1924 Birthday of , who writes lyrics to musicals including , , , and .
1936 Proving that our tax dollars can be spent in highly suspect ways, , ' comedy depicting a senator engaged to be married but having one last fling, fills the Lyceum Theatre. and are the leads in the eight-month Broadway run.
1948 Based on 's best-selling book, , , and script the musical revue Songs are by and . The large cast, led by , who also leads a choral ode to Pittsburgh, runs 399 performances.
1957 Australian 's drama Summer of the Seventeenth Doll is performed by an Australian company at London's New Theatre. The story of Queensland sugar-cane cutters wins 254 showings.
1972 It's not a full term, it's just . 's satire of the President plays just two weeks at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway. directs and portrays Nixon.
1980 Barnum, a musical retelling of P.T. Barnum's life with a score by Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart, opens at the St. James Theatre. Starring Jim Dale as Barnum and Glenn Close as his wife, Chairy, the musical runs for two years and wins three Tony Awards, including Best Actor in a Musical for Dale.
1996 sees his open at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. 's production, about a family with a terrible secret, is directed by and features , , and . The play makes it to Broadway nearly two decades after it won the Pulitzer Prize for its original Off-Broadway production.
2000 's , starring , opens at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. The 's production of the show co-stars and . directs.
2002 and 's is revived on Broadway starring , , and . The production wins the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
2003 Academy Award winners and star in a Broadway revival of 's . and co-star in the production at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
2008 鈥攁 solo play starring as Civil Rights activist and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall鈥攐pens at the Booth Theatre.
2009 Country star and actor makes her Broadway debut as composer-lyricist of , opening at the Marquis Theatre. Based on the film by (who also wrote the libretto for the musical), the tale of female office workers鈥� conflicts with their male chauvinist boss stars , , and . It runs 148 performances.
2009 The Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of 's , the modern classic set in a wasteland, opens at Studio 54. The production stars , , , and .
2014 , a director who brought his crisp, smart, bright style to critical works by Mark Hampton, Becky Mode and, in particular, , dies at age 75. Martin also served as artistic director of two Massachusetts nonprofits: and .
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