The journey of a Broadway career begins with a single step. Or rather, a single Playbill. To celebrate Playbill’s 140th anniversary, we asked some of Broadway’s best and brightest to reflect on the first time they appeared in a Playbill, and what that milestone meant to them. 

For Tony winner Bonnie Milligan, it was the 2014 first national tour of Kinky Boots: "I absolutely cried, because I remember always going to shows and collecting the Playbills." She also added that she possesses several of those Kinky Boots Playbills.

See reflections from Milligan, Leslie Uggams, Ramin Karimloo, Jose Llana, and more in the video above.

And for the entire month of October, don't forget to see a show at a Broadway theatre to pick up a special Legacy Playbill. Playbill has partnered with every production on Broadway (and Off-Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors) to create four special retro-inspired Playbill covers, which are being distributed to audiences free of charge. Click here to see all of the available Legacy covers. We hope the special four-part nature of these covers encourages you to go to the theatre to get one, strike up a conversation with a stranger to trade covers, and take the time to thank the ushers who hand them out. If you want to get all the designs of a particular show, visit PlaybillStore.com to purchase a poster of a show's collection, with proceeds going to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.