Video: Previous Legacy Robe Recipients Reflect on the Tradition in New Equity Documentary
Actors' Equity Association has shared a mini-documentary all about the Legacy Robe ceremony, which has been a Broadway staple for 75 years. The ritual of the Legacy Robe takes place on opening night on the stage of every Broadway musical that has a chorus. It began in 1950 when Bill Bradley, in the chorus of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, persuaded Florence Baum, a chorus member, to let him have her dressing gown. He t…