As a child actor under contract to MGM he first came to the public's attention in films such as Anchors Aweigh and The Green Years ; as a young adult he played a lead role in the 1957 Broadway and 1959 screen adaptations of Meyer Levin's Compulsion, a novel based on the true-life story of Leopold and Loeb.

She made her Broadway debut in Meyer Levin's 1957 play Compulsion, adapted from his novel inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case.

The Men Who Invented Broadway: Damon Runyon, Walter Winchell & Their World.

On Broadway, he appeared in Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, Kander & Ebb's The Rink, Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, Accomplice, and Jerome Robbins ' Broadway, for which he garnered the 1989 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

Live music venues can be found throughout the city, with the highest concentration in the Westport entertainment district centered on Broadway and Westport Road near the Country Club Plaza, as well as the 18th & Vine area ( jazz music ).

The partnership went on to produce these and other Broadway musicals such as Allegro, Me & Juliet, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music, as well as the musical film State Fair ( and its stage adaptation of the same name ), and the television musical Cinderella, all featured in the revue A Grand Night for Singing.

Scotland Yard is briefly mentioned in the opening of the second act of the Broadway musical Jekyll & Hyde in the song entitled " Murder, Murder ", about the catching of a murderer.

After Peter Gabriel left the group following the tour for the concept album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway ( 1974 ), they continued in the Symphonic Prog vein until 1976's Wind & Wuthering with Phil Collins as the lead singer.

Some debris from the aircraft were recovered nearby, including landing gear found on top of a building on the corner of West Broadway and Park Place, an engine found at Church & Murray Street, and a section of the fuselage landed on top of 5 World Trade Center.

* Together on Broadway: Mary Martin & Ethel Merman ( 1977 ) ( Broadway )

In 1950 he contributed the Introduction to a Constable & Co omnibus edition of Damon Runyon's " stories of the bandits of Broadway ", which was republished by Penguin Books in 1990 as On Broadway.

Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart had already opened the first Horn & Hardart Automat in Philadelphia in 1902, but their “ Automat ” at Broadway and 13th Street, in New York City, created a sensation.

Mark McVey, Broadway & London Productions, 2008 Hollywood Bowl Concert, 25th Anniversary US Tour-Most Performances as Jean Valjean on Broadway

The site is now a Starbucks ( 1500 Broadway, Northeast corner of 43rd & Broadway ).

An adaptation of the movie, a production of Bonnie & Clyde ran on Broadway for a brief period of time in December of 2011.

Plays that have moved to Broadway include Doubt, I Am My Own Wife, Bridge & Tunnel, The Normal Heart, and Coastal Disturbances.

As late as 1960 five shops existed in the Village ( Griffin's sub-Post Office, The Blenheim Steps, Cook & Son ( sweets and groceries ), Hawes Brothers ( grocers ) and Vincett's ( butchers )) but although the buildings survive, they have all since been converted into private houses, as the retail focus in the area shifted to Mill Hill Broadway.

Many things to do are situated around the Tolworth Broadway which is practically the heart of the community with shops, banks, cafes, fast food shops, barbers, an M & S supermarket, Tolworth Tower, a Travelodge hotel and ' Charrington Bowl '.

Former professional boxer Danny Sewell ( brother of television actor George Sewell ) was the original Bill Sikes, and remained in the role ( including the original Broadway & US touring productions ) for the best part of six years.

Both Dear World and Mack & Mabel have developed a cult following among Broadway aficionados.

" La Cage aux Folles won the Tony Award for Best Musical ( 1983 ), is the only musical to win the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical twice ( 2005 & 2010 ), and therefore is the only show to win a Best Musical award for every staged Broadway production.

LaMarr is playing Cowboy Curtis in the Broadway production of The Pee-wee Herman Show which begins performances Oct. 26th at the newly named Stephen Sondheim Theater.

His first Broadway appearance had been in 1958 in Who was That Lady I Saw You With, later made into a 1960 film starring Dean Martin and Tony Curtis, with Storch appearing.

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His play Division Street opened on Broadway in 1980 starring John Lithgow and Keene Curtis and was revived in 1987.

opened on Broadway in 1980 starring John Lithgow and Keene Curtis, revived in 1987

The score was adapted to reflect a punk-rock style by Curtis Moore and featured Broadway performer Mary Testa.

The Original Broadway cast also features Victoria Clark ( Mother Superior ), Fred Applegate ( Monsignor ), Sarah Bolt ( Sister Mary Patrick ), Chester Gregory ( Eddie ), Kingsley Leggs ( Curtis ), Marla Mindelle ( Sister Mary Robert ) and Audrie Neenan ( Sister Mary Lazarus ).

Among the replacement performers who appeared in La Cage aux Folles during its original Broadway run were Walter Charles, Keene Curtis, Van Johnson, Peter Marshall, Keith Michell and Lee Roy Reams.

Teele Square is formed by the intersection of Broadway, Holland Street, and Curtis Street in Somerville.

Teele Square is at the intersection of Broadway, Holland Street, and Curtis Street in Somerville, Massachusetts, a half-mile from Davis Square and the Davis Square stop on the MBTA Red Line, as well as a half-mile from Alewife Brook Parkway ( Route 16 ) and Powder House Square.

Jackie Curtis stated that Candy adopted the name from a well-known Off-Off Broadway actress named Hope Stansbury, with whom she lived for a few months in an apartment behind the Caffe Cino so that she could study her.

Curtis married Broadway actress Jenn Gambatese on June 30, 2007.

Though he continued playing the drums in night club bands and selling bagels door-to-door on Broadway, he began writing songs, collaborating with such other songwriters as Leon Carr, Leo Corday, Mann Curtis, Mack David, Milton Drake, Al Goodhart, Walter Kent, Sammy Lerner, Jerry Livingston, Dick Manning, Bob Merrill, Ed Nelson, and Maurice Sigler.

After Guiding Light, Curtis landed the title role in an off Broadway production of Job and the Snake.

In 1953 it was included in the Broadway musical, John Murray Anderson's Almanac, with the new Curtis / Akst lyrics.

James Avery Hopwood ( May 28, 1882-July 1, 1928 ), was the most successful playwright of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920.

Hopwood started out as a journalist for a Cleveland newspaper as its New York correspondent, but within a year had a play, Clothes ( 1906 ), produced on Broadway.

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

In addition to the original Broadway and London cast recordings, and the motion picture soundtrack ( no longer available ), there are recordings of the 1990 studio cast, the 1995 Royal National Theatre revival ( starring Judi Dench ), and the 2001 Barcelona cast recording sung in Catalan.

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 ).

In 1972 there was a critically well-received Broadway revival, directed by co-author Burt Shevelove and starring Phil Silvers as Pseudolus ( followed later by Tom Poston in the role ), Lew Parker as Senex and Reginald Owen as Erronius.

Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

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.

) 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.

* 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 ).

) between Union Square ( 14th Street ) and Times Square ( 42nd Street ), the Ninth Avenue Railroad's Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues Line ( 1884 ) between 65th Street and 71st Street, the Forty-second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway's Broadway Branch Line ( 1885?

Before Broadway became one-way, the main bus routes along it were the New York City Omnibus Company's ( NYCO ) 6 ( Broadway below Times Square ), 7 ( Broadway and Columbus Avenue ), and 11 ( Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues ), and the Surface Transportation Corporation's M100 ( Kingsbridge ) and M104 ( Broadway Branch ).