A Look Back at the Good Times Had, Pre- and Post-Show, Throughout Sardi's History

To the average Times Square tourist, Sardi's restaurant on 44th Street is the place you go to see caricatures of famous people and eat cannelloni before an evening performance of Wicked. To those who live and die by the stage, the 89-year-old establishment is a genuine piece of New York theater history. It wasn't only the watering hole for critics like Walter Winchell, composers like Stephen Sondheim, and actors like Lauren Bacall, Liza Minnelli, and Fred Astaire, but it was the very place where...