From the Glossy Page Blog

If you want to appreciate Broadway music, it is best to know how this genre came to its being. If you search around the web you will find that broadway musicals history would let you go back to the seat of Broadway music which is New York. Broadway music was introduced to Europe by bringing their Broadway artists to perform there, with Edwin Forrest as the first performer. His performance had great following at first before it started to lose popularity because of a disagreement he had with a British artist. But Broadway music continued making waves in New York with the emergence of a lot of musical theatres and theatre halls to showcase performers. From then on and up until today, Broadway music has become more and more popular because there are many great talents who bring Broadway music into greater heights.