From the Archives
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From the Archives
By Sheryl Flatow | November 4, 2022James Lapine, Chip Zien, Joanna Gleason, and Paul Gemignani explain how Into the Woods changed up until opening night on Broadway, November 5, 1987.
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From the Archives
By Playbill Staff | January 21, 2022
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From the Archives
By Ben Rimalower | November 28, 2021We toiled to narrow down this list of the Top 10 Songs by Stephen Sondheim.
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From the Archives
By Kenneth Jones | November 26, 2021To mark the 80th birthday of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim in 2010, Playbill.com asked Broadway songwriters to do the impossible—pick their favorite songs by the master.
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From the Archives
By Sheridan Morley | August 10, 2021Read Playbill's vintage feature about the soon-to-be-a-smash-hit musical, starring Robert Lindsay, Maryann Plunkett, and George S. Irving .
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From the Archives
By Playbill Staff | May 28, 2021The Doug Henning-led musical with a score from the composer of Wicked and Pippin opened May 28, 1974, and ran for 1,920 performances.
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From the Archives
By Sheryl Flatow | May 9, 2021James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim, and star Donna Murphy sat down with Playbill for this interview before Passion opened on Broadway May 9, 1994.
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From the Archives
By Marc J. Franklin | May 5, 2021The Tony Award-winning musical, starring Gwen Verdon and Stephen Douglass, opened at the 46th Street Theatre May 5, 1955.
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From the Archives
By Playbill Staff | May 4, 2021The first part of Tony Kushner's epic Angels in America premiered on Broadway May 4, 1993.
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From the Archives
By Howard Kissel | May 1, 2021In a 1985 feature, Playbill spoke to the playwright of groundbreaking As Is before its May 1 Broadway opening, and reported from a rehearsal of the Off-Broadway premiere of The Normal Heart.
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From the Archives
By Louis Botto | April 30, 2021Starring Zizi Jeanmaire, the heavily revised production opened April 30, 1981, at the MInskoff Theatre.
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From the Archives
By Harry Haun | April 26, 2021The Cy Coleman, Ira Gasman, David Newman musical, which opened April 26, 1997, put a human face on the inhabitants of 42nd Street.
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From the Archives
By Mervyn Rothstein | April 25, 2021Turner sat down with Playbill for this interview before opening in the adaptation of Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terrible April 27, 1995.
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From the Archives
By Ted Chapin | April 19, 2021The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic first opened on Broadway April 19, 1945.
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From the Archives
By Sheridan Morley | March 25, 2021One of Britain’s “national treasures” opened on Broadway in Peter Shaffer’s acclaimed comedy March 25, 1990—and ultimately earned a Tony Award.
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From the Archives
By Harry Haun | March 21, 2021Look back at Playbill's 1990 interview with the stage and screen star about her performance in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which opened March 21, 1990.
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From the Archives
By Michael Owen | March 15, 2021Before the musical opened at the Gershwin Theatre March 15, 1986, its composer sat down with Playbill to talk about lessons learned from London, and his career since Cats.
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From the Archives
By Playbill Staff | March 11, 2021Lorraine Hansberry's seminal drama about the experiences of a Black family in Chicago opened on Broadway on March 11, 1959.
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Photo Features
By Marc J. Franklin | March 1, 2021The Tony-winning musical, starring Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou, opened at the Uris Theatre March 1, 1979.
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From the Archives
By Nathan Skethway | February 6, 2021Lansbury took home a Tony Award for her performance in the Jerry Herman musical, which opened on Broadway 52 years ago today.
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From the Archives
By Colette Dowling | January 5, 2021Revisit this original piece, published in the May 1975 edition of Playbill Magazine, in honor of the musical's 46th Broadway anniversary.
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From the Archives
By Ian McKellen | December 17, 2020While starring in Peter Shaffer’s drama—which opened on Broadway December 17, 1980—Ian McKellen wrote about the hazards of impersonating historical characters for Playbill.
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From the Archives
By Jerry Tallmer | December 17, 2020As the Alfred Uhry-Jason Robert Brown show readied to open December 17, 1998, Prince and Uhry spoke to Playbill about why the show demanded to be produced.
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From the Archives
By Kathy Henderson | November 21, 2020Playbill looks back to when Jones, who celebrates her birthday November 21, first broke out in her Tony-winning turn in The Heiress.
