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THEATRE WORLD covers
A selection of front covers of the much-missed magazine Theatre World, on which West End musicals (mostly American, but some British) were featured. Click on the thumbnail to see larger image.


 
MARCH 1956
Shirl Conway apparently enraptured to be cast opposite Richard Derr in Plain and Fancy
 
FEBRUARY 1957
Dressed for the part: Joan Heal overdoing it in Grab Me A Gondola
 
DECEMBER 1957
A poor substitute for Judy Holliday: Janet Blair working at Susanswerphone in Bells Are Ringing
 
APRIL 1958
'From Brazil, where the nuts come from' … Norman Wisdom as Charley's aunt in Where's Charley?
 
JUNE 1958
Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews keeping a Covent Garden pillar up in My Fair Lady
 
FEBRUARY 1959
Marlys Watters and Don McKay, the star-crossed lovers of West Side Story
 
JUNE 1959
Denis Quilley and Mary Costa making the most of the best of all possible worlds in Leonard Bernstein's Candide
 
NOVEMBER 1959
The only 'low-life' British musical to make it onto a Theatre World cover: The Crooked Mile, with Elisabeth Welch and Jack MacGowan
 
JUNE 1960
Art Lund looking particularly menacing as he manhandles Helena Scott in The Most Happy Fella
 
AUGUST 1961
Pop-singer Marty Wilde struts his stuff as Conrad in Bye Bye Birdie
 
JANUARY 1962
Did someone switch off the electricity? Max Bygraves and Maggie Fitzgibbon in Do Re Mi
 
MAY 1963
Tommy Steele, a credit to his dentist, in Half a Sixpence
 
JUNE 1963
The only British revue to make it on to a Theatre World cover. Beryl Reid displays the effect of a wig in All Square
 
SEPTEMBER 1963
Harry Secombe threatening to sing a song about ruling the world, in Pickwick
 
FEBRUARY 1964
Fresh from America, the forgotten Beverley Todd brings 'The Sweetest Sounds' to Richard Rodgers's No Strings

 
JUNE 1964
Gary Raymond squashing his leading lady, Anne Rogers, in She Loves Me

Photo: John Timbers

  
SEPTEMBER 1964
Elizabeth Larner prepares to be bored in Lerner and Loewe's Camelot
  
NOVEMBER 1964
Rachel Roberts as Lionel Bart's tart with a heart of gold, Maggie May
 
 JANUARY 1965
Bruce Forsyth and Eileen Gourlay in two of their many incarnations during Little Me
  
FEBRUARY 1965
Millicent Martin hoping she can get back to her dressing-room before Kenneth More sings to her in Our Man Crichton
 
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