Woody Allen, Neil Simon, Stephen Sondheim Among "The New York City 400"
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The Museum of the City of New York has announced “The New York City 400,” a list of 400 movers and shakers since New York City’s founding — from politics, the arts, business, sports, and science.
The list includes many individuals with theater connections such as Woody Allen, Harold Arlen, Brooks Atkinson, P.T. Barnum, John Barrymore, David Belasco, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Fannie Brice, Mel Brooks, John Cage, George M. Cohan, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Merce Cunningham, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Fosse, George Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Elia Kazan, Larry Kramer, Spike Lee, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Ethel Merman, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill, Clifford Odets, Joseph Papp, Molly Picon, Cole Porter, Jerome Robbins, Paul Robeson, Richard Rodgers, Jerry Seinfeld, Neil Simon, Stephen Sondheim, Mae West, Tennessee Williams, and Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.
Other notables named include Alvin Ailey, George Balanchine, James Baldwin, Cab Calloway, Truman Capote, Andrew Carnegie, Duke Ellington, Allen Ginsberg, Martha Graham, Keith Haring, Billie Holiday, Ralph Lauren, Joseph Pulitzer, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Damon Runyon, Lillian Russell, Martin Scorsese, Pete Seeger, Beverly Sills, Russell Simmons, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sophie Tucker, Andy Warhol, and Ethel Waters.
For the complete list, visit www.mcny.org.
