Jill Haworth, who created the role of chanteuse Sally Bowles in the landmark musical Cabaret, died on Jan. 3.
Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch
The cast of Betty Blue Eyes
Legendary costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge died Jan. 21
Chuck Cooper and Sharon Washington in Lost in the Stars
Anthony Warlow and Lucy Maunder
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Private Lives, 1983.
Martha Swope
Mark Rylance
Jennifer Laura Thompson, Malcolm Gets, Georgi James, Hunter Foster and Taylor Trensch
Rema Webb, Andrew Rannells, and Josh Gad
Joan Marcus
Will Swenson, Tony Sheldon, and Nick Adams in Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Joan Marcus
The closing number
Peter James Zielinski
Jill Paice, Rob McClure and Lauren Worsham
Joan Marcus
Daniel Radcliffe and company
The Broadway musical Fela! came full circle in April when the story of the Nigerian musician and political figure Fela Anikulapo-Kuti played an engagement in Lagos.
Lee Pace, Jim Parsons, Joe Mantello and Patrick Breen in The Normal Heart
Joan Marcus
Billie Joe Armstrong
Krissie Fullerton
Punchdrunk's immersive site-specific Sleep No More, which began luring New Yorkers into its haunted world in April, proved a major success and continues into 2012.
Darren Ritchie proposes to Janet Dacal
West Side Story and Gypsy librettist Arthur Laurents died May 5.
A scene from Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark
Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert and Jon Cryer in the 2011 concert production
National Theatre of Great Britain's critically acclaimed production of Richard Bean's raucous One Man, Two Guvnors transferred to the Adelphi Theatre and will move to Broadway in 2012.
Neil Patrick Harris (center) and cast members from Sister Act perform in the opening number.
Andrew Rannells and company
Joan Marcus
A scene from War Horse
Cast of The Normal Heart
Joan Marcus
Sutton Foster and company
Mark Rylance won a second Tony for Jerusalem
Frances McDormand
Sutton Foster
Norbert Leo Butz
David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the Wyndham's Theatre production.
Johan Persson
The cast of Love Never Dies
The cast of Follies
The cast and crew of Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark
Sierra Boggess and Tyne Daly
Joan Marcus
Alice Playten, a Tony winner for Henry, Sweet Henry, died June 25 at age 63.
The cast of Ghost: The Musical
Connie Bradshaw (Julie Reiber, center) gives newcomer Mary Ann Singleton (Betsy Wolfe) a taste of the big city in a disco.
The cast of Rent
Tom Hewitt and Cathy Rigby
A new London Wizard of Oz: With its Dorothy (Danielle Hope) cast by public vote on reality TV, Andrew Lloyd Webber's production opened at the London Palladium with added songs by Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
Jeremy Jordan and company
T. Charles Erickson
Jayne Houdyshell, Elaine Stritch, Mary Beth Peil and Elaine Paige
On our last day of our trip, Stokes toured the famous Venice Canals.
In celebration of its 25th anniversary, a special staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera played sold-out performances at London's Royal Albert Hall Oct. 1-2. Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess starred.
Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett opened in Katori Hall's The Mountaintop. It marked the first Broadway credit for both actors in over 20 years.
Mamma Mia! celebrated its 10th Broadway anniversary in style, with a mayoral proclamation, fireworks display and outdoor encore performance.
Adam Pascal in Memphis.
Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball starred in an acclaimed new production of Sweeney Todd at the Chichester Festival Theatre. The staging will transfer to the West End in March 2012.
Godspell received its first-ever Broadway revival, in a production directed by Daniel Goldstein, at Circle in the Square.
The hit revival of Chicago celebrated 15 years on Broadway in November.
Hugh Jackman returned to the Great White Way with his concert performance Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway. The show shattered box office records at the Broadhurst Theatre.
The much-anticipated 2012 revival of Funny Girl, which was to star Lauren Ambrose and Bobby Cannavle, was postponed indefinitely due to lack of investment.
The annual Gypsy of the Year fundraiser took in a total of $4,895,253. Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway was responsible for $857,740 of that sum.
Kerry Ingram
Harry Connick Jr. returned to Broadway in a revised version of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Frank Wildhorn's Bonnie & Clyde, starring Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan, opened on Broadway Dec. 1.
An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin played a limited holiday engagement at the Barrymore Theatre. The stars united onstage for the first time since Evita.
Cedric Neal, Norm Lewis, Audra McDonald, Roosevelt Andre Credit and NaTasha Yvette Williams
