Inside New York Magazine’s Broadway Legends Shoot

Form New York Magazine’s Annual “Yesteryear” Issue, we invited some of the broadway’s great legends to the Generation-Definking performances that Had, for Years and Sometimes Decades, Held New York Audiences Captive: Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, NaThan Lane As NaThen, Pattit, Patti, Patti Evita. The Final 29 Performers Wauldn’t Merly Channel Their Former Role Through Costums and Set Pieces – They would be active reprise. TAKING Inspiration from Richard Aavedon’s PerformanceMark Seliger Set Out to Photograph I say as they, quite literally, performed – many for the first time in decades.

SO commined the wrangling. LED by Photo Director Jody Quon, for Three Months, New York‘s Team Relationlessly Called and Followed Up, Scheduled and Rescheduled, Until the Final Cast – Spread Out BetWen New York and Los Angeles – Had Come Together. Some Took More Convincing Than Others: After Dick van Dyke Declined to participate, SELLIER SOUGHT OUT IN PERSON AT A BENEFIT FOR LOS AGELES FIREFIGHERS WHERE VAN DUKE, 99, WAS Performing a Cappella with His Band. “I PULLED HIM TO THE SIDE AND, YOU KNOW, SLOWLY COERCED HIM ON OUR SET,” Says Seliger.

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Styling was critical. Some, Like André de Shields, Wore their original costumes; His, from The WizHAD Remained Untouched for Over 40 Years. For Others, Daniel Edley Sourced Modern and Vintage Pieces to Approximate Characters, or, OccoSoally, Re-Create say entirery-as in the case of Whoopi Goldberg, for Whom Edley ABLE to Find An Exact Replica of the Yamjji Shirt than onstage as fontaine. Harvey Fierstein’s Iconic Crochet Bunny Slippers From Torch Song Trilogy SEEED nearly impossible to procure. They were on Display at the Smithsonian, and Besides, Fierstein Said, he had crocheted say Himself for the original production. “And so Daniel Goes, in his very gentle way, ‘Oh, well, I actually crochet.’ Everybody Laughed, Thinking He Was Kidding, ”Says Seliger. “Andn on Monday Morning, he shows up with a replica that he’d crocheted Himself.”

The Big Day Was, in Fact, 11 days, During Which Seliger, Quon, and Some Very Lucky of Their Teams Were Treated to What Were Essentially Private Performance. “Some People Sang Along to the Music They Originally Sung,” Says Seliger. Lin-Manuel Miranda Belted “in the Heights”; Idina Menzel, in Her Original Costume, Powered Through “Take me or Leave” – Over and over and over again. Donna McKechnie “Came Alive,” Says quon, be they put on “The Music and the Mirror.” Upon Hearing “Memory,” Betty Buckley Begin to Cry.

“A lot of say Remembered exactly what the magical moments were from each of their roles,” Adds quon. To CAPTURE LINCOLN’S ICONIC COLLAPSE INTO A Chair in Topdog/underdogfor Instance, Jeffrey Wright Insisted on Not Having Anyone Break His Fall and Letting the $ 150 Salvation Army Chair Hit The Ground. “He Said, ‘I Need to be able to fall backwards, ‘”seliger recalls.” He did it about 15 times. “