In 2010 Playbill spoke with six Tony-winning musical theatre greats associated with the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and lyricist.

Meet the first-nighters at the opening night of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Meet the first-nighters at the opening night of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

On March 28, Barbara Cook's Broadway opened at Lincoln Center Theater.

Sunday night, when she hit the stage of the Vivian Beaumont for opening night of Barbara Cook's Broadway—the manly, wood-paneled court usually inhabited by Christopher Plummer's King Lear—Barbara Cook couldn't help but wonder aloud what the king is doing tonight, "What merriment is Chris Plummer pursing tonight?" Actually, he was sitting down front watching her take command of his stage, doing it with the artless ease of a majestic performer. There was no discernible dip in royalty between His Majesty and Her Blondeness. They just get there different ways—he in drama, she in song, and both as consummate actors who can pull you in.

This week's column examines both the original and revival cast recordings of Maury Yeston's Nine

This week's column examines both the original and revival cast recordings of Maury Yeston's Nine

Mary Steenburgen, Roxanne Hart and Steven Weber will star in Scott McPherson's Marvin's Room for L.A. Theatre Works' staged readings for radio, Jan. 16-20. Dennis Erdman ("Sex and the City," "Mad About You") directs.

BETTY BUCKLEY
There was a wonderful interview with Betty Buckley in the Feb. 15 issue of In Theater Magazine. Buckley, who concludes her run in The Eros Trilogy this weekend, had this to say to writer Kathy Henderson about her non-musical stage work: "I think [the last play I did] was The Perfectionist, by Joyce Carol Oates, at the McCarter Theatre for [director] Emily Mann, just before I did Sunset Boulevard. I've done tons of readings at the Public Theater. This past year, I did a reading for Tony Kushner of a new play he's written called St. Cecilia's Music. I was offered three plays this winter, [including] one at the Kennedy Center about Georgia O'Keeffe; I was very interested in doing it, but I couldn't work it into my schedule. Then my agents called and said, 'We have a new Nicky Silver play.' I love his writing, and I'd been speaking to [Vineyard artistic director] Doug Aibel for some time because I love this space. It's nice and intimate." Buckley also spoke about some future projects. "My friend Kevin Duncan and I," Buckley explained, "are forming our own production and recording company this year, called KO Productions. My brother Norman and I are looking for a film project to do together; he's a great editor, and he should be directing. I feel really good about what I'm doing now. I spent a lot of years being pretty stressed all the time. And I think you reach a certain age when you go, 'I don't have the reserves to process this much stress anymore.' It's my mission to make choices for myself in personal and professional relationships where everybody has a good time. We're not here that long, and I've wasted too much time wading through stress and craziness. I don't have to do that anymore."

BETTY BUCKLEY
There was a wonderful interview with Betty Buckley in the Feb. 15 issue of In Theater Magazine. Buckley, who concludes her run in The Eros Trilogy this weekend, had this to say to writer Kathy Henderson about her non-musical stage work: "I think [the last play I did] was The Perfectionist, by Joyce Carol Oates, at the McCarter Theatre for [director] Emily Mann, just before I did Sunset Boulevard. I've done tons of readings at the Public Theater. This past year, I did a reading for Tony Kushner of a new play he's written called St. Cecilia's Music. I was offered three plays this winter, [including] one at the Kennedy Center about Georgia O'Keeffe; I was very interested in doing it, but I couldn't work it into my schedule. Then my agents called and said, 'We have a new Nicky Silver play.' I love his writing, and I'd been speaking to [Vineyard artistic director] Doug Aibel for some time because I love this space. It's nice and intimate." Buckley also spoke about some future projects. "My friend Kevin Duncan and I," Buckley explained, "are forming our own production and recording company this year, called KO Productions. My brother Norman and I are looking for a film project to do together; he's a great editor, and he should be directing. I feel really good about what I'm doing now. I spent a lot of years being pretty stressed all the time. And I think you reach a certain age when you go, 'I don't have the reserves to process this much stress anymore.' It's my mission to make choices for myself in personal and professional relationships where everybody has a good time. We're not here that long, and I've wasted too much time wading through stress and craziness. I don't have to do that anymore."

Playbill.com's new column offers readers an exclusive inside look at the homes of Broadway's stars and behind-the-scenes movers and shakers.

The first collaboration of Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, begins the spring "Musicals in Mufti" season at the York Theatre Company April 1.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron and Sam Gold joined the famed walls of Sardi’s April 21.

"It's a play about a set," observed one first-nighter April 27, exiting the St. James after the third Broadway arrival of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms.

"It's a play about a set," observed one first-nighter April 27, exiting the St. James after the third Broadway arrival of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms.

The big opening of the week was Bullets Over Broadway, the stage adaptation of Woody Allen's popular 1994 film comedy of the same name, directed by Susan Stroman.