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 ''.

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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 ).

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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.

A native New Yorker, Kern created dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films in a career that lasted for more than four decades.

He also has had an active career on the stage, appearing in several Broadway musicals including Jerome Robbins ' Broadway in 1989, for which he won the Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical.

Jule Styne ( December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994 ) was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.

Theatres scrambled to install the new sound equipment and to hire Broadway composers to write musicals for the screen.

Steiner worked in New York for eleven years as a musical director, arranger, orchestrator, and conductor of Broadway operettas and musicals written by Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, and George Gershwin, among others.

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.

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It featured songs from many of his musicals, including a performance of " Send in the Clowns " from A Little Night Music by Judi Dench ( reprising her role as Desirée from the 1995 production of that musical ), and performances from many other stars of opera, Broadway, stage and screen, including Bryn Terfel and Maria Friedman.

The Center opened with performances from seven Broadway performers, including Len Cariou, Liz Callaway, and Richard Kind, all of whom had taken part in the musicals of Sondheim.

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 ).

It wins many Emmy Awards and inaugurates a short-lived series of special television adaptations of famous Broadway musicals on ABC.

The shorts themselves were built around recycled film footage of production numbers cut from MGM musicals, such as Children of Pleasure, Lord Byron of Broadway, and the unfinished March of Time ( all 1930 ), which had been filmed in early Technicolor.

* The Broadway plays, musicals, and movies based upon the book Gigi are about a young Parisian girl who is being trained to be a courtesan by her great-aunt, a retired career courtesan herself.

As revivals and large-scale production musicals become the de rigueur Broadway ( and even Off-Broadway ) productions, playwrights find it difficult to earn livings in the business, let alone achieve major successes.

Close has had an extensive career performing in Broadway musicals.

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There are the preliminary steps of selecting or suggesting a subject and developing a sketch of the action in the form of a scenario, as well as revisions that might come about when the work is in production, as with out-of-town tryouts for Broadway musicals, or changes made for a specific local audience.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

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 ).

Ten of his plays have been staged on Broadway, attracting two Tony nominations, and one Tony award.

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.

< p > Dear old Broadway, for many years have I dwelt on your borders.

Since May 2009, the portions of Broadway through Duffy Square, Times Square, and Herald Square have been closed entirely to automobile traffic, except for cross traffic on the Streets and Avenues, as part of a traffic and pedestrianization experiment, with the pavement reserved exclusively for walkers, cyclists, and those lounging in temporary seating placed by the city.

Numerous adaptations of his work have been created, including 11 television specials, four feature films, a Broadway musical and four television series.

An example: " Now most any doll on Broadway will be very glad indeed to have Handsome Jack Madigan give her a tumble.

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?

The other major change in the scene is that the renamed Knights no longer demand another shrubbery, but this time that King Arthur put on a musical and take it to Broadway ( on the slight condition that it doesn't have anything to do with Andrew Lloyd Webber ).

A variant of the draw is the time-limit draw, where the match does not have a winner by a specified time period ( a one-hour draw, which was once common, is known in wrestling circles as a " Broadway ").

At least six Broadway and Off-Broadway productions have been mounted in New York.

*** Off-Off-Broadway – theaters in New York City that have fewer than 100 seats, though the term can be used for any show in the New York City area that has neither an Off-Broadway nor a Broadway contract.

Although nearly all of the adult actors repeat their original Broadway roles, all of the original children have, ironically, outgrown their roles and are replaced by new actors.

These distinctions can be blurred: Ezio Pinza and other opera singers have appeared on Broadway.

Stung, he vows to have four hits on Broadway at the same time.

( One British visitor to the Broadway performance was said to have stood up and shouted ' rotters!

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.

Since then there have been six Broadway revivals, two of which are listed below.

To be eligible for Tony Award consideration, a production must have officially opened on Broadway by the eligibility date that the Management Committee establishes each year.

I have written a Broadway play, based on some of the events

Anita Page and Bessie Love play a vaudeville sister act who have come to New York for their big break on Broadway.