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Driving Downtown - Chicago State Street 4K - USA

Driving Downtown Streets - State Street - Chicago Illinois USA - Episode 27.
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State Street is a large south-north street in Chicago, Illinois, USA

State Street shopping
State Street became a shopping destination during the 1900s and is referred to in the song Chicago, sung by Frank Sinatra where Frank refers it to State Street, that great street. In 1979, Mayor Jane Byrne converted the downtown portion into a pedestrian mall with only bus traffic allowed. Mayor Richard M. Daley oversaw the State Street Revitalization Project and on November 15, 1996, the street was reopened to traffic.[6]

During the second half of the 20th century, State Street was eclipsed by Michigan Avenue's Magnificent Mile as a shopping district. Various projects to restore State Street's glory have been met with some success, and the State Street corridor is gaining residential as well as more traditional commercial development. New York & Company, Old Navy, Urban Outfitters, and The Children's Place have recently opened up flagships on State Street. Borders Books had a flagship on State, but the Borders chain has since shut down. Today, the only two main department store chains that remain are Macy's (the former Marshall Field's flagship store) and Sears (now closed) on State. The department store chain Carson Pirie Scott closed their flagship store on State Street on February 21, 2007 after over 100 years of business in that location. The Block 37 opened in 2009, bringing with it a large group of upscale retailers to State Street, including Anthropologie, Puma AG, and Zara. On January 12, 2012, Walgreens's opened a flagship location at Randolph Street,[7][8][9][10] where it had previously existed from 1926 to 2005,[11] when construction of Joffrey Tower necessitated its demolition.

Landmarks
State Street is the location of many landmarks in downtown Chicago:
Chicago Archbishop's Mansion
The Original Playboy Mansion
Fisher Studio Houses
Holy Name Cathedral
Tree Studio Building and Annexes
Marina City
ABC7 News Studio[12]
Page Brothers Building
Chicago Theater
Marshall Field and Company Building
Block 37
Reliance Building
Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building
A.M. Rothschild & Company Store (DePaul Center)
Harold Washington Library
Second Leiter Building
University Center
Mentor Building
Palmer House



Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, and the county seat of Cook County. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S.[4]

Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century.[5] The city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation: O'Hare International Airport is the second busiest airport in the world when measured by aircraft traffic; the region also has the largest number of U.S. highways and rail road freight.[6] In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network,[7] and ranked seventh in the world in the 2014 Global Cities Index.[8] Chicago has the third largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $630.3 billion according to 2014-2016 estimates.[9] The Chicago metropolitan area is also home to several universities, including Northwestern University, University of Chicago, and University of Illinois at Chicago.

In 2014, Chicago had 50.2 million international and domestic visitors.[10] Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, gospel[11] and house music. It also has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. Chicago has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City

Chicago 4K - Night Drive - Driving Downtown

Thursday night drive around downtown Chicago. Video starts along the Chicago River along Wacker Drive, continues to State Street, then to the Magnificent Mile Michigan Avenue, passes under the popular Chicago Loop subway network, and completes along the Theater District. Enjoy!
Chicago is the 2nd most visited city in the US, with 58 million domestic and international visitors in 2018, behind New York City's approximate 65 million visitors. Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is the most populous city in the Midwest. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, and the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States. The metropolitan area, at nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States.

Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. After the Chicago Fire of 1871, which left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900 Chicago was the fifth largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.

Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market globally, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures. O'Hare International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world, and the region also has the largest number of U.S. highways and greatest amount of railroad freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $680 billion in 2017. In addition, the city has one of the world's most diversified and balanced economies, not being dependent on any one industry, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce.

The city ranked first place in the 2018 Time Out City Life Index, a global quality of life survey of 15,000 people in 32 cities.The city is also home to several fortune 500 companies, the most notable being, Allstate, Boeing, Exelon, McDonald's, Quaker Oats, and United Airlines Holdings. Landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis (Sears) Tower, Grant Park (Chicago), the Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, literature, film, theater, comedy (especially improvisational comedy), food, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel, and electronic dance music including house music. Of the area's many colleges and universities, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago are classified as highest research doctoral universities. Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball teams.

Illinois Humanities' An Evening at the Pekin Theatre

Bronzeville’s Pekin Theatre was the first Black-owned and -operated stock theatre company in the United States. The Pekin opened the first all-Black show ever produced in Chicago on June 18th, 1905 to an estimated crowd of 400 patrons. As part of the City of Chicago's Year of Public Art in 2017, the Illinois Humanities Council recreated the theatre at An Evening at the Pekin Theatre on June 17, 2017, just one day shy of 112 years later.

For more about the evening and the talented artists and musicians involved, feel free to read the Chicago Tribune's article:

chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-ent-0620-ragtime-bronzeville-20170619-column.html

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Driving Downtown - Broadway 4K - New York City USA

Driving Downtown Streets - Broadway - New York City New York USA
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With over 1.4 billion dollars in ticket sales to 13 million attendees, the Broadway theatre district is a major tourist attraction in New York City. Broadway in Manhattan is known widely as the heart of the American theatre industry, and is used as a metonym for it. Broadway the road is the oldest north–south main road in New York City, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement.
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One famous stretch near Times Square, where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue in midtown Manhattan, is the home of many Broadway theatres, housing an ever-changing array of commercial, large-scale plays, particularly musicals. This area of Manhattan is often called the Theater District or the Great White Way, a nickname originating in the headline Found on the Great White Way in the edition of February 3, 1902 of the New York Evening Telegram. The journalistic nickname was inspired by the millions of lights on theater marquees and billboard advertisements that illuminate the area. After becoming the city's de facto red-light district in the 1960s and 1970s (as can be seen in the films Taxi Driver and Midnight Cowboy), since the late 1980s Times Square has emerged as a family tourist center, in effect being Disneyfied following the company's purchase and renovation of the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street in 1993.



