Broadway Danny Rose is a 1984 film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen. The plot concerns a hapless talent manager who becomes involved in a love triangle involving the mob. Mia Farrow costars. The story is told in flashback, as an anecdote shared among patrons in a restaurant. Talent agent "Broadway" Danny Rose represents countless incompetent entertainers and one talented one: an opera singer who is having an affair with a gangster's girlfriend (Farrow). At the singer's insistence, Danny Rose masquerades as Farrow's boyfriend, unaware that she is dating the gang

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Note on spelling: While most Americans use "er" (as per American spelling conventions), the majority of venues, performers and trade groups for live theatre use "re." Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. Broadway theatre, or a Broadway show, refers to a performance (usually a play or musical) staged in one of the thirty-nine larger professional theatres located in New York City, with 500 seats or more, that appeal to the mass audience. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadwa ...

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Broadway theatre - List of Broadway theaters

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The large, round and green-skinned gargoyle called Broadway is a jolly and occasionally naive clan member with a fondness for food, as well as Westerns and detective movies. He has the largest wings of all the group and has small bat wing-like structures as his ears. He is loyal, reliable, friendly and quite intelligent despite his appearance, and was the main focus of several of the show's more thought-provoking episodes. Like the other gargoyles, he survived the 994 slaughter emprehended by Hakon, but was cursed to sleep as a ...

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Manhattan Clan, Manhattan Clan - Goliath, Manhattan Clan - Hudson, Manhattan Clan - Brooklyn, Manhattan Clan - Lexington, Manhattan Clan - Broadway, Manhattan Clan - Bronx, Manhattan Clan - Angela

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The Pajama Game - 1954. The original Broadway production opened on May 13, 1954 and closed on November 24, 1956 after 1,063 performances. It was directed by George Abbott and Jerome Robbins and featured choreography by Bob Fosse. The original cast included John Raitt, Janis Paige, Eddie Foy, Jr., and Carol Haney. Awards 1955 Tony® Award winner: Best Musical -- The Pajama Game 1955 Tony® Award winner: Best Featured Actress in a Musical -- Carol Haney 1955 Tony® Award w ...

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The Broadway production opened on March 12, 1987 at the Broadway Theater. Colm Wilkinson and Frances Ruffelle (as Eponine) reprised their roles from the London production. The musical won the Tony Award for Best Musical in that year, and won in five additional categories: Michael Maguire for Actor in a Featured Role, Musical; Frances Ruffelle for Actress in a Featured Role, Musical; Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg for Book, Musical; Trevor Nunn and John Caird for Dire ...

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Les Misérables musical, Les Misérables musical - Composition and History, Les Misérables musical - Original British version and cast, Les Misérables musical - Broadway, Les Misérables musical - Student edition, Les Misérables musical - Other international productions, Les Misérables musical - Awards

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Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City, and is the oldest north-south main thoroughfare in the city, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement. The name Broadway is an English translation of the Dutch name, Breede weg. The street is famous as the pinnacle of the American theater industry. Broadway originated as an Indian trail developed carved into the Manhattan brush land called the Wickquasgeck Trail. This trail originally snaked through the swamps and rocks from southern to northern ...

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Broadway Limited - Equipment used. In 1938, the Broadway Limited was completely reequipped with lightweight steel cars to replace the heavyweight steel cars. The new equipment's industrial design was a product of Raymond Loewy, who would later go on to design the PRR GG1 to pull the train, as well as some streamlined steam locomotives for the PRR. This train was the PRR's only pre-World War II train to receive such an equipment investment; other PRR trains used heavyweight cars until after the War. Most of ...

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All tracks by Frank Zappa, except where noted Broadway the Hard Way - Original LP. Side one "Elvis Has Just Left the Building" – 2:24 "Planet of the Baritone Women" – 2:48 "Any Kind of Pain" – 5:42 "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk" – 9:15 Side two "Dickie's Such an Asshole" – 6:37 "When the Lie's So Big" – 3:38 "Rhymin' Man" – 3:51 "Promiscuous" – 2:03 "T ...

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145th Street is a subway station on the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line at Broadway and 145th Street. One platform is longer than the other, due to the nortbound track merging with the express track, and the station is located close to underground subway storage yards used during the winter. Other related archivesBroadway, IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line, subway

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The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Disc 1. "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" - 4:50 "Fly On A Windshield" - 4:23 "Broadway Melody Of 1974" - 0:33 "Cuckoo Cocoon" - 2:12 "In The Cage" - 8:13 "The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging" - 2:45 "Back In N.Y.C." - 5:43 "Hairless Heart" - 2:13 "Counting Out Time" - 3:40 "The Carpet Crawlers" - 5:15 Has been variously listed as "Carpet Crawl", "The Carpet Crawl", "Carpet Crawlers", or "The Carpet Crawlers"< ...

