Winter Garden Theatre

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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CATS The Musical is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber (ALW) in 1981 based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, adapted by Richard Stilgoe. CATS was first shown in London's West End, at New London Theatre, on May 11, 1981. It was originally produced onstage by Cameron Mackintosh and ALW's The Really Useful Theatre Company. The show then made its debut on Broadway on October 7, 1982 at the Winter Garden Theatre. It played 8,949 performances in London and 7,485 in New York, making it ...

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The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. Inspired by the Folies Bergères of Paris, and reportedly suggested to Ziegfeld by his wife, entertainer Anna Held, the Ziegfeld Follies were conceived and mounted by Florenz Ziegfeld. The actual producers of the show were turn-of-the-century producing titans Klaw and Erlanger. The Follies were lavish revues, something in between later Broadway shows and a more elaborate high class Vaudeville variet ...

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He was nominated for an Emmy (Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Comedy) for his most famous role: as The Riddler in the Batman live action television series, in which he was clad in a bowler hat and iridescent green body suit decorated with question marks, and frequently uttered his now-famous high deranged cackle, inspired by Tommy Udo (Richard Widmark) in 1947's Kiss of Death. He also had a memorable role in the Star Trek episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" as the half-whiteface, hal ...

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Once Upon a Mattress was originally written as a shorter play during an adult summer camp. The play was later expanded for the Broadway stage. Initial reviews of the play were mixed, but critics and actors alike were surprised by the show's enduring popularity. The Broadway production was directed by George Abbott and choreographed by Joe Layton. Once Upon A Mattress also marked the Broadway debut of stage and TV legend Carol Burnett, who founded the role of Princess Winnifred the Woebegone. The Broadway cast also starre ...

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Follies opened on April 4, 1971 at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. It starred Alexis Smith, John McMartin, Dorothy Collins, Gene Nelson, and Yvonne De Carlo, along with several veterans of the Broadway and vaudeville stage. The plum supporting role of Carlotta Campion, the world-weary ex-Follies girl who sings the showstopping "I'm Still Here," is usually performed by a once-celebrated performer making a final return to the stage. Yvonne De Carlo created the role in 1971. The 1985 concert featured Carol Burnett in the ro ...

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Act I begins during the summer of 1935 in Greenwich Village, New York. A tour guide leads a group of sightseers on a tour of "Christopher Street". There, we meet its colorful citizens. When the tourists have departed, the witty Ruth Sherwood arrives with her pretty young sister Eileen. The two have just arrived from Ohio determined to forge a life in the big city as a writer (Ruth) and an actress (Eileen). Soon they are living in a basement apartment, recently vacated by a local prostitute Violet, and loaned by the "loveable" landlord, Mr. Appopolous. The sisters are soon st ...

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The following is a complete list of songs from the production. The DVD and VHS versions do not include "Growltiger's Last Stand" and "The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles." In some productions, "The Old Gumbie Cat," "Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer," "The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles" and "The Jellicle Ball" are cut down or taken out due to time restrictions. Another song, "The Ballad of Billy McCaw", was originally sung by Gus, and appeared immediately before "Growltiger's Last Stand". This ...

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The original Broadway production of Wonderful Town opened February 25, 1953 at the Winter Garden Theatre. Opening Night Cast: Rosalind Russell as Ruth Sherwood Edith Adams as Eileen Sherwood George Gaynes as Robert (Bob) Baker Jordan Bentley as Wreck Cris Alexander as Frank Lippencott Dort Clark as Chick Clark' Henry Lascoe as Appopolous Ted Beniades as Speedy Valenti Michele Burke ...

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Wonderful Town - History. Wonderful Town was written by Leonard Bernstein (music), Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics), and Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov (book). It was originally directed by George Abbott, choreographed by Donald Saddler and produced by Robert Fryer. It debuted on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 25, 1953 and ran for 559 performances, closing in July 3, 1954. It was broadcast live as a television special on CBS in 1958, starring Rosalind Russell and revived on Broadway in 2003 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, starr ...

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Frank John Gorshin, Jr. was a son of Roman Catholic parents, Frank and Frances Gorshin, , a railway worker and a seamstress in Pittsburgh, where Frank, Jr. was born. Aged 15, he took a part-time job as a cinema usher at the Sheridan Square Theatre. He memorised the mannerisms of the screen stars that he saw and created an impressionist act. He was still at high school when he obtained his first paid employment: a one-week engagement at Jackie Heller's New York night club Carousel, which he secured as the prize in a Pittsburgh t ...

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Follies is set in a crumbling old Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, during a reunion for all the past members of the "Weismann’s Follies"; a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies) which played in that theatre between the World Wars. The musical mostly focuses on two couples, Buddy and Sally Durant Plummer and Ben and Phyllis Rogers Stone, who are attending the reunion. Sally and Phyllis were both showgirls in the Follies as are many of the other guests. Both marriages are having problems because Buddy, a traveling s ...

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Act I Beautiful Girls Don't Look at Me Waiting for the Girls Upstairs Rain on the Roof Ah, Paris! Broadway Baby Road You Didn't Take In Buddy's Eyes Who's That Woman? I'm Still Here Too Many Mornings Act II Right Girl One More Kiss Could I Leave You? Loveland You're Gonna Love Tomorrow Love Will See Us Through The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me-Blues Losing My Mind Ah, But Underneath... < ...

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Once Upon a Mattress takes place in a fictional medieval kingdom ruled by the devious Queen Aggravaine and the mute King Sextimus the Silent. King Sextimus suffers from a curse that can only be reversed "when the mouse devours the hawk". As the show opens, the populace of the castle complains about an unjust law levied by Queen Aggravaine. The law states that no one may wed until the Prince, Dauntless the Drab, first marries. However, every petitioning princess is sent away after failing an unfair test devised by the Queen. It seems ...

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