Only 25 Minutes from Broadway

The Westchester Broadway Theatre brought live theater to Westchester, New York, and was unique in its programming, presenting many Broadway-caliber shows, while serving dinner or lunch to patrons. This Equity theater launched the careers of many Broadway stars.

The WBT and its precursor were exceptional in the history of American theater. An Equity, primarily musical theater venue that hosted 217 Broadway musicals and plays, over 75 children's shows, and over 1,500 musical specials, it employed over 5,000 people.

The venue employed 2,000 dining employees, serving an estimated audience of over 6 million. It hosted many children's benefits, senior citizen events, other programs. WBT presentations ran uninterrupted for 46 years. No other theater in America can boast of its success; and it's Only 25 Minutes from Broadway. This is its story.

(About the Author)

Gary D. Chattman grew up in Yonkers, N.Y. This is his 14th book.

Published books: My Child Left Behind, a critique of the standardized tests/common core/teacher evaluation mess; There Are No Goodbyes, story of Jewish refugees fleeing Poland from the Nazis in 1939; All You Are to Me, love story about a couple who endure World War II; Cowards Die Many Times Before Their Deaths, school shooter attacks a music play rehearsal; There Was a Little Girl Who, teacher discovers empathy, faith, dedication from a young girl in 1960; and Pennies From Heaven, can a man be transported in time to stop the Holocaust before it happened?

Forthcoming: play about the 1918 Pandemic; a murder mystery; and a novel about a young man who adopts his niece after her parents are killed in a car crash.