1912 The Firefly sparks the Lyric Theatre with music by and lyrics and book by . The tale of an Italian street singer who disguises herself as a boy to be near the wealthy man she loves stars Emma Trentini, Craig Campbell, and Audrey Maple.
1919 Impersonation yet again. This time 's character in One Night in Rome impersonates a fortune-teller, L'Enigme, who forces a young man to discover he is in love with her. created the role specifically for Taylor, his wife.
1924 opens at the Jolson Theatre in New York. The show, based on the play Old Heidelberg, has a book and lyrics by with a score by . Tunes include the "Drinking Song." In the story, a prince falls in love with a waitress. It stars and .
1925 is born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. She earns fame and respect for her performances in and , among other plays.
1943 transports 's opera Carmen from southern Spain to the southern United States, and gives it the new title . An all-black cast performs Bizet's music with Hammerstein's new book and lyrics. and share the demanding title role, with each taking four performances a week. The show runs 503 performances at the Broadway Theatre, and is later turned into a film starring and .
1979 鈥檚 play about homosexuals in the Nazi concentration camps, , opens at the New Apollo Theatre. stars as a gay man who is also Jewish. Other cast members include and . The show runs for 241 performances.
1985 , adapted from the novel by , opens on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre. The show ran for free in Central Park over the previous summer. Dickens never finished his novel, and because of this, the responsibility of choosing an ending falls to the audience each night. The cast includes , , , and .
1999 receives her fourth Tony Award nomination鈥攁nd first for Leading Actress in a Musical鈥攆or the production of , opening today at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. The musical was written especially for McDonald by . An ambitious musical adaptation of the Greek tragedy, Medea, Marie Christine runs on Broadway for just 42 performances and receives five Tony Award nominations.
2004 becomes the first Japanese director to stage a major musical on Broadway with the opening of 's revival of at Studio 54, starring and two members of , and .
2011 The New York premiere of David Adjmi's funny and savage portrait of civilized life, Elective Affinities, opens Off-Broadway. Starring as witty octogenarian Alice Hauptmann, the site-specific production is performed in a townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side where an audience of 30 is served tea and sandwiches before being invited to join Caldwell in an intimate sitting room for the play.
2012 and debate faith, politics, persecution, and redemption in the world premiere of 's , opening at the John Golden Theatre. The 70-minute work casts LuPone as an inmate serving a life sentence and Winger as the woman who must determine whether she is fit for parole, and it closes after 17 performances.
2015 Sheridan Smith stars in a sold-out revival of Funny Girl at London鈥榮 . directs, with penning a new and revised book. This is the first major London production of the musical since its original 1966 West End run with . The production later transfers to the West End鈥榮 Savoy Theatre.
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