the Great White Way

noun

US, informal + old-fashioned

: a street in New York City where there are many theaters : Broadway

Her show debuted on the Great White Way.

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But the cost of mounting a show on the Great White Way requires productions to deal with very thin profit margins. —

Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 30 Sep. 2024 The adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s gothic horror novel is transferring to the Great White Way in March 2025 for a strictly limited engagement. —

Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2 Oct. 2024 The Emmy-winning Succession star will make her debut on the Great White Way this spring in The Picture of Dorian Gray. —

Stacy Lambe, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024 Holmes returns to Broadway for the first time in over a decade with Our Town, having made her debut on the Great White Way in the 2008 revival of All My Sons and last trod the boards in 2012's Dead Accounts. —

Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the Great White Way

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