" Singin ' in the Rain featured Kelly's celebrated and much imitated solo dance routine to the title song, along with the " Moses Supposes " routine with Donald O ' Connor and the " Broadway Melody " finale with Cyd Charisse.

* April 29 – The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical Hair is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons.

2002 was the centennial year of Rodgers's birth, celebrated worldwide with books, retrospectives, performances, new recordings of his music, and a Broadway revival of Oklahoma !.

For " Top Hat, White Tie and Tails ", probably Astaire's most celebrated tap solo, the idea for the title song came from Astaire who described to Berlin a routine he had created for the 1930 Ziegfeld Broadway flop Smiles called " Say, Young Man of Manattan ," in which he gunned down a chorus of men – which included teenagers Bob Hope and Larry Adler – with his cane.

His first post-Ginger dance partner was the redoubtable Eleanor Powell — considered the finest female tap-dancer of her generation — in Broadway Melody of 1940 where they performed a celebrated extended dance routine to Cole Porter's " Begin the Beguine ".

After 1917 they developed it into a celebrated adult career on Broadway and, beginning in 1923, on the London stage.

Broadway celebrated the centennial of its incorporation as well as the centennial of Lee County in 2007.

Broadway recently celebrated " Broadway Our Way " in April 2009, which turned out to be a great success, so much so that future " Broadway Our Ways " are being planned.

Les Miserables celebrated its 10th anniversary on October 8, 1995 with a concert performed by the ' Dream Cast ' led by the original London & Broadway cast Jean Valjean, Colm Wilkinson, & Philip Quast as Javert Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert

In 1922 he married celebrated Broadway dancer and former Ziegfeld girl Marilyn Miller.

* Orange City, Iowa's Tulip Festival is celebrated annually on the 3rd weekend in May is held dear by Orange City's inhabitants with a flower show, an evening performance of a Broadway play, afternoon and evening parades, and street dancing by old and young alike.

In March 2008, Storch celebrated his 50th anniversary performing on Broadway.

Receiving favorable notices on Broadway and celebrated for her understated beauty, Wyatt made the transition from stage to screen and was placed under contract by Universal Pictures.

As Debbie Reynolds was not a trained dancer, Gene Kelly chose Charisse to partner him in the celebrated " Broadway Melody " ballet finale from Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ), and she co-starred with Kelly in 1954's Scottish-themed musical film Brigadoon.

A celebrated rock composer, a critics ' darling who had authored several Off-Broadway plays, a Tony-winning director, and a high-wattage Broadway star were the captains of this ship.

Her credits include Les Misérables ( both on Broadway and in the national tour ), Jerry's Girls ( a revue of Jerry Herman songs co-starring Carol Channing and Leslie Uggams ), Beauty and the Beast, Starlight Express, Meet Me In St. Louis, The Wizard of Oz, They're Playing Our Song, and another celebrated Annie in Irving Berlin's classic, Annie Get Your Gun.

Lucia previously lived at Riseholme, based on Broadway, Worcestershire, from where she brought to Tilling her celebrated recipe for Lobster à la Riseholme.

The sidewalk along the waterfront between Harrison Street and Broadway was named " Herb Caen Way ..." after the death of celebrated local columnist Herb Caen in 1997.

* Image illustrates Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell in a celebrated dance routine to Cole Porter's " Begin the Beguine " as performed in Broadway Melody of 1940.

** Image is used in Broadway Melody of 1940 for illustration and critical commentary of the film's most celebrated dance routine involving the lead stars in the picture.

In November 2009 the revival celebrated its 13th year on Broadway.

* The September 1993 Greenwood Press ( Westport, CT ) publication of Lucille Lortel: A Bio-Bibliography by Sam McCready was celebrated with book parties at the Westport Public Library and at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center where a permanent tribute to her career is on display in The Lucille Lortel Room of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ( since November 1990, the home and viewing facility for TOFT's collection of more than 2, 000 tapes of Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions ).

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.

Since its original 1973 Broadway production, the musical has enjoyed professional productions in the West End, by opera companies, in a 2009 Broadway revival, and elsewhere, and it is a popular choice for regional groups.

The play made its Broadway premiere at the Palmer's Theatre on 21 December 1889, starring Beatrice Cameron as Nora Helmer.

Broadway was originally the Wickquasgeck Trail, carved into the brush destination of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants.

U. S. 9 continues to be known as Broadway through its junction with NY 117.

Because Broadway is a true north – south route that parallels the Hudson River and preceded the grid that the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 imposed on the island, Broadway diagonally crosses Manhattan, its intersections with avenues marked by " squares " ( some merely triangular slivers of open space ) have induced some interesting architecture, such as the Flatiron Building.

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.

At Union Square, Broadway crosses 14th Street and continues its diagonal uptown course from the Square's northwest corner.

At its intersection with 78th Street, Broadway shifts direction, to continue directly uptown aligned approximately with the Commissioners ' grid.

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

* 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 ).

Broadway was once a two-way street for its entire length.

Finally, at the same time as Madison Avenue became one-way northbound and Fifth Avenue became one-way southbound, Broadway was made one-way southbound between Madison Square ( where Fifth Avenue crosses ) and Union Square on January 14, 1966, completing its conversion south of Columbus Circle.

After the victory Boston's owner sold its star pitcher, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees to help funding of a Broadway play, and thus starting a tale of futility which would last 86 years, known as Curse of the Bambino.

DC currently has its headquarters at 1700 Broadway, Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

Most obviously, the musical film was born ; the first classic-style Hollywood musical was The Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) and the form would find its first major creator in choreographer / director Busby Berkeley ( 42nd Street, 1933, Dames, 1934 ).

The piece has enjoyed a number of major revivals, and several of its songs have become standards, including " Broadway Baby ", " I'm Still Here ", " Too Many Mornings ", " Could I Leave You?

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.

Eventually, the magazine was obliged to abandon its long-time home at 485 Madison Avenue, and in the mid-1990s it moved into DC Comics ' offices at the same time DC relocated to 1700 Broadway.

Porgy and Bess ( 1935 ), influenced by jazz styles, and Candide ( 1956 ), with its sweeping, lyrical passages and farcical parodies of opera, both opened on Broadway but became accepted as part of the opera repertory.

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.

It was the most complete blackout on Broadway since World War II, and the greatest tribute of its kind ever paid to one man.