The Playbill Broadway Yearbook 2012-2013 Season: 9th Annual Edition. Edited by Robert Viagas. Published by Playbill Books/Applause Books. Hardcover, 400 pages. Measures 8.5 by 11 inches.
Taking the format of a school yearbook, the ninth edition of The Playbill Broadway Yearbook is packed with photos (more than 4,000, many in color) and memorabilia from the entire 2012-2013 Broadway season.
This edition documents the more than 80 Broadway shows of that season - not just the new shows, such as Matilda, Motown, Lucky Guy, and Bring It On!, but the long-running ones from seasons past, such as Phantom of the Opera, The Book of Mormon, Once, and Wicked. The book features photos of not only the actors - even Sunny, the dog who portrays Sandy in Annie... plus his understudy, Casey - but producers, writers, designers, stage managers, stagehands, musicians, ushers. This year's roster is expected to top 10,000 (human) names.
There is also a wealth of photos from Broadway insider events, including "Gypsy of the Year," "Broadway Bares," "Forbidden Broadway," and the annual Broadway League softball championship players. For this edition, each production was asked to appoint a member of the cast or crew to report on things only those who worked backstage would know: opening-night presents, who got the Gypsy Robe, daily rituals, celebrity visits, favorite health tips and regimens, memorable ad-libs, and so on. Correspondents range from dressers, doormen, and dancers to, in some cases, the star of the show. The Broadway Shows Included in This Edition are:
The Anarchist
Ann
Annie
Anything Goes
The Assembled Parties
The Big Knife
The Book of Mormon
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Bring It On
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Chaplin
Chicago
A Christmas Story
Cinderella
Clybourne Park
The Columnist
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dead Accounts
Death of a Salesman
Don't Dress for Dinner
End of the Rainbow
Elf The Musical
An Enemy of the People
Evita
Fela!
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Ghost: The Musical
Glengarry Glen Ross
Godspell
Golden Boy
Gore Vidal's The Best Man
Grace
Hands on a Hardbody
Harvey
The Heiress
I'll Eat You Last
Jekyll and Hyde
Jersey Boys
Jesus Christ Superstar
Kinky Boots
Lewis Black: Running on Empty
The Lion King
Lucky Guy
The Lyons
Macbeth
Mamma Mia!
Manilow on Broadway
Mary Poppins
Matilda
Memphis
Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
Motown
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Nance
Newsies
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Once
One Man, Two Guvnors
Orphans
Other Desert Cities
The Other Place
The Performers
Peter and the Starcatcher
The Phantom of the Opera
Picnic
Pippin
Porgy and Bess
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream
Rock of Ages
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
Scandalous
Sister Act
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Testament of Mary
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
The Trip to Bountiful
Venus in Fur
War Horse
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Wicked