1925 is featured in , the and musical about a vaudeville trio stranded in Florida. It introduces the song "Sweet and Low Down" and runs at the Liberty Theatre.
1926 Twenty-four hours after opening the hit , and open their musical , a vehicle for vaudeville performer , which bows at the New Amsterdam Theatre. Producer reportedly didn't like his own show, and expressed his opinion of the score by interpolating an tune that became a standard: "Blue Skies."
1927 and 's comedy opens at the Selwyn Theatre. It's a thinly disguised portrait of the Barrymore acting dynasty.
1934 Birthday of , who brings a majestic presence to stage and film roles on both sides of the Atlantic. Her Broadway experience begins with , and includes , , and , the last of which wins her the Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play. She is given a title by Queen Elizabeth II, and is sometimes referred to as Dame Maggie Smith.
1938 debuts his comedy . He has more success with the revised version, retitled in 1955, and even more success when it becomes the musical in 1964.
1944 Three sailors on shore leave in New York City during World War II find romance and adventure in , , and 's musical . Opening at the Adelphi Theatre, it runs for 462 performances.
1954 paints a comic picture of the Biblical Noah (of Ark fame) and his wife and kids as a bickering middle-class Jewish family in . plays Noah. It runs at the Belasco Theatre and is later adapted as the musical by and Richard Rodgers. It is Odets' final Broadway play.
1961 , , and star in the Broadway premiere of ' . It runs at the Royale Theatre.
1969 is the . 's comedy exposes a married man worrying that the sexual revolution is happening without him.
1970 , but no audience. 's musical adaptation of his play based on 's novel Teahouse of the August Moon runs two weeks.
1976 is revived on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre. recreates his role as Tevye.
1979 The life of Piaf takes the stage at London's Aldwych Theatre. scripted the Royal Shakespeare Company production about the French chanteuse . stars. Gems has another critical hit in 1997 with , starring , at Circle in the Square.
1978 's is revived at the Helen Hayes Theatre with and .
2015 Gotta Dance, a musical based on the 2008 documentary about professional basketball鈥檚 first-ever 60-and-older dance team, opens at Chicago's Bank of America Theatre. It features a book by and , music by , lyrics by , and聽additional music by the late . The cast includes , , , and .
More of Today's Birthdays: (1887鈥�1956), (1913鈥�2009). (1925鈥�2002), Herb Gardner (1934鈥�2003), Alan Wasser (1948鈥�2019), (b. 1954), (b. 1964), Heidi Blickenstaff (b. 1971), John Legend (b. 1978), Andr茅 Holland (b. 1979).
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