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A Chorus Line is a musical about 17 dancers during an audition. A Chorus Line opened on Broadway on July 25, 1975. The musical was directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett.
The first Broadway performance of "A Raisin in the Sun" in 1959 featured a prominent cast that included Sidney Poitier as Walter Lee Younger, Ruby Dee as Ruth Younger, and Diana Sands as Beneatha Younger. The play, written by Lorraine Hansberry, was groundbreaking as it was one of the first to portray an African American family's struggles and aspirations on stage.
On stage her first Broadway performance was Polly in The Boyfriend but she became famous on Broadway as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. On the silver screen she is most famous as Mary Poppins in 1964 and Maria in The Sound of Music in 1965
As a matter of fact, The Broadway production of "In The Heights" played its final performance on January 9,2011.
the Black Crook is the first musical that was on Broadway
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The first recorded performance by The King and I was on Broadway in 1951. The play itself is based on the novel Anna and the King of Siam written by Margaret Landon in 1944.
No. Newsies was a movie first, and has not been on Broadway.
Broadway was first known as Vaudeville, which was just a large cabaret of different acts.
Memphis first appeared on Broadway in about 1961,but some say it appeared in 1965.
Kerry's last performance as Elphaba is scheduled on November 9, 2008.