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COVID-19

How is Broadway getting ready to reopen?

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
May 11, 2021
Broadway producer Eva Price says getting her show, "Jagged Little Pill," up and running again is like starting over.
New York's hushed theater district in April 2020. "Broadway has persevered for so many decades, I knew we would again," says producer Eva Price.
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Play about the Constitution may be Broadway's hottest ticket this season

by Janet Babin
Feb 12, 2019
Broadway seems to want to seize on the success of global phenomenon hip-hop musical “Hamilton” by having more politically themed shows. This season, Hillary and Bill Clinton are the subjects of one play. But another play is coming off a successful off-Broadway run to grace a marquee on the Great White Way. Its subject? The […]
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Hollywood turns Broadway into a theatrical multiplex

by Annie Rees
May 4, 2018
There can be big money in musicals based on popular movies and TV shows.
The cast poses onstage during opening night of Nickelodeon's "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical" at Palace Theatre on December 4, 2017 in New York City. 
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SpongeBob’s Broadway musical hits the right notes

by Erika Beras
Dec 25, 2017
Over the last 18 years, SpongeBob SquarePants and his friends in the underwater town of Bikini Bottom have been a pop culture juggernaut — a long-running TV show, a movie franchise, tons of tie-ins. And now SpongeBob is making his mark on the Broadway stage.  Click the audio player above to hear the full story. 
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Thanks to "La La Land," Hollywood is back in the musical business

by Molly Wood
Jan 17, 2017
Singin' in the flood.
A screengrab from "La La Land", featuring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.
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Broadway ends year with a (slightly smaller) bang

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Dec 30, 2015
Despite record attendance for some shows, Broadway's box office slips a bit.
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Hakuna Matata: That means $1 billion

by Queena Kim
Oct 18, 2013
"The Lion King" will become the first Broadway musical in history to gross more than $1 billion.
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