1904 , a.k.a Diamond Lil, stars in Lady Teazle, a musical based on The School for Scandal. John Kendrick Bangs and Roderic C. Penfield provide the music to a score by A. Baldwin Sloane. The 86 chorus girls fill the theatre for just 57 performances.
1914 The Lie by opens at the Harris Theatre in New York, where it runs for 172 performances. The cast includes and .
1917 You get the Parlor, Bedroom, and Bath at the Republic Theatre. The comedy by and runs for 232 performances. Inhabiting the rooms are , , and . The show becomes a film vehicle鈥攁 talkie鈥攆or Buster Keaton.
1950 and star in the first Broadway revival of and 's comedy . Originally announced as a limited two-week engagement at the ANTA Playhouse, it quickly transfers to a commercial run at the Fulton Theatre where it runs an additional six months.
1962 British actor dies at the age of 57. She appeared in Berkeley Square, as the lead in Peter Pan, and in Time and the Conways.
2000 dies at 91. Borge was a comedy legend who performed almost all of his life. His solo Broadway show, , ran for 849 performances and was Borge's biggest American break.
2001 Boldly going where he's been three times previously, Star Trek star returns to Broadway with his one-man performance of ' .
2008 , the one-time British actor who tried his hand at writing in the 1950s only to become one of the most prominent and influential playwrights of the second half of the 20th century, dies at age 78. The winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, his plays included , , , and .
2012 , who brought a straight-forward, salt-of-the-earth quality to scores of roles over a long career, and became famous as the television embodiment of 's Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple, dies at age 90. Klugman was Tony-nominated for his performance as Herbie in the original production of . His other Broadway credits included productions of , , and .
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