As the Great White Way prepares to celebrate the 2018–2019 season at the 73rd annual Tony Awards June 9, take a look back at the historic firsts, memorable reunions, and magical moments that highlighted the year on Broadway.
Flip through photos of the year below:
The season opens with a revival of Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band.
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Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids celebrates its annual striptease fundraiser with Broadway Bares: Game Night.
Evan Zimmerman
Bandstand costars Laura Osnes and Corey Cott reunite for a Rodgers and Hammerstein performance at Playbill's Sing for Hope piano.
Young Jean Lee becomes the first female Asian-American playwright to be produced on Broadway with Straight White Men
Peppermint makes history as the first open trans woman to originate a principal role on Broadway in Head Over Heels
Joan Marcus
Bette Midler returns to Hello, Dolly!, concluding the run of the hit revival August 25, 2018.
Noam Galai/Getty Images for Hello, Dolly!
Jennifer Ashley Tepper debuts The Jonathan Larson Project at Feinstein's/54 Below.
Philip Romano
Joel Grey is all smiles backstage at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids' Red Bucket Follies, with the theatre community raising $6,113,301—the highest fall fundraising total in the organization’s 30-year history.
Michael Kushner
Carole King, Chilina Kennedy, and the company of Beautiful: the Carole King Musical celebrate five years on Broadway at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images
Hillary Clinton continues her support of Broadway.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids celebrates the 2019 Easter Bonnet Competition, with the theatre community raising $6,594,778.
Shoshana Bean
Marc J. Franklin
Ali Stroker and James Davis
Little Fang Photo
Playbill Travel brought Broadway to France during the Broadway on the Rhône River 2 cruise.
Playbill Travel
Disney's Aladdin celebrated five years on Broadway.
Courtesy of Disney Theatrical Productions
The cast of [title of show] reunited for the Actors Fund benefit concert.
The 2018–2019 season concluded with the opening night of Beetlejuice at the Winter Garden Theatre.
Marc J. Franklin
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