1906 supplies the music for The Free Lance. stages the 35 performance run at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway.
1920 A pair of marooned teenagers discover love in The Blue Lagoon. and based their drama on the H. De Vere Stacpoole novel. and Faith Celli are the twosome at London's Prince Of Wales Theatre.
1965 Anne of Green Gables plays at London's New Theatre. Based on L.M. Montgomery's novel, it stars as the orphan Anne who changes the lives of those around her. adapted the book and provides the lyrics for Norman Campbell's score.
1968 Author dies in New York at age 81. She successfully collaborated with on the plays and . Her novel Show Boat, was the basis for .
1976 Tony Award winner is born in Oklahoma. On Broadway, she originates roles in and , and stars in revivals of , , , and .
1990 's opens at the Walter Kerr Theatre. stars alongside as siblings in 1930s Pittsburgh who struggle over the choice to sell a family heirloom. directs the production that runs 320 performances. The play earns playwright Wilson his second Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
2000 Palm Sunday traditionally commemorates Jesus Christ's entrance into the city of Jerusalem. This Palm Sunday, however, marks the official entry of into the Broadway season, as the revival of and 's rock opera opens at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts.
2001 The is in the Pulitzer. The prestigious award goes to 's drama about a troubled young woman trying to prove that a mathematics breakthrough is her own work and not cribbed from her math-genius father.
2012 The world premiere of In Masks Outrageous and Austere, the final full-length play from Pulitzer Prize winner , opens Off-Broadway at Culture Project at 45 Bleecker. Directed by David Schweizer, the production stars as Babe Foxworth.
2014 and make their Broadway debuts in a revival of 's , opening at the Longacre Theatre. directs the play, which Steinbeck adapted from his novel about two migrant field hands in California during the Great Depression.
2015 's revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic聽, starring and , opens on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. A cast of more than 50 is featured. The production wins four Tony Awards, including Best Actress in a Musical for O'Hara, and Best Revival of a Musical.
2019 Keri Russell makes her Broadway debut opposite Adam Driver, Brandon Uranowitz, and David Furr in the revival of Lanford Wilson's Burn This. The revival earns three Tony Award nominations, including Best Revival.
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