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Last Chance to Get in the 2012-13 "Playbill Yearbook" – See If Your Name Is on the List by Robert Viagas

Worked on Broadway this past season? June 7 is the deadline to get your headshot in "The 2012-2013 Playbill Broadway Yearbook."

SOURCE: Playbill at 2:10pm on May 31, 2013☆⚑

Lucky Guy Is Top Earner in Easter Bonnet Competition; Event Raises Record $4.25 Million by Robert Viagas

The 27th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition raised an all-time record of $4,250,542 in six weeks of nightly curtain-call appeals. The number was revealed at t…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:14pm on April 23, 2013☆⚑

Suffolk Theater, a Neglected Long Island Gem, Relights by Robert Viagas

A long-dormant Long Island movie house reopened March 2 after refurbishment. The Suffolk Theater, built in 1933, will be home to plays, films, concerts, parties and special events. Playbill …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on March 9, 2013☆⚑

Suffolk Theater, a Neglected Long Island Gem, Relights March 1-2 by Robert Viagas

A long-dormant Long Island movie house is reopening this month after refurbishment. The Suffolk Theater, built in 1933, will be home to plays, films, concerts, parties and special events. Pl…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on March 1, 2013☆⚑

PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Mary Poppins Songwriter Richard M. Sherman by Robert Viagas

While the Broadway run of Mary Poppins is playing its final weeks, Playbill catches up with Richard M. Sherman, the surviving member of the Sherman Brothers songwriting duo, who crafted clas…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on February 17, 2013☆⚑

PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Sheldon Harnick, the Tony and Pulitzer-Winning Lyricist of Fiorello! by Robert Viagas

Master lyricist Sheldon Harnick talks about his musical-theatre career on the occasion of a new Encores! concert revival of his Fiorello!, the biographical musical about New York City Mayor …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on January 26, 2013☆⚑

Lion King Wins Gypsy of the Year Competition; 24th Annual Event Raises $3.9 Million by Robert Viagas

"Tossed Around," an athletic dance number that sent the gypsies of The Lion King whirling over sets of wooden chairs, earned that show the title honor at the 24th Annual Gypsy of t…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:21pm on December 4, 2012☆⚑

The Nederlanders Celebrate a Century in Show Biz by Robert Viagas

James M. Nederlander and James L. Nederlander, the father-and-son team at the helm of their namesake theatre company, reflect on the Nederlanders' 100 years in the business of Broadway a…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on December 1, 2012☆⚑

Louis Botto, Longtime Playbill Columnist, Dies at 88 by Robert Viagas

Louis Botto, the dapper "At This Theatre" columnist, writer and editor for Playbill for more than 40 years, died Nov. 4, 2012, at his home in Cliffside Park, NJ, at age 88 after a …

SOURCE: Playbill at 4:12pm on November 5, 2012☆⚑

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: SEPTEMBER 3 by Robert Viagas

1827 Birthday of John Drew Sr., patriarch of the Drew and Barrymore acting dynasties that will include Georgiana Drew Barrymore; siblings Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and John Barrymore…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on September 3, 2012☆⚑

A LIFE IN THE THEATRE: Playbill's Louis Botto, a Writer With a Rich Theatregoing Past by Robert Viagas

Longtime Playbill columnist Louis Botto takes a final "Backward Glance" after 75 years on the aisle.

SOURCE: Playbill at 2:00pm on August 27, 2012☆⚑

PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With John Davidson, of The Fantasticks, "The Happiest Millionaire" and More by Robert Viagas

Once "The Boy," John Davidson Â— of stage, television and movies Â— returns to The Fantasticks as "The Old Actor."

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 28, 2012☆⚑

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today in Theatre History: JULY 8 by Robert Viagas

1913 Birthday of theatre critic Walter Kerr (1913-1996), namesake of Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre. In addition to his career as a reviewer, which took him from the New York Herald-Trib…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on July 8, 2012☆⚑

A TONY TIMELINE: The Broadway Shows and Milestones, On Stage and Off, Between June 2011 and June 2012 by Robert Viagas

Just in time for the 2012 Tony Awards on June 10, here's a look at events that happened on Broadway — and in the wide world beyond — between June 2011 and today. What sticks …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:02am on June 9, 2012☆⚑

PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: MAY 17 by Robert Viagas

1907 The new Hippodrome Theatre opens in Portsmouth, England.

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on May 17, 2012☆⚑

Top-Earner Book of Mormon Helps Easter Bonnet Raise $3.6 Million; Ricky Martin, Audra McDonald Appear by Robert Viagas

The 26th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition raised $3,677,855 in six weeks of nightly curtain-call appeals, the third-highest total in the history of the even…

SOURCE: Playbill at 6:08pm on April 24, 2012☆⚑

Book of Mormon Is Top Earner in Easter Bonnet Competition; Season Total Is $3.6 Million by Robert Viagas

The 26th annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Easter Bonnet Competition raised $3,677,855 in six weeks of nightly curtain-call appeals, the third-highest total in the history of the even…

SOURCE: Playbill at 5:30pm on April 24, 2012☆⚑

PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Tom Jones, Lyricist of The Fantasticks, I Do! I Do! and Harold and Maude by Robert Viagas

The lyrics of Tom Jones have been heard on New York stages continuously for the past half century with only a brief hiatus — something no other lyricist can claim, not even Stephen Son…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00am on March 31, 2012☆⚑

EXCLUSIVE: Fantasticks Author Tom Jones at Work on a New Tempest Musical by Robert Viagas

Tom Jones, lyricist and librettist of the world's longest-running musical The Fantasticks, is at work on a new musical more than five decades after he saw the opening of his most famous …

SOURCE: Playbill at 11:04am on March 12, 2012☆⚑