1947 The first Tony Awards ceremony is held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Thirteen awards are presented to the likes of , , , , , , and . No Best Play or Best Musical category yet exists, but the Best Author award goes to a young for . No medallions yet either; men get engraved cigarette lighters or money clips, women get compacts.
1955 鈥攁nd 11 weeks more. The revue starring , Marge and , and plays at the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway.
1964 Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival Company travels to Britain in honor of the Bard's 400th anniversary. The Chichester Theatre hosts productions such as Timon of Athens and Love's Labour's Lost.
1948 During this month members of ASCAP, the union protecting the rights of composers and lyricists, strike for better terms for royalties on recordings and radio works. Since radio play is vital to boost popularity of showtunes, this hurts Broadway revues and musicals.
1966 , , and collaborate on productions of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 for the Royal Shakespeare Company's Stratford-upon-Avon season.
1995 Opening night for , 's chronicle of the real-life stories of the Delaney sisters, both of whom lived to be more than 100 years old. They tell what it was like to grow up young, gifted, and Black in the post-Reconstruction South, and how one of them became one of the first Black female doctors in the U.S. and star.
2000 In Chicago, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest comes back to the stage when the revives the play by , based on 's novel. and star as McMurphy and Nurse Ratched in the mental hospital drama. The production later transfers to London and .
2009 's absurdist political comedy, Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, starring , Amir Arison, and , has its world premiere at the Public Theater.
2014 's , starring , , , and , opens on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre. directs the play about two neighboring suburban couples who discover they share more than a surname.
2017 and star as rival cosmetics giants Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden in the musical , opening at the Nederlander Theatre. The production reunites the creative team of composer , lyricist , librettist , and director . Originally announced to run through December 30, its run is cut two months short after it is announced that LuPone requires hip replacement surgery.
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