1895 (nΓ©e Irving Lahrheim), the future stage and screen clown, is born in New York. Following an early career in Vaudeville, Lahr enjoys a widely successful career on Broadway in such musicals as and . Lahr is best remembered by today's audiences for his performance as the Cowardly Lion in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
1921 has her first major hit in the starring role of , a comedy by and . Despite her success, she rarely performs without future husband again.
1981 βs thriller becomes Broadway's longest-running show of that genre, as it plays its 1,445th performance. Featured in the cast of the production at the Music Box Theatre are , , , and . Deathtrap opened at the Music Box on February 26, 1978, with Seldes, , and in the cast. Tony nominations were awarded for the play, director , and Seldes and Garber.
1997 Mere Mortals and Others, the Off-Off-Broadway success which played at , moves to Off-Broadway's John Houseman Theatre. The follow-up to playwright ' comic compilation of one-acts All in the Timing, Mere Mortals combines six other one-acts as directed by . The six plays comprising the show are: Mere Mortals; Speed-the-Play; Foreplay, Or, The Art Of The Fugue; Degas, C'Est Moi; Dr. Fritz; and Time Flies.
2011 The New York premiere of Yeast Nation (The Triumph of Life), a new musical by 's and , starring , begins performances as part of the 15th annual New York International Fringe Festival. The production sells out its entire run at La Mama ETC before the first performance.
2014 and star in the world premiere of , , and 's musical Finding Neverland, opening at the in Cambridge, Massachusetts. directs the work based on the 2004 film about Peter Pan playwright . , with replacing Jordan in the role of J.M. Barrie.
2018 , a musical about an out-of-work banker who reunites his old high school rock band, opens on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre. The show has a book by producer and the performance group , and songs by . It runs 40 performances.
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