The Fabulous Theater Poster Calendar

The Fabulous Theater Poster Calendar! Proudly hanging in the kitchen is an "On Broadway! Theater Posters from the Library of Congress" 2007 Calendar.
Last year I had a beautiful MOMA calendar which was very stylish (yet not wildly functional), so this year I went back to the old fashioned "grid" style.
On the inside flap is listed all the Tony Award Winners for Best Musical (and the writers) from 1949 (KISS ME KATE) to 2005 (SPAMALOT). Very handy.
Every month is a full-color picture of an original Broadway musical poster:
January: MAME starring Angela Lansbury
February: SILK STOCKINGS starring Heldegarde Neff and Don Ameche
March: FADE OUT FADE IN starring Carol Burnett and Dick Shawn
April: WILDCAT starring Lucille Ball
May: FLORA THE RED MENACE starring Liza Minnelli
June: REDHEAD starring Gwen Verdon
July: WEST SIDE STORY starring Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert and Devra Korwin
August: PURLIE starring Cleavon Little, Melba Moore and John Heffernan
September: PAINT YOUR WAGON starring Eddie Dowling
October: CAN-CAN starring Lilo (in the air-conditioned Sam S. Shubert Theatre, no less! Costumes by "Motley"...hmmm, perhaps I should get a single name...)
November: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM starring Zero Mostel
December: MAE WEST in person as DIAMOND LIL (with a "brilliant supporting company of 50"!). I love the media quotes on this one:
"A Triumph of Sex over sense" -- Robt. Garland, N.Y. Journal America
"Fabulous...it is Performing In The Grand Manner" -- Brooks Atkinson, N.Y.Times
There is also a little synopsis the show of the month, along with a few song selections.
In addition, sprinkled through each month are key historical Broadway dates. For example, today in 1971 FOLLIES opened at the Winter Garden Theatre. On April 6 in 1947, the first Tony Awards were held, at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel. On April 21 in 1949 Patti Lupone was born in North Port, New York. And on April 29, 1968, HAIR opened at the Biltmore Theare. On the same day in 1996, "its musical descendant, RENT, opened at the Nederlander Theatre."
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