ONCE, the New Haven tryout came with the territory of a Broadway-bound show.

Nonetheless, the Colonial continues to be a testing ground for Broadway-bound shows.

"In the past, resident theaters were usually content to leave their Broadway-bound shows in the hands of commercial producers, collecting a small percentage of the gross for their home institutions," he wrote.

A hit in its first tour of the West, the Off Broadway-bound show moves into the Emelin Theater for a three-week stand beginning Wednesday at 8 P.M..

She was also cast as the lead in a Broadway-bound show, "Nefertiti," that closed in Chicago.

For Broadway-bound shows, the historic Shubert Theater in New Haven once represented the big stop before the big time.

The scene was a steamy locker room in Philadelphia, a city that inspired a score of jokes about the closing of Broadway-bound shows.

Certainly, theatrical productions from the larger theaters in Los Angeles, like the Ahmanson and the Mark Taper Forum, which often initiate Broadway-bound shows, are better known.

Some regional theaters serve as the "out of town tryout" for Broadway-bound shows, and some will even accept touring broadway shows, though those more typically play at commercial road houses.

It is as crucial to talk of the Broadway and Off Broadway-bound shows that Connecticut saw first.