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Rooms in the museum on 45th Street, which opens
on Tuesday, use music, videos, glittering costumes and
walk-through sets to tell the history of how the theater
district came to be. It also covers groundbreaking shows from
"West Side Story" to "Cats," with details on who does what
behind the scenes.
"Broadway's been around, you know, since the 1700s. And so we
just are really wanting to bring that to life," said co-founder
Julie Boardman.
The heart of Broadway Theater was located downtown in Union
Square in the 1850s and arrived in Times Square in the early
1900s. A show is considered "Broadway" when performed in about
40 theaters with 500 or more seats in the Broadway District in
Midtown Manhattan.
"It's a very uniquely American art form that's developed here.
And so, you know, it should be here, and it should be in Times
Square," Boardman said.
(Reporting by Kyoko Gasha and Andrew Hofstetter; Writing by
Rosalba O'Brien; Editing by Richard Chang)
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