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Start at the very beginning

Wander the most iconic streets that made New York's Broadway what it is today. From bustling of broadway to the back alleys lined with stage doors, sets to be assembled, and smoking stagehands. Every tour includes:

e Live narration from our licensed, award-winning guides

e Over 200 unique points of interest, sites, and theaters

e Personal audio headset (so you never miss a beat)

e Immersive audio, music, and celebrity interviews

e Complimentary on-tour beverage

e Access to our "Ask the Guide" text concierge service

e Exclusive discounts to area attractions, tours, and shows

Live Tour Guide & Narration

2 Hour, 30 Historic Theatres

Immersive Music and Audio

Individual Listening Device

Best-Priced Broadway Tour

Live Tour Guide & Narration

2 Hour, 30 Historic Theatres

Immersive Music and Audio

Individual Listening Device

Best-Priced Broadway Tour

Broadway & Booth & Broadhurst & Belasco & Ambassador & Imperial & Wilson & Lyric & Minskoff & Nederlander & Gershwin & O'Neill & New Amsterdam & Hayes & Winter Garden & Rodgers & Marquis & Jacobs & Sondheim & Golden & Schoenfeld & Horne

15 Blocks. 150 Years of History.

Unlike other companies- our Broadway walking tour covers the entire history of the Theatre District in one comprehensive experience. Want to learn more about transportation options, accessibility, our location, or other common questions? Continue learning more about us or reach out to a member of our tour guide team.

Stop #1:

Intro to Broadway

Our award-winning, top-rated NYC tour guides, all direct from Broadway, film, & television, will lead you through the Theatre District's most comprehensive view of Broadway's dazzling history. Go beyond the fact, figures, and facades and become immersed in the music, stories, lore, and history that made the Great White Way America's most beloved street.

Stop #2:

Historic 42nd Street

Explore the early history of Broadway's beginnings from immigrant-inspired theatre and vaudeville, to operas and early musicals. Walk along the lights that gave "The Great White Way" its name, with photo opportunities of a half-dozen of Manhattan's oldest, revered, & most historic playhouses including the current home of Aladdin and hear the story of how the show "42nd Street" came to be.

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Stop #4:

Building Broadway

Hear songs from musical duo Rodger and Hammerstein, snap photos in front of some of Broadway's best-known, largest, and smallest theaters, including the Majestic, Imperial, Hayes, & St. James, and learn about the shows that made them famous, including Gypsy, Dear Evan Hansen, Funny Girl, Les Miserables, and the longest running musical in American history- Phantom of the Opera.

Tour Intermission

Not all of Broadway's history is about theaters, plays, and musicals. Discover the events, people, and places that support this industry and help keep it alive- from artists like Al Hirschfeld, to NYC Mayors, shoe makers, and cookie bakers. Receive a short list of where to spot the stars- and even step into one of their favorite post-show snack shacks. *Tour intermission location is at the discretion and timing of guides and management.

Stop #6: Broadway's Highs and Lows

See the sights of Broadway's smash hits Hamilton and Six while hearing about the growing pains of show business from the producers, composers, conductors, and stage managers who make it happen. Step into the 21st century as Broadway begins booming amid yet another historic global crisis. Discover the unlikely success Schwartz, Webber, and Bernstein.

Stop #7:

Plays & Playwrights

Learn from your guide how Broadway's theaters are named (and renamed), as well as the biographies of the playwrights and composers who live on in their marquis. Explore the life of icon Lena Horne and composer Stephen Sondheim while hearing stories from the casts of some of his most beloved shows, including Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, and Company.

Stop #8:

The Hitmakers

Whether it's a resurrected revival like Chicago, a blockbuster like Wicked, or a risque romp like Book of Mormon- learn what it takes to make it on Broadway. Discover the building where pop music influences and the Great White Way intersect, and hear how the shrinking number of playhouses were savaged (then saved) by an unorthodox pair of New York City building codes.

Stop #10:

The Present & Future

We save the best for last with the grand finale of your immersive tour in the heart of Times Square. Learn how bygone Broadway houses like the Palace are getting their time in the shine, how Disney is bringing the wonderful of Walt to life 8 times a week, and how you can be a part of the future success of Broadway's upcoming artists, both from the stage and the audience.

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VISIT US

THE SIGHTS

Stop #1:

Intro to Broadway

Our award-winning, top-rated NYC tour guides, all direct from Broadway, film, & television, will lead you through the Theatre District's most comprehensive view of Broadway's dazzling history. Go beyond the fact, figures, and facades and become immersed in the music, stories, lore, and history that made the Great White Way America's most beloved street.

Stop #2:

Historic 42nd Street

Explore the early history of Broadway's beginnings from immigrant-inspired theatre and vaudeville, to operas and early musicals. Walk along the lights that gave "The Great White Way" its name, with photo opportunities of a half-dozen of Manhattan's oldest, revered, & most historic playhouses including the current home of Aladdin and hear the story of how the show "42nd Street" came to be.

Stop #4:

Building Broadway

Hear songs from musical duo Rodger and Hammerstein, snap photos in front of some of Broadway's best-known, largest, and smallest theaters, including the Majestic, Imperial, Hayes, & St. James, and learn about the shows that made them famous, including Gypsy, Dear Evan Hansen, Funny Girl, Les Miserables, and the longest running musical in American history- Phantom of the Opera.

