1926 . It's a comedy. plays a Canadian woman with no time for those mounties; it's the British navy for her. It runs through one season, but the following it is raided as immoral. The cast is arrested and West, who also co-produced, is sentenced to 10 days in jail and is fined $500. A well-received Off-Off-Broadway revival in 2000 proved that the show still had laughs and a unique social point of view.
1967 and supply the lyrics to 's music for in which makes her Broadway debut as a woman who never grows old. pens the book with staging. It wins five Tony Awards, including Best Actress in a Musical for Uggams, and Best Musical.
1970 There's a book by , music and lyrics by , helming, on hand to choreograph, and in the lead; who wouldn't want to be in that ? The musical debuts at Broadway's Alvin Theatre, and is nominated for 14 Tony Awards, and wins six, including Best Musical.
1973 Philip Bosco, Patricia Conolly, James Farentino, and Rosemary Harris star in a revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. The Ellis Rabb-directed production plays at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre.
1987 Val May directs a revival of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion at the Plymouth Theatre, starring Amanda Plummer and Peter O'Toole.
1992 The music and life of jazz legend comes to life on stage as opens at Broadway's Virginia Theatre. and share the title role at different ages. directs the production he wrote the book for.
1995 's production of 's Night and Her Stars opens Off-Broadway at the American Place Theatre. directs a cast that includes , , , and . The show follows the scandals of the late 1950s quiz show scandal.
1997 Cy Coleman returns to Broadway with the help of and with their musical, , opening at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The show about the life of prostitutes in 1980s Times Square stars , , , and . Cooper and White both win Tony Awards for their performances.
1998 Tony-winner Gerald Gutierrez directs another Tony-winner, Jane Alexander, in the Broadway premiere of Joanna Murray's drama, Honour, at the Belasco Theatre.
1999 It Ain't Nothing But the Blues moves from a sold-out run at Off-Broadway's New Victory Theatre to a Broadway engagement at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center. The show traces the history of the Blues genre from its African roots to contemporary recording artists, featuring songs like "Fever," "Strange Fruit," and "My Man Rocks Me."
2001 and 's musical , based on the novel, opens on Broadway. The production stars as Tom Sawyer, as Huckleberry Finn, and as Becky Thatcher. Making her Broadway debut in the supporting role of Sabina Temple is future Tony Award winner .
2004 Rapper makes his Broadway debut in a revival of 's . He plays Walter Lee Younger, the role originated by in the . His co-stars are and , both of whom win Tony Awards for their performances.
2005 32 years later to the day, another Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire opens at Studio 54. This time around, Natasha Richardson, John C. Reilly, Amy Ryan, and Chris Bauer take on Williams' sultry quartet in a Roundabout Theatre Production helmed by Edward Hall.
2009 's Broadway production of 's 1970 comedy, , directed by Tony Award nominee and starring Tony winner , opens at the American Airlines Theatre.
2010 The first Broadway revival of , the 1987 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play by , opens at the Cort Theatre. and both win Tony Awards for their performances in the drama about a former Negro League baseball player who now struggles as a garbage man. Washington and Davis both repeat their performances in the 2016 film adaptation, directed by Washington.
2012 Roundabout Theatre Company opens a revival of 's 1960-set sex farce 鈥�a sort of sequel to , featuring the same randy male characters, Robert and Bernard鈥攁t Broadway's American Airlines Theatre. , , , , and star under 's direction.
2012 鈥攁 musical based on the 1992 film about a con-man preacher who blows into a depressed, drought-plagued Kansas town鈥攐pens on Broadway at the St. James Theatre. Featuring a gospel and country score by and , the production stars as preacher Jonas Nightingale.
2016 , the musical based on 's best-selling 1975 novel about a love that could live literally forever, opens on Broadway. and write the book, the music, and the lyrics. The cast includes , , and . It runs at the Broadhurst Theatre.
2017 and star in , opening on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. The musical, directed and choreographed by , uses an original swing score by and to tell the story of Donny Novitski (Cott), who assembles a band of fellow WWII veterans to enter a national radio contest searching for the next big band sensation.
2018 Eugene O'Neill's returns to Broadway with the fourth Broadway production at the Jacobs Theastre. Directed by George C. Wolfe, the cast features , Colm Meaney, David Morse, , and Tammy Blanchard.
Today's Birthdays: (1888-1981), Robert Downing (1914-1975), Russell Nype (1920-2018), Mike Kellin (1922-1983), (b. 1926), (b. 1933), Conrad Susa (1935-2013), (1945-2016), Giancarlo Esposito (b. 1958), (b. 1961), Arianne Phillips (b. 1963), Pablo Schreiber (b. 1978)
Watch highlights from the 2012 Broadway production of Leap of Faith, starring Ra煤l Esparza:
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