Women in Music Posters “Pe...-Pl...-”
for social studies and music education classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational decor.

Ann Pennington
b. 12-23-1893; Wilmington, DE
d. 11-4-1971; NYC

Dancer and actress Ann Pennington starred on Broadway in the 1910s and 1920s. At one point Pennington was earning $1,000 a week, switching back and forth between the Ziegfeld Follies and George White's Scandals.

Best friends with Fanny Brice (Funny Girl), Pennington was very petite - under 5' tall, and notoriously generous - she ended up dying in poverty.

• The Art of Stage Dancing

Bernadette Peters
b. 2-28-1948; Queens, NY

Bernadette Peters is an actress and singer noted for her starring roles in stage musicals like Song and Dance, Sunday in the Park with George (Sondheim), Into the Woods, Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy, and A Little Night Music.

Valentine Petit, French Dancer as le Papillon in “Visions Nocturnes” at the Palais de la Danse, Giclee Print

Valentine Petit was a a singer and dancer who worked at the Folies Bergère. She married Leonce Perret (1880-1935), an actor and early French film director and producer.

Edith Piaf
b. 12-19-1915; Paris
d. 10-11-1963

Maya Plisetskaya Silhouette

Maya Plisetskaya
b. 11-20-1925; Moscow, Russia

Maya Plisetskaya, considered on of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century, was a member of the Bolshoi from 1943 till her 1990 retirement. Her father was executed during the Stalin purges, her mother imprisoned.

• I, Maya Plisetskaya