 " On the New York opening night , the audience loved the show . Influential critics like Alan Dale , George Jean Nathan , and Heywood Broun were highly enthusiastic . Gradually Shuffle Along built up a cult status . So big were the crowds that the police had trouble controlling the traffic . Eventually they had to make Sixty @-@ third a one @-@ way street . A black show was back on Broadway , even if 63rd Street , a long way uptown , was barely Broadway ! In Eubie Blake 's words , ' It wasn 't Broadway but we made it Broadway . ' " 
