1904 New York City bids adieu to Longacre Square, which had no particular reputation, and says hello to Times Square, which soon develops quite a reputation indeed. Mayor George B. McClellan (son of the Civil War general) announces the official name change. "Times" is, of course, drawn from The New York Times, the newspaper which recently moved into a building perched on a traffic triangle in the middle of the square. The daily, which lobbied hard for the name change, soon moves to larger quarters on nearby 43rd Street, where it stays until 2007.
1907 Two of The Boys of Company "B" are , who joined the cast as a replacement, and , father of film's Keystone Kops. 's comedy runs three months at New York's Lyceum Theatre.
1954 leads the cast in at the Majestic Theatre. Dorothy and provide the book. penned the lyrics to 's music.
1992 , ' musical revue based on the music of , opens at Broadway's Eugene O'Neill Theatre. The rhythm and blues show is directed and choreographed by .
2001 stars in a Broadway revival of 's . The production later wins the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.
2002 ' play wins the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, making Parks the first African-American woman to win the coveted award. The announcement comes mere hours after the play's Broadway opening night.
2008 Shakespeare's murder-filled tragedy opens at the Lyceum Theatre with in the title role. The Chichester Festival Theatre production, directed by and starring his wife as Lady Macbeth, transferred to Broadway following critically praised engagements at BAM and in the West End.
2010 , a musical based on the macabre characters of illustrator , opens on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. With music by , and book and lyrics by and , the production stars and as Gomez and Morticia Addams. It runs 722 performances.
2015 makes her Broadway debut in a revival of Lerner and Loewe's聽 at the Neil Simon Theatre.聽The cast also includes , , , and .
2018 The musical , based on the popular 2004 film comedy, opens on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre. adapts her own screenplay, with music by and lyrics by . directs and choreographs. plays high school fresh face Cady Hero, and , , and are the members of the vicious clique The Plastics.
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