New York – From The Footlights To The Streetlights – Stage manager Mike Thomas checks out members of cast of “Bye Bye Birdie” outside Martin Beck Theater on New York’s West 45th Street tonight. Broadway suffered first total stage blackout in 41 years as League of New York Theaters closed all 22 Broadway stage shows in retaliation for strike launched last night by Actors Equity. Some 1,000 actors and 5,000 other theatrical workers are out of work.

Associated Press · [ca. June 1960]

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