1913 On there's a disguised Napoleon waiting to woo an unsuspecting girl named Wanda. is the innocent soon to meet her Waterloo at the Liberty Theatre in New York.
1949 , , and travel to the , as their new musical based on 's Tales of the South Pacific opens on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre. and star. It wins ten Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and runs 1,925 performances.
1950 dies in Hollywood, California at age 66. Later known more for his film acting, Huston began his career on the stage in 1902. He appeared in , , and . His son John went on to be a successful movie director, and his granddaughter Angelica is an Academy Award-winning actor.
1964 stages the musical , which and based on Coward's play . , , and star. There are 375 performances on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre.
1970 's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds opens Off-Broadway at The Mercer O'Casey Theatre. The play, about a mother whose husband leaves her to raise two teen daughters, features . makes her debut in the production.
1994 Hell hath no fury like ! The actor opens in the title role of ' at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. The production runs 82 performances under the direction of . Rigg wins a Tony Award for her performance.
2002 ' opens on Broadway. One day later, the drama about brothers named Booth and Lincoln wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
2005 Tony winners and return to Broadway in a revival of .
2007 , the likable, average-Joe star of some of the biggest Broadway comedies of the 1950s and 60s, including and , dies at age 87 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
2008 ' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, beginning its sweep of Best Play awards.
2009 Following an acclaimed run at Off-Broadway's New World Stages, opens on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. , , and star in the musical which features a score of 1980s hits by rock groups Journey, Bon Jovi, Styx, Pat Benatar, and others. It runs 2,328 performances.
2011 , the 1934 musical about the lovers, liars, and clowns on a transatlantic cruise, opens at the 's Stephen Sondheim Theatre. directs and choreographs the revival starring , , , and . The production wins three Tony Awards, including Best Actress in a Musical for Sutton Foster, and Best Revival of a Musical.
2015 , starring as a boy with a foul-mouthed hand puppet, opens at the Booth Theatre, marking the Broadway debuts of playwright and director .
2019 Daniel Fish's radically re-imagined Oklahoma! opens at Circle in the Square. Leaving the text as is, Fish's production reinvigorates for many a show that has long been accepted as wholesome Americana, revealing dark undercurrents of racism, sexism, and more. It wins two Tony Awards: for Best Revival of a Musical and Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Ali Stroker's performance as Ado Annie.
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