1925 Birthday of actor , who appears on Broadway in and , and creates memorable TV and film roles in The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
1929 Birthday of , who wins Tony Awards for his performances in Cyrano and Barrymore, receives Tony nominations for , , , , and , and memorably plays Captain Von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music.
1934 Opening night of musical revue , featuring , and, in her Broadway debut, comedian .
1951 is at the . adapted the novel about an executive who always followed the rules then decided to be his own man. directs.
1959 A Clean Kill written by Michael Gilbert, starring and , details the unnerving possibility of a pharmacist planning a murder. Directed by , the thriller runs at London's Criterion Theatre for 142 performances.
1970 is in 's first drama. This story of an alcoholic singer's decline is staged by at the Plymouth Theatre.
1979 comes back to Broadway at the Palace Theatre, starring as Curly, as Laurey, Christine Ebersole as Ado Annie, and Mary Wickes as Aunt Eller.
1979 The presents Home by , who is also in the cast. This show, about a young black man's resistance to fight in the Vietnam war, plays at the St. Marks Playhouse before .
1990 Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby opens her first Broadway production of Peter Pan at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, returning to the title role for the first time since a regional production in 1974. Rigby will go on to tour in the role through 2015, with a live performance filmed to air on TV's A&E in 2000.
1998 makes her Broadway debut at the Cort Theatre in 's , a transfer from London's . Directed by Sam Mendes, the two-hander adaptation of La Ronde co-stars Iain Glenn.
2009 and 's returns to Broadway with making her Broadway debut as Desir茅e Armfeldt and as her mother Madame Armfeldt. Directed by , the production was previously seen at London's Menier Chocolate Factory and in the West End. Zeta-Jones wins a Tony Award for her performance.
2018 A new stage adaptation of 's , with a script by , opens at Broadway's Shubert Theatre. takes on the central role of Atticus Finch in the staging, which frames the Alabama-set story as a memory play as Scout () recalls the 1930s trial in which her father defended a black man accused of raping a white girl. Keenan-Bolger wins a Tony Award for her performance.
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Jeff Daniels (center) and company in the Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird.
