Maybe you have already known this site: http://images.google.com/hosted/life. There are tons of old HQ broadway photos from LIFE magazines archive In it.We can search them easily through google.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
Too bad those SWEET CHARITY photos weren't taken with the actual stage lighting. They look like they were taken in a warehouse due to the bright lights beaming onto the sets and flats.
I can't believe how quickly this thread died. It's a treasure trove! I'm getting several of these images printed to put on my walls.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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Thanks so much for passing this on... I've been searching for a while now...
Somehow I ended up searching Mary Poppins, and all these pictures came up from a 1949 TV show for MARY POPPINS... starring Mary Wickes (who I knew first and foremost from Sister Act... but she was in so many things) as Mary Poppins.
Does anyone know about this!? Search it and have a look... the photos are very interesting
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Same here with the having never seen most of these before.
I had a couple from SWEET CHARITY printed and matted in frames for my NY office. Thanks to the high resolution photos, the print quality is mouth-watering sharp and detailed.
The most amusing thing about this archive is the more famous shows don't always get bigger amounts of photos,some very obscure shows often get the the greatest collection.For example,there are few photo of the original stage production of Carousel.But there are dozens of photos of the short-live Three Wishes For Jamie.This give us a chance to see clearly how some less known shows look like on stage which I never imagine could be possible.Do you know they used the paintings of Picasso,Dali,Chirico and Benton in the set of One Touch of Venus? Well,I don't.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
holy crap No Strings!!! One of my favorite musicals
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)
I'm gonna have to ration these. One show a day. Just looking at the "Golden Apple" pics was enough to make my head spin.
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