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The Golden Age of Broadway

A photograph of the original Broadway cast in a 1959 performance of The Sound of Music.

A photograph of the original Broadway cast in a 1959 performance of The Sound of Music.

Citation Information: “Mary Martin (Maria Rainer), Lauri Peters (Liesl), Joseph Stewart (Kurt), Kathy Dunn (Louisa), Marilyn Rogers (Brigitta), William Snowden (Friedrich), Evanna Lien (Gretl) and Mary Susan Locke (Marta) in The Sound of Music,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/9d27360e2cccf78a41cb55dbdae5d42e.

Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

Courtesy of The New York Public Library.

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Item 11 of 11 in the Primary Source Set The Golden Age of Broadway

An excerpt, “About Tonight’s Play,” from the program of a 1979 revival production of Kiss me Kate.

A photograph of Eliza, the main character from My Fair Lady, in a late 1950s performance.

A news story about a 2014 revival of My Fair Lady and a recording of the song “I Think She’s Got it!”.

The cover of the Playbill from the original Broadway production of West Side Story in 1957.

A photograph of the characters Harold Hill and Marian the Librarian from The Music Man.

A photograph of the original Broadway cast in a 1959 performance of The Sound of Music.

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