Olivia De Havilland signed to do a Broadway play for Garson Kanin this season, `` A Gift of Time ''.

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.

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

* Libretto for the Broadway play

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

Though initially unenthusiastic about acting, he returned from service, auditioned for a Broadway play, and was offered a role.

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.

In May 2012, Kane is appearing on Broadway as Betty Chumley in a revival of the play Harvey.

In 2003, Christopher Trumbo mounted a Broadway play based on his father's letters called Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, in which a wide variety of actors played his father during the run, including Nathan Lane, Tim Robbins, Brian Dennehy, Ed Harris, Chris Cooper and Gore Vidal.

The film was based on the Broadway play of the same name.

* 1964: Dylan, a Broadway play by Sidney Michaels, starring Alec Guinness as Dylan Thomas and Kate Reid as Caitlin.

Wallach made his Broadway debut in 1945 and won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance in the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo.

Schaffner earned two more Emmy awards for his work on the 1955 TV adaptation of the Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, shown on the anthology series Ford Star Jubilee.

The film was an adaptation of the hit Broadway play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which had already been made into a film in 1931.

Harold and Maude was also a play on Broadway that closed after four performances.

Richard Burton received his third Tony Award nomination when he played his second Hamlet, his first under John Gielgud's direction, in 1964 in a production that holds the record for the longest run of the play in Broadway history ( 136 performances ).

In fact, Hamlet is the most produced Shakespeare play in New York theatre history, with sixty-four recorded productions on Broadway, and an untold number Off Broadway.

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

* Hostile Witness, 1966 Broadway play

Longform shows may take the form of an existing type of theatre, for example a full-length play or Broadway-style musical such as Spontaneous Broadway.

His pallbearers included boxer Floyd Patterson, Mikhail Baryshnikov ( who had hoped to play Cagney on Broadway ), actor Ralph Bellamy, and Miloš Forman.

His success directing the 1928 play Journey's End led to his move to the United States, first to direct the play on Broadway and then to Hollywood to direct motion pictures.

Having purchased the film rights to Journey's End, British producers Michael Balcon and Thomas Welsh agreed that Whale's experience directing the London and Broadway productions of the play made him the best choice to direct the film.

Though Lerner and Loewe originally took Brigadoon to producer Billy Rose, Cheryl Crawford was the producer who actually brought Brigadoon to Broadway.

It was also mentioned in the TV Series Jericho, in which one character is sent to the " Nebraska State Patrol Office " in Broken Bow — which is actually located in the real Broken Bow by the rest home off Broadway.

He gets off at Fulham Broadway, wants to get out his gloves and scarf and realises that he is actually carrying someone else's briefcase.

Since the score of a Broadway or film musical is what actually makes the work a musical, it is far more essential to the work than mere incidental music, which nearly always amounts to little more than a background score ; indeed, many plays have no incidental music whatsoever.

( Although SIS operated from Broadway, it was actually based at St James's Street and also made considerable use of the adjoining St Ermin's Hotel ).

While Dorothy is present in the Broadway musical Wicked ( based on Maguire's book ), she is never actually seen ; when the main characters interact with her, they speak in the direction of the wings or into a trapdoor, as if she is sitting offstage and out of the view of the audience.

The One Kendall Square complex is actually located half a mile to the west of the traditional location of Kendall Square, between Broadway and Binney Street ( on the other side of which is the Kendall Square Theatre ).

Her performance received critical acclaim, and it was announced on Loose Women in early 2008 that the play would be moving to Broadway in July of that year, although this never actually transpired.

The production actually opened at Duke University for a three-week run, followed by performances in Baltimore and Boston before opening 14 November 1989 on Broadway.

The term " The Brill Building Sound " is somewhat inaccurate, however, since much of the music so categorised actually emanated from other locations — music historian Ken Emerson nominates buildings at 1650 Broadway and 1697 Broadway as other significant bases of activity in this field.

The movie plot is actually adapted from another Broadway musical, Wedding Bells, by Leonard Gershe.

Norris Green's district centre is known locally as " Broadway ", consisting of mainly shops found around Broadway and Broad Lane ( though this is actually located in neighbouring Clubmoor ward ).

Capra actually filmed the movie in 1941, but it was not released until 1944, after the original stage version had finished its run on Broadway.

Although the park was known for its union rallies and for the large 1861 gathering in support of Union troops, it was actually named for its location at the " union " of Bloomingdale Road ( now Broadway ) and Eastern Post Road ( now extinct ) decades before these gatherings.

Irra Petina was under contract to a competing record label ( Columbia ), so her part in the “ original cast ” was sung by Kitty Carlisle, who never actually played the part on Broadway.

" Advertising for the Broadway production broke new ground with the first TV commercial that actually showed scenes from a Broadway show.

Many of the small lyric changes to the licensed version actually originated before the Broadway production.

The original parish church of Broadway actually lies almost a mile outside of the village.

The tower is actually in Harnett County while one guy anchor point and the actual town of Broadway are in Lee County.

The section between the Golden Gate Bridge ( including an upgraded Doyle Drive ) and Van Ness Ave. would have been named the Golden Gate Freeway ; the rest of the freeway to the east of Van Ness Ave. would have been the extended originally planned full length of the Embarcadero Freeway, originally planned to extend from Van Ness Ave. to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge – going east first down the north side of Bay Street, then going southeast curving around the base of Telegraph Hill and meeting at Broadway the former end of the actually constructed section of the Embarcadero Freeway.

The mural on the cover actually exists in South Boston on the corner of West Broadway and C Streets.