on Broadway

on Broadway

Performing or staged in a theater or other venue located in the Theater District along Broadway, a large road that runs through the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The famous musical has been on Broadway for nearly 10 years in a row. I've always dreamed of doing a play on Broadway, but I think that's a bit of a pipe dream.
See also: Broadway, on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

on Broadway

Fig. located in the Broadway theater district in New York City; performed in the Broadway theater district. (Regarded as having the best of American stage productions.) Our musical is the best thing on Broadway! I want to be a star on Broadway someday.
See also: Broadway, on
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • front of house
  • Broadway
  • bring down the curtain
  • bring down the curtain (on something)
  • bring down the curtain on
  • bring the curtain down on something
  • bring/ring down the curtain
  • in the round
  • be all right
  • let (someone or something) into (something or some place)
References in classic literature
Nicholas Hotel, on Broadway. Rooms were engaged, and the night passed, briefly to Phileas Fogg, who slept profoundly, but very long to Aouda and the others, whose agitation did not permit them to rest.
Around The World In Eighty Days
We stepped into a store on Broadway one day, where he bought a handkerchief, and when the man could not make change, Mr.
The Innocents Abroad
It featured Zero Mostel in New York , Phil Silvers on Broadway and Frankie Howerd in London's West End.
Gotta have a Hero to ensure musical triumph
In its day, that's to say 1982 on the West End and late the following year on Broadway, "Noises Off" seemed legendary, and time has in no way tarnished its comic sheen.
NOISES OFF