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unusual facts about Broadway theater



Broadway Dance Center

Dancers and performers such as Bette Middler, Brooke Shields, Britney Spears, Madonna, *NSYNC, Jason Samuels Smith, Almamy and Elizabeth Berkley have taken class or rehearsed at the school and many Broadway performers take class there daily.

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men

Ceremonies in Dark Old Men is a play by Lonne Elder III that premiered Off Broadway at St. Mark's Playhouse in a production by the Negro Ensemble Company in 1969.

Charles Marowitz

He is also the author of Murdering Marlowe, about an imagined rivalry between William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, which was selected as a finalist for the GLAAD Media Awards of 2002, and of the 1987 Broadway play Sherlock's Last Case starring Frank Langella.

Everett Sloane

Sloane's Broadway theater career began with the comedy Boy Meets Girl in 1945 and ended in 1960 with From A to Z, a revue for which he wrote several songs.

Flournoy Earkin Miller

Miller's script for The Mayor of Dixie was the basis for Shuffle Along which premiered in 1921,a Broadway musical with music by Eubie Blake and lyrics by Noble Sissle.

Harry Carroll

He worked with Arthur Fields to produce his first hit, On the Mississippi. He wrote several Broadway stage scores including some popular favorites: "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" (based on a section of Fantaisie-Impromptu by Frédéric Chopin), "By the Beautiful Sea" and "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine".

Hostile Witness

Hostile Witness is a 1968 British courtroom-based drama film based on a play by Jack Roffey, directed by Ray Milland (who had starred in the play on Broadway) and starring Milland, Sylvia Sims, Raymond Huntley and Julian Holloway.

Hot Feet

The musical opened on Broadway at the Foxwoods Theatre (then the Hilton Theatre) on April 30, 2006 and closed on July 23, 2006.

Liam Aiken

Aiken made his stage debut in the Broadway play A Doll's House at the age of seven and his film debut playing Parker Posey's son in Henry Fool in the same year.

Minnie Gentry

During the 1940s, Gentry performed in a number of Broadway productions and later appeared in several films, including School Daze, Def by Temptation, and Jungle Fever, as well as the television series All My Children and The Cosby Show.

Miss America 1938

Famous Broadway producer Earl Carroll, Murder at the Vanities, also disagreed with their choice and took the runner-up to New York where he performed a coronation of Miss California as "the true Miss America" shortly after the official pageant.

Monster Mini Golf

Patrick was the founder of a sound/lighting/theatrical production company that provided sound and lighting for numerous Broadway theater productions and large concert tours.

Tammany Young

Born in New York City, Young appeared on Broadway, in The Front Page (1928) by Ben Hecht and The New Yorkers (1930) (Herbert Fields and Cole Porter), and was considered a “good luck actor” by Broadway producers.

The Living Corpse

After also playing in New York in a German-language production in 1916, the play was finally performed on Broadway in English in 1918, under the title Redemption and produced by Arthur Hopkins.

The Mad Genius

The film is based on the play The Idol (1929) by Martin Brown, which opened in Great Neck, New York but never opened on Broadway.

The Young Man from Atlanta

The 1997 Broadway production of the play at the Longacre Theatre was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play, William Biff McGuire for Best Performance by a Featured Actor, Shirley Knight for the Best Performance by a Leading Actress and Director David Richenthal for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play.

Tom Broecker

His Broadway credits include Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America, A Final Night with George W Bush, David Mamet's Race, Side Man and Everyday Rapture.


see also

Best play

Tony Award for Best Play, an annual American award honoring Broadway theater productions

Bill Timoney

In April 2010, Timoney made his off-Broadway theater debut at the Soho Playhouse as a standby for the actor Dan Butler in the role of Joseph Flaherty in The Irish Curse, dramatized by Martin Casella.

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

As an exploitation film tie in, Universal had the feature's title changed to Mars Attacks the World, and a week after the Welles broadcast, opened it at a Broadway theater as a major premiere event.

George Coe

Coe's Broadway theater career began in 1964 and included turns as M. Lindsey Woolsey opposite Angela Lansbury in the original cast of Jerry Herman's Mame and as Owen O'Malley in On The Twentieth Century alongside John Cullum, Imogene Coca, Kevin Kline and Madeline Kahn, as well as creating the role of David in the original Broadway cast of George Furth and Stephen Sondheim's Company.

Jobsite Theater

In 2010, Jobsite and Popp teamed up to create Pericles: Prince of Tires, a modern punk-rock musical based on Shakespeare's Pericles - Prince of Tyre, which would then tour to the Off-Broadway theater HERE Arts Space.

Maybeck High School

Programs vary from year to year; past offerings include trips to New Orleans, Machu Picchu, France, Egypt, and Vietnam, and seminars on subjects such as fencing, South Indian culture, and Broadway theater.

The Shubert Organization

The company was reorganized in 1973, and as of 2008 owned or operated seventeen Broadway theaters in New York City, an off-Broadway theater — the Little Shubert — and the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia.

Zane Birdwell

His new record, Translations, a collection of instrumental songs from various commercials, documentary films, and off-Broadway theater, was released on September 18, 2012.