PhotosPHOTO ARCHIVE: Celebrating More Than 50 Years of Angela Lansbury on the Stage!Angela Lansbury, most recently on Broadway in Michael Wilson's revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, celebrates her 89th birthday Oct. 16. Playbill.com offers a look back at her most memorable performances over the last 50+ years.
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Matthew Blank
October 16, 2014
Lansbury made her Broadway debut in 1957's Hotel Paradiso. She worked consistently on Broadway through the 1960s and 1970s, taking on such roles as Cora Hoover Hooper in Anyone Can Whistle, Rose in Gypsy, Mame Dennis in Mame, Anna in The King and I and Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd.
Following a nearly 25-year hiatus, she returned to the Great White Way in the 2007 production of Terrence McNally's Deuce. Lansbury was last on Broadway as Mrs. Sue-Ellen Gamadge in Gore Vidal's election-time comedy The Best Man.
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Celebrating More Than 60 Years of Angela Lansbury on the Stage
Celebrating More Than 60 Years of Angela Lansbury on the Stage
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Angela Lansbury in 1945
Hotel Paradiso
A Taste of Honey
Angela Lansbury and Joan Plowright in A Taste of Honey, 1960
Angela Lansbury and Joan Plowright in A Taste of Honey, 1960
Angela Lansbury in A Taste of Honey, 1960
James Frawley, Angela Lansbury and Arnold Soboloff in Anyone Can Whistle, 1964
Angela Lansbury and company of A Little Family Business, 1982
Martha Swope
Angela Lansbury in A Little Family Business, 1982
Angela Lansbury and John McMartin in A Little Family Business, 1982
Angela Lansbury in Mame, 1966
Angela Lansbury in Mame, 1966
Angela Lansbury in Mame
Angela Lansbury in Mame.
Angela Lansbury and company in Mame
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Angela Lansbury and Anne Francine in Mame
Angela Lansbury and cast in Mame, 1966
Angela Lansbury, Jane Connell, Sab Shimono and Frankie Michaels in Mame, 1966
Milo O’Shea and Angela Lansbury in Dear World, 1969
Angela Lansbury and Kurt Peterson in Dear World, 1969
The musical is the newest project by Hunter Bird, one of the creative minds behind the immersive Off-Broadway revival of The Phantom of the Opera, Masquerade.
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