Sentence examples for set broadway from inspiring English sources

Ever since Brando set Broadway abuzz in the original stage production in 1947, Stanley — the young, ruthless sexual animal who is married to Blanche's sister, Stella — has usually been presented as Blanche's equal, in terms of both thematic import and star presence.

Kevin Kline, Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones were all snubbed to make room for Stewart's Macbeth, Rufus Sewell in Rock'n'Roll, Ben Daniels, who has set Broadway abuzz in Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Mark Rylance, making his Broadway debut in Boeing-Boeing.

The notion of a modern-themed Julius Caesar is not novel, exactly; Orson Welles set Broadway spinning with his Mussolini-flavored performance in the 1937 anti-fascist, Mercury Theatre production.

Lazar owed his success following the Second World War to the introductions of studio heads to the star players of the Algonquin set, Broadway, and the West End.

In an irony surely set for broadway and the west end stage one day, investors are realising that resisting governments is becoming their greatest risk given that the catch-up period will be extraordinarily expensive and damaging.

Even so, I'm quite intrigued to see how the show, which was done in an immersive ballroom setting Off-Broadway, will translate to a proscenium stage.

The show, which set a then-Broadway record for the highest weekly grossing non-musical ($1,061,689 for the week ending May 22, 2005, if you're counting), won a Tony that year for special theatrical event.

Dry Land, at Jermyn Street theatre in the West End, is Ruby Rae Spiegel's off-Broadway hit set in the girls' locker room of a Florida high school.

The screenplay The Understudy was written by Andres Heinz; Aronofsky first heard about it while editing his second film Requiem for a Dream (2000) and described it as "All About Eve with a double, set in the off-Broadway world".

"Rock of Ages" director Adam Shankman took to Twitter to confirm that Brand, long in negotiations for the role, will play Lonny, rock venue owner and narrator, in the big screen adaptation of the hit 1980's, LA rock club-set Broadway show.

In "Groovaloo," performed at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday night, excitement was rarely found in the Broadway-style graffiti set, the flashy colorful lighting or the sentimental text, mainly delivered in voice-over form.