1905 The colossal Hippodrome Theatre opens on Broadway. The inaugural production is the colorful extravaganza A Yankee Circus on Mars. It runs 176 performances.
1943 Birthday of Charles Ludlum (1943鈥�1987), outrageous playwright (The Mystery of Irma Vep and many others), performer, director, and founder of the Off-Off-Broadway Ridiculous Theatrical Company.
1944 In , playwright ponders some of the causes of World War II. The cast includes , , and . The drama runs nearly ten months at the Fulton Theatre in New York.
1978 London's has Plenty. 's play comes to life with and Julie Covington in the cast.
1992 ' immortal character Stanley Kowalski is reborn in the form of as a revival of opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. and also star in the production, directed by .
1994 once again wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Three Tall Women. He won the award previously for in 1967 and for in 1975. The win ties him with playwright , making them both one shy of the four-timer .
2001 stars as the charmingly meddlesome answering service operator Ella Peterson in the first Broadway revival of , , and 's at the Plymouth Theatre.
2007 Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy go head-to-head in a revival of Inherit the Wind, based on the real-life 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. The courtroom drama by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee explores the issue of state-mandated Creationism. Joining the stately duo on stage at the Lyceum Theatre are Denis O'Hare and Byron Jennings in the Doug Hughes-directed production.
2015 A stage version of the classic Gershwin film opens on Broadway. Directed and choregraphed by , it stars and . It runs at the Palace Theatre.
2017 Derek DelGaudio鈥檚 one-person show In & Of Itself, which played Off-Broadway's Daryl Roth Theatre in 2017. The show explores identity and illusion, and is directed Frank Oz.
2018 Rodgers and Hammerstein's returns to Broadway in a revival starring and . Also in the cast are opera star , making her Broadway musical debut, as Nettie Fowler, and as Carrie Pipperidge. Mendez and choreographer both win Tony Awards for their work.
More of Today's Birthdays: Ralph Alswang (1916-1979), (1923-2004), Pat Stanley (b. 1931), Jack Gelber (1932-2003), (b. 1939), Laura Esterman (b. 1945), (b. 1947), (1950-2017), Emily Mann (b. 1952), William Berlind (b. 1973), (b. 1979)
Watch highlights from the 2018 Broadway revival of Carousel:
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