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 ''.

In 1980, it was turned into a successful Broadway musical, which was revived in 2001 in a theatre that was itself on 42nd Street.

The film was later remade successfully by Brooks as an acclaimed Broadway stage musical which itself was adapted as a film.

" The name itself was originally inspired by Margot Stevenson, the Broadway ingénue who would later be chosen to voice Lane opposite Welles ' Shadow during " the 1938 Goodrich summer season of the radio drama.

Little Orphan Annie inspired a radio show in 1930, film adaptations by RKO in 1932 and Paramount in 1938 and a Broadway musical Annie in 1977 ( which itself was released as a film in 1982 ).

Hammersmith Broadway, itself, stretches from the junction of Queen Caroline Street and King Street in the west to the junction of Hammersmith Road and Butterwick in the east.

Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur adapted their Broadway play of the same name – itself based on the unproduced play Napoleon of Broadway by Charles Bruce Millholland – with uncredited contributions from Gene Fowler and Preston Sturges.

Kendall Square is a neighborhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the " square " itself at the intersection of Main Street, Broadway, Wadsworth Street, and Third Street ( immediately to the east of the secondary entrance of the Kendall / MIT subway station ).

In addition to stage and screen adaptations of the novel itself, Sancho Panza is a major character in the play within a play in the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha, and in the film of the same name.

Starting as Broadway at the intersection of City Road ( part of the Princes Highway ) near the fringe of the Sydney CBD, as Parramatta Road to Parramatta itself, the Great Western Highway heads due west from Parramatta across western metropolitan Sydney to Penrith, where it crosses the Nepean River.

In 2002, Hairspray was adapted to a long-running Broadway musical, which itself was adapted to a hit musical film which earned more than $ 200 million worldwide.

In 1967, the 14 Canarsie service was given the label ( though the 14 itself was designated, continuing east from Broadway Junction towards Jamaica ).

The former GWR station at Broadway is being rebuilt ; as of June 2012, the section of line towards the Broadway station site is likely to re-open the same time as the station site itself whom appears likely to reopen about either spring / summer of 2015.

It was built in 1840 within the village of Broadway itself.

The street itself " Broadway " was called " Belleville Avenue " until the early twentieth century.

Gamble was an average blue collar gay bear with many traits typical of American masculinity, including a love of football and beer, and very few of the traits stereotypically associated with gay men — and yet his sexuality itself was signified in part by isolated moments of more stereotypically gay behavior, such as singing snippets of Broadway show tunes and helping his sister to dye her hair, that were seemingly at odds with the way his character was presented most of the time.

Several neighborhood were rebranded after the Civil War when slightly tawdry neighborhoods like Harsonville, centered on what is now Broadway about 68th Street, were reclassified as part of suburban Bloomingdale farther up Bloomingdale Road, which itself was rebranded as " The Boulevard ".

Under the circumstances, this is not a musical that lends itself very well to revival, because its original merits depended so much on the individuals involved in the Broadway presentation.

In the forthcoming The Conquering Hero and Carnival, Broadway is not even adapting books, but reconverting old movies ( Hail The Conquering Hero and Lili ).

For example, a Browning trap version of the Superposed over/under, the Broadway ( from $350 up, depending on grade ), differs from standard models in that it is equipped with a full beavertail fore end, a cushion recoil pad and a barrel-wide ventilated rib for fast sighting.

Amateur dramatics is the performance of plays or musical theater, often to high standards, but lacking the budgets of professional West End or Broadway performances.

* Times Square is a major commercial intersection in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets.

Times Square – iconified as " The Crossroads of the World " is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway theater district.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

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.

In his New York Times review of the 2009 Broadway production, Ben Brantley noted that " the expression that hovers over Trevor Nunn's revival ... feels dangerously close to a smirk ... It is a smirk shrouded in shadows.

This wardrobe is on display at the Costume World Broadway Collection in Pompano Beach, Florida.

