The first hip-hop stage shows were 1990's off Broadway musical So!

"Obviously the idea that musical Broadway is shut down, we see as having an economic impact on the city," said William T. Cunningham, the mayor's communications director.

Joel Grey also originated the role of the Wizard of Oz in the hit Broadway musical Wicked.

That evening gave theatergoers the first of 444 chances to see the happy-go-lucky political sendup that became Broadway's longest-running musical since "Show Boat" in 1927.

The two met while performing in Broadway's 1991 short-lived musical Nick & Nora.

It's certainly the musical Broadway dearly needed this season, lest Broadway turn into a street of gaudy, escapist entertainments.

Their dance company, GhettOriginal, produced the first hip-hop stage shows: 1991's off Broadway musical So!

Puerto Rican literature has also been enriched with the works of Quiara Alegría Hudes who wrote the book for Broadway's musical In the Heights.

A new Off Broadway musical about two days in the life of Washington Heights, presented from the vantage point of a corner bodega (2:10).

For the next dozen years, in one dance act or another, he toured the country until his big break on Broadway in Jerome Kern's 1933 musical "Roberta."