Give My Regards to... The Origins of Broadway!

Broadway had to start somewhere! Learn about the origins of the Great White Way in Episode 1 of our Musical Theatre History series: Give My Regards To...!! Today's episode takes us from 1890 to 1927, and how Vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies, Tin Pan Alley, and the innovative musical, SHOW BOAT all laid the groundwork for musical theatre as we know it today.

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