Broadway
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- # of commercial theatre venues
- 38
- Broadway
- tourist industry
- What succeeds on broadway?
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-musicals (20 musicals 9 plays)
-musicals based on movies
-revival of play that has been successful in past
-movies turned into musicals - Off Broadway
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-more experiemental
-smaller venues
-cheaper
-peppered around NY/manhattan area - Off off broadway
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-very traditional, more experiemental
-ran by student and theatre groups
-shakespeare and freaky shit
-cafe la mama, the living theatre, the wooster group
-big in 60s - What broadway offers today
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-shakespeare, drama
-CATS, drama
-no comedy
-musicals: beauty and the beast, lion king, fiddler on the roof, avenue Q - Regional Theatre
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-develops new artists, plays, playwrights, and audiences
-source for broadway
-highest quality theatre
-provies work for pros
-cbus has Catco
-non commercial - Cleavland Playhouse
- oldest regional theater in U.S.
- Important funding for regional theatre
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-ford foundation
-rockefeller foundation
-national endowment for the arts, gov. funded
-Ohio Arts council - College/University theatre
- educates new audiences for theatre, educates and trains young artists/playwrights, source of plays for professional theatre
- high school theatre
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-conservative b/c of PTA
-Our Town most produced - community theatre
- people w/ outside day jobs, very active
- Children's Theatre
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-puppets, music, fairy tales
-to encourage kids to use imagination
-2 kinds, performed by adults for kids and performed by kids for kids
-educational outreach - Senior Theatre
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-vibrant culture
-ran by senior citizens and women
-celebrate life experiences - Outdoor drama
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-pageants
-tourist oriented
-outdoors
-summertime