Broadway theatre, commonly known as Broadway, refers to the theatrical performances presented in the 41 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.

The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City. According to The Broadway League, for the 2016–2017 season (which ended May 21, 2017), total attendance was 13,270,343 and Broadway shows had US$1,449,399,149 in grosses, with attendance down 0.4%, grosses up 5.5%, and playing weeks down 4.1%.

The great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. Historian Martin Shefter argues, 'Broadway musicals,' culminating in the productions of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, became enormously influential forms of American popular culture and helped make New York City the cultural capital of the nation.



Midtown Manhattan, or Midtown, represents the central lengthwise portion of the borough and island of Manhattan in New York City. Midtown is home to some of the city's most iconic buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the headquarters of the United Nations, and it contains world-renowned commercial zones such as Rockefeller Center, Broadway, and Times Square.

Midtown Manhattan is the largest central business district in the world and ranks among the most expensive and intensely used pieces of real estate in the world, and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan commands the world's highest retail rents, at US$3,000 per square foot ($32,000/m2) in 2017. While Lower Manhattan is the main financial center, Midtown is the country's largest commercial, entertainment, and media center. It is also a growing financial center, second in importance only to Lower Manhattan's Financial District in the United States.



With a record 61 million tourists in 2016, Manhattan is often described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world and the borough hosts the United Nations Headquarters. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world,

New York County is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with a census-estimated 2016 population of 1,643,734 living in a land area of 22.83 square miles (59.13 km2), or 71,999 residents per square mile (27,799/km2), higher than the density of any individual U.S. city. On business days, the influx of commuters increases this number to over 3.9 million, or more than 170,000 people per square mile (65,600/km2). Manhattan has the third-largest population of New York City's five boroughs, after Brooklyn and Queens, and is the smallest borough in terms of land area.

Branson Escape Room with Forever Young

This week Forever Young in Branson visits the Cryptex escape room in Branson Missouri.

Forever Young In Branson follows two lucky kids that go on an amazing adventure with the cast of Forever Young. Highlighting fun family attractions that will keep you Forever Young In Branson.


“Forever Young” follows five best friends as they remember the music that shaped them into the men they are today. With a soundtrack of some of the greatest Pop, Rock, and Country music of all time, and set in a suburban basement in the Midwest, this show takes it’s audiences back to a time when music was new, life was full of possibilities, and happiness was but a song away.

BRAD BAKER Brad has performed in numerous theaters nationally and internationally and is a proud Graduate of AUBURN UNIVERSITY. Originally from Enterprise Alabama, Brad's musical career has taken him aboard ships large and small. His favorite voyages include; The Show Boat Branson Belle, and a number of ships with Holland American Cruise Lines. Brad has also been seen with the world renowned vocal band Cat's Pajamas who have performed on a number of high profile television shows including, NBC's The Sing Off, America's Got Talent, and FOX's Next Great American Band.

AVILLA MARTIN Born and raised in Chicago, IL, Avilla has been a child of performance since the age of four. He has toured internationally with the award winning world renowned Chicago Children's Choir for more than a decade and has performed as a singer, dancer and actor at Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company. Avilla then pursued his studies at Western Illinois University, the Theatre School at Depaul University and then eventually cast as a lead performer at Six Flags Great America in one of the company's highest rated shows in history. Avilla is proud to have also performed with noted entertainers in the past inclucing Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys, Enrique Iglesias, Celine Dion, David Foster, Josh Groban, and Bobby McFerrin.

JUSTIN SASSANELLA was born in Auburn, Indiana and upon graduating high school was drafted by the New York Mets baseball team where he spent time in the minor leagues. Justin gave up his skill for baseball to pursue his first love, music. After moving to Branson, Missouri, Justin has spent the last twelve years performing in fan favorite shows such as; The Twelve Irish Tenors, Magnificent 7 Variety Show, #1 Hits of the 60's, A Christmas Carol, and Broadway: The Star Spangled Celebration. While in Branson, Justin has won awards for Best Quartet, Best Ensemble, and Best Show. He has also been a priciple Vocalist on Carnival Cruise Lines as well as Oceana Cruies Lines.

EVAN BOSWORTH Originally from Auburn Indiana, Evan began his career with thoughts of being a teacher. After earning his bachelors degree in sociology he quickly discovered he couldn't stay away from music. After acquiring his second degree in music production Evan has since traveled around the world more times that he can count, singing in over 100 countries. His versatile voice has earned him stage time with numerous Stars including: Andy Williams, The Osmond Brothers, LeAnne Rhimes, KC and the Sunshine Band, and Michelle Branch, to name a few. Evan is thrilled to finally be home and can't wait to be back in the basement where it all began.

