Among the singers who represented the writing talent of the nine Broadway songwrites the U.S. Postal Service created postage stamps for are Howard McGillin (The Phantom of the Opera), Roger Bart (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown), Rebecca Luker (The Sound of Music), Brent Barrett (Chicago), Faith Prince (Little Me), Tom Wopat (Annie Get Your Gun) and cabaret artist Barbara Cook. The U.S. Postal Service honored nine Broadway Songwriters with postage stamps at a ceremony at New York City's Broadhurst Theatre Sept. 21. The stamps -- six stamps sold in a pane of 20 -- include composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II (pictured together), lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe (together), composer George Gershwin and lyricist Ira Gershwin (together), lyricist Lorenz Hart, composer-lyricist Meredith Willson and composer-lyricist Frank Loesser.
