1849 Birthday of writer , author of several Broadway plays in the early the 20th century, including Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Little Princess, The Pretty Sister of Jose, and That Man and I. Her novel The Secret Garden was .
1924 Opening night at the Garrick Theatre for 's drama , about an elderly winegrower who tries to fool a mail-order bride by sending her the photo of his handsome young foreman. It wins the Pulitzer Prize, runs 414 performances, and is adapted as the musical in 1956.
1929 Actor dies. He made his first lead appearance in The Yankee Consul at the Tremont Theatre in Boston. He also appeared in Hitchy-Koo, The Sap, and Raymond Hitchcock's Pinwheel.
1934 Birthday of actor, lyricist, and director , a late-career collaborator of on the musicals and . His other works include , Upstairs at O'Neals, , and . He begins his career as one of the original Jets in .
1936 Opening night of 's play , consisting of three one-acts, The Astonished Heart, Hands Across the Sea, and Red Peppers. Coward stars with . The production runs 118 performances at the National Theatre.
1938 writes about a dentist in the throes of what will later be called a midlife crisis in the drama . It runs 131 performances at the Belasco and Windsor Theatres.
1940 The first date many legitimate theatres begin Sunday performances. In the past, the Winter Garden, the Selwyn, and the Century had presented Sunday evening variety shows, but these were special vaudeville programs.
1942 Eleven years after creating the role, again is the . wrote and stages the play, which runs more than 32 weeks.
1950 "Luck Be a Lady Tonight" as 's opens at the Forty-Sixth Street Theatre. directs and choreographs the , , and Loesser musical based on Damon Runyan's stories. is Nathan Detroit, co-starring with (father of ), , , and . The show gets rave reviews and runs for a total of 1,200 performances.
1951 stars in ' adaptation of Colette's , about the training of a beautiful young courtesan. The show runs 219 performances at the Fulton Theatre, and is adapted as a film musical of the same title in 1958, with Leslie Caron in Hepburn's role.
1961 Actor dies at age 67. Her stage appearances included and .
1975 writes the score to a musical adaptation of 's The Decameron, called, for some reason, . It runs just seven performances at the Edison Theatre, despite the presence of as Masetto.
1986 , a musical adaptation of the film about backstage emotions at a beauty pageant, opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Partly owing to the presence of as composer and as lyricist-librettist, the TV series 60 Minutes chronicles its tryouts, previews, and opening night. Unfortunately, the production closes after just 48 performances. Happy ending: Ashman likes leading lady so much, he helps her get the role of Ariel the mermaid in the Disney animated film blockbuster The Little Mermaid, for which he supplies lyrics.
1994 With a stroke of the keyboard, Broadway enters the internet age as 半岛体育 On-Line launches its new online theatre news service.
1996 Opening night for the Broadway production of , with music by , which had previously been seen Off-Off-Broadway and Off-Broadway. The production also marks the Broadway debut of director/designer whose masks, puppets, and innovative stage business are a sensation, even if the show itself runs just 49 performances at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Less than a year later, Taymor takes Broadway by storm with her , using many of the same techniques.
1997 In a solo show written and directed by Charles Messina, Paul Goncalves portrays Queen rocker Freddie Mercury awakening from death with a new lease on life. In Mercury: The Afterlife And Times of a Rock God, the singer struggles to make sense of his fate and realizes that fame, fortune, and talent aren't enough for true peace of mind. "Beyond the darkness of his fear," reads the press release, "shines a light far brighter than the star he was on earth." It runs 216 performances at the Sanford Meisner Theatre.
2011 The West End transfer of the 's production of Matilda The Musical, first seen at Stratford-upon-Avon in November 2010, opens at the Cambridge Theatre. Based on the novel, the musical features a book by playwright ; music and lyrics by Australian comedian, musician, and composer ; and direction by . The production wins a record seven Olivier Awards, including Best Actor in a Musical for 's performance as Miss Trunchbull, and Best Actress in a Musical for the four girls who share the title role. .
2013 Repertory productions of 's and 's , starring and , open on Broadway at the Cort Theatre. Directed by , the cast also includes and .
2016 , who starred on Broadway before making her mark on television as the ever-patient mom on the sitcom The Brady Bunch, dies at age 82. She appeared on Broadway in the musicals , , and , and also played the role of Laurey in the national tour of Oklahoma!
2019 Signature Theatre's Off-Broadway revival of The Young Man from Atlanta, Horton Foote's Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning drama, officially opens. Directed by Michael Wilson, the production stars Tony nominee Kristine Nielsen (Gary) and Emmy nominee Aidan Quinn (Elementary).
2019 Theatre For a New Audience's production of Fefu and Her Friends, by the late Mar铆a Irene Forn茅s, officially opens at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn. Directed by Obie Award winner Lileana Blain-Cruz, the production sees the audience split up into four groups (as the play is written), and move around the auditorium where they each experience the story in a different setting and in a different order.
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