Complex sentence: Following a pre-Broadway run at Philadelphia's Shubert Theatre, the production, directed by George Roy Hill and choreographed by Joe Layton, opened on March 8,1960 at the Alvin Theatre where, hampered by lukewarm reviews, it ran for only 97 performances.
Split into simpler sentences: Following a pre-Broadway run at Philadelphia's Shubert Theatre, the production, directed by George Roy Hill and choreographed by Joe Layton, opened on March 8,1960, at the Alvin Theatre. Hampered by lukewarm reviews, it ran for only 97 performances.