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Goddard Lieberson had amazing foresight on his decision to produce the original cast recording of Stephen Sonheim’s Anyone Can Whistle. More than 45 years later, the album still bears uncanny support from Broadway fans everywhere. Check out our new Throwback Thursday photos featuring Angela Lansbury, Arthur Laurents, Don Walker and of course the lovely Lee […]

David Shire has worked in theatre, film, recordings and television since the early 1960s, garnering success on both the East coast and West coast. In today’s new legends of Broadway video, Shire compares his experiences on these two rich coasts. Watch here and check back Friday for Stark Sands on Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Mitchell!

The trip of musicals from Broadway to Hollywood often results in a few surprises – screen stars of the first magnitude (even those not known for their singing talents) inhabit roles that theatergoers might have identified with celebrated stage personalities, some songs are eliminated while others are being added, and, generally speaking, the cinematic format […]

Kurt Weill’s gritty score was well received on The Threepenny Opera revival when it opened at the Vivian Beumont on May 1, 1976. As part of the Legends of Broadway video series, today’s new video features Stanley Silverman on the differences between the original English version and their version. Watch here.

Ethel Merman returned to one of her most famous roles in Richard Rodgers’ 1966 Lincoln Center Revival of Annie Get Your Gun. Even if her voice no longer had the powerful resonance she had displayed as Annie Oakley in 1946, Merman gave a performance that still resounded as one for the books. Today’s throwback Thursday photos […]