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The Broadway Theatre (formerly Universal's Colony Theatre, B.S. Moss' Broadway Theatre, Early Carroll's Broadway Theatre, and Ciné Romais) is a Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 theatre located at 1681 Broadway
Broadway (New York City)

Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City. While New York has several other Broadways, in the context of the city it usually refers to the Manhattan street....
 in midtown-Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
.

Designed by architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 Eugene DeRosa for Benjamin S. Moss, it opened as B.S. Moss's Colony Theatre on Christmas Day
Christmas

Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
 1924 as a venue for vaudeville
Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....
 shows and motion pictures
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
. It was re-named Universal's Colony Theatre, B.S.






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The Broadway Theatre (formerly Universal's Colony Theatre, B.S. Moss' Broadway Theatre, Early Carroll's Broadway Theatre, and Ciné Romais) is a Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 theatre located at 1681 Broadway
Broadway (New York City)

Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City. While New York has several other Broadways, in the context of the city it usually refers to the Manhattan street....
 in midtown-Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
.

Designed by architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 Eugene DeRosa for Benjamin S. Moss, it opened as B.S. Moss's Colony Theatre on Christmas Day
Christmas

Christmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts Twelve Days of Christmas....
 1924 as a venue for vaudeville
Vaudeville

Vaudeville was a genre of a variety show prevalent on the theatre in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. It developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrel show, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque....
 shows and motion pictures
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
. It was re-named Universal's Colony Theatre, B.S. Moss' Broadway Theatre, and Earl Carroll's Broadway Theatre before becoming a legitimate house simply called Broadway Theatre on December 8, 1930 . (In 1937, known as Ciné Roma, it showed Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 films). The Shuberts bought it in 1939. It was renovated extensively in 1956 and 1986. The large stage (nearly sixty feet deep) and seating capacity (1761) have made it a popular theatre for musicals
Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece ? humor, pathos, love, anger ? as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole....
 throughout the years.

Notable productions

  • 1930: The New Yorkers
    The New Yorkers

    The New Yorkers is a musical theatre written by Cole Porter and Herbert Fields .The original Broadway theatre production opened at The Broadway Theatre on December 8 1930, this theatre's first stage production, and ran for 168 performances....
  • 1932: Troilus and Cressida
    Troilus and Cressida

    Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. The play is not a conventional tragedy, since its protagonist does not die....
  • 1940: Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
    's Fantasia
    Fantasia (film)

    Fantasia is a 1940 in film List of animated feature-length films produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the List of Disney theatrical animated features#official canon....
  • 1941: Too Many Girls
    Too Many Girls

    Too Many Girls may refer to:*Too Many Girls , a 1939 Broadway musical comedy and a 1940 film version*List of The Monkees episodes#Season 1 , 1967 episode of TV show The Monkees...
  • 1942: My Sister Eileen
    My Sister Eileen

    My Sister Eileen originated as a series of short stories by Ruth McKenney that eventually evolved into a book, a Play , a musical theatre, two films, and a CBS television series in the 1960-1961 season....
  • 1943: Lady in the Dark
    Lady in the Dark

    Lady in the Dark is a musical theatre written by Kurt Weill , Ira Gershwin , and Moss Hart . It was produced by Sam Harris . The protagonist, Liza Elliott, is the unhappy female editor of a fashion magazine, Allure, who is undergoing psychoanalysis, said to be based on Hart's own experiences with psychoanalyst Gregory Zilboorg....
    , Carmen Jones
    Carmen Jones

    Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway theatre musical theatre, later made into a 1954 musical film; the play also ran for a season in 1991 at London's Old Vic and most recently in London's Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre in 2007....
  • 1946: Beggar's Holiday
    Beggar's Holiday

    Beggar's Holiday is a musical theatre with a book and lyrics by John La Touche and music by Duke Ellington.An updated version of The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, it focuses on a corrupt world inhabited by rakish mobsters and their double crossing gangs, raffish madams and their dissolute whores, Begging and Homelessness as they condu...
  • 1948: The Cradle Will Rock
    The Cradle Will Rock

    The Cradle Will Rock is a 1937 Musical theater by Marc Blitzstein. Originally a part of the Federal Theatre Project, it was directed by Orson Welles, and produced by John Houseman....
    , High Button Shoes
    High Button Shoes

    High Button Shoes is a musical theater with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and book by George Abbott and Stephen Longstreet. It was based on the novel The Sisters Liked Them Handsome by Stephen Longstreet....
  • 1951: Where's Charley?
    Where's Charley?

    Where's Charley? is a Musical theater with music & lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by George Abbott. The story was based on the play Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas....
    , Oklahoma!
    Oklahoma!

