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Broadway History

Broadway as an icon

Broadway is the street in new york which has come to symbolize live theater entertainment and musicals across the world. Today the area, known to visitors and theater-goers, stretches from W.41st Street, where the Netherlander Theater is found, up to W. 53rd Street's Broadway Theater. Only four theaters are located physically on Broadway, the Marquis at 46th Street, the Palace at 47th Street, the Winter Garden at fiftieth Street and the Broadway at 53rd. All the other legitimate houses are located west or east of this 12 block stretch.

Broadway Stars.

By the 1830's America was exporting stars to Europe. The first notable American actor to make a successful tour was Edwin Forrest, who at 19, had played Iago to Edmond Kean's Othello. Forrest's 2nd tour of the British Isles, in the following decade didn't fare also. He was heckled off the stage. Though the interruption of his tour was a private feud with a Brit actor, its results were well made public in the american Press and his return to the american stage was received with populist fervor. This'personal feud' became an international situation and demonstration of class struggle in 1849, when the UK actor in question was booked to perform at the Astor Place Opera House in the Big Apple. A riot ensued on the night of May tenth which was put down with troops and cannon.

Broadways first marquis.

In 1891, the 1st electrical marquis was lit on Broadway. The theater was on Madison Square at the intersection of Broadway and 5th Avenue at W. 23rd Street. The Flatiron Building now occupies the site. By half way thru the following decade, the street blazed with electrical signs as each theater declared its shows and stars in white lights. By the turn of the 20th Century the street had a wholly different look, with as many as sixteen theaters on Broadway itself and many others found on the side streets or other avenues. Broadway was much more than a trifling twelve blocks. It started at 13th Street and wound its way a mile and a half up the Avenue to 45th Street, ending in the center of Long acre Square. This first decade of the century also saw the construction of many theaters, most significantly the New Amsterdam on 42nd Street in 1903, together with four others in that very same year, that are still standing today.

Our Broadway.

the first decade of the twentieth Century was both boring and transformational in the history of our Broadway Musicals. The seeds of that alteration go back to 1882, and the construction of The Madison Square Theater at 24th Street. The Mallory's, who had built the theater, had employed a young actor-manager from San Francisco together with 2 brothers from the lower Eastside to help manage the theater. David Belasco, who had the excellence of appearing on stage with another unknown child, Maude Adams, in San Francisco in 1877, was soon to become a playwright, theater owner and builder. The 2 brothers from the lower Eastside were, of course, Charles and Daniel Frohman. The first sign of the alteration took place when producer Rudolf Aronson made a decision to build a theatre of his very own. At the time, theatres were concentrated between Union Square and 24th Street.

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