CHADD RUDEN is no stranger to the stage, performing in numerous shows over the last ten years. Some of his favorite credits include: It's a Wonderful Life, Dicken's Christmas Carol, GAC live, 70's Music Celbration starring Barry Williams and Red, Hot...& Blue. When not performing, Chadd owns his own production company, Ruden Entertainment and produces the show Dancin' Through the Ages at the The God and Country Theatre in Branson, Missouri.

All Things Branson, discussing what it's like to live in the Live Music Capital of the World, is hosted by Christopher James. Topics are sometimes very random but always entertaining. Follow Christopher at @funnyhypermagic.

All Things Branson is an online network dedicated to sharing news, human interest, art, entertainment and business news from Branson, MO. We present an honest look at Branson from the perspective of local residents from various walks of life. We give a voice to those that can’t afford the high price of advertising in a tourist community.

If you are interested in appearing on one of our shows, have relevant news about Branson, or would like to be the focus of one of our interviews, please contact us at allthingsbranson@gmail.com.

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Chicago - City Video Guide

Chicago, Illinois, rises from the edges of Lake Michigan and offers some of America's best jazz, blues and theater.

Chicago's most visited districts are The Loop, as the city's business center, The Riverwalk and the Miracle Mile. The Miracle Mile houses the Old Water Tower and is full of boutique shops and fine examples from the Chicago School of architecture.

Chicago's parks include the monument-rich Lincoln Park with the Chicago History Museum, Garfield Park Conservatory and Oak Park. Oak Park was home both to the author Ernest Hemingway and the visionary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. In Millennium Park, Frank Gehry's Jay Pritzker Pavilion and the equally futuristic-looking Cloud Gate are the highlights.

Children's attractions in Chicago include the Lincoln Park Zoo, the Museum of Science and Industry or the Field Museum, known from the Indiana Jones movies. The historic Navy Pier also offers waterfront entertainment for all ages, including scenic river cruises.

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Battle of Fort Dearborn

The Battle of Fort Dearborn was an engagement between United States troops and Potawatomi Native Americans that occurred on August 15, 1812, near Fort Dearborn in what is now Chicago, Illinois, but was then part of the Illinois Territory. The battle, which occurred during the War of 1812, followed the evacuation of the fort as ordered by William Hull, commander of the United States Army of the Northwest.

The battle lasted about 15 minutes and resulted in a complete victory for the Native Americans. Fort Dearborn was burned down and those soldiers and settlers who survived were taken captive. Some were later ransomed. After the battle, however, settlers continued to seek to enter the area, the fort was rebuilt in 1816, and settlers and the government were now convinced that all Indians had to be removed from the territory, far away from the settlement.

Fort Dearborn was constructed by United States troops under the command of Captain John Whistler in 1803. It was located on the south bank of the main stem of the Chicago River in what is now the Loop community area of downtown Chicago. At the time, the area was seen as wilderness; in the view of later commander, Heald, so remote from the civilized part of the world. The fort was named in honor of Henry Dearborn, then United States Secretary of War. It had been commissioned following the Northwest Indian War of 1785–1795, and the signing of the Treaty of Greenville at Fort Greenville (now Greenville, Ohio), on August 3, 1795. As part of the terms of this treaty, a coalition of Native Americans and frontiersmen, known as the Western Confederacy, turned over to the United States large parts of modern-day Ohio, and various other parcels of land including 6 square miles (16 km2) centered at the mouth of the Chicago River.

The British Empire had ceded the Northwest Territory—comprising the modern states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin—to the United States in the Treaty of Paris in 1783. However the area had been the subject of dispute between the Native American nations and the United States since the passage of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787.[6] The Indian Nations followed Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee prophet and the brother of Tecumseh. Tenskwatawa had a vision of purifying his society by expelling the children of the Evil Spirit, the American settlers. Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh formed a confederation of numerous tribes to block American expansion. The British saw the Native American nations as valuable allies and a buffer to its Canadian colonies and provided them arms. Attacks on American settlers in the Northwest further aggravated tensions between Britain and the United States. The Confederation's raids hindered American expansion into potentially valuable farmlands, mineral deposits and fur trade areas in the Northwest Territory.

In 1810, as a result of a long running feud, Captain Whistler and other senior officers at Fort Dearborn were removed. Whistler was replaced by Captain Nathan Heald, who had been stationed at Fort Wayne, Indiana. Heald was dissatisfied with his new posting and immediately applied for a leave of absence to spend the winter in Massachusetts. On his return journey to Chicago, he visited Kentucky, where he married Rebekah Wells, the daughter of Samuel Wells, and they traveled together to Chicago in June 1811.
As the United States and Britain moved towards war, antipathy between the settlers and Native Americans in the Chicago area increased. In the summer of 1811, British emissaries tried to enlist the support of Native Americans in the region, telling them that the British would help them to resist the encroaching American settlement. On April 6, 1812, a band of Winnebago Indians murdered Liberty White, an American, and John B. Cardin, a French Canadian, at a farm called Hardscrabble that was located on the south branch of the Chicago River, in the area now called Bridgeport. News of the murder was carried to Fort Dearborn by a soldier of the garrison named John Kelso and a small boy who had managed to escape from the farm. Following the murder, some residents of Chicago moved into the fort while the rest fortified themselves in a house that had belonged to Charles Jouett, an Native American agent. Fifteen men from the civilian population were organized into a militia by Captain Heald, and armed with guns and ammunition from the fort.

