1914 and are the very first Eliza Doolittle and Professor Higgins. 's tale of class and character, Pygmalion, plays 118 performances at His Majesty's Theatre in London.
1932 Birthday of Broadway hoofer and leading man , whose best-known roles include the title character in , the spectral Emcee in the original , and the morally compromised Wonderful Wizard of Oz in .
1936 and provide music and lyrics for at Broadway's Imperial Theatre. choreographs the jazz ballet, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, featuring and . The show runs nearly 10 months.
1950 Birthday of actor and New Vaudeville clown . Irwin appears on Broadway in three runs of (in , , and ), and wins a Tony Award for his performance as George in the 2005 revival of
1967 What happens offstage in Hamlet is the premise of 's comedy, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. and are the doomed pair at London's Old Vic.
1967 has the lead in 's . provides the lyrics for ' music. Dassin adapted the book from Never on Sunday, and he provides the staging. There are 319 performances at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway.
1991 and 's opens, updating Madame Butterfly, making a star of , and causing a ruckus when Englishman is chosen to play a Eurasian "Engineer." Both Pryce and Salonga win Tony Awards for their performances, and it runs for 4,092 performances at the Broadway Theatre.
1996 and 's most famous duo, , return to Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre. and shall dance their way to the Tony Awards to capture the Best Actress and Best Revival awards.
2000 's drama about the much-debated 1941 meeting between German physicist Werner Heisenberg and Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, in opens at the Royale Theatre on Broadway. The play with minimal set and characters, starring , , and , wins the Tony Award for Best Play and Best Director for (who also wins the Best Director award for the revival musical the same night).
2005 Margo Skinner, who played the role of Miss Poppenghul, the harried secretary of movie mogul David O. Selznick, in the spring run of 's production of Moonlight and Magnolias, is found dead in her apartment during the run of the play. She was 55.
2007 Actor and director dies of cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at age 81. He received a Tony nomination for his performance as Holloway in 's .
2010 , a musical about the legendary 1956 recording session that brought together , , , and , opens at the Nederlander Theatre. Directed by , the production stars , , , and . Kreis, who made his Broadway debut in the production, wins a Tony Award for his performance as Jerry Lee Lewis.
2011 Actor-comic makes his Broadway debut in ' , which opens at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The play, which is described as a "high-octane, verbal cage match about love, fidelity, and misplaced haberdashery," also stars of , , , and .
2012 , 's highly theatrical drama about the college-to-Olympics rivalry and friendship of basketball heroes Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird, opens at Broadway's Longacre Theatre. and play household-names Bird and Johnson, respectively. The production fails to catch on with audiences, and closes after 37 performances.
2013 's beloved children's book about a precocious bookworm with magical powers comes to life as and 's opens on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre. Young actors , , , and share the title role. The cast also includes as Miss Trunchbull, as Miss Honey, and and as Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood. The production runs almost four years, for a total of 1,554 performances.
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