Tour Intermission

Not all of Broadway's history is about theaters, plays, and musicals. Discover the events, people, and places that support this industry and help keep it alive- from artists like Al Hirschfeld, to NYC Mayors, shoe makers, and cookie bakers. Receive a short list of where to spot the stars- and even step into one of their favorite post-show snack shacks. *Tour intermission location is at the discretion and timing of guides and management.

Stop #6: Broadway's Highs and Lows

See the sights of Broadway's smash hits Hamilton and Six while hearing about the growing pains of show business from the producers, composers, conductors, and stage managers who make it happen. Step into the 21st century as Broadway begins booming amid yet another historic global crisis. Discover the unlikely success Schwartz, Webber, and Bernstein.

Stop #7:

Plays & Playwrights

Learn from your guide how Broadway's theaters are named (and renamed), as well as the biographies of the playwrights and composers who live on in their marquis. Explore the life of icon Lena Horne and composer Stephen Sondheim while hearing stories from the casts of some of his most beloved shows, including Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, and Company.

Stop #8:

The Hitmakers

Whether it's a resurrected revival like Chicago, a blockbuster like Wicked, or a risque romp like Book of Mormon- learn what it takes to make it on Broadway. Discover the building where pop music influences and the Great White Way intersect, and hear how the shrinking number of playhouses were savaged (then saved) by an unorthodox pair of New York City building codes.

Stop #10:

The Present & Future

We save the best for last with the grand finale of your immersive tour in the heart of Times Square. Learn how bygone Broadway houses like the Palace are getting their time in the shine, how Disney is bringing the wonderful of Walt to life 8 times a week, and how you can be a part of the future success of Broadway's upcoming artists, both from the stage and the audience.

Where will we Wander?

Explore the historic sights and stories on-tour below:

15 Blocks. 150 Years.

Unlike other companies- our Broadway walking tour covers the entire history of the Theatre District in one comprehensive experience. Want to learn more about transportation options, accessibility, our location, or other common questions? Continue learning more about us or reach out to a member of our tour guide team.

Tour FAQs

Getting Here

Live Tour Guide & Narration

2 Hour, 30 Historic Theatres

Immersive Music and Audio

Individual Listening Device

Best-Priced Broadway Tour

Two acts. One immersive tour.

Our immersive historic adventure begins in the Heart of Little Old New York - where the arts and avenues align- 42nd Street. Your tour is divided in two acts, with one 10-minute intermission.

Act One Includes:

l Introduction to New York City history

l Early history of theatre in Manhattan

l Formation & layout of NYC's Theatre District

l Broadway from Vaudeville to Shubert

Act Two Includes:

l 21st Century Broadway

l Pop Culture's and the Great White Way

l Civic Design vs Broadway Preservation

l Broadway's Future

Two acts. One immersive tour.

Our immersive historic adventure begins in the Heart of Little Old New York - where the arts and avenues align- 42nd Street. Your tour is divided in two acts, with one 10-minute intermission.

Act One Includes:

l Introduction to New York City history

l Early history of theatre in Manhattan

l Formation and layout of NYC's Theatre District

l Broadway from Vaudeville to Shubert

Act Two Includes:

l 21st Century Broadway

l Pop Culture's Effect on the Great White Way

l Civic Design vs Broadway Preservation

l Broadway's Future

Adult: $37 Youth: $29*

Friday-Monday at 10:00am
*13 & Under f Additional Dates & Times Available Here

Start at the very beginning

Wander the most iconic streets that made New York's Broadway what it is today. From bustling of broadway to the back alleys lined with stage doors, sets to be assembled, and smoking stagehands. every tour includes:

e Live narration from our licensed, award-winning guides

e Over 200 unique points of interest, sites, and theaters

e Personal audio headset (so you never miss a beat)

e Immersive audio, music, and celebrity interviews

e Complimentary on-tour beverage

e Access to our "Ask the Guide" text concierge service

e Exclusive discounts to area attractions, tours, and shows

Live Tour Guide & Narration

2 Hour, 30 Historic Theatres

Immersive Music and Audio

Individual Listening Device

Best-Priced Broadway Tour

Live Tour Guide & Narration

2 Hour, 30 Historic Theatres

Immersive Music and Audio

Individual Listening Device

Best-Priced Broadway Tour

Broadway & Booth & Broadhurst & Belasco & Ambassador & Imperial & Wilson & Lyric & Minskoff & Nederlander & Gershwin & O'Neill & New Amsterdam & Hayes & Winter Garden & Rodgers & Marquis & Jacobs & Sondheim & Golden & Schoenfeld & Horne

Start at the very beginning

Live Tour Guide & Narration

2 Hour, 30 Historic Theatres

Immersive Music and Audio

Individual Listening Device

Best-Priced Broadway Tour

Live Tour Guide & Narration

2 Hour, 30 Historic Theatres

Immersive Music and Audio

Individual Listening Device

Best-Priced Broadway Tour

15 Blocks. 150 Years of History.

THE SIGHTS

Live Tour Guide & Narration

2 Hour, 30 Historic Theatres

Immersive Music and Audio

Individual Listening Device

Best-Priced Broadway Tour

Friday-Monday at 10:00am *13 & Under f Additional Dates & Times Available Here

Start at the very beginning

Live Tour Guide & Narration

2 Hour, 30 Historic Theatres

Immersive Music and Audio

Individual Listening Device

Best-Priced Broadway Tour

Live Tour Guide & Narration

2 Hour, 30 Historic Theatres

Immersive Music and Audio

Individual Listening Device

Best-Priced Broadway Tour

Friday-Monday at 10:00am
*13 & Under f Additional Dates & Times Available Here