    Oklahoma! is the first musical theater written by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs ....
  • 1952: Kiss Me, Kate
    Kiss Me, Kate

    Kiss Me, Kate is a Musical theater with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew....
  • 1953: South Pacific
    South Pacific (musical)

    South Pacific is a 1949 in music#Musical theater with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan....
  • 1956: Mr. Wonderful
    Mr. Wonderful (musical)

    Mr. Wonderful is a musical theatre with a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, and music and lyrics by Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, and George David Weiss....
  • 1957: The Most Happy Fella
    The Most Happy Fella

    The Most Happy Fella is a musical theater with music, lyrics and book by Frank Loesser. The story is based on the play They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard....
    ; Shinbone Alley
    Shinbone Alley

    Shinbone Alley is a musical theatre with a book by Joe Darion and Mel Brooks, lyrics by Darion, and music by George Kleinsinger.Based on Archy and Mehitabel,...
  • 1958: The Body Beautiful
    The Body Beautiful

    The Body Beautiful is a musical theatre with a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock....
  • 1959: West Side Story
    West Side Story

    West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet....
    , Gypsy
    Gypsy: A Musical Fable

    Gypsy is a 1959 musical theatre with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. It is usually referred to as simply Gypsy....
  • 1960: The Music Man
    The Music Man

    The Music Man is a musical theatre with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson. The show is based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey....
  • 1961: Fiorello!
    Fiorello!

    Fiorello! is a Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning musical theatre about New York City mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, a reform Republican Party who took on Tammany Hall....
    , Kean
    Kean (musical)

    Kean is a musical theatre with a book by Peter Stone and music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest .Using material by Jean-Paul Sartre and Alexandre Dumas, p?re as its source, it centers on the adventures of Edmund Kean, considered the greatest William Shakespeare actor of the 18th century, focusing primarily mainly on his w...
  • 1962: My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady

    My Fair Lady is a musical theater based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe....
    , I Can Get It for You Wholesale
    I Can Get It for You Wholesale

    I Can Get It for You Wholesale is a 1962 Broadway musical that was the Broadway debut of 19-year-old Barbra Streisand, who was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical....
  • 1965: Baker Street
    Baker Street (musical)

    Baker Street is a musical theatre with a book by Jerome Coopersmith and music and lyrics by Marian Grudeff and Raymond Jessel.Loosely based on the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, it is set in and around London in 1897, the year in which United Kingdom celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria ....
  • 1966: Funny Girl
  • 1968: Cabaret
    Cabaret (musical)

    Cabaret is a Musical theater with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander. The 1966 Broadway theatre production became a hit and spawned an acclaimed 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....
  • 1969: Mame
    MAME

    MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software, with the intent of preserving gaming history and preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten....
  • 1970: Fiddler on the Roof
    Fiddler on the Roof

    Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
  • 1972: Dude
    Dude (musical)

    Dude is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. It is an allegory about good and evil, the conflict between mankind's creative and destructive urges, the power of love, and the joy to be found in simple pleasures....
  • 1974: Candide
    Candide

    Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a ian the Age of Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, English translations of which have been titled Candide: Or, All for the Best ; Candide: Or, The Optimist ; and Candide: Or, Optimism ....
  • 1976: Guys and Dolls
    Guys and Dolls

    Guys and Dolls is a musical theater, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon....
  • 1977: The Wiz
    The Wiz

    The Wiz is a 1975 in music#Musical theatre, based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, exclusively featuring African American actors....
  • 1978: Evita
  • 1983: Zorba
  • 1984: The Three Musketeers
    The Three Musketeers (musical)

    The Three Musketeers is a Musical theatre with a book by William Anthony McGuire, lyrics by Clifford Grey and P. G. Wodehouse, and music by Rudolf Friml....
  • 1985: The King and I
    The King and I

    The King and I is a musical theatre by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II based on the book Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon....
  • 1987: Les Misérables
    Les Misérables (musical)

    Les Mis?rables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz, is a Musical theatre composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Sch?nberg with a libretto by Alain Boublil....
  • 1991: Miss Saigon
    Miss Saigon

    Miss Saigon is a West End theatre musical theatre by Claude-Michel Sch?nberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr....
  • 2004: Bombay Dreams
    Bombay Dreams

    Bombay Dreams is a Bollywood-themed musical. The music for Bombay Dreams was created by A. R. Rahman, lyrics by Don Black . The plot was written by Meera Syal and it was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber....
  • 2005: The Color Purple
    The Color Purple (musical)

    The Color Purple is a Broadway theatre musical based upon the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The musical opened on Broadway theatre at The Broadway Theatre on December 1, 2005....
  • 2008: Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy, Shrek
    Shrek (musical)

    Shrek the Musical is a musical theatre with music by Jeanine Tesori and a book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, based on the 2001 DreamWorks Shrek and the 1990 book, Shrek!, by William Steig....


External links

  • at nytheatre.com, an information resource guide to theatre in New York City published by the nonprofit New York Theatre Experience, Inc.