Lansbury made her Broadway debut in 1957's Hotel Paradiso. She worked consistently on Broadway through the 1960s and 1970s, taking on such roles as Cora Hoover Hooper in Anyone Can Whistle, Rose in Gypsy, Mame Dennis in Mame, Anna in The King and I and Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd.
Following a nearly 25-year hiatus, she returned to the Great White Way in the 2007 production of Terrence McNally's Deuce. Lansbury was last on Broadway as Mrs. Sue-Ellen Gamadge in Gore Vidal's election-time comedy The Best Man.
Angela Lansbury and Joan Plowright in A Taste of Honey, 1960
Angela Lansbury and Joan Plowright in A Taste of Honey, 1960
Angela Lansbury in A Taste of Honey, 1960
James Frawley, Angela Lansbury and Arnold Soboloff in Anyone Can Whistle, 1964
Angela Lansbury in Mame, 1966
Angela Lansbury and Anne Francine in Mame
Angela Lansbury and cast in Mame, 1966
Angela Lansbury, Jane Connell, Sab Shimono and Frankie Michaels in Mame, 1966
Milo O’Shea and Angela Lansbury in Dear World, 1969
Angela Lansbury and Kurt Peterson in Dear World, 1969
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Angela Lansbury in Dear World, 1969
Mary Louise Wilson, Zan Charisse and Angela Lansbury in Gypsy, 1974
Zan Charisse, Angela Lansbury and Rex Robbins in Gypsy, 1974
Angela Lansbury and in Gypsy, 1974
Zan Charisse, Angela Lansbury and Rex Robbins in Gypsy, 1974
Angela Lansbury and children in The King and I
Angela Lansbury and Michael Kermoyan in The King and I
Angela Lansbury in The King and I
Angela Lansbruy in The King and I
Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou in Sweeney Todd, 1979
Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd
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Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou in Sweeney Todd
Martha Swope
Angela Lansbury
Martha Swope
Marian Seldes and Angela Lansbury in Deuce
Joan Marcus
Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury, Rupert Everett and Susan Louise O'Connor
Deborah Rush, Rupert Everett, Angela Lansbury, Jayne Atkinson and Simon Jones
Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Keaton Whittaker
Angela Lansbury and Catherine Zeta-Jones
Joan Marcus
Angela Lansbury and Candice Bergen in The Best Man, 2012
Angela Lansbury in The Best Man, 2012
Kerry Butler, Eric McCormack and Angela Lansbury in The Best Man, 2012
John Larroquette, Angela Lansbury and Candice Bergen in The Best Man, 2012
Angela Lansbury in 1945
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