CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THEATRE
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CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF BROADWAY
INTERNATIONAL THEATRES - Canada, U.S., and International
NEW YORK THEATRES - OFF AND OFF-OFF BROADWAY
THEATRE LONG RUNS - BROADWAY, LONDON, TORONTO
THEATRES - NEW YORK, LONDON, TORONTO AND INTERNATIONAL
CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF BROADWAY
CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF BROADWAY
1890 - Columbia begins commercial music recording with John Philip Sousa
1903 - The Wizard of Oz is Broadway hit
1904 - Little Johnny Jones is George M. Cohan's first Broadway hit
1905 - Variety begins publication
1907 - First installment (of 21) of the Ziegfeld Follies
1908 - Ford introduces Model T automobile
1914 - Irving Berlin's first Broadway score (of 21), Watch Your Step
1914 - Start of World War I
1915 - Shubert revue features Cole Porter's first Broadway song. "Esmeralda"
1917 - Fred Astaire's Broadway debut
1918 - World War I ends
1919 - La, La Lucille opens, with George Gershwin's first complete Broadway score
1920 - 18th Amendment bans alcohol in the United States
1921 - Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's Shuffle Along is first Broadway musical created by African-Americans
1924 - Walter Winchell debuts as Broadway columnist
- Lady, Be Good is first George and Ira Gershwin stage collaboration
1927 - Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat opens - first dramatic musical hit
- Charles Lindbergh makes first solo transatlantic flight
- The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, first talking picture
1929 - Wall Street crashes October 24, ushering in the Great Depression
1930 - Ethel Merman's Broadway debut in the Gershwin's Girl Crazy
1931 - Columbia Broadcasting System makes first experimental TV transmission
1932 - Gershwin's Of Thee I S
*Notes from Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack For A Century
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