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Broadway theatre, commonly known as Broadway, refers to the theatrical performances presented in the 41 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.

The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City. According to The Broadway League, for the 20162017 season (which ended May 21, 2017), total attendance was 13,270,343 and Broadway shows had US$1,449,399,149 in grosses, with attendance down 0.4%, grosses up 5.5%, and playing weeks down 4.1%.

The great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. Historian Martin Shefter argues, "'Broadway musicals,' culminating in the productions of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, became enormously influential forms of American popular culture" and helped make New York City the cultural capital of the nation.

New York did not have a significant theatre presence until about 1750, when actor-managers Walter Murray and Thomas Kean established a resident theatre company at the Theatre on Nassau Street, which held about 280 people. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as "The Beggar's Opera". In 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with "The Merchant of Venice" and "The Anatomist". The company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like "Damon and Phillida". The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the year the 2,000-seat Park Theatre was built on Chatham Street (now called Park Row). The Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, and especially so with the arrival of the Virginia Minstrels in the 1840s.

1. How many theatres are on Broadway?
2. How many seats do they have?
3. What city are they in?
4. in what Burrough?
5. Is it a popular place?
6. What was the attendance in 2016-2017?
7. What did it gross?
8. Was attendance up?
9. Down by how much?
10. Was the gross down too?
11. up by what?
12. Were the playing weeks up?
13. Down by what?
14. What makes up the majority of the shows?
15. Who is one of the influential producers?
16. and another?
17. What city is the cultural capital?
18. What was created on Nassau Street?
19. How many did it hold?
20. what happened in 1752?

Numbered answers:
1. 41
2. 500 or more seats
3. in New York City.
4. Manhattan
5. yes
6. 13,270,343
7. $1,449,399,149
8. no
9. 0.4%
10. no
11. 5.5%
12. no
13. 4.1%.
14. musicals
15. Richard Rodgers
16. Oscar Hammerstein
17. New York City
18. a resident theatre company
19. about 280 people.
20. William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies