STAGE TUBE: CATCH ME's Aaron Tveit Kicks Off the Broadway Show League Season!

In the early 1950's the casts and crews of Broadway shows got into the habit of walking up to Central Park on Wednesdays for informal picnics and softball games before they returned to the Theatre for the evening performance. In 1955, John Effrat, an employee of the Actors Fund, established a more formal league with several associates that would play on Thursday afternoons and called it the Broadway Show League.

Since then the League has continued to play on Thursday afternoons on the Hecksher Fields in Central Park. which lie just inside the park at Central Park West and 63rd Street. Many of the best known stars from the stage, films and television have played in the league at one time, as well as thousands of folks from behind the stage and in the "back of the house."

Yesterday, the League's 57th season kicked off with CATCH ME IF YOU CAN's Aaron Tveit singing the national anthem. View it below!