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Driving Downtown Streets - LaSalle Street - Chicago Illinois USA - Episode 57.
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LaSalle Street is a major north-south street in Chicago. The portion that runs through the Chicago Loop is considered to be Chicago's financial district.

The Loop, along with the rest of downtown Chicago, is the second largest commercial business district in the United States, after New York City's Midtown Manhattan. Its financial district near LaSalle Street is home to the CME Group's Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

The street was nicknamed The Canyon due to the tall, steep buildings that lie on both ends of the relatively narrow street, with the Chicago Board of Trade Building as the abrupt end of the apparent box canyon.

In Popular Culture
The street, Chicago Board of Trade Building, and 200 North LaSalle were used in the 2005 film Batman Begins and its sequel The Dark Knight, as well as in the 1999 movie Payback. The view facing south down the canyon has been used in the movies The Untouchables, Public Enemies, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Road to Perdition. The canyon was in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.



Chicago Loop
The Loop is the central business district of Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the city's 77 designated community areas. The Loop is home to Chicago's commercial core, City Hall, and the seat of Cook County. As a business center, some of the corporations the Loop is home to include the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the world's largest options and futures contracts open interest exchange; the headquarters of United Continental Holdings, one of the world's largest airlines; AON; Blue Cross Blue Shield; Hyatt Hotels Corporation; BorgWarner, and dozens upon dozens of other major corporations. The Loop is home to Grant Park; State Street, which hosts a major shopping district; the Art Institute of Chicago; several theaters; and numerous subway and elevated rapid transit stations. Other major institutions in the Loop include the Willis Tower, once the tallest building in the world, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Goodman Theatre, the Joffrey Ballet, the central public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center.

Notable Landmarks
Agora, a group of sculptures at the south end of Grant Park.
Art Institute of Chicago
Auditorium Building
Buckingham Fountain
Carbide & Carbon Building
Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building
Chicago Board of Trade Building
Chicago Theatre
Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago City Hall
Civic Opera House
Field Building
Fine Arts Building
Grant Park
Jewelers Row District
Mather Tower
McCormick Place
Historic Michigan Boulevard District
Monadnock Building
The Palmer House
Printing House Row
Reliance Building
Rookery Building
Symphony Center – home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Willis Tower – formerly the Sears Tower



Chicago is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S.

In 2015, Chicago had over 52 million international and domestic visitors. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, gospel and house music. It also has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. Chicago has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City.

Tourism
In 2014, Chicago attracted 50.17 million domestic leisure travelers, 11.09 million domestic business travelers and 1.308 million overseas visitors. These visitors contributed more than US$13.7 billion to Chicago's economy. Upscale shopping along the Magnificent Mile and State Street, thousands of restaurants, as well as Chicago's eminent architecture, continue to draw tourists. The city is the United States' third-largest convention destination.

Sports
The city has two Major League Baseball (MLB) teams: the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox. The Chicago Bears, one of the last two remaining charter members of the National Football League (NFL), have won nine NFL Championships, including the 1985 Super Bowl XX. The Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA) is one of the most recognized basketball teams in the world. The Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL) began play in 1926, and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL.

Waving the American Flag in all 50 States- in under 90 seconds

How appropriate is it that I now work for American Airlines after completing this adventure!

All the states are shown in reverse alphabetical order.

More specific location details of various states:

Wisconsin: Milwaukee- Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory
Washington: Seattle- Pike Place Market
Vernont: Waterbury- Ben and Jerry's Factory
Utah: Salt Lake City- near Temple Square
Texas: Houston- Rice University
South Dakota: Sioux Falls- Falls Park
Pennsylvania: Philadelphia
Oregon: Portland- International Rose Garden
Oklahoma: Arcadia- Pops Soda Ranch
Ohio: Cincinnati
North Carolina: Charlotte- Metalmorphosis
New York: New York City- Times Square
New Mexico: Albuquerque- International Balloon Fiesta
New Jersey: Atlantic City- Boardwalk
Montana: Butte- Granite Mountain Mine Memorial
Missouri: St. Louis- Gateway Arch
Michigan: Detroit- Labor Legacy Landmark
Massachusetts: Boston
Maryland: Baltimore- Inner Harbor
Maine: Portland Observatory
Louisiana: New Orleans- Steamboat Natchez
Kentucky: Lexington- Thoroughbred Park
Kansas: Wichita- The Keeper of the Plains
Iowa: Sioux City
Indiana: Indianapolis- Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument
Illinois: Chicago- Cloud Gate
Hawaii: Wahiawa- Dole Plantation
Georgia: Atlanta- Centennial Olympic Park
District of Columbia- Lincoln Memorial
Delaware: Wilmington- Frawley Stadium
Connecticut: Putnam- Bradley Theater
Colorado: Colorado Springs- Garden of the Gods
Arkansas: Little Rock- Big Dam Bridge
Alaska: Portage Glacier

Tlatelolco Revisited (2008) - By Joel Valentin-Martinez

Choreography by Joel Valentin-Martinez, Assistant to the choreographer: Nicole West, Performed by Luna Negra Dance Theater, Performed at The Harris Theatre For Music And Dance, Chicago, Illinois, Music by Cafe Tacvba, Costumes by Edith Arias, Lighting Design by Josh Preston.

Valentin-Martinez took the strong company of dancers on a journey through innocence, humiliation, protest and remembrance. - Chicago Tribune.

