Which theatrical images from 2012 stuck with you? The high-flying choreography of shows like Newsies and Bring It On? A star-studded Broadway roster including Jim Parsons, Ricky Martin, Al Pacino and more? The darkened theatre district in the days following Hurricane Sandy?
Here's Playbill.com's look back at 2012:
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Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis and cast of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
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Ben Gazzara, an intense actor of stage and film who created the role of Brick in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, died on Feb. 3 in New York.
Nina Raine's family drama Tribes opened to rave reviews at The Barrow Street Theatre.
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, and Lin-Manuel Miranda
"Smash," the new hour-long musical drama series created by Broadway dramatists who dwell in the world they're writing about, debuted on NBC in February.
Marin Mazzie and Molly Ranson
Theodore Mann, who, as the co-founder of Circle in the Square Theatre, was one of the foremost figures in the birth of the Off-Broadway theatre movement, died on Feb. 24.
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Andrew Garfield and Finn Wittrock
Stephanie J. Block assumed the role of Reno Sweeney in the Tony Award-winning Roundabout Theatre Company staging of Anything Goes. The production ended its run July 8.
Megan Hilty and Rachel York
Chilina Kennedy, Josh Young and Paul Nolan
Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball
Jeremy Jordan and cast in Newsies
Deen van Meer
Gabriel Ebert and Mary Louise Wilson
Kerry Ingram and cast
Kerry Butler, Eric McCormack and Angela Lansbury
Elena Roger and Ricky Martin
The final fundraising number is unveiled
Monica Simoes
Christian Borle, Arnie Burton, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Adam Chanler-Berat
Brian Dennehy and Nathan Lane (L-R) starred in the new Robert Falls-directed production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
Quiara Alegría Hudes' Water By the Spoonful won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
President Barack Obama.
Patti LuPone
Darius de Haas, Saycon Sengbloh, Jerold E. Solomon, Kenita R. Miller, Aurelia Williams, Alan Mingo Jr., Syesha Mercado and Courtney Reed
Neil Patrick Harris returned to host the 2012 Tony Awards.
Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti
Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park, the dark comedy about race and real estate, won the Tony for Best Play
Once star Steve Kazee won the Tony Award for Leading Actor in a Musical.
Audra McDonald
British actor James Corden took home the Best Leading Actor in a Play Tony Award for his performance in One Man, Two Guvnors.
The Tony for Leading Actress in a Play went to Nina Arianda for Venus in Fur.
Amy Adams, Denis O'Hare, Gideon Glick and Johnny Newcomb
Paulette Ivory, Sahr Ngaujah and Melanie Marshall
Martin Pakledinaz, 58, who for two decades was among the most sought-after costume designers on Broadway, died July 8.
Original Book of Mormon stars Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad both landed sitcoms on NBC. Rannells (pictured) stars in "The New Normal," and Gad is a member of the "1600 Penn" ensemble.
Celeste Holm, the theatre and film actress who starred in Oklahoma! and "All About Eve," died on July 15 in New York City.
Richard Kind, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Rebecca Romijn, Dane Cook and more starred in the Hollywood Bowl's summer production of The Producers.
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Lindsay Mendez and Derek Klena in Dogfight
Ben Forster and Mel C
Marvin Hamlisch, 68, the songwriter and performer who achieved theatre immortality as the composer of the iconic musical A Chorus Line, died on Aug. 6 in Los Angeles.
Carrie Coon, Tracy Letts, Amy Morton and Madison Dirks
Fraud and scandal surrounded the ill-fated musical Rebecca. The marquee went up, the curtain did not.
Annie Funke, Jake Gyllenhaal and Brían F. O'Byrne
Billy Porter, Annaleigh Ashford and Stark Sands
Sean Williams
Rupert Holmes' Tony Award-winning musical whodunit The Mystery of Edwin Drood received its first Broadway revival. Among the cast is Chita Rivera.
Academy Award-winning actress, singer, director and philanthropist Barbra Streisand offered her first public performance in her hometown of Brooklyn Oct. 11 at the new Barclays Center.
Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox
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Julie Taymor and cast
Monica Simoes
Giant, the new musical by Michael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson, opened Nov. 15 at the Public Theater. Kate Baldwin, Brian d'Arcy James and P.J. Griffith starred.
Rocky the Musical, with score by Tony Award winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, premiered in Germany Nov. 18.
Anthony Warlow
Charlene Nederlander, James M. Nederlander, James L. Nederlander and Margo Mcnabb Nederlander
Playbill's "Broadway on the High Seas 2" departed from Buenos Aires on Dec. 6 for a ten-day excursion. Entertainers included (from left) Seth Rudetsky, Lewis Black, Marin Mazzie, Christine Ebersole, Sherie Rene Scott and Jason Danieley.
A reworked version of Bare, the coming-of-age rock musical set in a co-ed Catholic boarding school, opened Dec. 9 at New World Stages.
The new musical Viva Forever!, featuring the songs made famous by the Spice Girls and a book by Jennifer Saunders, opened Dec. 11 at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre.
Patti LuPone and Debra Winger
Opening number
Anthony Crivello and Seth Numrich
Stars and celebrity guests turned out for the Dec. 10 New York premiere of the Les Misérables film. Eddie Redmayne plays Marius in the picture.
The much-anticipated film adaptation of Les Misérables opened Dec. 25. It took in $58.6 million globally its first day of release. Hugh Jackman (center) plays Jean Valjean.
