Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre stage shows by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Yazbek. Way Off Broadway has been credited with bringing many theatrical premieres to the area. In 2009, WOB was one of the first theaters in the country to obtain the rights to produce a regional theater production of the musical comedy "The Wedding Singer." Other shows, such as Neil Simon’s "The Goodbye Girl - The Musical", "La Cage aux Folles", "Thoroughly Modern Millie", Mel Brooks’ "The Producers", "All Shook Up", and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" all made their western Maryland regional theater debuts at WOB. The Way Off Broadway Children’s Theatre presents four
Broadway theatre of the minstrel shows), followed by the ragtime-tinged "" (1898), and the highly successful "In Dahomey" (1902). Hundreds of musical comedies were staged on Broadway in the 1890s and early 1900s made up of songs written in New York's Tin Pan Alley involving composers such as Gus Edwards, John Walter Bratton, and George M. Cohan ("Little Johnny Jones" (1904), "45 Minutes From Broadway" (1906), and "George Washington Jr." (1906)). Still, New York runs continued to be relatively short, with a few exceptions, compared with London runs, until World War I. A few very successful British musicals continued to achieve great