Original language English First performance 16 September 1926 | Genre Drama | |
Written by George AbbottPhilip Dunning Date premiered September 16, 1926 (1926-09-16) Setting The private party room of the Paradise Night Club, New York City George Abbott plays Fiorello!, Three Men on a Horse, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Anya, New Girl in Town | ||
Broadway is a 1926 Broadway play produced by Jed Harris and written and directed by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. It was Abbott's first big hit on his way to becoming "the most famous play doctor of all time" after he "rejiggered" Dunning's play. The crime drama used "contemporary street slang and a hard-boiled, realistic atmosphere" to depict the New York City underworld during Prohibition. It opened on September 16, 1926, at the Broadhurst Theatre and was one of the venue's greatest hits, running for 603 performances.
Carl Laemmle later paid a then-extravagant $225,000 for the film rights.
A 1978 Broadway-bound revival of Broadway, directed by Robert Allan Ackerman, closed during its Boston tryout.
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