Michael C. Hall
Elaine Stritch in At Liberty
Marissa Jaret Winokur
Eden Espinosa in Wicked
Joan Marcus
Nathan Lane in The Nance
Joan Marcus
Ann Harada in Stuffed
Conrad John Schuck and Victoria Clark in Juno
Jonathan Larson
Jason Veasey
Heather Gershonowitz
Darren Criss at A Tectonic Cabaret benefiting the Tectonic Theater Project
Vincenzo Dimino
Jason Gotay
Laura Linney in My Name Is Lucy Barton
Manuel Harlan
Alex Brightman
Matthew Murphy
Kathy Najimy
Bruce Glikas/Playbill
Chris Rock, 2011
James Spader
Eubie Blake
Jack Viertel
Joan Marcus
Sherie Rene Scott in Rent
Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy in Love Letters
Judith Light
Marc J. Franklin
Montego Glover
Kenny Leon
Uzo Aduba
Elizabeth Stanley
Heather Gershonowitz
Stockard Channing
Marc Brenner
Gregory Hines in Twelfth Night
1968: Florence Henderson in The Sound of Music
Danai Gurira
Jenny Anderson
Bill T. Jones
Roberto Araujo
Olga Merediz
Kara Lindsay in Wicked
John Tartaglia
Hailey Kilgore
Janie Willison
Conrad Ricamora
Christopher Sieber
Joseph Marzullo
Susan Egan sings “Belle”
Jeff Daniels
Marc J. Franklin
Theresa Rebeck
Jessie Mueller in Waitress
Claudia McNeil and Sidney Poitier
Sandy Duncan
Trevor Nunn and Gillian Lynne in rehearsal
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Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens
Joan Marcus
1994: Rue McClanahan in Annie
Tyne Daly in Master Class
Photo by Joan Marcus
Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman in Antony and Cleopatra
Andréa Burns
Joseph Marzullo/WENN
Corbin Bleu
Tituss Burgess
Russell Rowland
Ellen Greene in the film version of Little Shop of Horrors
Warner Brothers
Lea Salonga
Marni Nixon and Dick Latessa
Josh Gad
Jesse Grant
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Priscilla Lopez
Heléne Yorke, Daniel Yearwood, and James T. Lane
Elizabeth Taylor in The Little Foxes.
Martha Swope / The New York Public Library
Josh Groban
Seth Rudetsky
William Finn
Joan Marcus
Tommy Tune
Zero Mostel in the original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof.
Bernadette Peters
Curtis Brown