Broadway is a Broadway play produced by Jed Harris and written and directed by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. It was Abbott's first big hit on his way to becoming "the most famous play doctor of all time" after he "rejiggered" Dunning's play. The crime drama used "contemporary street slang and a hard-boiled, realistic atmosphere" to depict the New York underworld during Prohibition. It opened on September 16, 1926 at the Broadhurst Theatre and was one of the venue's greatest hits, running for 603 performances.
Carl Laemmle later paid a then-extravagant $225,000 for the film rights.
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“... here hundreds sit and play Bingo; here the bright lights of Broadway burn through a sea haze; here Somebodies tumble over other Somebodies and over Nobodies as well.”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)