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The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Track listing, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Disc 1, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Disc 2, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Personnel, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Additional Musician, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - External link

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Milton Berle (born Milton Berlinger) (July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an extremely popular Jewish American comedian, whose career spanned vaudeville, radio, television, and film, but who made his biggest mark in television. His greatest success was as the headliner for Texaco Star Theater on NBC from 1948 to June 14, 1955 (also known as the Buick-Berle Show when Buick became its sponsor in 1953). Berle was originally one of several rotating hosts for the program, but was selected as the permanent emcee in the fall of 1948 ...

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Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993) was an actress. Born Gladys Smith in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, after Mary Pickford she was the second Canadian born with the name "Gladys Smith" to make their way to stardom in New York City and Hollywood. She would say later in life that she preferred New York, while her husband favored California. She was quite tall, standing at least 5'9", and to fit her, the long, stylish dresses that former Warne ...

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The IRT line on the West Side of Manhattan comprises portions of several different subway construction contracts, including the 1904 Contract I "First Subway" from north of Times Square and several extensions to it, and sixteen 1915-1918 Contract III, or "Dual Contracts" stations. The Contract I and Dual Contracts construction is covered in-depth elsewhere on this site (The IRT Subway, and The Dual Con ...

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IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line, IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line - Extent and service, IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line - History, IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line - Station listing

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A Raisin in the Sun is a 1959 play written by Lorraine Hansberry. It is the story of the Younger family, based on Hansberry's own experiences growing up in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway. The title comes from a poem by Langston Hughes. The play concerns the working-class Younger family, who dream of leaving behind the delapidated tenement apartment where they have lived for decades. Son Walter, a chauffeur, dreams of makin ...

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Victor Young (August 8, 1900 - November 10, 1956) was an Jewish-American composer, violinist and conducter. He was born in Chicago. Young began as a concert violinist but moved into the popular music sphere when he joined Ted Fiorito's orchestra. In the mid 30s he moved to Hollywood where he concentrated on film work as well as making a large number of recordings of light music and providing the backing for popular singers including Bing Crosby. His composer credits include "Sweet Sue", "Can't We Talk It Over", "Street Of Dreams ...

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Yul Brynner (Russian: Юл Бриннер) (July 7, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was a Hollywood and Broadway actor who held French citizenship. Yul Brynner - Biography. Born Yul Borisovich Bryner in Vladivostok, Russia, he appeared in many movies and stage productions in the United States. His mother, Marousia Blagоvidova, was the daughter of a Russian doctor of Jewish heritage (who had converted to Christianity) and his father, Boris Bryner, was an engineer and inventor of Swiss and Mongolian ancest ...

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Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke (born August 7, 1884 in Washington D.C.; died May 14, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) was an actress primarily known to modern audiences for her role as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North in the musical The Wizard of Oz. Known as Billie Burke, she toured the US and Europe with a circus because her father, Billy Burke, was employed with them as a singing clown. One could say that Billie was bred for show business. Her family ultimately settled in London where she was fortun ...

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Burt Bacharach (born May 12, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a Jewish-American pianist and composer. Burt Bacharach - Biography. Bacharach studied music at McGill University and Mannes School of Music. In the 1950s and the early 1960s he was the pianist, arranger and bandleader for Marlene Dietrich with whom he toured. He teamed with lyricist Hal David and others to write many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s. Bacharach's music has been sung by a number of popular singers including the Carpente ...

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From south to north, the IRT Lexington Avenue Line which carries the 4, 5, and 6 trains, BMT Broadway Line which carries the N, Q, R, and W trains, IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line which carries the 1, 2, and 3 trains and IND Eighth Avenue Line which carries the A, B, C, and D trains. The IRT East Side runs under Broadway from Bowling Green to City Hall. The BMT Broadway Line runs under it from City Hall to Times Square. The IRT West Side Line runs under and over Broadway from Times Square to 242nd St, the last stop on the number 1. This is interrupted between 168th st and 207th st, ...

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Broadway New York City, Broadway New York City - Public transit, Broadway New York City - External link

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