Hints and tips:
...Josh Jordan and Josh Ferguson, two aspiring Broadway actors, passed by the Roosevelt on a recent afternoon to hand out bananas, crackers and other goods they bought at a Target store....
...Broadway actors would regularly wet their whistles here before, after and sometimes during performances....
...Charlie spotted an advertisement for a free drama workshop by Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration and 16-year-old Reiner went along....
...He was quick to close Broadway, then restaurants and bars, and has implemented a testing regime that has outpaced other US states....
...From Fulton station, head north for a few hundred metres along Broadway, and the Brooklyn Bridge will rise up before you on your right....
...LA 1933 S Broadway, Los AngelesFebruary 14-17 Superfine’s stable of art fairs across the US — and now in LA for the first time — aims at accessibility and transparency, with 90 per cent of the art works...
...Start from Broadway Market in Hackney, lose the canal at Angel then weave your way through Islington to find the water again....
...Hitler’s in it, Goebbels, FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sugar Ray Robinson, Lena Horne . . . everyone.” With BlacKkKlansman a hit at the box office, Lee is now a contender like never before....
...Franklin Roosevelt called it “bold, persistent experimentation”....
...As a president, he had the greatest political acumen since Roosevelt.” Acting was a vocation for Cranston but an inevitable one. His parents, Joseph Cranston and Audrey Sell, were both actors....
...Patsy’s Italian restaurant, off Broadway on 56th, has been run by the same family since it was opened in 1944 by Pasquale “Patsy” Scognamillo....
...In a cupboard on the set of That Championship Season, in revival on Broadway, sits an urn containing the remains of Jason Miller, who wrote this play, which premiered in 1972....
...Completed in 1938, it survived for 168 performances on Broadway, bolstered by one super-hit number: “September Song”....
...He disappears into a crowd on Broadway and I head to a sandwich shop, looking for a bite to eat....
...Eisenhower 1956: The President’s Year of Crisis: Suez and the Brink of War, by David A Nichols, Simon & Schuster, RRP£17.50 Eisenhower’s 1953-1961 presidency, sandwiched between Roosevelt and Truman before...
...It was an opportune time for the Roosevelt Island Tram, a cable car that took us from Manhattan to that inglorious slip of an island....
...Leonard Bernstein, idealistic to a fault, seized the moment to create a labour of conspicuous love and troubled patriotism for Broadway....
...It was particularly instructive to reread Neal Gabler’s excellent book on Winchell, the Broadway gossip-monger turned political attack dog whom FDR eventually decided to co-opt behind his Lend-Lease programme...
...Nor his magisterial Franklin D Roosevelt. Nor, even, his brilliant Baudelaire....
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