The stars of Anything Goes (Ethel Merman, Victor Moore, Bill Gaxton and Bettina Hall) can be seen in this 1934 program ad for The Caprice Room, a now-forgotten nightspot. Even at the height of the Depression, businesses paid handsomely to be associated with the glamour of Broadway.

Dancer Tillie Losch wore this art deco headdress in one of Cochran's intimate 1930s London revues – the magazine clipping this photo comes from does not specify which. Imagine what it took to balance this towering sparkler while cavorting about on stage eight times a week.

The original logo for the Irving Berlin revue As Thousands Cheer (1933) appears on the original sheet music for the wistful "How's Chances."

John Raitt in his dressing room preparing for a performance of Carousel.

Few of Shirley Booth's 1960s TV fans (she starred in the popular sitcom Hazel) knew she was a gifted musical comedienne. Here she plays a retired vaudevillian in By the Beautiful Sea (1954).

Mary Martin in two of her signature roles –singing "Honey Bun" in South Pacific and a rare color shot from the national tour of Annie Get Your Gun.