A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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“‘Break a leg’ dates back to Shakespeare, because you can’t make a Hamlet without breaking legs”
“(I Like New York in June) How About You?” (1941)
“(I Love to Play Piano) Let Me Bang Your Box” (1954)
“1. Bel canto, 2. Can belto, 3. Can’t belto, 4. Can’t canto” (four stages of a soprano’s life)
“42nd Street” (1933)
“53rd and 3rd” (1976)
“A bad play saved by a bad performance” (Broadway saying)
“A band has three years to write the first album and three weeks to write the follow-up”
“A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny”
“A critic enters the battlefield after the war and shoots the wounded”
“A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car”
“A drummer with good time doesn’t exist” (joke)
“A gentleman is a man who can play the saxophone but doesn’t”
“A gig is worth ten rehearsals” (music adage)
“A goat, a drum and a snake fall off a cliff. Ba-Dum-Tss”
“A human fart can be louder than a trombone. I discovered that at my daughter’s school concert”
“A jazz musician is someone that puts a $5,000 horn in a $500 car and drives 50 miles for $5 gig”
“A lamb, a drum and a snake fall off a cliff. Ba-Dum-Tss”
“A man walks into a bar carrying an octopus…” (bagpipes joke)
“A movie ticket for baby should cost at least $50”
“A music store was robbed. The robbers made off with the lute”
“A musical comedy must have good legs for a long run”
“A pig’s favorite movie: The Monster That Ate New York”
“A rock guitarist plays 3 chords to 3,000 people; a jazz guitarist plays 3,000 chords to 3 people”
“A saxophone is like a lawsuit. Everyone is happy when the case is closed.”
“A sheep, a drum and a snake fall off a cliff. Ba-Dum-Tss”
“A theater without beer is just a museum”
“A thief entered a theatre. He stole the spotlight”
“A tuba player walks into a bar…” (bar joke)
“A woman is accused of beating her husband half to death with his guitar collection…” (joke)
“A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army”
“Accordion to research, most people will not notice musical instruments appearing within sentences”
“Act before you think” (acting adage)
“Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances”
“Acting is living truthfully under imaginary circumstances”
“Acting is reacting” (acting adage)
“Acting is the ability to dream on cue”
“Actor can read the telephone book” (actor’s saying)
“Actor: What’s my motivation? / Director: Your salary”
“Actors have to dream to order”
“After playing guitar for years, I thought I could learn to play the piano…”
“Ain’t no fuckin way that whole Siberian Orchestra is trans”
“All Cows Eat Grass” (ACEG music menmonic)
“All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song”
“Always jingle all the way! Nobody likes a half-assed jingler”
“America the Beautiful” (1902 revisions)
“An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut”
“An ill wind that nobody blows good” (musical instrument joke)
“An odd day. Found a hat full of money, then got chased by a guy with a guitar”
“An onion will make you cry, but they never have invented a vegetable that will make you laugh”
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