Playbill looks back at the actors, directors, choreographers, and other theatremakers who died in the past year.

From the original choreographer of Guys and Dolls to the original Bud Frump in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, the theatre world lost many of its most esteemed colleagues in 2007.

A director in a famed theatre family. A celebrated actress of the 1950s who worked too little on the stage. A character man who would play a TV martian. An African-American actress who broke boundaries. An impish actor known for light comedy and serious drama on stage and screen.

A director in a famed theatre family. A celebrated actress of the 1950s who worked too little on the stage. A character man who would play a TV martian. An African-American actress who broke boundaries. An impish actor known for light comedy and serious drama on stage and screen.

Tony Award nominee Danny Burstein, who plays the wisdom-dispensing taxi driver in Broadway's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.

Tony Award nominee Danny Burstein, who plays the wisdom-dispensing taxi driver in Broadway's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop-culture tidbits.

In 1964, Sammy Davis, Jr. stars in the musical Golden Boy, opening at the Majestic Theatre.

Playbill.com posed this question to over 100 theatre actors: If you could star in a Broadway revival of any play or musical, which show and role would you choose?

BERNADETTE PETERS
The long-awaited revival of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun opened last night at the Marquis Theatre, starring the one-and-only Bernadette Peters as Annie Oakley, a role made famous by the legendary Ethel Merman. The star-studded audience included such notables as Danny Aiello, Brooke Astor, Lauren Bacall, Catherine Bach, Sandy Duncan, Ben Gazzara, Barbara Cook, Joel Grey, Merv Griffin, Mary Cleere Haran, Marilu Henner, James Earl Jones, Sharon Lawrence, Cameron Mackintosh, John McDaniel, Mary Tyler Moore, Rosie O'Donnell, Gregory Peck, Brooke Shields, Bobby Short, Ann Reinking, William Finn and many others. The audience leapt to its feet for the star of the evening, and I thought you would enjoy reading some of BP's fabulous reviews:

BERNADETTE PETERS
The long-awaited revival of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun opened last night at the Marquis Theatre, starring the one-and-only Bernadette Peters as Annie Oakley, a role made famous by the legendary Ethel Merman. The star-studded audience included such notables as Danny Aiello, Brooke Astor, Lauren Bacall, Catherine Bach, Sandy Duncan, Ben Gazzara, Barbara Cook, Joel Grey, Merv Griffin, Mary Cleere Haran, Marilu Henner, James Earl Jones, Sharon Lawrence, Cameron Mackintosh, John McDaniel, Mary Tyler Moore, Rosie O'Donnell, Gregory Peck, Brooke Shields, Bobby Short, Ann Reinking, William Finn and many others. The audience leapt to its feet for the star of the evening, and I thought you would enjoy reading some of BP's fabulous reviews: