A unique musical dining experience has arrived in Manchester, bringing the sounds of West End and Broadway shows to the city.
The Broadway is a new restaurant venue on the edge of the Orient Car Park at the Trafford Centre, and features a team of staff who are all professional singers.
Customers are taken on a theatrical musical journey as waiters and waitresses stand up and sing to give them a thrilling dinner and a show.
The restaurant has been opened by the creative producers of Karen's Diner, where diners are greeted with incredibly rude service - an experience which could not be more different from the cheery singing workers at The Broadway.
The unique venue is filled with young local talent belting out solos and group numbers while you wait for your Tapas-style food and smoking cocktails.
Diners are treated to an immersive experience at The Broadway, and we were invited down to check it out for ourselves.
The Broadway is a new restaurant venue on the edge of the Orient Car Park at the Trafford Centre, and features a team of staff who are all professional singers.
Customers are taken on a theatrical musical journey as waiters and waitresses stand up and sing to give them a thrilling dinner and a show.
The restaurant has been opened by the creative producers of Karen's Diner, where diners are greeted with incredibly rude service - an experience which could not be more different from the cheery singing workers at The Broadway.
The unique venue is filled with young local talent belting out solos and group numbers while you wait for your Tapas-style food and smoking cocktails.
Diners are treated to an immersive experience at The Broadway, and we were invited down to check it out for ourselves.
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00:00 All our artists, they'll always be given auditions because they're talented.
00:05 And our job, as I said before, is to support them.
00:09 So if they say in two and three weeks' time we've got an audition in the West End,
00:14 this isn't a problem, it's a pleasure.
00:16 A unique musical dining experience has arrived in Manchester,
00:20 bringing the sounds of West End and Broadway shows to the city.
00:24 The Broadway is a new restaurant venue on the edge of the Orient car park
00:28 at the Trafford Centre and features a team of staff who are all professional singers.
00:33 Customers are taken on a theatrical musical journey
00:36 as waiters and waitresses stand up and sing to give them a thrilling dinner and a show.
00:41 The restaurant has been opened by the creative producers of Karen's Diner,
00:45 where diners are greeted with incredibly rude service,
00:48 an experience which could not be more different from the cheery singing workers at the Broadway.
00:53 The unique venue is filled with young, local talent, belting out solos and group numbers
00:58 while you wait for your tapas-style food and smoking cocktails.
01:01 Diners are treated to an immersive experience at the Broadway
01:05 and we were invited down to check it out for ourselves.
01:08 Broadway is a concert that we've put together that's a magnet for local talent.
01:14 The whole purpose is that we can entertain,
01:17 let people forget everything for at least an hour and a half
01:21 and then give them great sound, great music
01:24 and at the same time give some super young and up-and-coming artists an opportunity to climb.
01:31 These are all performers who serve and wait at tables as against waiters who can perform.
01:38 The most important thing is that they are performers.
01:41 We try and do something from a musical every seven or eight minutes.
01:45 Don't hold me to that because if the kitchen's a little slow
01:49 and we get problems with staff because people get poorly,
01:52 we don't over strain so we relax with all the performers,
01:56 ensure that they can work within the constraints of their vocal ability
02:01 and then we support them.
02:03 We don't need to do more than that because we're very lucky.
02:06 The teams we've got are utterly fabulous as people as well as performers.
02:11 We tried a selection of the tapas-style dishes including chicken wings,
02:15 mac and cheese balls, stuffed jacket potatoes, buffalo cauliflower and more.
02:20 As well as all three desserts on offer which included a New York cheesecake,
02:24 Rocky Road and ice cream and an apple pie.
02:27 To accompany the food we also got to sample some of the cocktails
02:30 including passion fruit martinis and mojitos
02:33 though the restaurant does have a much more extensive list of drinks.
02:37 I think when you have a business like this, you don't think of coming into work.
02:41 You're excited because you know you've got so many songs to do and so many shifts
02:46 and I think the nice thing is they bond.
02:50 So they all are excited for each other and when some of them have got songs on
02:55 and because they can't be working all of them every night,
02:58 they're enthused for the others
03:00 and that's why I think this is working perhaps even better than we'd hoped.