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.

A Funny Thing has enjoyed several Broadway and West End revivals and was made into a successful film starring the original lead of the musical, Zero Mostel.

The Renaissance and fall of the Byzantine Empire ( 1453 ) was accompanied by an influx of Greek scholars and manuscripts to the West, allowing direct comparison between the Arabic commentaries and the original Greek texts of Galen.

Also of interest are the High Lighthouse ( 1818 ); the unusual Treadwheel Crane ( late 17th century ); the Electric Palace Cinema ( 1911 ), one of the oldest purpose-built cinemas to survive complete with its original projection room and ornamental frontage still intact and operational ; the Old Custom Houses on West Street ; and a number of Victorian shopfronts.

Rapper Kanye West defended Way by arguing that the younger artist created a new, original work for hip hop, thus keeping the authentic meaning of the music.

Again in 2011, City District Government of Karachi has been de-merged into its five original constituent districts namely Karachi East, Karachi West, Karachi Central, Karachi South and Malir.

Exports to the West began in 1974 ; under the original agreement with Fiat, the car could not be sold in competition with the 124 until its replacement ( the Fiat 131 Mirafiori ) had been released and all Fiat production of the 124 had ceased.

The NBC is the successor to the South Africa – run South West African Broadcasting Corporation ( SWABC ), which was modelled on the original SABC.

They provide unambiguous and easily understood English language words in a uniform manner in place of the original designations — which may have been unknown ( to the West ) at the time or easily confused codes.

These latter are the original zombies, occurring in the West African Vodun religion and its American offshoots Haitian Vodou and New Orleans Voodoo.

One of the earliest mainstream manifestations of the steampunk ethos was the original CBS television series The Wild Wild West ( 1965 – 69 ), which inspired the film Wild Wild West ( 1999 ).

This realignment restored the AFC West to its initial post-merger roster of original AFL teams Denver, San Diego, Kansas City, and Oakland.

Stating that " Paramahansa Yogananda was sent to the West by Jesus Christ himself " with the said intent to " restore the original Christian teachings among his followers ", in Revelations of Christ Swami Kriyananda, Yogananda's disciple and Ex-minister of the Self-Realization Fellowship, provides a distilled commentary on the life and teachings of Christ, all of which is meant to serve as an anticipatory primer to Yogananda's more philosophically nuanced treatment in The Second Coming of Christ.

By the end of 1969, the SCA's three original kingdoms had been established: West, East, and Middle.

On September 15, 2009, it was announced that Simon West planned a 3D retelling of the original movie, to be titled Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D.

( Note that many of these languages have also borrowed forms such as " vampir / wampir " subsequently from the West ; these are distinct from the original local words for the creature.

The score for West Side Story was orchestrated by Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal following detailed instructions from Bernstein, who then wrote revisions on their manuscript ( the original, heavily annotated by Ramin, Kostal and Bernstein himself is in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Columbia University ).

The " all-new, all-different X-Men " were led by Cyclops from the original team and consisted of the newly created Colossus ( from the Soviet Union ), Nightcrawler ( from West Germany ), Storm ( from Kenya ), and Thunderbird ( a Native American from the Apache nation ), along with three previously introduced characters, Banshee ( from Ireland ), Sunfire ( from Japan ), and Wolverine ( from Canada ), who eventually became the breakout character on the team and, in terms of comic sales and appearances, the most popular X-Men character.

* December 16 – The original production of the musical Me and My Girl opens at the West End Victoria Palace Theatre in London.

* During the Spanish – American War US Army General John J. Pershing's original nickname, Nigger Jack, given to him as an instructor at West Point because of his service with " Buffalo Soldier " units, was euphemized to Black Jack by reporters.

" Anglo-Saxon " in linguistics is still used as a term for the original West Germanic component of the modern English language, which was later expanded and developed through the influence of Old Norse and Norman French, though linguists now more often refer to it as Old English.

The original SEAL Teams in the Vietnam War were separated between West Coast ( Team ONE ) and East Coast ( Team TWO ) SEALs.

The Slavs emerged from their original homeland ( most commonly thought to have been in Eastern Europe ) in the early 6th century and spread to most of eastern Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, thus forming three main branches-the West Slavs, the East Slavs and the South Slavs.

With the increasing cleavage between the West and the East, however, the Carmelites found it advisable to leave their original home, and in 1238 they settled in Cyprus and Sicily.

Tram 2530 in the original livery on 24 August 2004, leaving Croydon on an Elmers End station | Elmers End service

The original route structure was Line 1 Wimbledon to Elmers End, Line 2 Croydon to Beckenham Junction, and Line 3 Croydon to New Addington.

It was shelved until the following year, where it appeared with two songs removed from the original tracklist ( a live version of " Don't Cry No Tears " recorded in Japan in 1976, and a live version of " Pushed it Over The End " recorded in 1974 ).

The season ended in May 1998 with " The End ", the final episode shot in Vancouver and the final episode with the involvement of many of the original crew members who had worked on the show for its previous five years, including director and producer R. W.

A brief reunion occurred, however, later that year for " Sax and Violins ," an original single that appeared on the soundtrack to Wim Wenders ' Until the End of the World.

Both the original Broadway production and the 1999 revival also played the West End: at the Coliseum Theatre ( 1951 ) and at the Victoria Palace Theatre ( 2001 ).

In 1997, the BBC produced an original, two-hour radio dramatization of Childhood's End written by Tony Mulholland.

The musical's original West End production opened on April 14, 1949, at Her Majesty's Theatre, running for 685 performances.

* Information about the original 1949 West End production

The original American release of the film shows Hammer and Velda escaping from the burning house at the end, running into the ocean as the words " The End " come over them on the screen.

Sometime after its first release, the ending was crudely altered on the film's original negative, removing over a minute's worth of shots where Hammer and Velda escape and superimposing the words " The End " over the burning house.

The West End is laid out with many notable public squares and circuses, the latter being the original name for roundabouts in London.

The Tart With A Heart of Gold was cut from the West End production, and is also missing from the original London cast recording ( Thames THA 100 ), despite it describing the entire raison d ' être of one of the main female characters.

Beginning in 1970, Webb recorded six original albums of his own songs: Words and Music ( 1970 ), And So: On ( 1971 ), Letters ( 1972 ), Land's End ( 1974 ), El Mirage ( 1977 ), and Angel Heart ( 1982 ).

The original run starred Paul Scofield as Thomas More, as well as Keith Baxter as Henry VIII, George Rose as the Common Man, Leo McKern as the Common Man in the West End production and Thomas Cromwell in the Broadway show ( a role originated in London by Andrew Keir and later taken over by Thomas Gomez ), and Albert Dekker as the Duke of Norfolk.

The original edition included 32 illustrations which were photographs of Welsh coal miners and of slums in the East End of London.

The original End of Eternity appeared in 1986 in a collection called The Alternate Asimovs.

The original unpublished End of Eternity is clearly a different future from that of the Foundation, but Asimov says in his story-postscript that he had some idea of a bridge in the published version.

Supplemental features included the original commentaries, the Skip to the End documentary, outtakes, deleted scenes, and raw footage.

In the 1960s, Richardson appeared successfully as Sir Peter Teazle in Gielgud's production of The School for Scandal, as the Father in Six Characters in Search of an Author ( 1963 ), a return to Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1964 ) and the original production of Joe Orton's controversial farce What the Butler Saw in the West End at the Queen's Theatre in 1969 with Stanley Baxter, Coral Browne and Hayward Morse.

The original West End run of the play at the Apollo Theatre starred Elisabeth Bergner for whom the play was written.