Here again, celebrating the new year by saluting a dozen Broadway veterans, aged 91 to 105. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption.
Angela Lansbury, 93, veteran of 14 Broadway shows, winner of five Tony Awards.
Dick Van Dyke, 100 (born December 13, 1925), veteran of four Broadway shows, winner of the Tony Award for Bye, Bye Birdie. He’s a song and dance man at heart, and still a charmer, as is clear from his new book and a musi video he made last year with Coldplay
Norman Lear, 101, creator of such groundbreaking TV series as “All in the Family.” Few might know he was also 1. a theater publicist (briefly) 2. a Broadway producer, in 1986, or “Arsenic and Old Lace”…starring Jean Stapleton (who was Edith Bunker in Lear’s All in the Family)
Cloris Leachman, 94, veteran of 12 Broadway shows.
Olivia de Havilland,
Carl Reiner, 97, veteran of seven Broadway shows.
Kirk Douglas,
Patricia Morison, 102, veteran of five Broadway shows, including the original Kiss Me Kate and King and I.
Norman Lloyd, 106, actor,producer,director in movies, TV (Dr. Auschlander in St Elsewhere), radio; 13-time Bway vet who made his debut in 1927! Worked w/ Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Bertolt Brecht, John Houseman, Jean Renoir.
Gertrude Jeannette, 103, veteran of six Broadway shows, including plays by Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, and James Baldwin.
Connie Sawyer, 105, veteran of four Broadway shows.
Carol Channing, 97, three-time Tony winning veteran of a dozen Broadway productions (three of them “Hello, Dolly.”)
Why, you may ask, is Betty White, 95, not in this gallery? She’s never been on Broadway. Now’s the time, Betty!