of 2008 the group was reinvigorated when they produced Broadway the Big Picture.

The summer of 2007 brought Latifah triple success in the big-screen version of the Broadway smash hit Hairspray, in which she acted, sang, and danced.

During this period, the couple occasionally performed in Las Vegas showrooms, summer stock productions, and touring companies of Broadway shows.

Busy with films, tours and vaudeville, ( including an appearance at the London Pavilion in 1921 as Mr. St. Louis in Fun of the Fayre and the next year in Phi-Phi ), he did not return to Broadway until 1923, with the musical Jack and Jill ( Globe Theatre ) which had 92 performances between March 22, 1923, and June 9, 1923, and Lynn Starling's comic play Meet the Wife which opened on November 26, 1923, and ran into the summer of 1924, closing in August.

In summer 2006, Duff joined the Broadway cast of Hairspray, portraying mean girl Amber Von Tussle, and playing the part through the beginning of October 2006.

In the summer of 1955, it appeared that Saturday Night would be Sondheim's musical debut on Broadway that fall.

During the spring and summer of 1906, Lawrence auditioned for a number of Broadway productions, with no success.

He became involved in important Broadway productions only after receiving his training in summer stock.

The victory resulted in Spezza becoming the poster boy for Baby, a Broadway musical that played at Toronto's O ' Keefe Centre in the summer of 1984.

In the summer of 1980, she briefly played the role of Dorothy in The Wiz on tour, in a role that Stephanie Mills had first portrayed in the original Broadway production.

Production began in New York City in the summer of 1986 in a converted loft on Broadway, which one of the show's writers, George McGrath, described as a " sweatshop ".

She soon joined the family act on a summer concert tour, the highlight being Garland ’ s third and final appearance at New York City's famed Palace Theatre on Broadway in 1967.

From summer 2009 Bonnie again appeared in Chicago as Roxie Hart in Canada and also on Broadway in New York from September-November 2009 ( Bonnie returning to Broadway for the first time in 35 years ) & again at the Cambridge Theatre in London's West End in Dec 2009-Jan 2010.

In summer 2011, Quinn toured " Colin Quinn Long Story Short " to Guild Hall in East Hampton, Philadelphia Theatre Company in Philadelphia, and other cities including Chicago at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place.

In the summer of 2007, Hammond made his Broadway theatre debut, playing the role of Vice Principal Douglas Panch in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

Following stints as a dramatics counselor at Catskill summer camps and periods of employment in stock companies, in 1929 Odets got his Broadway break.

At 16, she was an apprentice with the Port Players, a professional theater company that came for the summer to Milwaukee, with several established actors such as Morton DaCosta, who would eventually direct The Music Man on Broadway.

The section of lower Broadway from its origin at Bowling Green to City Hall Park is the historical location for the city's ticker-tape parades, and is sometimes called the " Canyon of Heroes " during such events.

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 band continued to write and perform new material during this time, which would appear on their next album ( some of these early performances can be seen in the Live at DMPO's on Broadway video, originally released by Dirk Dirksen and later reissued on Rhino ).

BBC Radio and Broadway investors subsequently rejected Rohmer's proposals for an original Fu Manchu radio serial and stage show during the 1940s.

" In Spider-Man 3, she sings two songs as part of her role as Mary Jane Watson, one during a Broadway performance, and one as a singing waitress in a jazz club.

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.

The League further reported that during the 2006 – 07 season, approximately 65 % of Broadway tickets were purchased by tourists, and that foreign tourists were 16 % of attendees.

Sondheim wrote the lyrics and music over a two-day period during rehearsals for the play's Broadway debut, specifically for the actress Glynis Johns, who created the role of Desirée.

The brevity of the run has been attributed to the stylistic gap between the Weill-Brecht work and the typical Broadway musical during a busy and vintage period in Broadway history.

Receiving lousy reviews and box office during its previews in Washington, D. C., rewrites and restaging helped ; it was a smash Broadway hit and ran for 964 performances.

It moved to New York where it became an instant and enormous hit during its long Broadway run.

Songs sent from New York to the D ' Oyly Carte touring company in England for the Paignton premiere were then altered or omitted during Broadway rehearsals.

Lucy performs the song ‘ Bring on the Men ’ during a show at the Red Rat ( which was later replaced with ‘ Good ‘ n ’ Evil ’ in the Broadway production, some claiming ‘ Bring on the Men ’ was too ‘ risqué ’.

From 1918 to 2006, the Drama Prize was unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes: during these years, the eligibility period for the drama prize ran from March 2 to March 1, to reflect the Broadway ' season ' rather than the calendar year.

In the late 1990s, Simon wrote and produced a Broadway musical called The Capeman, which lost $ 11 million during its 1998 run.

This was exemplified during live performances of Gabriel's last Genesis album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, during which he appeared on stage as various characters in the album's lyrics.

Rodgers and Hart subsequently wrote the music and lyrics for 26 Broadway musicals during a more-than-20-year partnership that ended only with Hart's early death.

In November, 1928, he recorded 4 sides for Gennett spread over two days ( 1 side was rejected ) and in 1931, he recorded 8 sides for Paramount ( during two sessions ) that were issued on the Broadway and Lyric labels.

Daldry returned to re-direct the production and casting includes Nicholas Woodeson returning to the role of Inspector Goole ( he previously took over that role from Kenneth Cranham during the same production's Broadway run in 1994 ) and David Roper as Arthur Birling, Sandra Duncan as Sybil Birling, Marianne Oldham as Sheila Birling, Robin Whiting as Eric Birling, Timothy Watson as Gerald Croft and Diana Payne Myers as Edna.

" Years later however, during her 1985 visit to New York, Queen Sirikit of Thailand went to see the Broadway musical at the invitation of Yul Brynner.

A popular 1933 movie musical named 42nd Street, set in Depression Manhattan, colorfully described the bawdy mixture of Broadway shows and prostitution during the early 20th century.

Raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures.

It was also during this time, playing at the Garden on 48th Street, blocks away from Times Square, that the Rangers obtained their now-famous nickname " The Broadway Blueshirts ".