Musicals 101: Stage Gallery 4

Stage Gallery IV
compiled by John Kenrick
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The original sheet music cover for "Till There Was You," the hit ballad introduced by Barbara Cook in Meredith Willson's The Music Man (1957). It was published by the Frank Music Corporation – which belonged to Willson's friend and fellow songwriter, Frank Loesser.

In the early 1960s, Columbia Records ran this ad boasting about their extensive catalog of original cast recordings.

The original program cover for the British musical version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. A long-running hit in London, the New York production did not last. Despite a witty libretto and stellar cast, Broadway audiences did not take the rock-flavored score to heart.

The Les Miserables logo atop Broadway's Imperial Theatre.

New York's Shubert Theatre, original home of the hit revival of Chicago.

The renewed theatres of 42nd Street, NYC

From left to right – The Times Square Theatre, The Ford Center & The New Victory.

Ann Miller sings a showstopping "I'm Still Here" in the Paper Mill Playhouse revival of Sondheim's Follies.