1907 Playwright , author of and , is born, with the additional surname of Harris, in Bristol, England.
1910 Birthday of , director and librettist, whose work includes the original books to , , , and .
1956 plays both a man and a woman in 's at New York's Phoenix Theatre. The three week run is directed by .
1967 plays 17th century diarist and biographer John Aubrey in . penned the script.
1969 Screen god tries her hand at a Broadway musical, starring as designer Coco Chanel in the musical at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. It runs 329 performances.
1970 The writings of urban teens serves as the source material of the musical , which opens at the Helen Hayes Theatre and runs for 378 performances. Among the cast are future stars , , and .
1985 , a musical revue celebrating the music and lyrics of , opens at the St. James Theatre. The performers include such legendary names as , , and . Herman wrote the scores to some of Broadway's biggest hits including , , and .
2002 returns to the New York stage with his song and dance revue, Tommy Tune: White Tie and Tails, inaugurating Off-Broadway's Little Shubert Theatre on West 42nd Street.
2008 revives and 鈥檚 1940 musical at Studio 54, with , , and, in the title role, (who replaced in previews). The story of a scheming charmer in the world of 1940s Chicago nightclubs, the show has a new book by and direction by .
2011 Vaclav Havel, who went from being an imprisoned dissident playwright in Communist Czechoslovakia to the elected president of the newly free Czech Republic, dies at age 75. His plays include The Memorandum, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, and A Private View.
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