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ON THE AISLE with Harry Haun

AS TIME GOES BY, TIME STANDS STILL...

Composer ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, choreographer GILLIAN LYNNE and producer CAMERON MACKINTOSH concocted a little symbolic, ceremonial cat-dancing the night their Phantom of the Opera passed their Cats to become Broadway's longest running show. Slinking and sliding through the cast at the curtain call crept a kitten critter from another world—Victoria (young dancer ABIGAIL SIMON), a flirty, fur-lined feline who seductively circled the Phantom (HOWARD McGILLIN), prancing and purring and finally tagging him with her paw as if to say, "You're IT." Since that historic 7,486th performance, Phantom has finished a full 18 years at the Majestic, and its director, HAROLD PRINCE, has marked his 78th birthday—with two new musicals pointed toward Broadway. DICK VAN DYKE put on a happy face and—suddenly, for four performances—everything was Rosie at the Schoenfeld Theatre as he and
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CHITA RIVERA launched into a graceful, loose-limbed rendition of their Bye Bye Birdie. Save for the snow on his roof—he's an amazingly agile 80—it looked and felt as if those 45 years just melted away. Birdie's composer, CHARLES STROUSE, and lyricist, LEE ADAMS, who are still collaborating (on the musical version of Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning Marty), toasted their two timeless stars at a post-show bash at Tony's Di Napoli. If you're one of the poor souls who her on B'way (the show ended last month), take heart. Chita's show will hit the road next year in a U.S. tour that starts up in Jan. 2007. A gaggle of Tony-winning actresses, including the very first Tony-winning supporting actress (PATRICIA NEAL), stepped out of JESSICA DARYL WINER's seven-panel mural depicting a century of Broadway legends and saluted its installation at Sardi's—among them TAMMY GRIMES, KELLY BISHOP, KAREN ZIEMBA, CARLIN GLYNN, BEBE NEUWIRTH, DONNA MURPHY and MARIAN SELDES— so here's to the ladies who Sardi.
[[image]] Clockwise from top: For the unveiling of her Broadway legends mural at Sardi's, artist Jessica Daryl Winer (3rd from left) was joined by (from left) Carlin Glynn, Karen Ziemba, Marian Seldes, Bebe Neuwirth, and Rebecca Luker; Dick Van Dyke, who recently joined Chita Rivera onstage, shares a laugh with his pal at their post-show party; Dancer Abigail Simon passed the baton from Cats to The Phantom of the Opera's Howard McGillin, as Phantom became the longest-running show in Broadway history

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