NY Botanical Garden Presents 'Hirschfeld's Broadway Scrapbook,' 3/5-4/25

From March 5 through April 25, 2011, The New York Botanical Garden 9th Annual Orchid Exhibition, "The Orchid Show: On Broadway," will present the work of Al Hirschfeld in "Hirschfeld's Broadway Scrapbook." Just across the Garden's ground in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library's Rondina and LoFaro Gallery, the complementary exhibition will feature more than 30 drawings, as well as posters, programs, and sketchbooks from the Al Hirschfeld Foundation that tell the history of the Great White Way as seen by its foremost chronicler.

Visitors will travel through time beginning with Eugene O'Neill's classic ANNA CHRISTIE in 1921 to HAIRSPRAY in 2002, with stops along the way at MY FAIR LADY, GYPSY, FUNNY GIRL, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES and EVITA. Included are portraits of Broadway legends Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Miller, George and Ira Gershwin, Neil Simon, Carol Channing, Patti LuPone, Barbra Streisand, Julie Andrews, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and even a selection of Broadway shows with a botanical connection such as HOUSE OF FLOWERS, THE GRASS HARP and THE EFFECTS OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS. "Hirschfeld's Broadway Scrapbook" is curated by David Leopold of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation with consultation provided by Louise Kerz Hirschfeld.

"Hirschfeld's Broadway Scrapbook" will mark the first New York City exhibition of the legendary artist's celebrated theatre drawings since his death.

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