Video: Chuck Cooper, Lilli Cooper and Eddie Cooper remember the first time they were featured in a playbill

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Video: Chuck Cooper, Lilli Cooper and Eddie Cooper remember the first time they were featured in a playbill

As Playbill celebrates its 140th anniversary, some of Broadway’s brightest stars reflect on what it meant to them to be in our pages.

The journey of a Broadway career begins with a single step. Or rather, a single Playbill. To celebrate Playbill’s 140th anniversary, we asked some of Broadway’s best and brightest to reflect on how they first appeared in a Playbill and what that milestone meant to them.

For Tony Award-winning acting legend Chuck Cooper, he revealed: “It was for a musical called Amen corner; We opened at the Nederlander Theater. And I still vividly remember opening Playbill and seeing my face, my name and my bio. Which was full of lies because I hadn’t done anything! But there I was in a playbill! This is the industry standard. Playbill, I did it!”

Check out Cooper’s reflection along with those of his children Lilli Cooper and Eddie Cooper in the video above.

And throughout the month of October, don’t forget to catch a show at a Broadway theater to score a special Legacy Playbill. Playbill has worked with every production on Broadway (and Off-Broadway). Little shop of horrors) to create four special retro-inspired Playbill covers that will be distributed free to audiences. Click here to view all available Legacy covers. We hope the special four-part nature of these covers encourages you to go to the theater to get one, strike up a conversation with a stranger to trade covers, and take the time to thank the ushers, that they distributed. If you would like to receive all designs from a specific show, To purchase a show collection poster, visit PlaybillStore.comproceeds go to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.