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We were the toast of Broadway when we got there.

She was the toast of Broadway before her 20th birthday.

Gershwin was the toast of Broadway and, by 1924, was the favorite party pianist of the rich and famous.

Robert Goulet may not have been the toast of Broadway when he played King Arthur in the recent revival of "Camelot."

And from "The Garrick Gaieties" in 1925 to "Pal Joey" in 1940, the composer Rodgers (1902-1979) and the lyricist Hart (1895-1943) were the toast of Broadway.

The absurdist "Monty Python's Spamalot" may be the toast of Broadway, but it is Potter's caustic brand of British humor that is especially in step with our times.

Elisabeth Vincentelli of the New York Post also gave the show three and a half out of four stars and wrote, "Big, glitzy numbers are the toast of Broadway musicals.

The hag in mink and pearls is the actress, Maylah Raymond, who used to have Diamond Jim Brady drink orange juice out of her slipper back when she was the toast of Broadway.

Ms. O'Donnell, who says she grew up sneaking into Broadway musicals like "Dreamgirls" and "A Chorus Line," seemed pleased - for one night, at least - to be the toast of Broadway herself.

This woman had either at one time been the toast of Broadway or with the help of a therapist had raised a submerged false memory of having been the toast of Broadway.

Here, after all, was a virtuoso pianist who found it necessary to become a symphony conductor, an electrifying symphony conductor who could not resist becoming a music-appreciation teacher on television, an acclaimed composer of concert works who also had to be the toast of Broadway.

Ms. Holzer, who was the toast of Broadway two decades ago as the producer of the rock musical "Hair" and other theatrical hits, was arrested last week on charges that she swindled investors out of $280,000 while posing as David Rockefeller's "secret" wife.

This playwright and director was the toast of Broadway in the 1940's, but in private he was notoriously moody and self-questioning; he drew on his own psychoanalysis in creating Liza, someone who lives in the center of a glamorous world but is convinced she is unworthy of glamour herself.