: the New York commercial theater and amusement world
specifically
: playhouses located in the area between the Avenue of the Americas and Ninth Avenue and from W. 41st Street to W. 53rd Street
Broadway
adjective
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The Robinson Center is at the corner of West Markham Street and Broadway in downtown Little Rock.
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The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 27 Nov. 2024
The hit film, based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, promotes themes of female empowerment and resistance against a grifting, impotent entertainer posing as an all-powerful being.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
After getting fired from her Rockette-y gig, a Broadway star (Britt Robertson) returns home and, finding out her parents are about to lose their music hall, trains a hunky handyman (Chad Michael Murray) and other dudes for an all-male dance revue to save the place.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
There’s a myth that the Broadway musical Wicked is a fun remake of The Wizard of Oz, modernizing it through a backstory about Glinda the Good Witch of the South and the Wicked Witch of the North, Elphaba (a mongrelization of original author L. Frank Baum’s name).
—Armond White, National Review, 27 Nov. 2024
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The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 27 Nov. 2024
The hit film, based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, promotes themes of female empowerment and resistance against a grifting, impotent entertainer posing as an all-powerful being.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
After getting fired from her Rockette-y gig, a Broadway star (Britt Robertson) returns home and, finding out her parents are about to lose their music hall, trains a hunky handyman (Chad Michael Murray) and other dudes for an all-male dance revue to save the place.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
There’s a myth that the Broadway musical Wicked is a fun remake of The Wizard of Oz, modernizing it through a backstory about Glinda the Good Witch of the South and the Wicked Witch of the North, Elphaba (a mongrelization of original author L. Frank Baum’s name).
—Armond White, National Review, 27 Nov. 2024
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Broadway
noun
Broad·way
ˈbrȯd-ˌwā 
-ˈwā
: the world of the theater in New York City : the New York stage
a big star on Broadway
Broadway
adjective
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