Broadway: Three Generations

{{short description|American musical}}

{{Infobox Musical

|name= Broadway: Three Generations

|productions= 2008 Kennedy Center

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Broadway: Three Generations is a musical composed of abridged versions of three other musicals, Girl Crazy, Bye Bye Birdie, and Side Show.{{cite news |title=Grease Star Osnes Cast in Kennedy Center's Birdie |author=Gans, Andrew |newspaper=Playbill |date=2008-08-19 |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/120538-Grease-Star-Osnes-Cast-in-Kennedy-Centers-Birdie |accessdate=2010-03-17 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604232333/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/120538-Grease-Star-Osnes-Cast-in-Kennedy-Centers-Birdie |archivedate=2011-06-04 |url-status=dead }} It was presented October 2–5, 2008 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

Broadway was directed by Lonny Price and choreographed by Randy Skinner and Josh Rhodes.{{cite news |title=Side by Side by Side |author=Marks, Peter |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2008-10-03 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303536_pf.html |accessdate=2010-03-17 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110053545/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303536_pf.html |archivedate=2012-11-10 |url-status=dead }} Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser conceived of the musical over a year before it was performed.{{cite news |last=Pressley |first=Nelson |date=2008-09-28 |title=A Broadway Trifecta Bridges Musical Generations |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603066.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |accessdate=2017-03-10 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311074431/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603066.html |url-status=dead |archivedate=2017-03-11 }}

Broadway was created in part to be a "splashy way to reopen" the Eisenhower Theater. The theater was renovated for 16 months for $17.9 million.