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Stage. A fascinating place to be and a fascinated place to watch artists performing. Stage and film musicals gathered in the famous musical theaters Broadway has to offer. Glamorous and stylish, sold out tickets status promising an unforgettable entertaining night. Heavy names performing and enchanting the rustling audience. Broadway. 40 large professional theaters located in Manhattan, New York. “The Black Crook” was the first musical ever played and it happened in Broadway, the birthplace of modern art level performing musical theaters.
With a rich and tumultuous history, Broadways nowadays is brilliant and captivating. One theatre has usually eight performances per week and never on Monday, this day being a welcomed time out moment for the performers. Broadway theaters gave many stars which are returning from time to time to honor their beginnings. Daily reviews of the mass media representatives can cut an aspiring star or raise unknown ones, stage performing is cruel but a virus with no cure, as Patrick Healy use to say in his New York Times publications.
The world of music, theater and cinema combined with commercial trade made out of Broadway a money machine and an eternal art spring. The majority of the theaters are owned by Shubert Organization, Nederlander organization and Jujamcyn and three others being nonprofit theaters. Broadway shows are commercial productions and to keep the dynamics of the business there have been issued stage performing awards , the most important being Tony award. It is the equivalent of the Academy Awards for Hollywood productions.
It is a long time since Broadway productions have been an exclusive affair for high class individuals. The common tourist of today can come and enjoy any performance at any theater.
New York has a large spectrum entertaining force but none if its branches is as strong as Broadway theaters. All the local and worldwide reviews state this once called New York’s Red Light District as being the core of entertaining world through art. Interaction with television broadcasting has given another commercial shape of the musicals performed. But is not only musicals which are played here, we are talking about real act theater, concerts or shows such as stand-up comedy which is very successful in the last decades. Television superstars host oftenly such shows and the outcome are high TV audiences along with sold out tickets. So, we can really say that is all about Broadway shows anymore?