1. Broadway - All across Manhattan

2. Content Map :View of Broadway General facts about Broadway
History / Developement
Famous stuff (Places etc..)
Broadway and its theatres
Famous Broadway musicals
Short history and information of Broadway

3. Map of Manhattan – View of Broadway

4. General facts about Broadway
Main- and shopping street
Longest and oldest north–south crossing of Manhattan
Constructed by the Delaware indians
From Bowling Green to Harlem
About 30km long
37 theatres on Broadway

5. History / Developement
Old trail of the Delaware indians named Wickquasgeck Trail
Dutch settlers took this trail over
They widen the southern part and pave the trail to a street
‘‘Heere Straat“ or ‘‘Breede weg“
First mention in writing in 1642 by the dutch discoverer David de Vries

6. Famous stuff
From Trinity Church to City Hall Park is the traditionell route of the ‘‘ticker tade parades“
They are arranged for special occasions and personages (e.g. after the victory of the New York Yankees by the World Series 2000)

7. Famous stuff – Broadway passes…
… Madison Square ( 5th Avenue )
… Herald Square ( 6th Avenue )
… Macy´s
… Theatre District ( between 41th and 53rd street )
… Columbus Circle ( 8th Avenue )
… Lincoln Center ( Columbus Avenue

8. Broadway and its theatres

9. Did you recognize the musical?
Music „Memory“ by Elaine Paige & Sarah Brightman

10. Famous Broadway musicals
Phantom of the opera
Cats
Les misérables
The Lion King
Mamma Mia!

11. Short history and information of Broadway
Broadway means the theater district, also known as the ‘‘Great White Way“
About 40 big theaters and 1500 off-Broadway and off-off- Broadway shows
Broadway musicals were 1866 originated by William Wheatley
Oldest uninterrupted playing theater is the Lyceum which was opened at 11/2/1903

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13. Thanks for your attention A lecture by Schirin Mosebach 11/16/2006