The Playbill Broadway Yearbook 2013-2014 Season: 10th 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 10th edition of The Playbill Broadway Yearbook is packed with photos (more than 4,000, many in color) and memorabilia from the entire 2013-2014 Broadway season.
This edition documents the more than 70 Broadway shows of that season - not just the new shows, such as Aladdin, Beautiful the Carole King Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and If/Then, 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 - but producers, writers, designers, stage managers, stagehands, musicians, ushers. This year's roster is expected to top 10,000 names.
There is also a wealth of photos from Broadway insider events, including "Gypsy of the Year," "Broadway Bares," 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:
Act One
After Midnight
Aladdin
All the Way
Ann
Annie
The Assembled Parties
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
Betrayal
Big Fish
The Big Knife
The Book of Mormon
The Bridges of Madison County
Bronx Bombers
Bullets Over Broadway
Cabaret
Casa Valentina
Chicago
The Cripple of Inishmaan
First Date
A Gentleman's Guide To Love & Murder
The Glass Menagerie
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
If/Then
Il Divo
I'll Eat You Last
Jersey Boys
Kinky Boots
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Les Miserables
Let It Be
The Lion King
Lucky Guy
Luis Bravo's Forever Tango
Macbeth (Alan Cumming)
Macbeth (Ethan Hawke)
Machinal
Mamma Mia!
Matilda the Musical
Mothers and Sons
Motown: The Musical
The Nance
Newsies
Nice Work If You Can Get It
No Man's Land
Of Mice and Men
Once
Outside Mullingar
The Phantom of the Opera
Pippin
A Raisin in the Sun
The Realistic Joneses
Richard III
Rock of Ages
Rocky: The Musical
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
Romeo and Juliet
700 Sundays
Snow Geese
Soul Doctor
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
A Time to Kill
The Trip to Bountiful
Twelfth Night
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
The Velocity of Autumn
Violet
Waiting for Godot
Wicked
The Winslow Boy