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Sunset Boulevard is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and lyrics and libretto by Don Black and Christopher Hampton. It is based on the 1950 film of the same title. The plot revolves around Norma Desmond, a faded star of the silent screen era, living in the past in her decaying mansion on the fabled Los Angeles street.
The Broadway Theater District in the Historic Core of Downtown Los Angeles is the first and largest historic theater district listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). [2] With twelve movie palaces located along a six-block stretch of Broadway, it is the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States.
This is a list of Broadway shows with 1,000 or more performances, sorted by number of performances. Eleven shows currently running on Broadway have at least 1,000 performances: the 1996 revival of Chicago, The Lion King, Wicked, The Book of Mormon, Aladdin, Hamilton, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Hadestown, Moulin Rouge!, Six, and MJ the ...
The closing Broadway cast included Joey Fatone as Seymour. [40] On August 10, 2004, a U.S. national tour of the Broadway production began, with Anthony Rapp starring as Seymour, Tari Kelly as Audrey, Lenny Wolpe as Mushnik and Michael James Leslie as the voice of Audrey II. [41] The tour closed April 16, 2006 in Columbus, Ohio. [42]
Mary Kouw/CBS via Getty Images. Six comes to us by way of the West End. This fab and fun musical—which took home the Tony for Best Original Score—opened on Broadway in late 2021 (previews ...
Orpheum Theatre. The Orpheum Theatre at 842 S. Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles opened on February 15, 1926, as the fourth and final Los Angeles venue for the Orpheum vaudeville circuit. [2] After a $3 million renovation, started in 1989, it is the most restored of the historical movie palaces in the city.
A Strange Loop. A Strange Loop is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, and winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [1] First produced off-Broadway in 2019, then staged in Washington, D.C. in 2021, [2] A Strange Loop premiered on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre in April 2022. [3][4] The show won Best Musical and Best ...
Godspell is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John-Michael Tebelak.The show is structured as a series of parables, primarily based on the Gospel of Matthew, interspersed with music mostly set to lyrics from traditional hymns, with the passion of Christ appearing briefly near the end.