1901 Sadie Martinot, Guy Bates Post, and Junius Brutus Booth play The Marriage Game. The drama, adapted by from Emile Augier's Le Marriage d'Olympe, highlights what ruination can come to a young man when he marries a courtesan.
1925 Actor searches for at the Greenwich Village Theatre. The drama directed by deals with Ponce de Leon's search for the Fountain of Youth. It runs for 28 performances.
1926 What will happen when ? has one answer in his play about a man who finds out his servants have turned his home over to the needy. Directed by , the show runs in American Laboratory Theatre's repertory season for 30 performances.
1953 When a man hears the devastating news his father has been hanged for murder, it's A Question of Fact at London's Piccadilly Theatre. , , and are in the cast. directs the 30-week run.
1965 Producer makes his Broadway debut with , a musical adaptation of the film of the same title, as a follow-up to his phenomenal Off-Broadway success The Fantasticks. The Yearling closes at the Alvin Theatre the following day, after only 3 performances, and Noto never produces again. The musical stars and , and is directed by , later dean of the Yale School of Drama.
1974 Theatre titans and star in 's . It runs 200 performances at the Morosco Theatre.
1991 The first production of 's opens at the Belasco Theatre. It's a revival of 's , in a limited-run of 31 performances starring , , and .
1992 The songwriting team of and returns to Broadway with , a musical adaptation of the film of the same title, starring , , , and , with choreography by . It completes its 36-performance subscription run at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, but does not transfer to a commercial run. Ahrens & Flaherty go on to write and .
2000 Opening night of , the musical based on the novel. Critics say it may have opened too late in the cycle of operatic musicals, but producers keep it running, mainly at a loss, for 209 performances through the 2001 Tony Awards. Leading lady earns a Tony nomination and a cult following, but no Tony Awards.
2000 A Class Act brings an end to its sold-out Off-Broadway run at the . The musical about lyricist, , featuring his own songs, is successful enough to warrant a for a March 11, 2001 opening.
2006 and 's musical , based on the 1891 troubled teen drama by , opens on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. and star as teens Wendla and Melchior, who are drawn to each other in a world where parents, ministers, and teachers create an atmosphere of shame, silence, and ignorance. The production wins eight Tony Awards, including ones for 's performance as Moritz, Best Original Score, and Best Musical. It runs for 859 performances.
2014 The world premiere of An American in Paris, the stage musical inspired by the Oscar-winning film of the same name, opens at the Th茅芒tre du Ch芒telet in Paris. Directed and choreographed by , it stars and . The production the following year.
2015 A revival of the musical , starring , and Danielle Brooks, opens at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, marking the Broadway debuts of both actors. The production wins two 2016 Tony Awards鈥攆or Erivo's performance as Celie, and for Best Revival of a Musical.
2018 Signature Theatre opens its revival of Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine. Lileana Blain-Cruz directs the Lynn Nottage play, with Cherise Boothe in the title role.
2019 Donja R. Love's one in two, inspired by his own experiences as a queer Black man living with HIV, makes its world premiere at The New Group. Stevie Walker-Webb directs the Off-Broadway production, in which three actors alternate as a "chosen" queer Black man forced to live inside an epidemic.
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