1639 Playwright is born in France. His plays include the classics 笔丑猫诲谤别 and 叠茅谤茅苍颈肠别.
1858 Birthday of , Italian opera composer whose works include La Boh猫me, Tosca, and Madame Butterfly, including several based on the plays of American .
1919 and find Night Lodging at the Plymouth Theatre. The adaptation of 's The Lower Depths runs only 14 performances.
1962 Dancer plays Clarence Morris in . directs 's adaptation of his own novel, A Place Without Twilight.
1964 's has its Broadway premiere at the Royale Theatre. For 51 performances rambles to a hotel night clerk. directs.
1964 Birthday of , composer of musicals including The Wild Party, John & Jen, , and .
1976 Vinnette Carol and Alex Bradford's Gospel re-imagining of The Gospel of St. Matthew opens at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre. The work will go on to be revived on Broadway in 1980 and 1982, with Dreamgirls Tony winner Jennifer Holliday making her Broadway debut in the former.
1986 Comedian revives his career with a solo comedy show, , which runs 367 performances at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, and leads to a half dozen similar Mason turns in the coming years.
1996 The 's production of No Way To Treat a Lady opens Off-Broadway at St. Peter's Church. The production is a musical adaptation of 's 1968 film about a publicity-crazed actor who becomes a psychotic killer. It stars , , , and .
2002 Virginia McKnight Binger, namesake of Broadway's , dies at her home in Wayzata, Minnesota, at age 86. The multi-millionaire co-owned Broadway's group.
2007 Ruth Wallis, the songwriter-musician-singer whose songs inspired the Off-Broadway revue Boobs! The Musical, dies at age 87.
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