1920 Brock Pemberton's opens at the Belmont Theatre. It runs 198 performances and wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
1924 London drama critic and playwright dies. He contributed to Figaro, the World, Tribune, and the Nation. His translations of were produced in the 1890s. In 1921 his melodrama, , ran for 54 weeks at the Booth Theatre.
1926 and 's opens at the Vanderbilt Theatre. Despite its 333-performance run, it is one of the most rarely revived of the team's musicals.
1927 The intricate lives of people living on a come to life at the Ziegfeld Theatre. Adapted by from 's novel, the score composed by includes soon-to-be-classics "Ol' Man River" and "Make Believe." The cast includes , , , and .
1941 ' centers on a husband who comes to realize the man to whom he has opened his home is having an affair with his wife. , , and fight it out at the Belasco Theatre.
1945 gains critical and financial recognition. Playwright wins $1,000 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his timely war story.
1948 U.S. premiere of 's fantasy allegory at the Belasco Theatre, starring as Countess Aurelia. It is later adapted as the musical .
1961 , and team up for their second musical in a year, , which attempts to offer a humorous portrait of homeless people. When it is slammed by the critics, producer responds with one of his most memorable PR stunts, hiring people with the same names as the critics, and running their (positive) comments in a quote ad. It doesn't help. However, it also introduces actor , who wins a Tony Award for her performance.
1965 Broadway is mesmerized and scandalized by 's staging of ' long-titled drama, , also known as Marat/Sade, one of the first plays on the American stage to offer full frontal nudity. It wins the Tony Award as Best Play and runs at the Martin Beck Theatre.
1999 Emmy winner takes her opening night bow as a temporary replacement for Tony Award-winning in the Broadway revival of 's .
2002 The film adaptation of and 's Chicago opens in major markets. directed the film version of the , which goes on to win the 2003 Academy Award for Best Picture鈥攖he first musical to do so since Oliver! in 1968.
2014 The world premiere of and 's musical Diner opens at Virginia's . directs the show, based on Levinson's 1982 film about a group of childhood friends who reunite for a wedding in 1959 Baltimore. The cast includes , , , and .
2016 , the storied film actor best known as Princess Leia in the Star Wars franchise, dies at age 60, after suffering a heart attack during a flight from London to Los Angeles. Fisher made her Broadway debut in the musical , opposite her mother, ; and later appeared in , , and her autobiographical solo show, .
2018 , the Japanese-American ballet dancer who created the role of Ivy Smith in the 1944 Broadway premiere of , dies at age 99. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, she joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at the age of 14, making history as the internationally renowned troupe's youngest dancer, first American, and first dancer of Japanese descent. She later joined the American Ballet Theatre, and also appeared on Broadway in .
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