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Juno opened at the Winter Garden in 1959, but critical reviews forced it to close after only 16 performances. Still, the original cast album has remained in print all these years. We’ve got new photos posted today of the recording session, featuring Shirley Booth, Monte Amundsen, Melvyn Douglas and more.

Even though the only Award she ever won was the Theatre World (1949), every musical show Allyn Ann McLerie starred in – except the last – was a great hit. Read more at her new artist page.

In our new video from Legends of Broadway, Angela Lansbury discusses the challenges and joys of working on the musical Prettybelle.

We’ve got a bunch of new photos today from the 1956 recording session for The Most Happy Fella. Columbia producer Goddard Lieberson decided that Loesser’s rich score deserved to be recorded in its entirety, complete with dialogues and instrumental bridges, resulting in a 3-LP set, something usually reserved for operas.

Some Broadway musicals are timeless. Some are best described as a snapshot of the era that produced them. Call Me Madam is a pure adrenalin shot of circa-1950 zeitgeist, a screwball comedy pulled from the headlines with impeccable timing. The show was conceived as a vehicle for Ethel Merman, at that moment arguably the biggest […]