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On Broadway

On Broadway, 1969 soundtrack album from the television special G.I.T. on Broadway by Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations


Dave McLaughlin

He is best known for writing the dramatic film Southie and in 2006 he directed, wrote and produced his first feature, On Broadway with his close friend of Canadian actor Will Arnett.

Rudy Lewis

Lewis was the lead vocalist for a string of hits: "Please Stay", "Some Kind of Wonderful", "Up On The Roof" and "On Broadway".


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Abby Mann

Mann later adapted the play for a 2001 production on Broadway, which featured Maximilian Schell from the 1961 film in a different role.

Allen Moyer

Moyer worked for the first time on Broadway for the 1996 revival of Tartuffe.

Asadata Dafora

His drumming also appeared in a 1936 stage success, Orson Welles's all-black Macbeth performed in Harlem, on Broadway and on tour.

Betsy von Furstenberg

Betsy von Furstenberg has appeared on Broadway in Second Threshold (1951), Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1953), The Chalk Garden and Child of Fortune (1956), Nature's Way (1957), The Making of Moo (1958), Step on a Crack (1962), The Frog Pond (1965), The Paisley Convertible (1967), Avanti! (1968), The Gingerbread Lady (1970), and Does Anybody Here Do the Peabody? (1976).

Bob Cessna

He replaced Dudley Moore on Broadway and after a national tour he continued to play Moore's roles.

Broadway Line

Broadway Line (Lower Manhattan surface), Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue Line, Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line, and Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line (bus, formerly streetcar) on Broadway below Times Square

Carl Benton Reid

He also appeared in several Shakespeare plays on Broadway, and in the original production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, as Harry Slade.

Cecil Parker

Parker was also the original Charles Condomine in the West End production of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, a role subsequently played on Broadway by Clifton Webb and in the 1945 film by Rex Harrison.

DBZ Guitars

Tommy Kessler (Blondie)/(Rock of Ages) Cavallo AB in White is used as Tommy's main guitar in Rock of Ages on Broadway.

Donna Kane

She has won acclaim for her performances in the 1995 U.S. tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat  with Donny Osmond, Les Misérables  on Broadway (1993), and as Maria in West Side Story  in Vienna and Munich (1995).

Edward Matthews

In 1934, he created the role of "Ignatius of Loyola" in Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts, which he reprised in the 1952 revival of the opera - his last appearance on Broadway.

Gildersleeve on Broadway

Gildersleeve on Broadway is a 1943 American film starring Harold Peary as his radio character The Great Gildersleeve.

Glenn Anders

Anders had a distinguished career on Broadway, appearing in three Pulitzer Prize winning plays: Hell Bent for Heaven (1924), written by Hatcher Hughes; They Knew What They Wanted (1924) by Sidney Howard; and Strange Interlude (1928) by Eugene O'Neill.

Gunnar Gunnarsson Helland

In 1929 he moved to Fargo, North Dakota where he operated a shop in a few neighbouring buildings until he established the Helland Music Company on the third floor of a building on Broadway.

Ina Balin

She also did summer stock, which led to roles on Broadway, and in 1959, she won the "Theatre World Award" for her performance in the Broadway comedy, A Majority of One, starring Gertrude Berg and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

Jared Gertner

With Gad's departure, Gertner took over the role on Broadway, then co-starred with Gavin Creel in the production's first national tour, debuting in August 2012 in Denver.

Jazzmobile

He has appeared on Broadway as the pianist for the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, "Black and Blue" and recorded on Spike Lee's movie, "Mo' Better Blues."

Jennifer Paige Chambers

Jennifer Paige Chambers is a musical theatre performer, who has appeared in "The Producers" on Broadway with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, in Los Angeles with Martin Short and Jason Alexander, and in the National Tour with Louis Stadlen and Don Stephenson.

Johl

Peter Johl who died November 3, 2005 after a long career on Broadway

John Boulter

Boulter appeared as the male lead - Freddie Flowerdew - in the musical production of "Ask Dad" in the Jeeves and Wooster episode, "Introduction on Broadway."

KFVS-TV

Owned by Raycom Media, the station is sister to low-powered CW affiliates WQWQ-LP/WQTV-LP and the three share studios in the Hirsch Tower on Broadway Avenue in Downtown Cape Girardeau.

Kids' Night on Broadway

Rosie O'Donnell served as 2008’s Kids’ Night on Broadway National Ambassador.

Larry Atlas

Also noteworthy is Total Abandon, which was produced on Broadway starring Richard Dreyfuss and John Heard.

Lee Morse

She next performed in the Shubert revue Artists and Models, which opened on Broadway on August 20, 1923.

Life with Feathers

The title is a play on the longest-running non-musical on Broadway, Life with Father (the title being the only connection between the two works).

