1925 and are Fallen Angels at London's Globe Theatre. 's comedy describes two wives who get drunk while trying to get even with their husbands for their indifference. Angels fly for 158 performances.
1927 works in mysterious ways. 's drama deals with a hardworking farmer who denies the god of his neighbors and suffers misfortune until he conforms. stars for the 45 performance run.
1941 move into Broadway's Lyceum Theatre. 's comedy deals with a woman who not only likes the packs of mice that live in her house but thinks they spell her name out with flowers. The play squeaks by for 15 weeks.
1949 Broadway diva is born. She wins Tony Awards for her performances in the original Broadway production of and 2008 revival of . She also creates memorable roles in the world premieres of musicals Sunset Boulevard, , and , and revivals of , , and .
1955 The evolution of the human race is just the tip of the argument in . and star in the and drama based on the Scopes "monkey" trial. There are 806 performances at the National Theatre in New York.
1977 Tomorrow is today, as and 's musical opens on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre. stars as the young orphan whose "hard-knock life" turns from rags to riches when she meets tycoon Oliver Warbucks, played by . The production garners Tony Awards for Best Musical as well as Best Actress for who plays the warden-like Miss Hannigan.
2000 Four Guys Named Jos茅...and una Mujer named Maria!, a new Latin musical revue from David Coffman and Dolores Prida, begins performances Off-Broadway at the John Houseman Studio Theatre. The show that chronicles the Latin experience through multicultural musical favorites moves to Off-Broadway's Blue Angel Theater on September 18, where it runs through March 4, 2001.
2011 's hit London drama , about the indelible inhabitants of a slice of rural England, opens on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre. wins a Tony Award for his performance as Johnny "Rooster" Byron, a former daredevil motorcyclist and modern-day Pied Piper, whose supply of drugs, tall tales, booze, and rock music draws young people to him.
2013 After acclaimed engagements in Scotland and at the Lincoln Center Festival, 's one-man opens on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Set in a psychiatric unit, Cumming plays a patient who is reliving the story of Macbeth鈥攂ringing to life over 15 characters in Shakespeare's bloody work.
2014 's , starring as an artist who barricades herself in her Brooklyn brownstone, opens on Broadway at the Booth Theatre. Though Parsons and co-star receive positive reviews, opinions on the play are more mixed, and it runs only 16 performances.
2015 , , , and 's musical opens on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre. stars as Yurii Zhivago, opposite , , and . It runs only 23 performances.
2016 and 's musical , based on the novel by , opens at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. stars as Wall Street banker Patrick Bateman. The production runs 54 performances.
2019 Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen, and Julie White create comic mayhem in Taylor Mac's Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus when it opens at the Booth Theatre. It earns seven Tony Award nominations and runs for 65 performances.
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