NYT: A Broadway Tradition Is Fluttering Into History

[MezzA101]

NYT: A Broadway Tradition Is Fluttering Into History#1

Posted: 10/29/25 at 7:09am

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/theater/broadway-cast-change-slips-playbill.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xE8.VK6s.ZyXKV5NglJ-L&smid=nytcore-android-share

[Dreamboy3]

NYT: A Broadway Tradition Is Fluttering Into History#2

Posted: 10/29/25 at 7:27am

This is disappointing. Putting aside the effect  on the understudies themselves, I love when I flip open an old playbill and find slips with names of actors who have since become very famous or, in one case, a person who subsequently became a good friend. 

Updated On: 10/29/25 at 07:27 AM

[Lot666]

NYT: A Broadway Tradition Is Fluttering Into History#3

Posted: 10/29/25 at 7:43am

Hate this move. 

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Updated On: 10/29/25 at 07:43 AM