Broadway

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• SOURCE: Washingtonian
  4/25/2022
  

  Library of Congress will Acquire Neil Simon's Papers

  Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden expressed gratitude to Simon's widow Elaine Joyce Simon for the donation, which enhances the library's holdings in performance arts and ensures future researchers will be able to access his work. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/9/2021
  

  The Great White(washing) Way: Business History on Broadway Without Slavery

  by Imani Perry

  The new show "The Lehman Trilogy" tells a heroic story of German Jewish immigrant brothers who rose to the top of American finance, but it tells it without reference to the labor of enslaved people that made it possible. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/6/2020
  

  ‘Hamilton’ and the Historical Record: Frequently Asked Questions

  The Disney+ filmed version has fans wondering what’s accurate. Historians are fans, too, and they have answers, along with caveats.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/14/2020
  

  Shakespeare Wrote His Best Works During a Plague

  by Daniel Pollack-Peltzner

  The most heartening lesson from Shakespeare’s era is that the playhouses will likely survive and reopen, again and again. What plays to perform when they do?

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-8-16
  

  ‘Hamilton’ Inc.: The Path to a Billion-Dollar Broadway Show

  At $100 million a year, the Broadway production of the show would pass the $1 billion mark in a decade.

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• 8-23-15
  

  Why “Hamilton” Is the Right Musical for Our Time

  by Robert W. Snyder

  “Hamilton” pulls musical theater decisively into the 21st century and reinterprets the American past.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-29-15
  

  “Hamilton,” Based on a Book, Is Becoming One Again

  Lin-Manuel Miranda’s raucous hip-hop musical, “Hamilton,” sprang from an unlikely source: a dense, 818-page biography of Alexander Hamilton by the historian Ron Chernow.

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• 7-26-15
  

  “Hamilton” on Broadway – “It Lived Up to the Hype”

  by John Baick

  It’s history written with hip-hop, heart, and heroes.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-12-15
  

  ‘Hamilton’ Heads to Broadway in a Hip-Hop Retelling

  The musical retelling of the life of the nation’s first Treasury secretary is poised to become not only a hit, but a turning point for the art form and a cultural conversation piece.

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• "Phantom of the Opera" Showcases Rich Parisian History

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Phantom of the Opera Majestic Theater 247 W. 44th Street New York, N.Y.The Phantom of the Opera, the longest-running play in American history, celebrates its 25th anniversary in New York Saturday night. There will once again be “oohs” and “aahs” when the huge chandelier falls on stage, scary moments when the Phantom threatens people and, start to finish, some of the most luscious music ever written for the stage.Theatergoers will see the enchanting musical, as good as ever after all these years, and shudder as the ogrish Phantom takes the beautiful actress Christine across the foreboding lake beneath the Paris Opera House to his lair. They will revel in French history, with all of its odd turns, that set the stage for the 1911 novel Le Fantome de L’Opera, by Gaston Leroux, and the hit 1925 silent movie version of it, starring the hideously made up Lon Chaney. While it was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s wonderful music, and the character of the Phantom, that made the musical so successful, it was the history that always gave it strength, whether in 1925 movie theaters or in the 148 cities in 28 countries where the musical has been staged.