The Broadway Museum opens in Times Square, giving you a behind-the-scenes look at iconic musicals

Right on Times Square, in the heart of New York's theater district, the incredible Broadway Museum has opened. It is designed to give fans a behind-the-scenes look at some of their biggest musicals. The publication told more about the museum CNN.

The museum has music, videos, brilliant costumes and sets that tell the story of how the theater district came to be. The exhibits also cover ground-breaking shows from West Side Story to Cats with details on who's doing what behind the scenes.

It's hard to believe, but so far there has not been a single museum dedicated to Broadway, writes ABC7.

The founders of the Museum of Broadway designed it for anyone interested in its history with a social focus on the American musical.

Visitors will find two floors filled with memorabilia.

It was all thanks to two college friends who maintained a close relationship after graduating from USC in 2004.

"It's just stunning and exciting," Diane Nicoletti said as she strolled through the particularly opulent gift shop.

She is in marketing and her business partner Julie Boardman is a producer and has nine shows to her credit.

“It's crazy to think that this never existed before,” said Boardman, who came up with the idea. “New York is synonymous with Broadway, and Broadway is synonymous with New York.”

Entering the Rent Hall, visitors can get a true glimpse of the 1990s East Village and how a particular time and place led to such a groundbreaking musical.

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And speaking of musicals that have broken stereotypes, there is West Side Story. Visitors get the opportunity to repeat the famous choreography.

Museum resident historian Ben West has been hard at work since 2019 on the creation of the exhibition. For him, this is not so much a job as a calling, because “Broadway as a whole is really our collective history. It's an integral part of American culture and American life: a representation of who we are as a people."

The museum website can be found at link.

The heart of the Broadway theater was located downtown in Union Square in the 1850s. Downtown Broadway moved to Times Square in the early 1900s. A show is considered "Broadway" if it runs in approximately 40 theaters with 500 or more seats in the Broadway area of ​​Midtown Manhattan.

“A very unique American art developed here. And so the museum should be It's in Times Square," Boardman said.