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In fact, Houdini last performed at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit and died a few days later of peritonitis at Detroit's Grace Hospital on October 31, 1926. The Majestic Theatre was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. [1] [4] In 2018 the venue's owners announced a renovation plan and pledged to put $1,000,000 into the ...
This is a list of the longest-running shows (3,000 performances or more) in the West End, a well known professional theatre district in London.Nine currently running shows (two plays, seven musicals) have played more than 3,000 performances: The Mousetrap, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia!, The Lion King, Wicked, Matilda, The Book of Mormon, and The Play That Goes Wrong.
Detroit has a long theatrical history, with many venues dating back to the 1920s. [7] The Detroit Fox Theatre (1928) was the first theater ever constructed with built-in film sound equipment. Commissioned by William Fox and built by architect C. Howard Crane, the ornate Detroit Fox was fully restored in 1988. It is the largest of the nation's ...
Les Misérables (/ l eɪ ˌ m ɪ z ə ˈ r ɑː b (əl),-b l ə / lay MIZ-ə-RAHB(-əl), - RAH-blə, French: [le mizeʁabl]), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz (/ l eɪ ˈ m ɪ z / lay MIZ), is a sung-through musical with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, and a book by Schönberg and Boublil, based on the 1862 novel of the same name by ...
The show is a cabaret revue sharply spoofing show tunes, characters and plots of contemporary and current Broadway musicals. Forbidden Broadway and its many sequels have mocked popular shows like The Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, Les Misérables, The Lion King, Spamalot, Annie, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Rent, and Newsies.
The following is a list of the top 25 highest-grossing Broadway musicals since 1982, based on data collected by the Broadway League.These grosses do not take into account the effects of inflation and as such the list is heavily skewed in favor of more recent Broadway shows.
The longest-running musical in West End history is Les Misérables, produced by Cameron Mackintosh, which has been running in London since October 1985. It overtook Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Cats , which closed in 2002 after running for 8,949 performances and 21 years, as the longest-running West End musical of all time on 9 October 2006.
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12186-9. Woodford, Arthur M. (2001). This is Detroit 1701–2001. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-2914-4. Bergnann, Luke (2008). Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American City. University of ...