1921 Composer is born. Alongside Jerry Ross, he writes two of the most influential musicals of the 1950s: and . He also writes the score to 1961's Kwamina.
1943 's melodrama opens on Broadway at the Booth Theatre. stars as a woman who finds out her husband (played by ) is attempting to murder her. During the run, Bergner befriends a fan who waits for her nightly at the stage door, but turns out to be lying in an attempt to advance her own career. When Bergner tells her experience to , fianc茅e of the play's director , Orr uses it as the basis for her short story "The Wisdom of Eve," which is later adapted into the classic movie All About Eve.
1973 In one of the greatest disasters in Off-Broadway history, the 1870-vintage Broadway Central Hotel at 240 Mercer Street collapses, taking with it the honeycomb of eight theatre spaces known as the Mercer Arts Center. Among the shows left homeless by the collapse are the long-running One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Proposition, and El Coca Cola Grande.
1978 stars as Littlechap in a Broadway revival of the Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley musical .
1998 For the first time since a Times Square construction accident shut down business on July 21, the Off-Broadway musical Smoke On The Mountain performs. The production, first produced Off-Broadway in 1990 at the Lamb's Theatre, returns to its home, this time on the upstairs mainstage. and Alan Bailey's musical starring Robert Olsen tells of a humble, religious family who make music for local church groups and socials.
2002 Avenue Q is presented as one of three in-development musicals at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Music Theater Conference in Connecticut. Within a year, it gets an Off-Broadway production that leads to and the Tony Award for Best Musical.
2013 The world premiere of and 's musical The Bridges of Madison County opens at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. directs the Broadway-bound production, starring as Francesca and as Robert. steps into the role of Francesca .
2017 The Off-Broadway debut of Bobby Goldman and Drew Brody鈥檚 musical comedy Curvy Widow opens at the Westside Theatre. In the lead role is Tony nominee Nancy Opel, who plays a widowed, 50-something woman who immerses herself in the modern dating scene.
2018 The stage adaptation of 's 2001 film Moulin Rouge! has its world premiere engagement at Boston's Emerson Colonial Theatre. The production, directed by with a book by , combines songs from the movie with newer pop hits like Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" and Beyonc茅's "Single Ladies." and star as poet Christian and courtesan Satine. The production the following year.
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