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2. musicals101.com › makemusiHow Broadway Musicals Are Made: Start Page

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   How does a stage musical go from first inspiration to opening night? And who does what to get it there? These essays examine the birth process of a Broadway musical – as it happened in the past and as it happens today.

3. www.broadwayworld.com › article › Why-Is-It-Called'Why Is It Called Broadway?' ...and Other Burning Theatre ...

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   • What Is Broadway?
   • How Many Broadway Theaters Are there?
   • Why Is It called Broadway?
   • When Did Broadway Become Broadway?
   • Can You See Broadway Outside of New York City?
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   Broadway, or Broadway theatre, is widely considered the highest form of theatrical entertainment in the world. Broadway shows are most often plays or musicals, but can sometimes come in the form of concerts and other special live events. Broadway has played an integral role in shaping popular culture, often branching beyond its onstage origins and ...

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   Technically any venue with 500 seats or more, located along Broadway in New York City's Theatre District is a Broadway theatre. Today, 41 theatres are technically Broadway houses, each with their own rich history of ground-breaking shows and legendary performers. Click hereto learn more about each and every one of them.

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   Broadway is a 13 mile street that runs through two of New York City's five boroughs- Manhattan and the Bronx. It technically continues far beyond city limits, eventually ending in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Long before European colonists arrived, Native Americans carved the Wickquasgeck trail as the main north-south thoroughfare through Manhattan Isl...

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   New York City had a theatre presence as early as the mid 1700s, but not until the late 1800s did most theatres move uptown to the area we know today as the Theater District, which at the time was made up mostly of family residences and farms. As the area developed in the following decades, transportation improved, poverty decreased, and the neighbo...

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   In short, no. Any show performed outside of a Broadway theater is not technically a Broadway show or "on Broadway." Does that mean that great theatre isn't produced elsewhere? Absolutely not! Plenty of productions of shows that were once on Broadway or national touring versionsof Broadway shows are produced all the time. That doesn't mean they aren...

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   Study up on Broadway history with BroadwayWorld's Broadway Decades playlists and listen to music fromthe 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s.

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4. www.pbs.org › wnet › broadwayElements of the Musical | Broadway: The American Musical - PBS

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   Minstrel songs and the cakewalk; Irish ballads and patriotic jingles; ragtime marches and stirring blues; poignant torch songs and jazz ditties; totemic anthems and rock opera — the musical has...

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6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Broadway_theatreBroadway theatre - Wikipedia

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   Broadway theatre, [nb 1] or Broadway, is a theatre genre that consists of the theatrical performances presented in 41 professional theaters, each with 500 or more seats, in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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8. bestbroadwaymusicals.com › recommendationsWhat is Broadway Theater? - Best Broadway Musicals

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   Oct 4, 2022 · The musical is based on the book of the same name by S.E. Hinton about a group of outsiders, the “Greasers,” and a group of wealthier “Socs” or “Socials” in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s. Entertainment Weekly called it a “glittering Broadway musical…its heart of gold still remains firmly intact.”

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   What makes a Broadway show a musical?

   • The production of the musical is an art form itself. Complicated and often inflammatory, the craft of producing a Broadway show involves knowing the public’s tastes (and usually challenging it), raising capital, battling societal trends — all on the most expensive real estate in the most fractious city in the world.

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   What is a Broadway show?

   • Broadway shows are most often plays or musicals, but can sometimes come in the form of concerts and other special live events. Broadway has played an integral role in shaping popular culture, often branching beyond its onstage origins and taking new life in television, film, music, and more. How many Broadway theaters are there?

   'Why Is It Called Broadway?' ...and Other Burning Theatre Questions

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   Is there a Broadway in New York City?

   • Broadway theater is a huge attraction in New York City, bringing in tourists and local New Yorkers alike. Broadway is also a street in New York City, but only three Broadway theaters are actually located on it – the Broadway Theatre, the Palace Theatre, and the Winter Garden Theatre. Where is Broadway?

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   What role does Broadway play in popular culture?

   • Broadway has played an integral role in shaping popular culture, often branching beyond its onstage origins and taking new life in television, film, music, and more. How many Broadway theaters are there? Technically any venue with 500 seats or more, located along Broadway in New York City's Theatre District is a Broadway theatre.

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   How has the Broadway musical influenced the world?

   • Through sheet music, over the radio, in movies, on television, on gramophones, hi-fis, and CDs, through word-of-mouth, through visiting tourists, servicemen, grandmothers and their grandchildren, the world of the Broadway musical has been brought to every corner of this country and, by extension, the world.

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   When did Broadway start?

   • In 1870, the heart of Broadway was in Union Square, and by the end of the century, many theatres were near Madison Square. Theatres arrived in the Times Square area in the early 1900s, and the Broadway theatres consolidated there after a large number were built around the square in the 1920s and 1930s.

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10. www.britannica.com › art › musicalMusical | Definition, History, Broadway, Examples, & Facts ...

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    Sep 23, 2024 · A musical is a theatrical production that is characteristically sentimental and amusing in nature, with a simple but distinctive plot, and offering music, dancing, and dialogue. Notable musicals include Show Boat (1927), Oklahoma! (1943), West Side Story (1957), Hair (1967), Cats (1981), and Hamilton (2015).