NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Proper on Occasions Sq. within the coronary heart of New York’s theater district, a brand new Museum of Broadway is designed to take followers backstage of a few of its greatest musicals.
Rooms within the museum on forty fifth Road, which opens on Tuesday, use music, movies, glittering costumes and walk-through units to inform the historical past of how the theater district got here to be. It additionally covers groundbreaking reveals from “West Facet Story” to “Cats,” with particulars on who does what behind the scenes.
“Broadway’s been round, you realize, for the reason that 1700s. And so we simply are actually eager to deliver that to life,” mentioned co-founder Julie Boardman.
The guts of Broadway Theater was situated downtown in Union Sq. within the 1850s and arrived in Occasions Sq. within the early 1900s. A present is taken into account “Broadway” when carried out in about 40 theaters with 500 or extra seats within the Broadway District in Midtown Manhattan.
“It is a very uniquely American artwork kind that is developed right here. And so, you realize, it ought to be right here, and it ought to be in Occasions Sq.,” Boardman mentioned.
Reporting by Kyoko Gasha and Andrew Hofstetter; Writing by Rosalba O’Brien; Modifying by Richard Chang
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