The most galvanic debut of the evening was Tlatelolco Revisited - Chicago SUN-Times.

Joel Valentin-Martinez was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He initiated his theater/dance training at American Conservatory Theater, Alonzo King's Lines Ballet, Rosa Montoya's Bailes Flamencos, Oaklands Dimensions Dance Theatre, and San Francisco State University. From 1990-2003 he was a member of Garth Fagan Dance (Tony Award Winner) and toured with the troupe throughout the United States, Canada, the Middle East, Europe, Australia, South America, and the Caribbean. Since 2003, Mr. Valentin-Martinez has devoted his time to teaching at the university level and developing his own choreography projects. His works Misplaced Flowers (2010) and Tlatelolco Revisited (2008) were both commissioned by Luna Negra Dance Theater and premiered at the Harris Theater in Chicago. He recently choreographed the musical adaptation of Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street (2009) at the Steppenwolf Theatre. He has also developed choreography for the Joel Hall Dancers and the multi-media performance Imperial Silence: Una Ópera Muerta/A Mariachi Opera in Four Acts (2008) which has been performed throughout California and was last staged at El Museo del Barrio in New York City. Valentin-Martinez is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Theatre Department at Northwestern University. Prior to joining Northwestern he taught dance at Arizona State University and the University of Rochester.

Philippines KAPWA Winner USA Battle of the Bamboo (Loyola University Chicago)

Group is called KAPWA the Filipino American Student Organization at Loyola University Chicago

Battle of the Bamboo is a well-known cultural dance competition. It is hosted annually by Filipinos In Alliance at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Since its inception in 2002, Battle of the Bamboo has grown to incorporate dance groups ranging from the high school to collegiate levels. These groups hail from institutions located all over the Midwest United States and they prepare rigorously for their performances. In 2014, when Battle of the Bamboo celebrates its 11th birthday, it will take on the theme entitled Embrace Your Legacy. This theme is meant to embody culture. This theme is meant to embody encouragement. To be more specific, encouragement to embrace one's own cultural legacy and ancestry. By celebrating our culture through dance, we as Filipino-Americans continue to embrace our roots. On behalf of Filipinos In Alliance, we extend a warm welcome to attend Battle of the Bamboo MMXIV. Let us celebrate our culture together.


Loyola University Chicago (Loyola, LUC) is a private Jesuit university located in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus in 1870 under the name of St. Ignatius College, and has grown to be the largest Jesuit university in the United States with a total enrollment of 15,068 (as of 2013)[1] and over 150,000 alumni.[3]
Loyola University has six campuses throughout the Chicago metropolitan area, and it also has a permanent overseas campus in Rome, Italy and guest programs in Beijing, China and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Loyola has twelve undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 71 undergraduate degrees, 85 master's degrees, 31 doctoral degrees, and 26 graduate-level certificate programs.[4]
The main campus, the Lake Shore Campus, is located in the Rogers Park and Edgewater neighborhoods of the City of Chicago, located along the shore of Lake Michigan.
Loyola University Chicago's intercollegiate sports teams, commonly called the Loyola Ramblers, compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Missouri Valley Conference. As of 2013, Loyola University is still the only Division I school in the State of Illinois to win a national championship in men's basketball.

New York City 4K - Neon Nightlife Drive

Thursday night drive in the nightlife district of New York City. The video starts on Broadway, continues through Times Square, passes the famous 42nd Street theaters, and continues to Grand Central Station.
New York City's Theater District is an area in Midtown Manhattan where most Broadway theaters are located, as well as many other theaters, movie theaters, restaurants, hotels, other places of entertainment, and Times Square.

It also contains recording studios, record label offices, theatrical agencies, television studios, restaurants, Duffy Square, Shubert Alley, the Brill Building, a Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditorium, and Madame Tussauds New York.



42nd Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, known for its theaters, especially near the intersection with Broadway at Times Square in Midtown. It is also the name of the region of the theater district (and, at times, the red-light district) near that intersection. The street has held a special place in New Yorkers' imaginations since at least the turn of the 20th century, and is the site of some of New York's best known buildings, including (east to west) the Headquarters of the United Nations, Chrysler Building, Grand Central Terminal, New York Public Library, Times Square and the Port Authority Bus Terminal.



Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It stretches from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times Square is sometimes referred to as The Crossroads of the World, The Center of the Universe, the heart of The Great White Way, and the heart of the world. One of the world's busiest pedestrian areas, it is also the hub of the Broadway Theater District and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. Times Square is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, drawing an estimated 50 million visitors annually. Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of them tourists, while over 460,000 pedestrians walk through Times Square on its busiest days.



Broadway is a road in the U.S. state of New York. Broadway in Manhattan is known widely as the heart of the American theatre industry, and is used as a metonym for it. One famous stretch near Times Square, where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue in midtown Manhattan, is the home of many Broadway theatres, housing an ever-changing array of commercial, large-scale plays, particularly musicals. This area of Manhattan is often called the Theater District or the Great White Way, a nickname originating in the headline Found on the Great White Way in the edition of February 3, 1902 of the New York Evening Telegram. The journalistic nickname was inspired by the millions of lights on theater marquees and billboard advertisements that illuminate the area. After becoming the city's de facto red-light district in the 1960s and 1970s (as can be seen in the films Taxi Driver and Midnight Cowboy), since the late 1980s Times Square has emerged as a family tourist center, in effect being Disneyfied following the company's purchase and renovation of the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street in 1993.

