NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Right on Times Square in the heart of New York's theater district, a new Museum of Broadway is designed to take fans behind the curtain of some of its biggest musicals.
Rooms in the museum on 45th Street, which opens on Tuesday, use music, videos, glittering costumes and walk-through sets to tell the history of how the theater district came to be.
The heart of Broadway Theater was located downtown in Union Square in the 1850s and arrived in Times Square in the early 1900s.
A show is considered "Broadway" when performed in about 40 theaters with 500 or more seats in the Broadway District in Midtown Manhattan.
And so, you know, it should be here, and it should be in Times Square," Boardman said.