The history of Broadway dates back to the early 19th century. The Park Theater, founded in 1810, was the original Broadway theater in New York City, and the second theater, The Broadway, appeared on Broadway in 1821. Broadway's theatrical style during this period was greatly influenced by the Victorian Style of Europe at the time. With the influx of immigrants and diverse cultures, the emergence of Native American playwrights and actors was stimulated, and Edwin Forrest had the honor of being the first known Native American actor. Since most plays were adapted from novels or literature, the first 'copyright law' appeared in 1856 due to the controversy over the reprinting of works or adaptations of plays. With the end of World War I, Broadway theater culture began to flourish in the 1920s, but the boom was cut short by the stock market crash of the early 1930s. As history and culture have evolved again, Broadway is now synonymous not only with the road that runs north-south through Manhattan, but also with theater and theater-going. The current 'Broadway District' refers to the stretch of Broadway from the Nederlander Theater on West 41st Street north to the Broadway Theater on West 53rd Street, while the only other theaters on Broadway are the Marquis, the Palace, and the Broadway Theater. There are only four theaters on Broadway: the Marquis, the Palace, the Winter Garden and the Broadway. In fact, all the theaters along Broadway are also in the Broadway District. As for 'Broadway Shows', Broadway simply means shows that are on Broadway and usually more popular; Off Broadway means shows that are off Broadway and usually less popular; and Off Off Broadway is, as you can imagine, often experimental or less popular. Theaters on Broadway are usually larger, with a seating capacity of no less than 600; Off Broadway theaters are about 300 - 400 seats. From the beginning of the story of each play, the process of costume, acting, casting, songwriting, choreography and rehearsal, to the final integration, to create a unique style of performance. What about the commonly heard plays, musicals, cabarets and dramas? The master of the village basically categorizes them into three main types: Play, Musical, Opera. Let's just call them Play, Musical, Opera! This western culture has its own complex history of evolution, created by different cultural backgrounds, and it is difficult to describe in words alone. The Little Walled City Theater is just a place for the owner to share his favorite musicals with his friends, just as there are different kinds of music, such as rock, lyrical, rhythmic ... Just as music has rock, lyric, rhythm and bass, musical is not another country of music. Due to the change of time, Opera, which is a purely Italian language performance style, has declined in comparison to Play or Musical, but those who prefer purely classical music still consider Opera to be the mainstay of Musical Theatre. Opera, however, does not have the same kind of spectacular staging as Musical, and is often referred to as Opera because of the basic dancing that goes with it. As the name suggests, Musical is about telling a story through music, and in order to make it more appealing and sellable, it naturally incorporates considerable stage effects, which naturally make it more appealing to the general public than either Play or Opera. Enjoying a musical can satisfy both audio and visual enjoyment, with beautiful music and dazzling stage effects, which is why musicals are often called musical stage plays. And a kind of drama as the main way of performance (Play) is also growing, this kind of physical movements of the actors and actresses, together with the plot and simple music to present the way of performance is very generally recognized by young people, often around the story can be quickly and generally on the stage. In order to match the theme of different performances, there are often Drama (pure drama), Comedy (witty drama), Dance Play (dance drama) and Cabaret (cabaret) and other different types of performances. I once had the chance to see Les Miserables performed in the Cabaret style. Imagine the final scene of Les Miserables, when one person has to sing the chorus and each character at the same time, the kind of exaggerated and comical performance is really special. Seriously, with the diversity of performances, it is not easy to categorize some of the plays, and it is sometimes difficult to explain them in Chinese, so maybe in the future there will be an exclusive Chinese language organization that will have a unified translation and management for foreign languages. I remember once I searched for 'André Lloyd Webber' in Chinese on the Internet, but I came to a website that has nothing to do with musicals, because the keyword 'Webber' appeared, and I was puzzled by it, but I finally came across 'WoW Webber' on one of the pages, and realized that the owner of the website had translated the World Wide Web as WoW Webber. There are many more anecdotes like this, but this shows the importance of adopting and standardizing translations. Theater, musicals, and opera are just as diverse as television or film, so why not look at the way music is performed in different cultures with a broad mind.
Broadway (Bradway) originally meant Broad Street. It is a 25-kilometer-long street in New York City that runs from south to north across Manhattan Island, starting at Battery Park. On both sides of the street are towering buildings lined with the prestigious Wall Street Stock Exchange, as well as Madison Square, Times Square and other representative of the United States of America's financial giants and business tycoons of many epoch-making buildings. The most striking thing is that in Broadway between 41st and 53rd Streets brought together a number of famous theaters, with the development and expansion of the theater, so that the theater performing arts here has made unparalleled achievements, and then make the modern people every mention of Broadway, seems to have ignored the meaning of its "Broad Street", and it with the drama of the performing arts as one. Broadway has become a symbol and representative of the eternal charm of the world's theater arts. But Broadway is not a theater, but a street with dozens of theaters (see location map). Broadway, a north-south avenue in New York, between which spread the famous Madison Square and Times Square. Back in the heyday of theatrical activity, Broadway was known as the "Great White Way" and had a glorious history of 80 theaters, but later on, rising stars in the entertainment industry continued to encroach on its turf, and now there are only about 40 theaters left, and most of them, as we can see on the map, are not on Broadway, but on the east and west sides of the street, especially on 44th Street, which is the main street. east and west sides, especially between 44th and 53rd Streets.