The 1903 Iroquois Theater Fire - Chicago (HQ)

The Iroquois Theatre (Theater) Fire occurred on December 30, 1903, in Chicago, Illinois. It is the deadliest theater fire and the deadliest single-building fire in United States history. A total of 602 people died as a result of the fire.


The theatre had three audience levels. The main floor (known as the orchestra or parquet) was on the same level as the Foyer or Grand Stair Hall. The second level (the dress circle) and the third level (the gallery) were accessed through broad stairways that led off the foyer. The backstage areas were unusually large, with dressing rooms on five levels, an uncommonly large fly gallery (where scenery was hung), and even an elevator available to transport actors down to the stage level.



The Iroquois was Chicago's newest and most polished theater, built by architect Benjamin Marshall, who had studied many fires over the years and had tried to make this particular building as safe as possible. The Iroquois was designed in the image of a famous Paris opera house, and the four-story structure contained elaborates stained glass windows and polished wood. The lobby of the Iroquois had a sixty-foot high ceiling and marble walls, and Marshall had put in as many as twenty-five exits that supposedly would allow a capacity crowd to escape any problems in less than five minutes. A curtain made of asbestos was supposed to be present, one that could be lowered from above the stage to protect the audience in case of a fire that started there.

But common sense did not prevail when it came to the seats in the Iroquois Theater, as they were made of wood and stuffed with straw, making them extremely flammable. The fire equipment that was supposed to be installed never did make it into the Iroquois, which had no fire alarms at all. In the haste to get the theater open, many safety precautions were simply overlooked, and the combination would prove disastrous. December 30th was a very cold day in the Windy City, and the Iroquois was packed for a showing of the popular comedy Mr. Bluebeard. Since it was the Christmas break, there were over 2,000 people in attendance, many of them children, with another 400 actors and stagehands behind the scenes. One of those actors was the famous vaudeville performer Eddie Foy.

At around twenty after three during the afternoon one of the many suspended curtains that were used for scenery, painted with volatile oil paints, caught fire from one of the hot stage lights and the flames began to spread upwards. The audience thought that this was somehow part of the show for a while, and Foy came flying out of his make-up room and urged the crowd to be calm, reminding them time and again that the Iroquois was fireproof. The orchestra even began playing, and the crowd seemed to feel there was no threat, until a set that was ablaze came thundering down onto the stage. At this point Foy called for the asbestos curtain to be lowered to protect the audience until the fire could be controlled, but the devise failed to work properly, leaving a gap of some twenty feet between the bottom of the curtain and the stage for the fire to come through.

The actors and stagehands then panicked and headed for the rear exits as the audience finally figured out, too late, that the fire was unstoppable. As the flames spread, those backstage opened the rear doors to escape, and the air that rushed in turned the fire into an inferno. The delirious mass of people headed for any door that they could find, trampling one another and shoving and pushing in frightened hysteria. But the exit doors opened inward, and the crush of bodies against the people trying to open them did not allow them to do so. Also, many of the side doors were locked. The Iroquois was plunged into darkness as the lights went out, and the fire, fueled by the air coming in from the rear doors, exploded throughout the main auditorium.

When the fire company arrived, everything appeared normal, as there was no smoke coming out of the Iroquois Theater at first. But when they went into the building, they could not open the doors because of the bodies that were stacked against them. The death toll in the upper balconies was tremendous, as the fire escape supposedly leading down to the street a hundred feet below was found to be non-existent, leaving some to jump or fall to their death from the great height. As many as 150 people met their fate in this manner.

Steppenwolf: From Chicago to Osage County (Working In The Theatre #363)

Ranging from their start in a church basement in 1976 to their current Broadway production of August: Osage County, Steppenwolf Theatre Company Co-Founder Jeff Perry and Steppenwolf Ensemble Members Laurie Metcalf, Amy Morton and Rondi Reed discuss their formative years as a rebel theatre group in Chicago, what they did in those early years to attract audiences, how the ensemble has evolved, how Steppenwolf transformed from upstart to institution, the development of August: Osage County, and the challenges that a New York success like August places on their work back home in Chicago.

An acclaimed fixture on New York television and in the theatre community for 30 years, the American Theatre Wing's Working in the Theatre offers an unprecedented forum for the meeting of theatrical minds.

Originally taped - February, 2008

American Theatre Wing’s Working in the Theatre documentary series features the most fascinating people on the stage, behind the scenes, and in the audience. From Tony Awards® and Obie Awards® winning artists to the next generation of theatre makers, we capture theatre’s inner-workings, industry luminaries, and unique stories that surround important work.

American Theatre Wing, founder of the Tony Awards® and home of and the Obie Awards®: for more information visit

Ari Afsar & Joseph Morales: Hamilton Chicago Company | Talks at Google

Hamilton Chicago Company members Ari Afsar (Eliza Hamilton) and Joseph Morales (Alexander Hamilton alternate) join us for a discussion about Hamilton: An American Musical.

Ari Afsar is a singer/songwriter from San Diego, CA, and was a semi-finalist on American Idol Season 8. Joseph Morales is an actor and singer, and performed in the Broadway First National Tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights.

HAMILTON is the story of America’s Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington’s right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and was the new nation’s first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway, HAMILTON is the story of America then, told by America now.

