As Broadway itself becomes increasingly weighted down by trite, heavy-handed, commercially successful musicals and inspirational problem dramas, the American theatre is going through an inexorable renaissance in that nebulous area known as `` off-Broadway ''.

* 1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate ( 1, 077 performances ), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.

Based on the Broadway play by Robert E. Sherwood, the film stars Mae Clarke as Myra, a chorus girl in World War I London who becomes a prostitute.

* April 19 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, a musical play based on Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, opens on Broadway and becomes their second long-running stage classic.

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 ).

While the cheerleaders perform their half-time routine to " On Broadway ", Lester becomes increasingly fixated on Angela.

After the Broadway intersection, East Houston Street becomes West Houston Street.

The route becomes a two-way highway again after half a mile and becomes a four-lane divided highway after intersecting County Route 635 ( Broadway ), almost immediately crossing a channel of the Manasquan River and entering Monmouth County.

* Sinatra becomes a featured singer on the popular Your Hit Parade radio program, and the co-star of the series Broadway Bandbox.

* The Broadway Melody is released by MGM and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators as well as a series of Broadway Melody films that will run until 1940.

Hugo is a high-school student, boyfriend of Kim McAfee ( played by Susan Watson on Broadway ), who becomes jealous of Kim's infatuation with rock star Conrad Birdie.

Her work continued on Broadway as the spinster in The Rainmaker, and as the frustrated wife whose husband becomes romantically obsessed with a young Arab, played by James Dean, in The Immoralist.

In 1997, Blades headed the cast of singer / songwriter Paul Simon's first Broadway musical, The Capeman, based on a true story about a violent youth who becomes a poet in prison, which also starred Marc Anthony and Ednita Nazario.

In the Broadway musical Wicked ( based on Maguire's novel ), Glinda is one of the two female leads as the musical focuses on her love / hate relationship with Elphaba ( the young woman who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West ).

Neely becomes famous on the Broadway scene, moves to Hollywood to work in movies, and becomes a superstar in Hollywood musicals.

With a talent in fine arts, Daffney becomes star of the show as the understudy for Tallulah Bankfish ( a famous Broadway theatre actress from New Snork City ) in a play, and has entered a piece of sculpture for an art show.

Unfortunately, the pilot is not picked up, and since she could not move back to Broadway, she becomes unemployed until end of the series.

It begins in the east as a continuation of George Street and Broadway ( Broadway becomes Parramatta Road just west of the intersection with City Road ), and skirts the southern contours of Sydney Harbour and the Parramatta River to Parramatta.

* Garry Hynes becomes the first woman to win a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play ( The Beauty Queen of Leenane ) on Broadway.

At Broadway Junction in East New York, the street is interrupted by the intersection of Broadway and Jamaica Avenue, but continues on the other side as a one-way residential street through East New York and Cypress Hills until it crosses the border in Woodhaven, Queens, where it becomes 91st Avenue.

Route 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 13 and several other routes run on a portion of Broadway.

The other, which burned down in the early 1930s, was the Key Route Inn, at what is now West Grand and Broadway.

Route 4 in Fair Lawn, New Jersey | Fair Lawn, taken from northbound train at Broadway ( NJT station ) | Broadway Station. Route 4 starts in Paterson, Passaic County at the intersection of Broadway and East 43rd Street at an interchange with Route 20 ( McLean Boulevard ), heading east on Broadway, a four-lane, divided highway with a Jersey barrier and a speed limit of.

At the intersection with Cyril Avenue, Route 4 runs along the border of Elmwood Park to the south and Fair Lawn to the north before entirely entering Fair Lawn, where the route passes under New Jersey Transit ’ s Bergen County Line near Broadway Station.

The next interchange along the route is for Route 4 ( Broadway ), with access to both eastbound Route 4 and westbound Broadway from both directions.

County Route 551 splits from Route 45 by heading east on Park Avenue then north on Broadway.

Westbound Route 49 ( Broadway ) in downtown Salem, New Jersey | Salem at the intersection with New Jersey Route 45 | Route 45 ( Market Street ). Route 49 heads south on Broadway from an interchange with the Delaware Memorial Bridge extension of the New Jersey Turnpike ( Interstate 295 / U. S. Route 40 ) in the community of Deepwater in Pennsville Township, Salem County.

The 2009 Broadway revival with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury recorded a cast album on January 4, 2010 which was released on April 6.

After multiple revisions, the show opened on Broadway on April 4, 1964 at the Majestic Theatre, where it closed after 9 performances and 12 previews, unable to overcome the generally negative reviews it had received.

Additionally, the Fifth Avenue Coach Company's ( FACCo ) 4 and 5 used Broadway from 135th Street north to Washington Heights, and their 5 and 6 used Broadway between 57th Street and 72nd Street.

As of 2011, Broadway is now served by the M4 ( ex-FACCo 4 ), M5 ( ex-FACCo 5 ), M7 ( ex-NYCO 7 ), M100, and M104.

Xanadu was turned into a surprising hit Broadway Musical that opened on 10 July 2007 at the Helen Hayes Theatre to uniformly good reviews and received 4 Tony Award nominations.

The Broadway production opened on April 4, 1971, directed by Harold Prince and Michael Bennett, and with choreography by Bennett.

** The Rocky Horror Show opens on Broadway in New York City with 4 performances.

* March 4 – Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress ( d. 1953 )

These have included Tyrone Guthrie's 1960 production from Stratford, Ontario, seen on Broadway in 1960 and in London in 1962 and a New Sadler's Wells Opera Company production first seen on 4 June 1984 at Sadler's Wells Theatre, which was seen also in New York.

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.

* The Fortune Hunter ( September 4, 1909-July 1910 ) ( Broadway and national tour )

Born Yesterday opened on February 4, 1946 on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatreand ran there until November 6, 1948 ; the play transferred to Henry Miller's Theatre on November 9, 1948 and closed on December 31, 1949, after a total of 1642 performances.

On 4 July 1981, a race riot was sparked at the Hambrough Tavern on the Broadway.

New Jersey Transit's Bergen County Line also travels through Elmwood Park, but does not have a station stop in the town, with the nearest stations being the Radburn and Broadway stations in Fair Lawn.