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The video posted by Ms. Kennedy shows a City of Boston street sign that reads "Broadway".

The Cutler Majestic is located several blocks away from what remains of Broadway.

Broadway (not to be confused with East Broadway or West Broadway) was once a major street around the south edge of today's Theatre District, extending from Harrison Avenue to Park Square. A good chunk of it got cut off for construction of the Mass. Pike, and other pieces got truncated for urban renewal in the South Cove and Park Plaza. Now all that's left is two blocks in Bay Village, between Melrose and Piedmont Streets.

By way of the Broadway Bridge, it connected South Boston with the Back Bay, ending at Boylston Street between the Common and the Public Garden.

But none of that is, or ever was, next to the Majestic Theatre. That theatre stands on Tremont Street several blocks north of where Broadway used to cross Tremont.

The cross street at the Majestic used to be called Van Rensselaer Place, later renamed Allen's Alley after comedian (and Boston native) Fred Allen. Allen often used that alley which was the access to the stage doors of the Majestic and Colonial theatres (and the old Plymouth, too).

From the video photographer's vantage point, you should easily be able to see the street sign for Allen's Alley.

So can anyone explain why the street sign in the video reads Broadway?