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 | | Latter day song-and-dance man whose impeccable comic timing and physical humor made him one of Broadway's greatest stars. |
 | | Teen film superstar of the 1980s whose comic timing would make him a frequent attraction in Broadway musicals. |
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 | | The future Tony Award-winning Joel Grey was born on April 11, 1932, in Cleveland, OH. Grey (actually born Joel Katz) was the son of Yiddish comedian Mickey Katz, a member of the Spike Jones Orchestra, and a well-known nightclub performer and Broadway satirist. |
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 | | Tony-winning dancer, actress, and singer Chita Rivera made her primary impact as a performer in Broadway musicals, appearing in them regularly for over 40 years, including a breakout part in West Side Story and starring roles in Bye Bye Birdie, Chicago, The Rink, and Kiss of the Spider Woman. |
 | | Singer-actress became a Broadway sensation in the '00s after her titular role in THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE. |
 | | Actor/singer Jerry Orbach spent 20 years working primarily as a leading man in Broadway musical comedies, a career that netted him a Tony Award and appearances on eight cast albums, before devoting himself more to non-singing character roles in films and a part on a long-running TV series. |
 | | Best known for her Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway smash Rent, singer/actress Idina Menzel made her solo debut in 1998 with the pop-soul effort Still I Can't Be Still. |
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 | | Jersey Boys aren’t a group or a band, but a Broadway musical that chronicles the story of the Four Seasons, the group that gave the world pop hits like “Rag Doll,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Dawn,” “Silence Is Golden,” “Walk Like a Man,” and so many others. |
 | | A respected Broadway name due to his Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, a composer who wrote half a dozen wartime songs including "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition," a Hollywood lyric-writer for several 1940s films -- it appears that Frank Loesser had several careers packed into his one life. |
 | | One of the biggest Broadway stars of her era, Bernadette Peters was widely acclaimed as the finest singing actress to come along since Barbra Streisand. |
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 | | After vaulting to international fame as the feral antihero Wolverine in a series of feature films inspired by Marvel Comics' best-selling X-Men franchise, actor Hugh Jackman returned to his first love, musical theater, with a Tony Award-winning turn as Broadway icon Peter Allen in the acclaimed The Boy from Oz. |
 | | b. Reginald Carey Harrison, 5 March 1908, Huyton, England, d. 2 June 1990, Manhattan, New York, USA. |
 | | Born Gwyneth Evelyn Verdon on January 13, 1925, in Culver City, CA, she began tap dancing in theater as a small child. |
 | | Andrew Lloyd Webber has been the most successful composer of musicals of his generation and also a breaker of molds in the genre. |
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 | | Actor and singer Brian Stokes Mitchell has performed in many television and Broadway productions, including Man of la Mancha and Kiss Me Kate, for which he received a Tony award. |
 | | In 1980, Patti LuPone won her first Tony Award for best actress in a musical for her portrayal of Eva Peron, the ambitious, doomed wife of Argentine dictator Juan Peron, in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita. |
 | | b. Robert Preston Meservey, 8 June 1918, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, USA, d. 21 March 1987, Santa Barbara, California, USA. |
 | | The songwriting team of William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan was among the most successful and enduring of the 19th century; their comic operas remain immensely popular over a century after the duo's final work, and are viewed today as forerunners of contemporary musical theater. |
 | | Actress and singer whose claim to fame was the tambourine-playing mother, Shirley Partridge, on The Partridge Family, where she starred with her stepson David Cassidy. |
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 | | A singer, dancer, and actor known for his dramatic performances in theater, Ben Vereen has performed on television, in films, and on stage. |
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 | | Singer/actress Mary Martin was, along with Ethel Merman, one of the two leading performers in stage musicals during the middle third of the 20th century. |
 | | A singer with a warm, light soprano, Barbara Cook became a successful Broadway musical performer in the 1950s and '60s. |
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 | | A pedestrian late-'60s California band, People hit the Top 20 in 1968 with a fluke cover of an old Zombies B-side, "I Love You. |
 | | Kristin Chenoweth went from strength to strength around the turn of the 21st century, beginning with an award-winning stage career on Broadway that later expanded into television roles and a recording contract. |
 | | Carol Channing has worked primarily as a comic stage actress and singer, along with occasional movie and television appearances. |
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 | | b. Chester Powers, 7 October 1937, Danbury, Connecticut, USA, d. 16 November 1994, Santa Rosa, California, USA. |
