Stage Gallery IV
Compiled by John Kenrick
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the author's personal archives. (For a note on rights for photos used on this
site, please click here.)
 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.
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 In
the early 1960s, Columbia Records ran this ad boasting about
their extensive catalog of original cast recordings.
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 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.
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 The Les Miserables logo atop Broadway's Imperial Theatre.
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 New York's Shubert Theatre,
original home of the hit revival of Chicago.
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 From left to right
– The Times Square Theatre, The Ford Center & The New Victory.
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 Ann Miller
sings a showstopping "I'm Still Here" in the Paper Mill Playhouse revival of Sondheim's
Follies.
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