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All week we’ve been sharing our favorite clips and picks of Dame Angela Lansbury with you. To celebrate her official date of birth today, here are shots of our favorite Lansbury moments, taken directly from the MWB vault. 

As part of our Lansbury Birthday Palooza, we have curated a list of our favorite Angela Lansbury videos from the MWB vault. The playlist features her sharing behind-the-scenes stories from award winning shows Sweeney Todd, Anyone Can Whistle, Gypsy and more as well as sound advice from this true Broadway legend. Watch here.

A birthday lasts a weeklong! To celebrate the 89th birthday of Dame Angela Lansbury on October 16th, we’ll be sharing exclusive Angela Lansbury content from the MWB vault. To start, enjoy our musical Monday playlist on Spotify here and stop back tomorrow for a special feature from Peter Filichia. 

We could all certainly take a page out of Dame Angela Lansbury’s book. As part of the legends of Broadway video series, Angela teaches us the importance of inheriting your own style and substance in performance. Learn from the pros and watch her here.  

Composer Stephen Sondheim and book writer John Weidman had a field day when they created Assassins, an imaginative parable which finds would-be and real presidential assassins, such as Lee Harvey Oswald, Giuseppe Zangara, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme and John Wilkes Booth, among others, as characters in a carnival show. Last week we watched Sondheim sing praises of Paul […]