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An Off-Broadway theatre is a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but generally larger than Off-Off-Broadway theatres. An "Off-Broadway production" is a production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue and adheres to related trade union and other contracts. == History == Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theater District, the hub of the theatre industry in New York, the term later became defined by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers as a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, or a specific production that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts.〔 Previously, regardless of the size of the venue, a theatre was not considered Off-Broadway if it was within the "Broadway Box" (extending from 40th to 54th Street, and from west of Sixth Avenue to east of Eighth Avenue, and including Times Square and 42nd Street). The contractual definition changed this to encompass theatres meeting the standard, which is beneficial to these theatres because of the lower minimum required salary for Actors' Equity performers at Off-Broadway theatres as compared with the salary requirements of the union for Broadway theatres. Examples of Off-Broadway theatres within the Broadway Box are the Laura Pels Theatre and the Snapple Theater Center. According to Bloom and Vlastnik, the Off-Broadway movement started in the 1950s, as a reaction to the "perceived commercialism of Broadway" and provided an "outlet for a new generation" of creative artists. This "fertile breeding ground, away from the pressures of commercial production and critical brickbats, helped give a leg up to hundreds of future Broadway greats. The first great Off-Broadway musical was the 1954 revival of the Brecht/Weill ''Threepenny Opera."〔Bloom, Ken and Vlastnik, Frank. ("Off Broadway, Part 1" ). Broadway Musicals:The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time'', Black Dog Publishing, 2008, ISBN 1-57912-313-9, p. 94〕 Many Off-Broadway musicals have had subsequent runs on Broadway, including such successful musicals as ''Hair'', ''Godspell'', ''A Chorus Line'', ''Little Shop of Horrors'', ''Sunday in the Park with George'', ''Rent'', ''Grey Gardens'', ''Urinetown'', ''Avenue Q'', ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'', ''Rock of Ages'', ''In the Heights'', ''Spring Awakening'', ''Next to Normal'', ''Hedwig and the Angry Inch'', ''Fun Home'' and ''Hamilton''. Plays that have moved from off-Broadway houses to Broadway include ''Doubt'', ''I Am My Own Wife'', '' Bridge & Tunnel'', ''The Normal Heart'' and ''Coastal Disturbances''. Other productions, such as ''Stomp'', ''Blue Man Group'', ''Altar Boyz'', ''Perfect Crime'' and ''Naked Boys Singing'' have run for several years Off-Broadway. ''The Fantasticks'', the longest-running musical in theatre history, spent its original 42-year run Off-Broadway and began another long off-Broadway run in 2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Off Broadway Theatre Information )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Off-Broadway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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