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Production Photos
By Ted Chapin | November 16, 2020The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical opened November 16, 1959.
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From the Archives
By Rebecca Morehouse | October 31, 2020The original Broadway production opened at the Edison Theatre October 31, 1989.
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From the Archives
By Fran Weil | September 23, 2020Fifteen years after the original production opened on Broadway, the then-two-time Tony Award winner made Rose all her own and sat down with Playbill for a candid conversation about it.
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From the Archives
By Fran Weil | September 16, 2020In honor of her birthday, read Bacall's interview with Playbill as she prepared for the March 29 opening night of Kander and Ebb's adaptation of the Hepburn-Tracy classic.
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From the Archives
By Ken Jones | July 22, 2020The hit Los Angeles musical revue opened in New York July 22, 1999, and Playbill spoke to its costume designer (yes, really).
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From the Archives
By Mervyn Rothstein | July 22, 2020Does art matter? That’s the question posed and answered in the 2004 production, directed by Susan Stroman.
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Interview
By Robert Simonson | July 2, 2020The future Pulitzer Prize winner spoke to Playbill in 2012 about his then song cycle shortly before performing it with a star-studded cast as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series
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The Verdict
By Playbill Staff | July 2, 2020The Broadway transfer of the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical opened August 6, 2015, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
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From the Archives
By Chris Chase | June 30, 2020In honor of Lena Horne's birthday, we unearth an original interview with the Tony winner about her legendary show
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From the Archives
By Walter Wager | June 8, 2020In 1964, Playbill sat down with the critically acclaimed writer to discuss his Broadway show and the "drab Shubert Alley route" he refused to take as a playwright.
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Photo Features
By Mark Peikert | May 28, 2020The duo's sixth collaboration opened May 28, 1953.
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From the Archives
By William Wolf | May 23, 2020In honor of Collins' birthday May 23, Playbill looks back at her interview from the February 1992 issue.
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From the Archives
By Ted Chapin | May 16, 2020The classic musical, which gave the world the anthem "There's No Business Like Show Business," opened at the Imperial Theatre May 16, 1946.
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Archival Photos
By Marc J. Franklin | May 12, 2020André Previn and Alan Jay Lerner's musical about designer Coco Chanel opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre December 18, 1969.
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From the Archives
By Louis Botto | May 9, 2020In this 1982 interview, Maury Yeston reveals how Fellini’s autobiographical film 8 1/2 inspired Nine, which opened May 9, 1982 and went on to win five Tony Awards.
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From the Archives
By Nathan Skethway | May 9, 2020The Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical opened on Broadway May 9, 1994.
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From the Archives
By Kenneth Jones | May 8, 2020The adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's classic tales opened at the Helen Hayes in 2001, and can be streamed though May 10 on composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's YouTube Channel The Shows Must Go On.
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From the Archives
By Phyllis Funke | May 7, 2020Taylor spoke to Playbill on the occasion of her Broadway debut in The Little Foxes, which opened May 7, 1981.
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Photo Features
By Mark Peikert | April 29, 2020From Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner to Kelli O'Hara and Ken Watanabe (and Elaine Stritch!), look back at these waltzing couples.
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Photo Features
By Playbill Staff | April 25, 2020The musical, Starring Mandy Patinkin, Rebecca Luker, Alison Fraser, Daisy Eagan, John Cameron Mitchell, and more, opened at the St. James Theatre April 25, 1991.
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From the Archives
By Ruth Leon | April 18, 2020Stars Douglas Hodge and Kelsey Grammer spoke about bringing La Cage Aux Folles to the Longacre, where it opened April 18, 2010.
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From the Archives
By Doug Sturdivant | April 18, 2020Clark opened in the show—which brought her a Tony Award—April 18, 2005.
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From the Archives
By Marc J. Franklin | April 12, 2020The revival of Tennessee William’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre April 12, 1992.
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From the Archives
By Ernio Hernandez | April 10, 2020The revival of the Arthur Kopit-Maury Yeston musical, directed by David Leveaux, opened on Broadway April 10, 2003.
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Photo Features
By Playbill Staff | April 8, 2020The late Chicago and Cabaret lyricist was born April 8, 1928.
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From the Archives
By Ted Chapin | April 7, 2020The original Broadway production, which won 10 Tony Awards, opened at the Majestic Theatre April 7, 1949.
