At a time when matters of mortality are taking center stage, let’s ring in the new (and hopefully far better) year by saluting  Broadway veterans who are aged 89 to 106, many of them still working. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption.

James Earl Jones, 91, 21-time Broadway veteran, three time Tony winner, who just had a Broadway theater named in his honor.

…Stephen Sondheim, 90 nine-time Tony-winning composer, listening in the studio to a recording of the Broadway revival cast album of Sunday in the Park with George

Lois Smith, 92, made her film debut in 1955 opposite James Dean, and is an 11-time Broadway veteran, most recently in “The Inheritance” in 2020.

Estelle Parsons, 95, 30-time Broadway veteran, five-time Tony nominee,

Harry Belafonte, 95, performed in two musical revues and a concert special on Broadway, and produced two Broadway plays

Rosemary Harris, 95, 27-time Broadway veteran, last on Broadway in the most recent revival of My Fair Lady

Cloris Leachman, 94, veteran of 12 Broadway shows.

Tony Bennett, 96, has performed twice on Broadway in concert specials, once for a month co-starring with Lena Horne (who lived to 92)

Hal Holbrook. 95, an actor who appeared frequently in films and on Broadway, and created a solo show in which he portrayed Mark Twain (three times on Broadway alone!) for more years than Samuel Langhorne Clemens portrayed Mark Twain.

Angela Lansbury, 96, veteran of 14 Broadway plays and musicals, five-time Tony winner.

Dick Van Dyke, 97, veteran of four Broadway shows, winner of the Tony Award for Bye, Bye Birdie.

Eva Marie Saint, 98, better known for her movie roles opposite Marlon Brando, Cary Grant and Paul Newman, but also a two-time Broadway veteran, including the 1953 production of A Trip To Bountiful

Cicely Tyson, 96, is a nine-time veteran of Broadway, most recently in The Trip to Bountiful in 2013 and The Gin Game in 2016

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.