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.

Due to the large percussion section utilized in the Broadway musical West Side Story, composer Leonard Bernstein chose to utilize a string section without violas.

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.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was made into a musical film in 1966, directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford re-creating their Broadway stage roles, Leon Greene reprising his West End stage role and Phil Silvers starred in an expanded role as " Marcus Lycus ".

Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

In the 18th century, Broadway ended at the town commons north of Wall Street, where traffic continued up the East Side of the island via Eastern Post Road and the West Side via Bloomingdale Road.

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.

North of Columbus Circle, Broadway retains planted center islands as a vestige of the central mall of " The Boulevard " that became the spine of the Upper West Side.

At the intersection of Columbus Avenue and West 65th Street, Broadway passes by the Juilliard School and Lincoln Center, both well-known performing arts landmarks, as well as a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( the Mormon or LDS Church ), known as the Manhattan New York Temple.

At 99th Street Broadway passes between the controversial skyscrapers of The Ariel East and West.

At 107th Street Broadway intersects with West End Avenue to form Straus Park with its Titanic Memorial by Augustus Lukeman.

Further north, Broadway follows the old Bloomingdale Road as the main spine of the Upper West Side, passing the campus of Columbia University at 116th Street in Morningside Heights, in part on the tract that housed the Bloomingdale ( Lunatic ) Asylum from 1808 until it moved to Westchester County in 1894.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1997 signed legislation designating the southwest corner of West 54th Street and Broadway, the corner on which John J. Fitz Gerald lived from 1934 to 1963, as " Big Apple Corner.

The adaptation, One Man, Two Guvnors, became a smash hit, transferring to the West End and in 2012 to Broadway.

* Verdi Square at Broadway and West 72nd Street in Manhattan features the Giuseppe Verdi Monument.

By the 1980s, financiers grew increasingly confident in the musical genre, partly buoyed by the relative health of the musical on Broadway and London's West End.

The musical ran on Broadway in 1951 and in the West End in 1953.

Jerome Robbins ' Broadway features " You Gotta Have a Gimmick " from Gypsy, " Suite of Dances " from West Side Story, and " Comedy Tonight " from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

The performers included: Laura Benanti, Matt Cavenaugh, Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Jenn Colella, Jason Danieley, Alexander Gemignani, Joanna Gleason, Nathan Gunn, George Hearn, Patti LuPone, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, John McMartin, Donna Murphy, Karen Olivo, Laura Osnes, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Bobby Steggert, Elaine Stritch, Jim Walton, Chip Zien, the 2009 Broadway revival cast of West Side Story and a ballet performed by Blaine Hoven and Maria Riccetto set to Stephen Sondheim's score of Warren Beatty's Reds.

A Broadway theatre at West 43rd Street in New York City, The Henry Miller's Theatre, was renamed The Stephen Sondheim Theatre on September 15, 2010, in honor of his 80th birthday.

The revenue from O'Banion's Cicero territory went up still higher, until the yield was more than the Torrio-Capone takings from the far bigger trade area of Chicago's South and West Sides.

Historically the languages were spoken over a larger area: West to the mouth of the Vistula river in present-day Poland, at least as far East as the Dniepr river in present-day Belarus, perhaps even to Moscow, perhaps as far south as Kiev.

A major programme of remedial work on the West Coast Main Line started in 1997 and finished in 2009, far over budget (£ 10bn ), many years late and still not bringing the line up to the standards originally proposed by Railtrack.

In the Far East, the scroll remained standard for far longer than in the West.

Eisenhower, far right, with three unidentified friends, in 1919 four years after graduating from West Point.

Japanese Americans were by far the most widely affected group, as all persons with Japanese ancestry were removed from the West Coast and southern Arizona.

The East Pakistan initially allied with Soviet Union where the tendency of communism was far more greater than the West.

The tendency of communism was far more greater and deeper in East Pakistan than the West, and had massive support in poor, working class, and peasant circles on the issues of Bengali nationalism and Bengali Language Movement.

Kissinger further noted that the preservation of West Pakistan was far more important for the United States than anything in the region.

Temperatures have never fallen into double figures below freezing, illustrating the relative warmth of the Island-comparable to the far South West of England.

In 920, the West Frankish king Charles the Simple invaded Germany and marched as far as Pfeddersheim near Worms, but retired on hearing that Henry was arming against him.

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The linguist Calvert Watkins went so far as to suggest, among ten major groups, a four-way division of East, West, North and South Indo-European.

Moreover, facilities and accommodations adequate for Soviet tastes fall far short of minimal standards expected in the West.

Mojo reaches as far back as West African culture, where it is said to drive away evil spirits, keep good luck in the household, manipulate a fortune, and lure and persuade lovers.

Fifteen natural fission reactors have so far been found in three separate ore deposits at the Oklo mine in Gabon, West Africa.

Bands anticipating the forthcoming movement were appearing as far afield as Düsseldorf, West Germany, where " punk before punk " band NEU!

At any event, the far southern continental margins of Antarctica and West Gondwana became increasingly less barren.

Eisenhower himself was baptized in the Presbyterian church shortly after assuming the presidency, the only president thus far to undergo such a rite while in office ; and his attendance at West Point was in sharp opposition to the pacifist tenets of the groups to which his parents belonged.

They were ethnically diverse, so far as can be judged, but they spoke languages of the West Semitic language family ( probably mutually intelligible ) and shared a common culture in many respects, including religion, diet, and economic and political organization.

Most of Russia consists of two plains ( the East European Plain and the West Siberian Plain ), two lowlands ( the North Siberian and the Kolyma, in far northeastern Siberia ), two plateaus ( the Central Siberian Plateau and the Lena Plateau to its east ), and a series of mountainous areas mainly concentrated in the extreme northeast or extending intermittently along the southern border.

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