Broadway theatre is the most well known form of professional theatre to the American general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking world.
Broadway theatre, or a Broadway show, refers to a performance, usually a play or musical presented in one of the thirty-nine large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District of the New York City borough of Manhattan. The shows that reach Broadway and thrive there have historically been perceived as more mainstream and less cutting edge than those produced Off- and Off-Off-Broadway or in regional non-profit theatres such as the Cleveland Playhouse in Cleveland, the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
One of Broadway's most enduring attractions
is Andrew Lloyd Weber's romantic musical of the much filmed Gaston
Leroux novel. There's a reason for it's success so if you haven't seen it yet, you might want to.
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Murder, seducion and All That Jazz spice
up Broadway with this red-hot revival from Bob Fosse and Kander
& Ebb. The choreography is tremendous. This is a must see on Broadway.
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70's supergroup ABBA comes to Broadway!
After a successful run in London, Benny & Bjorn weave 22 of
their hit songs into this tale of an independent, single mother
who runs a taverna on a mythical Greek island. She and her
friends reunite on the eve of her daughter's wedding.
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A very fun musical about people living on Avenue
Q in Brooklyn learning about life. Muppet like puppets on the hands
of the actors and a great cast make the satire more than enjoyable.
Not for children.
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Cult film legend John Waters brings his
most mainstream film to the stage. Harvey Fierstein in drag
is very mainstream! Set in 1962 Baltimore, the plot revolves
around a local TV dance show.
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The most popular show on Broadway is also
one of it's most unique. Avant-garde theater director Julie
Taymor took a straightforward Disney cartoon and have retold
the story using a cast of 46 in costumes, masks and puppets.
Elton John and Tim Rice's rousing score brings this theatrical
event full circle in the newly restored New Amsterdam Theater on 42nd Street.
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Based on Gregory Maguire's novel,
this prequel to "The Wizard of Oz" stars Idina Menzel as the
Wicked Witch of the West, Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda, the Good
Witch and Joel Grey as the Wizard.
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Based on the smash hit 1974 film,
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is the wickedly inspired re-imagining of
the Mary Shelley classic from the comic genius of Mel Brooks.
When Frederick Frankenstein, an esteemed New York brain surgeon
and professor, inherits a castle and laboratory in Transylvania
from his grandfather, deranged genius Victor van Frankenstein,
he faces a dilemma: does he continue to run from his family’s
tortured past, or does he stay in Transylvania to carry on his
grandfather’s mad experiments reanimating the dead and, in the
process, fall in love with his sexy lab assistant, Inga?
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Eric Idle's "lovingly ripped off"
musical adaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail is
directed by Mike Nichols and stars Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce and Tim Curry.
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