Mart Crowley's gay classic The Boys in the Band makes its star-studded Broadway debut in 2018.

In 1955, Cole Porter's Silk Stockings opens on Broadway.

The actor may best be remembered for his show-stopping duet with Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam.

Alice Playten, who lent her quirky persona and comic voice to a memorable string of Broadway and Off-Broadway musical performances from the 1960s onward, died on June 25 at Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City. The cause was heart failure, said Sandee Cohen, her friend and neighbor. She was 63.

(This is one in a series of Playbill.com features offering a periodic look back at Broadway and Playbill history, timed to accompany a new production or event of a show from theatre's past. A Broadway revival of A Touch of the Poet starring Gabriel Byrne opens Dec. 8 at Studio 54. Here's a glimpse at the 1958 Playbill of the original production, with some perspective on the period.)

Musicals Tonight!, the scrappy Off-Off-Broadway showcase series that revives "neglected" musicals in concert form, will offer the 1958 cult classic, Goldilocks, with a score by Leroy Anderson and lyrics by Joan Ford, Jean Kerr and Walter Kerr.

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"I loved it. I loved its understanding and compassion, and I loved its pain and yet also its unsentimental determination for hope." So said Clive Barnes of the New York Times, at the time the most powerful critic in town, about the 1970 musical revue The Me Nobody Knows. And I very much agreed with Mr. Barnes. The Me was energetic, tuneful, talent-filled and thought-provoking, and I'm glad the original cast album (on Atlantic Records) has finally been released on CD.

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"I loved it. I loved its understanding and compassion, and I loved its pain and yet also its unsentimental determination for hope." So said Clive Barnes of the New York Times, at the time the most powerful critic in town, about the 1970 musical revue The Me Nobody Knows. And I very much agreed with Mr. Barnes. The Me was energetic, tuneful, talent-filled and thought-provoking, and I'm glad the original cast album (on Atlantic Records) has finally been released on CD.

The Broadway season officially opened the last week in September with the arrival of three plays, Dr. Cook's Garden, Keep It in the Family, and The Song of the Grasshopper."

The Broadway season officially opened the last week in September with the arrival of three plays, Dr. Cook's Garden, Keep It in the Family, and The Song of the Grasshopper."