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Off-Broadway and shows
Although Off-Broadway shows are not eligible for Tony Awards, an exception was made in 1956 ( before the rules were changed ), when Lotte Lenya won for " Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical ", for the Off-Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera.
Rick Cummins, Theatre writer / composer of many Off-Broadway shows, including 4 stage adaptations of " THE LITTLE PRINCE "; and ( with Michael Harron ), co-author of " TINY TIM ' S CHRISTMAS CAROL ," the Pennsylvania Rep Company's original stage musical which began at East Stroudsburg University, then played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Sherman Theatre, Shawnee Playhouse, and other venues.
She won an Obie Award for her Off-Broadway acting and was cast in the Broadway shows Hurlyburly and Doonesbury.
The TKTS booths sell same-day tickets ( and in certain cases next-day matinee tickets ) for many Broadway and Off-Broadway shows at a discount of 25 %, 35 %, or 50 %.
He helped found the American Stage Company, a group that launched several successful Off-Broadway shows, while living in Tenafly, New Jersey in 1986.
From 1962 to 1963, Elizondo studied dance at the Ballet Arts Company at Carnegie Hall and in 1963 he landed parts in two Off-Broadway shows: Kill the One-Eyed Man and The Great White Hope.
In addition to appearing in various Off-Broadway productions and television shows, they produced and starred in plays at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village and at a playhouse in Martha's Vinyard.
He is also very active on the local jazz scene in New York City, playing at local clubs as well as in various Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.

Off-Broadway and performers
The contractual definition changed this to encompass theatres meeting the standard, which is beneficial to these theatres because of the lower minimum required salary for Actors ' Equity performers at Off-Broadway theatres as compared with the salary requirements of the union for Broadway theatres.
-The Princesses of Comedy, an Off-Broadway production that features live standup routines by four female Jewish comics -- including Kahaney -- juxtaposed with the stories of legendary performers from the 1950s and 1960s: Totie Fields, Jean Carroll, Pearl Williams, Betty Walker, and Belle Barth.
For several years he worked at Columbia Records, where he produced albums by performers as diverse as Igor Stravinsky and Percy Faith and the album for the Off-Broadway musical Now Is The Time For All Good Men.

Off-Broadway and creative
According to Bloom and Vlastnik, the Off-Broadway movement started in the 1950s, as a reaction to the " perceived commercialism of Broadway " and provided an " outlet for a new generation " of creative artists.
His creative work has appeared Off-Broadway, internationally in Canada and Uruguay, and regionally in Washington, D. C., Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Off-Broadway and are
Shows recently transferred from Off-Broadway or the West End are eligible as new, as are productions based closely on movies.
Examples of Off-Broadway theatres within the Broadway Box are New World Stages, the Little Shubert Theatre and the Snapple Theater Center.
The Drama Desk Awards, which are given annually in a number of categories, are the only major New York theater honors for which productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway compete against each other in the same category.
The theaters are considered Off-Broadway because of their low seating capacities.
Off-Off-Broadway theatrical productions in New York City are those in theatres that are smaller than Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres.
Off-Off-Broadway theatres are often defined as theatres that have fewer than 100 seats, though the term can be used for any show in the New York City area that employs union actors, but not under an Off-Broadway, Broadway, or LORT contract.
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City.
Other awards for Off-Broadway theatre are the Lucille Lortel Awards, the Drama Desk Awards, the Drama League Award, and the Outer Critics Circle Awards.
Active Members are playwrights who have had at least one play produced in a Broadway, Off-Broadway, or LORT theatre.
In parentheses are the actors who portrayed the role in the original Off-Broadway cast.
Most of the Orlando Theatre Project's productions are contemporary plays which have been previously been produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in the United Kingdom or in regional theatres in the United States.
Among the successful transfers to Off-Broadway from the White Barn Theatre are: Fatima Dike's Glasshouse, Casey Kurtti's Catholic School Girls, Diane Kagan's Marvelous Grey and Hugh Whitemore's The Best of Friends.
Of the Off-Broadway successes that were presented by the Matinee Series, most notable are: Margaret Webster's The Brontes, Langston Hughes ' Shakespeare in Harlem and Katherine Anne Porter's Pale Horse, Pale Rider.
The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on and Off-Broadway and were begun during the 1949-1950 theatre season.

Off-Broadway and eligible
Initially, only Off-Broadway productions were eligible ; in 1964, off-off-Broadway productions were made eligible.

Off-Broadway and for
A cappella has been used as the sole orchestration for original works of Musical Theater that have had commercial runs Off-Broadway ( theaters in New York City with 99 to 500 seats ) only three times.
In his autobiography, Just One More Thing ( 2006 ), Falk said that his selection for the film from thousands of other Off-Broadway actors was a " miracle " that " made my career " and that without it, he would not have gotten the other significant movie roles that he later played.
* In 1956, Lotte Lenya won a Tony Award for her role as Jenny in Blitzstein's somewhat softened version of The Threepenny Opera, which played Off-Broadway at the Theater de Lys in Greenwich Village for a total of 2, 707 performances.
*** Off-Broadway – professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue.
*** 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.
Minnelli began performing professionally at age 17, in 1963, in an Off-Broadway revival of the musical Best Foot Forward, for which she received the Theatre World Award.
Merritt penned the music and lyrics for a 2009 Off-Broadway stage musical of " Coraline ", based on the novel by Neil Gaiman.
She also performed the lead role in an Off-Broadway production called Our Leading Lady written by Charles Busch in which she earned a nomination from the Drama League for her performance.
Gary Richard Burghoff ( born May 24, 1943 ) is an American actor, known for playing Charlie Brown in the 1967 Off-Broadway musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and the character Corporal Walter Eugene " Radar " O ' Reilly in the M * A * S * H movie and TV series.
Washington shared a 1982 Distinguished Ensemble Performance Obie Award for playing Private First Class Melvin Peterson in the Off-Broadway Negro Ensemble Company production A Soldier's Play which premiered November 20, 1981.
The show has its New York premiere at the New World Stages in April 2009 and won the 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical and an additional 18 nominations from the Drama League, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel Awards ( including Best Musical ) and five Dora Award Nominations ( the Canadian equivalent of the Tony Award ) including Best Musical and a win for Best Actress in a Musical.
After performing in summer stock and teaching English as a substitute teacher in the Bronx, she began her performing career in 1968, appearing for a year Off-Broadway with the improvisational group, The Fourth Wall.

Off-Broadway and awards
Along with composer / co-librettist Robert S. Cohen, he wrote Suburb, which was nominated for Outer Critics ' Circle and Drama League awards for Best Off-Broadway Musical in 2001.
First produced Off-Broadway, the play soon moved on to Broadway at the Booth Theater and won a number of awards, including the Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and the AUDELCO Award.
Off-Broadway awards include two nominations for the Drama Desk Award for " Outstanding Actress in a Play " in 1998, for a revival of Eugene O ' Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night at the Irish Repertory Theaterand in 2005, for the World War I drama Echoes of the War.
The Scottsboro Boys was nominated for six awards, including Best Off-Broadway musical.
Other winners included: Outstanding New Broadway Play-Red and Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play-The Orphans ' Home Cycle, which won two awards.

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