With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and musical direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, HAMILTON is based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.

The talk was hosted by Kellie Fitzgerald.

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James Carpenter, 2010 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow

In this video: 2010 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow, James Carpenter, nominated by Cal Shakes, and Ten Chimneys Foundation President, Sean E. Malone, talk about this fellowship program's importance for American regional theatre actors and their communities.

(Ten Chimneys, Genesee Depot, Wisconsin) On July 11, 2010, nine of the most respected and talented actors from across the United States formed the 2010 class of the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program and embarked on a week of intensive study at Ten Chimneys, led by master teacher Barry Edelstein.

The Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program is a groundbreaking national program to serve regional theatre actors and the future of American theatre. The program, created by Ten Chimneys Foundation, is a fitting tribute to Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, who are widely regarded as the greatest acting couple in the history of the American theatre. Through this program, the top actors in the country are given a rare and deeply-needed opportunity to grow artistically, renew their passion for their art form, and deepen their commitment to mentorship. Ultimately, the program does not exist simply to serve actors; the purpose of the Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program is to strengthen the ability of actors and theatres to enrich people's lives in communities across the country.

2010 Lunt-Fontanne Master Teacher, Barry Edelstein:
Widely respected as one of the leading Shakespeareans in the United States, Barry Edelstein is the Director of The Public Theater's Shakespeare Initiative, overseeing all Shakespearean production at the theater, as well as The Public's extensive educational, community outreach, and artist-training programs.

The 2010 Lunt-Fontanne Fellows:
• Stephen Berenson: Trinity Repertory Company (Providence)
• James Carpenter: California Shakespeare Theater (Bay Area)
• Celeste Ciulla: The Old Globe (San Diego)
• Bob Davis: Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis)
• Laura Gordon: Milwaukee Repertory Theater (Milwaukee)
• Andrew Long: Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.)
• Pete Pryor: The Wilma Theater (Philadelphia)
• Jacqueline Williams: Goodman Theatre (Chicago)
• Larry Yando: Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Chicago)

Mr. Edelstein and the 2010 Fellows dedicated their week of work to Inaugural LFFP Master Teacher, Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010).

2011 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program:
Actress Olympia Dukakis, who is widely celebrated as one of the greatest American masters of interpreting and teaching the work of playwright Anton Chekov, will be the 2011 Master Teacher for the 2011 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program. After two years of focusing on Shakespeare, the third weeklong retreat and master class at Ten Chimneys (July 24-31) will focus on Chekov. Ms. Dukakis has been a master teacher of acting and directing, with special emphasis on Chekhov, at Columbia, NYU, Yale, and universities and studios around the United States and Europe.

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The Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program has been created by Ten Chimneys Foundation, and is made possible by a generous lead grant from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Additional major sponsors include: The Delafield Hotel and Midwest Airlines

Filming and Footage by Educational Television Productions of Northeast Wisconsin
Art Direction/Editing by Erika Kent
Editing by Mainly Editing (Jeff Enders)

Chicago 4K - Chicago's Main Street - Driving Downtown - The Magnificent Mile

Wednesday afternoon drive along Chicago's version of 5th Avenue (New York City) and Rodeo Drive (Los Angeles/Beverly Hills).
Michigan Avenue is a street well known to Chicago natives as well as tourists to the city. The Magnificent Mile is an upscale section of Michigan Avenue. As the home of the Chicago Water Tower, the Art Institute of Chicago, Millennium Park, and the shopping on the Magnificent Mile, Michigan Avenue also is the main commercial street of Streeterville. It includes all of the Historic Michigan Boulevard District and most of the Michigan–Wacker Historic District, including the scenic urban space anchored by the Michigan Avenue Bridge.



The Magnificent Mile, sometimes referred to as The Mag Mile, is an upscale section of Chicago's Michigan Avenue, running from the Chicago River to Oak Street in the Near North Side. The district is located adjacent to downtown, and one block east of Rush Street. The Magnificent Mile serves as the main thoroughfare between Chicago's Loop business district and its Gold Coast. It is generally the western boundary of the Streeterville neighborhood, to its east and River North to the west.

Real estate developer Arthur Rubloff of Rubloff Company gave the district its nickname in the 1940s. Currently Chicago's largest shopping district, various mid-range and high-end shops line this section of the street; approximately 3,100,000 square feet (290,000 m2) are occupied by retail, restaurants, museums and hotels. To date, rent on The Magnificent Mile is the eighth most expensive in the United States, behind Fifth Avenue in New York and Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.

Tall buildings, such as the 875 North Michigan Avenue are in the district. Landmarks along the Magnificent Mile include Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, the Chicago Water Tower, and the Allerton, Drake and Intercontinental Hotels.



Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States. At nearly 10 million people, the metropolitan area is the third-largest in the United States.

Chicago's 58 million domestic and international visitors in 2018 made it the second most visited city in the nation, behind New York City's approximate 65 million visitors. The city ranked first place in the 2018 Time Out City Life Index, a global quality of life survey of 15,000 people in 32 cities.The city is also home to several fortune 500 companies, the most notable being, Allstate, Boeing, Exelon, McDonald's, Quaker Oats, and United Airlines Holdings. Landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis (Sears) Tower, Grant Park (Chicago), the Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, literature, film, theater, comedy (especially improvisational comedy), food, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel, and electronic dance music including house music. Of the area's many colleges and universities, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago are classified as highest research doctoral universities. Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball teams.

