Backstage With Lena

From ArtsBeat Blog at NYT:

"Lena Horne, who died on Sunday at 92, won a special Tony Award in 1981 for her Broadway revue “Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music.”

In the show Ms. Horne sang many famous numbers, including “The Lady Is a Tramp” and “Stormy Weather,” while dressed in costumes designed by Giorgio Sant’Angelo. The production ran for more than a year at the Nederlander Theater before touring the country.

David LeShay, now the director of communications for the Theater Development Fund, a nonprofit organization that runs New York’s three TKTS discount-ticket booths, was a press assistant at the time and was assigned to take photographs of the many celebrities who visited Ms. Horne after the show.

“As a young photographer I was called upon to take the backstage photos whenever celebrities came backstage,” Mr. LeShay wrote in an e-mail message. “It was one of the most fun things I’ve ever done in my career.”

A slide show featuring some of those photographs can be found here."