By Thomas S. Hischak
greater than 14,000 productions are in short defined, together with thousands of performs, musicals, revivals, and forte courses. Entries comprise well-known and forgotten works, designed to offer a whole photograph of Broadway’s background and improvement, its evolution because the early 20th century, and its upward thrust to remarkable prominence on the earth of yankee theater. The productions are pointed out by way of plot, solid, group of workers, serious response, and importance within the background of recent York theater and tradition. as well as a chronological checklist of all Broadway productions among 1919 and 2007, the publication additionally contains nearly six hundred very important productions played on Broadway prior to 1919.
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