Playbill from the Martin Beck Theatre production of Bye Bye Birdie, Chita Rivera and Dick Van Dyke [credits: Photofest]
Dick Van Dyke and Charles Strouse in a dressing room of the Martin Beck Theatre, 1960 [credit: Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]
Chita Rivera and Dick Van Dyke [credit: Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]
Chita Rivera and Dick Van Dyke in Bye Bye Birdie at the Martin Beck Theatre [credits: Photofest]
"The Telephone Hour" from Bye Bye Birdie [credit: Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]
Cast of All American, Broadway 1962 [credit: Photofest]
Lee Adams, Sammy Davis Jr. and Charles Strouse, opening night of Golden Boy [credit: Strouse Personal Collection]
Sammy Davis Jr. in Golden Boy on Broadway, 1964 [credit: Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]
Paula Wayne and Sammy Davis Jr. [credit: Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]
Linda Lavin and Bob Holiday in "You've Got Possibilities" from It's a Bird… It's a Plane… It's Superman, Broadway 1966 [credit: Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]
Lauren Bacall in "But Alive" from Applause, 1970 [credit: Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]
Lauren Bacall [credit: photofest]
Bacall at the center of the action in "Fasten Your Seat Belts." [credit: Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]
Andrea McArdle and orphans from Annie, Original Broadway Cast, 1977 [credit: Martha Swope]
Andrea McArdle and Charles Strouse [credit: Strouse Personal Collection]
Sarah Jessica Parker and Sandy [credit: Martha Swope]
Sarah Jessica Parker singing "Tomorrow" [credit: Martha Swope]
Sarah Jessica Parker, Sandy and Reid Sheldon [credit: Martha Swope]
Josh Blake, Teresa Stratas, Dick Latessa and Judy Kuhn in Rags [credit: Martha Swope]
Dick Latessa, Josh Blake, and Teresa Stratas in Rags [credit: Martha Swope]
Christine Baranski, Joanna Gleason and Barry Bostwick in Nick & Nora [credit: Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations]
Carolee Carmello and John C. Reilly at the demo recording of Marty [credit: Strouse personal collection]