1926 Actor-manager Henry Miller dies in New York at age 66. He acted opposite many of the leading ladies of the time, including . As a leading man with the Empire Stock Company he starred in many productions including Pasteur.
1928 writes, stages, and stars in . Lil helps a Salvation Army captain break up a white slavery ring. The salvationist is also a police captain. What next for Lil? There are 323 performances at the Royale Theatre on Broadway to find out.
1954 plays an advertising executive whose trials and tribulations highlight . 's drama also stars and . There are 27 performances at the Booth Theatre on Broadway.
1964 directs in on Broadway, which runs for 137 performances. Also in the cast: , , , , , , and Gielgud himself as the Ghost.
1972 From the movie that made men turn into mush over Marilyn Monroe and made Tony Curtis and turn into...women, comes the musical . The 1959 film Some Like It Hot, in which Monroe played a girl named Sugar, is remade for the stage with the help of and . The show opens at the Majestic Theatre and plays 505 performances with and donning dresses and in the title role.
1978 It started out as an intimate revue at the , but moves to a new home at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. The evocation of 's work and style wins the Tony Award for Best Musical, and runs into the next decade
1995 's London Suite opens Off-Broadway at the Union Square Theatre. The play, consisting of four one-act plays all set in an old yet fashionable hotel, stars , , , and .
2000 's opens on Broadway, following a run the previous season at . Directed by , the production stars as megalomaniacal bigamist and businessman Lyman Felt, and as his first wife Theo.
2015 Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, based on the history novels about the bloody reign of Henry VIII, open on at the Winter Garden Theatre. Titled聽, the RSC production stars as Thomas Cromwell, as Anne Boleyn, and as King Henry VIII.
2016 Billy Elliot: The Musical closes at London's Victoria Palace Theatre after an 11-year run. The - musical played 4,600 performances, during which it was seen by more than 5.25 million people.
More of Today's Birthdays: (1898-1976). (1935-2002). Michael Learned (b. 1939). (1942-1972). Ann Morrison (b. 1956). (b. 1966). Keith Nobbs (b. 1979).
