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Broadway definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters [syn: Broadway, Great White Way]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Broadway, street in New York City Date: 1835 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. 53d Street • Broadway adjective • Broadwayite noun

Britannica Concise

Theater district in New York City, named for the avenue that runs through the Times Square area in central Manhattan, where most of the larger theaters are located. Broadway attracted theater producers and impresarios from the mid-19th cent. The number and size of the theaters grew with New York's increasing prosperity, and by the 1890s the brightly lighted street was called "the Great White Way." By 1925, the height of theatrical activity in New York, about 80 theaters were located on or near Broadway; by 1980 only about 40 remained. In the 1990s the revitalization of the seedy Times Square neighborhood attracted larger audiences, though high production costs limited the viability of serious plays in Broadway theaters, which often chose to mount big musicals and other crowd-pleasing commercial ventures. See also off-Broadway.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a large open or main road.

Moby Thesaurus

burlesque, carnival, circus, drama, entertainment industry, legit, legitimate stage, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, playland, repertory drama, show biz, show business, stage world, stagedom, stageland, stock, strawhat, strawhat circuit, summer stock, the boards, the footlights, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater world, theatromania, theatrophobia, variety, vaudeville