1904 returns to Broadway with a revival of 's The Little Minister. It runs just 73 performances. A year later she returns with a better Barrie play, the original Peter Pan.
1921 Opening night for the original production of , starring as the relentless sleuth.
1925 and are Shylock and Portia in at Hampden's Theatre in New York. The production is part of a limited season for Hampden and Barrymore, which also includes the pair as Hamlet and Ophelia in .
1926 With pressure from both New York Governor Alfred E. Smith and Mayor James Walker regarding a reformation by theatre owners of the moral quality of certain productions, a committee is formed to view "morally questionable" shows. Made up of actors, authors, and producers, the committee surveys current shows and comes up with the NY District Attorney's list of such titles. The first three to be raided are , , and .
1931 and create Wintergreen, the presidential candidate running on a platform of love. , the Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning musical with music by and lyrics by , stars , , and . The campaign runs for 441 performances, first at the Music Box Theatre and then at the 46th Street Theatre.
1935 is at the Broadhurst Theatre. Laurence Houseman's history of the Queen runs for 515 performances.
1936 Clara Boothe Luce's biting look at the cattier side of the fairer sex is on display in The Women, which opens today on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Margalo Gillmore stars as Mary Haines, whose husband's affair with shop girl Crystal Allen has all of Park Avenue's society women gossiping. The work will be adapted for the big screen in 1939, 1956 (as a musical, The Opposite Sex), and 2008. It was revived on Broadway in 1973 and 2001, and the latter production was filmed for broadcast on PBS.
1940 Adapted by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov from a series of autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney, My Sister Eileen centers on two sisters from Ohio who move into a basement apartment in Greenwich Village, opening today at Broadway's Biltmore Theatre. In addition to film adaptations in 1942 and 1955, the work will go on to become the source material behind Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green's Broadway musical Wonderful Town.
1960 stars as a guy whose latest get-rich-quick scheme involves jukeboxes in the musical from , , , and . plays Silvers' long-suffering wife, who stops the show with the song "Adventure." It runs 400 performances and introduces the standard "Make Someone Happy."
1962 Writer and comedian may sound like a unbeatable combination, but their collaboration runs just 85 performances at the Music Box.
1999 Broadway's long-running celebrates an impressive 5,000 performances.
2016 Actor , a Tony winner in 1973 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in Irene opposite Debbie Reynolds, dies at age 94. With 32 Broadway credits, Irving performed in such classics as , , , , the 1981 revival of , and , for which he earned a Tony nomination.
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