Let us celebrate the new year by honoring Broadway veterans like Dick Van Dyke, who just wrote a book 100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist’s Guide to a Happy Life He turned 100 in December — and he’s not even the oldest in the gallery below. The oldest is Eva Marie Saint, born on the Fourth of July in 1924. The second-oldest is Lee Grant.

The 25 people below aged 89 to 101 are accomplished performers, playwrights, producers, directors, composers (at least one of them all those things together.) They, like we, have survived another year. More than survived: Two of them are currently performing on Broadway: Anne Reid is making her Broadway debut at 90; June Squibb, at 96, is the oldest actress to open a Broadway show in a starring role.

As a young comedian, Dick Van Dyke used to portray old people as a comic bit. Some seven decades later, as he writes in his new book, “like my old characters, I am in fact a stooper, a shuffler and a teeterer… but the superficial stuff, the physical decay, is about the only thing I share with the old guys I played way back when, thank God.” For one thing, he still performs, with a group called the Vantastix, and in the video below that he made last year with Coldplay.

The gallery below is organized by ascending age. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged, and then click the ⌽ button to read the caption.