Sentence examples for theater success from inspiring English sources

He had a town house, a butler and a limousine, but family money, not theater success, appeared to pay for it.

In one of those true musical theater success stories, Sutton Foster, who plays the title role in "Millie," won the Tony for leading actress in a musical.

In joining their ranks, Mr. Sadoski (sah-DAH-ski) has emerged as a classic New York theater success story: after years working Off Broadway, he is drawing praise not only for "reasons to be pretty" but also for his role this winter in the Second Stage Theater production of "Becky Shaw," for which he has been nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for featured actor.

There were reminders too of the institution's various musical theater successes, from "Guys and Dolls" to "Jerry Springer — the Opera" and on to "London Road," and of playwrights ranging from Mr. Bennett and Harold Pinter to Alan Ayckbourn and Tony Kushner (a grievous passage from the first part of "Angels In America," which was produced at the National in 1992).

Fans love StarKid, he explains, because like "Glee," it proves that musical-theater success "is not impossible".

And that, in the musical theater, spells success.

But despite the theater's success and his own recognition, there was always the depression.

Jealous of the theater's success, a mob of rowdy whites eventually stormed the building and forced it to close.

Such gossip is lifeblood in the back-fence world of the New York theater, where success is measured as much in buzz as in awards and box-office receipts.

That is why, he said, he feels the choice of a director will be the most important factor in the theater's success.

Ms. Smey, he noted, had played an integral part in helping to build the Miller Theater's success and was intimately acquainted with what Mr. Brinkley called "the culture of Miller Theater".