1893 Birthday of dancer , who displays her fabled dimpled knee in many editions of The Ziegfeld Follies and George White's Scandals from 1913 to 1928.
1908 plays a circus performer somehow drafted at the last minute to play Shakespeare's Melancholy Dane in the musical comedy Mr. Hamlet of Broadway, which runs 54 performances at the Casino Theatre.
1913 produces and directs The Secret by . The 143 performances at the Belasco Theatre star , , and .
1915 Very Good Eddie, one of the first smash successes among the intimate Princess Theatre shows, opens a 341-performance run. and wrote the score to the musical comedy about newlyweds who run into trouble aboard a Hudson River cruise.
1921 Engaged couples travel for a glimpse at married life. This comedy at the Bijou Theatre stars and runs through the season and beyond.
1935 English actor-manager dies at the age of 59 in London. He acted with the likes of and . The part of D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers was one of his greatest successes.
1944 The comedy team of star in the wacky musical revue , with music by . It opens at the Winter Garden and stays 232 performances.
1958 A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green brings the celebrated writers of On the Town, Wonderful Town, Bells Are Ringing, Peter Pan, and more to Broadway's John Golden Theatre to perform many of their classic songs and discuss their careers. The production will run 82 performances and return to Broadway in 1977.
1963 , British director of 's , dies at the age of 43.
1982 ends her seven-decade Broadway acting career, appearing as the White Queen in a recreation of her 1932 hit, . It runs just 21 performances at the Virginia Theatre. plays Alice.
2007 , 92, the stage and film choreographer and director who won five Tony Awards and an Honorary Academy Award and whose choreography credits include on stage and screen, dies of cancer at his home in Los Angeles.
2016 American costume designer dies at the age of 99. She won Tony Awards for her designs of and , and earned nominations for her work on , , , and .
More of Today's Birthdays: (1873-1948). (1923-1999). Carol Haney (1924-1964). (1925-1995). Susan Lucci (b. 1946). Jeremy Davidson (b. 1971). 1980.
