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1981 Ranked #12,105

The Broadway Game

Show-business finance game has producers take plays on the road, seek investors, and survive setbacks on the way to a hit. Reviews, strikes, illness, and scandal can turn a promising show into disaster.

Economic Movies / TV / Radio theme Roll / Spin and Move Stock Holding

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

2.31/5

Rating

6.42

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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In The Broadway Game, you're a producer engaged in the rough and tumble world of show business finance. You can take your shows out of town and come back a hit...or die on the road from bad reviews.

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In The Broadway Game, you're a producer engaged in the rough and tumble world of show business finance. You can take your shows out of town and come back a hit...or die on the road from bad reviews. Your investors can pull out or a union can strike your set. Your star can fall ill; you can sell the movie rights; or be rocked by scandal. It's Broadway... The Broadway Game was invented in the late 1950's backstage in New York by Ernie Parmentier. Over the years it has become a cult hit, played in theater circles from New York to Hollywood. Now, in this new version presented by stage and screen star Mike Farrell, you can see what the excitement's all about!

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Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
3–6
Play time
120 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Ernie Parmentier

Publishers

2
MJ&E Productions Tactical Studies Rules (TSR)

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