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On Broadway Theater Posters 2009 Wall Calendar, January 12, 2009
This review is from: On Broadway Theater Posters 2009 Wall Calendar (Calendar)
This annual calendar from the Library of Congress collection is a "must buy" for me, and I always buy two copies.
One copy hangs in my cubicle at the office, where I am a computer programmer for a state government agency having nothing to do with the Performing Arts.
The second copy hangs in the Green Room at a local high school, where I am one of numerous volunteers who support the Performing Arts at the local level (and high school theatre is about as local as one can get).
I love these posters for many reasons, one of which is they bring back memories of my pre-World War II childhood, when my parents brought me to one of the last vaudeville shows on the old Pantages circuit; another is the trivia pieces about opening dates for other Broadway/off-Broadway shows on a particular day on the page of a particular show; and the often-surprising details about the show-of-the-month provided at the bottom of each page is the last part I read, because it is often the most delicious part to ingest.
The owner of this poster calendar, regardless of age, will have memories triggered in a sort of "stream-of-consciousness" time travel to earlier years.
Just read the list of producers, directors, and actors on January's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" poster, and recall when you last saw them on stage.
Buy one calendar each year, and at the end of the year take it apart and arrange the shows chronologically, building an illustrated history of American theatre.
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