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# of commercial theatre venues
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38
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Broadway
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tourist industry
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What succeeds on broadway?
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-musicals (20 musicals 9 plays)
-musicals based on movies -revival of play that has been successful in past -movies turned into musicals |
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Off Broadway
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-more experiemental
-smaller venues -cheaper -peppered around NY/manhattan area |
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Off off broadway
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-very traditional, more experiemental
-ran by student and theatre groups -shakespeare and freaky shit -cafe la mama, the living theatre, the wooster group -big in 60s |
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What broadway offers today
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-shakespeare, drama
-CATS, drama -no comedy -musicals: beauty and the beast, lion king, fiddler on the roof, avenue Q |
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Regional Theatre
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-develops new artists, plays, playwrights, and audiences
-source for broadway -highest quality theatre -provies work for pros -cbus has Catco -non commercial |
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Cleavland Playhouse
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oldest regional theater in U.S.
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Important funding for regional theatre
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-ford foundation
-rockefeller foundation -national endowment for the arts, gov. funded -Ohio Arts council |
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College/University theatre
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educates new audiences for theatre, educates and trains young artists/playwrights, source of plays for professional theatre
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high school theatre
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-conservative b/c of PTA
-Our Town most produced |
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community theatre
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people w/ outside day jobs, very active
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Children's Theatre
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-puppets, music, fairy tales
-to encourage kids to use imagination -2 kinds, performed by adults for kids and performed by kids for kids -educational outreach |
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Senior Theatre
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-vibrant culture
-ran by senior citizens and women -celebrate life experiences |
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Outdoor drama
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-pageants
-tourist oriented -outdoors -summertime |