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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

From the Archives: Angela Lansbury Returned to Broadway in Triumph in Gypsy by Fran Weil

Fifteen years after the original production opened on Broadway May 21, 1959, the then-two-time Tony Award winner made Rose all her own.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:00PM

Sunday, September 16, 2018

From the Archives: Lauren Bacall Returned to Broadway in 1981's Woman of the Year by Fran Weil

In honor of Lauren Bacall's birthday, we look back at her interview with Playbill as as she prepared to open the Kander and Ebb adaptation of the Hepburn-Tracy classic.

SOURCE: Playbill at 01:12AM

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