1927 When a woman loves sailors so much she follows them all around the world, it's time to . provides the score for ' book adapted from the play Shore Leave. The show sails through 352 performances.
1929 's drama Rope stars and as two Oxford roommates killing a boy for thrills. directs at London's Ambassadors' Theatre. Years later, Alfred Hitchcock uses the script as the basis for his film of the same name.
1965 British pop star makes his Broadway debut in a transfer of the hit West End musical . and based their musical on the novel Kipps, about an orphan who unexpectedly inherits a fortune. The cast also includes a pre-Monty Python in the role of Young Walshingham. The production runs 511 performances at the Broadhurst Theatre.
1967 happen at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre. 's black comedy about apathetic responses to violence has a little run of seven performances. The cast includes , , , and .
1985 opens on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. The Tony Award-winning musical by , based on the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by , runs 1,005 performances. stars as Huck Finn; joining him are , , , , and .
1991 and 's musical adaptation of 's classic 1911 novel opens on Broadway at the St. James Theatre. directs a cast that includes , , and . 11-year-old Eagan wins the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, making her the youngest female actor to win a Tony.
1999 That's you hear. Brothers and 's music and lyrics highlight the revue opening at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. stages and co-conceived the project with . supplies the choreography. The cast includes , , , , and . Although the show runs for only 17 performances, producer said he remained proud to have "brought an unbeatable score to Broadway."
2001 's acclaimed Paris production of Hamlet, starring Adrian Lester, has its American premiere at the , en route to a U.S. tour.
2009 Tony and Emmy Award winner , who began her career onstage but would later become better known as Maude (on TV's Maude) and Dorothy Zbornak (on The Golden Girls), dies at age 86. Arthur's Broadway career began in 1955 with the musical , and also included originating roles in (as Yente the matchmaker) and (as Vera Charles).
2010 and play Chuck Baxter and Fran Kubelik in the first Broadway revival of and 's hit 1968 musical . The musical based on the Oscar-winning film The Apartment, also features , , and . It runs 289 performances at the Broadway Theatre.
2012 , 's character study about the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of the late political journalist Joseph Alsop, opens in its Broadway world premiere at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. stars as the powerful writer in the fictionalized biography.
2013 invites audiences into the circus tent housed at the Music Box Theatre for the first Broadway revival of and 's musical . directs a cast that also includes in the title role, and as Berthe. The production wins four Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, and runs 709 performances.
2016 stars in the Broadway premiere of 's comedy at the Lyceum Theatre. The play was first seen Off-Broadway in 1999, where it ran nearly 700 performances. Ferguson plays 40 different characters, including a harried reservations clerk at an in-demand eatery, and a series of guests clamoring for a table.
2019 Welcome to a show about death, as Beetlejuice opens at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre. Based on the 1988 cult classic film, the dark musical features a score by Eddie Perfect and a book by Scott Brown and Anthony King. The production will go on to receive eight 2019 Tony Award nominations, including a nod for Alex Brightman's turn in the title role.
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