Below are some of the photographs by Martha Swope, who died Thursday at age 88. In a professional career that officially spanned from 1957 to 1994, she focused on ballet and Broadway. Her 15 theater pictures below — of Richard Burton in “Camelot,” and Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in “Private Lives”; Bernadette Peters; Hal Prince and Stephen Sondheim in rehearsal; Ethel Merman in “Hello, Dolly”; Ben Vereen in “Pippin”; Angela Lansbury in “Gypsy”; Jennifer Holliday in “Dreamgirls”; the original cast of “Hair”, Maya Angelou in “The Blacks”; Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin in “Evita”; Nathan Lane and Faith Prince in “Guys and Dolls”. Chita Rivera in “West Side Story” (in 1957), in “Chicago” (in 1975) and in “Kiss of the Spiderwoman “(in 1993) — were selected from some 1,520,000 images Swope donated to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Click on any one of the photographs by Martha Swope to see it enlarged and read the caption.

(L-R) Director Hal Prince & composer Stephen Sondheim in a rehearsal shot from. the Broadway musical “Merrily We Roll Along”, 1981 Ben Vereen in Pippin Ethel Merman and waiters in a scene from the Broadway production of the musical “Hello, Dolly!”. A scene from the Broadway production of the musical “Hair”. Maya Angelou and Charles Gordon in a 1961 Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet’s The Blacks. Actor Richard Burton in a scene fr. the revival of the Broadway musical “Camelot”. Actors Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor in a publicity shot for the Broadway production of the play “Private Lives.” Angela Lansbury (2L) in a scene from the Broadway revival of the musical “Gypsy”. Mandy Patinkin as Che Guevera and Patti LuPone as Eva Peron in a scene from the Broadway production of the musical “Evita”. 1979 Bernadette Peters in a scene from the Broadway production of the musical “Into The Woods”. Nathan Lane and Faith Prince kissing in a scene from the 1992 Broadway revival of the musical “Guys And Dolls”. Chita Rivera in the Broadway musical West Side Story Chita Rivera in Chicago Chita Rivera in a scene from the Broadway production of the musical “Kiss Of The Spiderwoman”. Jennifer Holliday singing “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” in a scene from the Broadway production of the musical “Dreamgirls”.

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