The main shopping street is called Broadway.

Broadway is a road in the U. S. state of New York.

The name Broadway is the English literal translation of the Dutch name, Breede weg.

Broadway is known worldwide as the heart of the American theatre industry.

In the mid-eighteenth century, part of Broadway in what is now lower Manhattan was known as Great George Street.

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.

Union Square is the only location wherein Broadway is discontinuous in Manhattan.

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.

At the southwest corner of Central Park, Broadway crosses Eighth Avenue at West 59th Street ; on the site of the former New York Coliseum convention center is the new shopping center at the foot of the Time Warner Center, headquarters of Time Warner.

Inheriting a more mature Mantle, who now has seen the sights on and off Broadway, Ralph Houk quietly bestowed, no pun intended, the mantle of authority on Mickey.

West of Broadway as far as Canal Street was the city's fashionable residential area until circa 1825 ; landfill has more than tripled the area and the Hudson shore now lies far to the west, beyond TriBeCa and Battery Park City.

Broadway achieves a verdant, park-like effect, particularly in the spring, when it runs between the uptown Trinity Church Cemetery and the former Trinity Chapel, now the Church of the Intercession, New York near 155th 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.

< p > Early morn on Broadway, the same light that tips the mountain tops of the Colorado canyons gradually discloses the quiet anatomy, the bare skeletons of the huge iron signs that trellis the sky, now denuded of the attractions of the volcanic night.

Debuting in June 1948, the show was broadcast from CBS Studio 50, at 1697 Broadway ( at 53rd Street ) in New York City, which in 1967 was renamed the Ed Sullivan Theater ( and is now the home of the Late Show with David Letterman ).

Bogart starred in the Broadway play Invitation to a Murder at the Theatre Masque, now the John Golden Theatre, in 1934.

Caron was born in Boulogne-sur-Seine, Seine ( now Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine ), France, the daughter of Margaret ( née Petit ), an American dancer on Broadway, and Claude Caron, a French chemist.

In 1967 New Scotland Yard moved to the present building at 10 Broadway, still within Westminster, which was an existing office block acquired under a long-term lease ; the first New Scotland Yard is now called the Norman Shaw ( North ) building, part of which is used as the headquarters for the Metropolitan Police's Territorial Policing department.

The Orpheum is now managed by the Memphis Development Foundation and presents 10 to 12 Broadway shows each year.

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

Rodgers was the first person to win what are considered the top show business awards in television, recording, movies and Broadway — an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony — now known collectively as an EGOT.

The two were now a Broadway songwriting force.

O ' Neill was born in a Broadway hotel room in Longacre Square ( now Times Square ), in the Barrett Hotel.

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

The backers for the Broadway show must decide now whether it's time to pack up or replace Gideon as the director.

In 1928 – 9, Gill carved three of eight relief sculptures on the theme of winds for Charles Holden's headquarters for the London Electric Railway ( now Transport for London ) at 55 Broadway, St James's.

The building of this highway put the county along the route from New York to San Francisco known as the “ Broadway of America ,” now Highway 70.

Before the new highway was built, U. S. Highway 75 followed Galveston Road ( now mostly State Highway 3 ), Broadway Street, and Harrisburg Boulevard into downtown Houston.

Mill Hill consists of several distinct parts: the old original centre based around Mill Hill Village ; the later-developed but now main hub of the area at Mill Hill Broadway, and the area around Mill Hill East.

The residential area is split into two sections known as the village and the town, with the village, near the common, centred around the High street being part of the original medieval village, and now a prime residential area of London commanding high prices, and the " town " being part of the modern development, centred around The Broadway, since the building of the railway station in 1838.

North Beach is bounded by the former Barbary Coast, now Jackson Square, the Financial District south of Broadway, Chinatown to the southwest of Columbus below Green Street, Russian Hill to the west, Telegraph Hill to the east and Fisherman's Wharf at Bay Street to the north.