Megan Reinking

She has appeared on Broadway in multiple shows including Dracula, Lestat, the acclaimed revival of Hair, The People in the Picture and most recently Million Dollar Quartet at New World Stages, as well as featuring in the first season of Boardwalk Empire.

Michelle Brooke

She attended St Bernards School Bklyn, New York (1990), also briefly attended South Shore in Brooklyn, New York (1995), and Majored in Dance at NYC Performing Arts HS Fiorello H. La Guardia New York, New York (1995) and trained at Broadway Dance Center and steps on broadway.

Mixed Company of Yale

Bellamy Young '92, stage and film actress. Starred in This Life and Merrily We Roll Along on Broadway and currently plays Mellie Grant on the ABC show Scandal.

Muriel Resnik

She was known for her comedy play Any Wednesday, performed for the first time on Broadway in 1964 and starring Sandy Dennis, Don Porter, Gene Hackman and Rosemary Murphy.

Neely O'Hara

While working on Broadway, she worked in a musical with the legendary Helen Lawson.

Never Gonna Leave This Bed

The video shows scenes of Levine and his former girlfriend in three different bed settings, including one at a pier on the beach of Santa Monica, another on Broadway in Los Angeles, and a third setting in an upper floor of the Hilton Hotel.

New York State Theatre Institute

Among NYSTI's count of more than forty-five premiere productions are William Gibson's “Rag Dolly,” which toured to Moscow in 1986 (a later version opened on Broadway as Raggedy Ann) and Paul Shyre's “Hizzoner!,” starring Tony Lo Bianco, which won five Emmy awards in a WNET/13 co-production and later played on Broadway before touring to Moscow in 1989.

Newsboys Strike of 1899

A musical version of the Disney film made its theatrical debut at the Paper Mill Playhouse on September 25, 2011 and opened at The Nederlander Theatre on Broadway on March 15, 2012.

Old Log Theater

Both he and his wife, Marissa, are theater enthusiasts and producers who have been on the boards of several local theatre organizations and are invested in productions such as "Lend Me a Tenor" in London's West End and Tony award winning"Peter and the Starcatcher" on Broadway.

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath

It is the remake of a 1920 film of the same name, based on the play by Charles William Bell, a Canadian criminal lawyer and later Member of Parliament for Hamilton West and Mark Swan, which opened on Broadway in New York City on Christmas Eve, 1917 and ran for 232 performances.

Playwright

On Broadway, this has happened in the past year with Martin McDonagh's "Behanding in Spokane" and Mamet's "Race" although these shows were packaged with stars (Christopher Walken in the former) and with playwrights who are well established in the profession.

Richard Alfieri

As an actor, he starred on Broadway in Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carre, and off-Broadway in Awake and Sing, and The Justice Box.

Rory Culkin

Culkin was born in New York City, the son of Patricia Brentrup and Christopher 'Kit' Culkin, a former stage actor with a long career on Broadway.

Saddle River Day School

Delaney Moro, a current student, who has been on Broadway in the original casts of Mary Poppins and 13.

Smiles of a Summer Night

The film's plot—which involves switching partners on a summer night—has been adapted many times, most notably as the theatrical musical, A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler and Harold Prince, which opened on Broadway in 1973, and as Woody Allen's film A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982).

Smokey Joe's Cafe: Direct from Broadway

Smokey Joe's Cafe: Direct from Broadway is a 2000 film of the Broadway production of the musical revue Smokey Joe's Cafe as captured live in performance on Broadway featuring the show's final Broadway cast.

Stanley Wayne Mathis

He starred on Broadway in the musical comedy Nice Work if You Can Get It costarring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara.

Stephen Purdy

His work on Broadway includes Disney's Tarzan, Glory Days, Peter Pan (starring Cathy Rigby), the original Fantasticks and Frankenstein with Hunter Foster and has also toured the United States with the Broadway Musicals The Full Monty, Spelling Bee, and Peter Pan.

Symphony Space

As of 2010, Symphony Space hosts 600 or more events annually, including an annual free music Wall to Wall marathon; Bloomsday on Broadway (celebrating James Joyce's Ulysses); and Selected Shorts, broadcast nationally over Public Radio International.

The Dawn of a Tomorrow

A play version had been produced on Broadway in 1909 which served as the final starring stage role for Eleanor Robson Belmont.

The Love of Sunya

She chose to film another adaptation of Max Marcin and Charles Guernon's play as it had been filmed once before in 1919 starring Clara Kimball Young and was a resounding success on Broadway.

Victoria Mallory

In December 2009, her daughter Ramona Mallory starred on Broadway recreating the role of Anne Egerman in a revival of A Little Night Music that her mother had originated 25 years ago.

Willy Russell

Bill Kenwright produced a revival in 1988 which has run for more than twenty years; the show was produced on Broadway in 1993.