The Collection by Season - Thirty-Seven Years of Playbills

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THE COLLECTION BY SEASON
1961–62 through 1979–80

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Here are my binders from the first one through the fall of 1979, typed up from the index cards. My seasons run from June 1 to May 31, so a show sometimes lands in the season after the one it opened in, if that's when I got there. The first column is the season, the second is how many Playbills I have from it (repeats included), and the third is the highlights. I haven't typed every show, or this page would be longer than the binders.

The rest, 1980 to now, is still in the binders. I'm typing as fast as I can.

Season	Playbills	Highlights
1961–62	1	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. My very first!
1962–63	4	Stop the World — I Want to Get Off; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Oliver!; She Loves Me
1963–64	4	Barefoot in the Park; 110 in the Shade; Hello, Dolly!
1964–65	5	Fiddler on the Roof (the first of five); Golden Boy; Luv; The Odd Couple
1965–66	5	Cactus Flower; Man of La Mancha (way downtown, at the ANTA Washington Square); Sweet Charity
1966–67	5	Mame; The Apple Tree; Cabaret; I Do! I Do!
1967–68	6	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Hello, Dolly! again, this time with Pearl Bailey; Plaza Suite; George M!
1968–69	6	The Great White Hope; Promises, Promises; 1776
1969–70	7	Butterflies Are Free; Fiddler on the Roof again, with a new Tevye; Purlie; Applause
1970–71	8	Company; The Rothschilds; Sleuth; No, No, Nanette; Follies
1971–72	9	Jesus Christ Superstar; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Sugar
1972–73	9	Pippin; A Little Night Music; Irene
1973–74	10	Raisin; A Moon for the Misbegotten; Candide
1974–75	11	Gypsy, with Angela Lansbury; The Wiz; Shenandoah
1975–76	13	Chicago; A Chorus Line; Pacific Overtures
1976–77	12	Fiddler on the Roof with Zero Mostel, back again; The Shadow Box; I Love My Wife
1977–78	14	Annie; Dracula (Anita's pick, under protest); On the Twentieth Century; Dancin'
1978–79	14	Ain't Misbehavin'; They're Playing Our Song; Sweeney Todd; The Elephant Man
1979–80	15	Evita; Sugar Babies; Children of a Lesser God
So far	158	454 more in binders 7 through 21

You can see what happened. In the sixties I had a little boy at home and a full schedule of teeth, and I got in four or five a season, saving up. By the late seventies he was in high school, Anita's girls were grown, the TKTS booth had opened, and we were in the city nearly every other Wednesday. It only got worse from there, and I wouldn't change a thing.

If you have a Playbill from any of these seasons that you'd like to know something about, or you're hunting for one, write to me at [email protected]. I'm always glad to look something up in the index cards.

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