Wrigley Field - Chicago, Illinois, United States

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One of America's smallest, oldest, and best-loved ballparks, Wrigley is home to the Chicago Cubs.
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Travel blogs from Wrigley Field:
- ... The Abbott Hotel is a ten minute walk from Wrigley Field, home of the National Baseball League Chicago Cubs ...
- ... Guthrie's is nestled on the North side of the city, a few blocks west of Wrigley field ...
- ... Next day, back to Tim's We waited for Craig and then went to the Closing Ceremonies at Wrigley Field ...
- ... was there when I got back, before heading out for as long as possible to simply avoid going back I went to Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, the Biograph Theater where John Dillinger was shot by the FBI after being betrayed by his girlfriend's ...
- ... nbsp; Turns out missing our truck stop experience was for the best as we were on our way to watch Chicago play Arizona at Wrigley Field It was a rather chilly day, but the beer and brat tasted great as we watched the crowd er, ...
- ... Sat morning we woke up and drove around the city for a while before our Wrigley field tour ...
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- Chicago, Illinois, United States

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- This is the L stop for Wrigley Field by Cestlavie from a blog titled springtime in chicago
- Adult Beverages at Wrigley Field by Bobandconnie from a blog titled Day 5 Iowa City, IA to Chicago, IL
- Wrigley Field and Its Bleachers by Jackdrury from a blog titled Wrigley Field and the Abbott
- Wrigley Field Entrance (1) by Youngcountry from a blog titled It isn't cold? Beaches? Cheeseballs? Kickball?
- Wrigley Field Entrance by Youngcountry from a blog titled It isn't cold? Beaches? Cheeseballs? Kickball?
- Wrigley Field III by Nearhelsinki from a blog titled Sweet Bone Chicago: A Dirty Confessional
- Wrigley Field VI by Nearhelsinki from a blog titled Sweet Bone Chicago: A Dirty Confessional
- Wrigley Field II by Nearhelsinki from a blog titled Sweet Bone Chicago: A Dirty Confessional
- Wrigley Field V by Nearhelsinki from a blog titled Sweet Bone Chicago: A Dirty Confessional
- Wrigley Field by Nextchapter... from a blog titled The Emerald City...

BOB FOSSE, documentary

BOB FOSSE, documentary

Robert Louis Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American dancer, musical-theatre choreographer, actor and theatre and film director. He directed and choreographed musical works on stage and screen, including the stage musicals The Pajama Game (choreography) in 1954 and Chicago in 1975 and the film Cabaret in 1972.

Fosse's distinctive style of choreography included turned-in knees and jazz hands. He is the only person ever to have won Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year (1973). He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning Best Director for Cabaret, and won a record eight Tonys for his choreography, as well as one for direction for Pippin.

Fosse was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 23, 1927, to a Norwegian American father, Cyril Kingsley Fosse, a traveling salesman for The Hershey Company,[3] and an Irish American mother Sarah Alice “Sadie” Fosse, née Stanton. He was the fifth of six children.

He was drawn to dance, and took lessons. When he was 13 years old, Fosse performed professionally in Chicago with Charles Grass, under the name The Riff Brothers. Recruited into the United States Navy toward the end of World War II, Fosse was placed in the variety show Tough Situation, which toured military and naval bases in the Pacific.

After the war, Fosse moved to New York City with the ambition of being the new Fred Astaire. His first stage role was in Call Me Mister, where he met his first wife and dance partner, Mary Ann Niles (1923–1987). Fosse and Niles were regular performers on Your Hit Parade in its 1950–1951 season. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis saw their act in New York's Pierre Hotel and scheduled the couple to appear on The Colgate Comedy Hour. In a 1986 interview Fosse told an interviewer, Jerry started me doing choreography. He gave me my first job as a choreographer and I'm grateful for that.

Fosse was signed to an MGM contract in 1953. His early screen appearances as a dancer included Give a Girl a Break, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis and Kiss Me Kate, all released in 1953. Fosse's choreography of a short dance sequence in Kiss Me Kate and dance with Carol Haney brought him to the attention of Broadway producers.

Stage productions
During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Fosse transitioned from film to theatre. In 1954, he choreographed his first musical, The Pajama Game, followed by George Abbott's Damn Yankees in 1955. It was while working on Damn Yankees that he first met rising star Gwen Verdon, whom he married in 1960. For her work in Damn Yankees, Verdon won her first Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1956. She had previously won a Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a musical for Can-Can (1954). In 1957, Fosse choreographed New Girl in Town, also directed by Abbott, and Verdon won her second Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 1958.

In 1960, Fosse directed and choreographed the musical Redhead. For his work on Redhead, Fosse won the Tony Award for Best Choreography while Verdon won her third Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Redhead won the Tony Award for best musical.

Fosse's next feature was supposed to be the musical The Conquering Hero based on a book by Larry Gelbart, but he was replaced as director/choreographer.

In 1961, Fosse choreographed How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, which became a hit. He choreographed and directed Verdon in Sweet Charity in 1966.[16] In 1973, Fosse's work on Pippin won him the Tony for Best Direction of a Musical. He was director and choreographer of Chicago in 1975, which also starred Verdon.

In 1986, Fosse wrote, choreographed and directed the Broadway production of Big Deal, which was nominated for five Tony awards, winning for best choreography...

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