in 1944 actually probably not but i am taking a guess
Broadway did not open, Broadway is a street in New York City that many professional theaters opened up on. Broadway's first theater opened up in 1924. Acters were imported from Europe. Broadway as the form of art was dating back to the 18th and 19th centurys.
The Broadway production of "Beauty and The Beast" opened on April 18,1994 at The Palace Theater.
It opened on Broadway on March 12th, 1987
Cats first opened on Broadway in the Winter Garden Theater.
The first Broadway production of Grease opened on June 7, 1972. Broadway revivals also opened on May 11, 1994 and July 24, 2007. Grease has also had five runs on London's West End and two U.S. national tours. The original production of Grease opened on Broadway on June 7, 1972 at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Cats first opened in the West End in London in 1981 and then on Broadway, at the Winter Garden, in 1982.
Before opening on Broadway it opened at the La Jolla Playhouse and then opened at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway
Legally Blonde: the Musical opened on Broadway in 2007.
The hit musical opened on Broadway on October 18, 2001.
Beauty and the Beast was the first Disney Musical on Stage which opened 1993 in Houston and 1994 on Broadway.
Halloween
Aladdin opened on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre on March 20, 2014.