1902 Birthday of actor , who appears on Broadway in plays including , , , and a revival of , but who will forever be remembered as The Wicked Witch of the West in the MGM film The Wizard of Oz.
1903 U.S. premiere of 's drama of the Life Force, Candida, starring and at the Princess Theatre.
1903 makes her New York debut in Sweet Kitty Bellairs, a comedy by .
1911 stars as an opportunist trying to give her husband a Bella Donna at London's St. James's Theatre. J.B. Fagen adapted the play from ' novel. Also appearing are Lydia Branscombe and . There are 253 performances.
1931 It looks like at the Bijou Theatre. 's comedy offers a look at a man intrigued by his new secretary. , , and appear in the 199 performance run.
1953 stars in a limited engagement of 's at New York's City Center. The cast also includes as the Duke of Buckingham, as Anne, and as Queen Margaret.
1968 The National Repertory Theatre loses its control over the Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. The new managers are the company of New York.
1973 and play Sid and Babe as an interracial romance in a revival of , directed by , also starring and . It runs 65 performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
1974 and play the just-assassinated leaders of the Soviet Union and the U.S.A., in Ustinov's oddball afterlife comedy, , which runs 8 performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Also in the distinguished cast: , , and .
1999 , , and star in , a musical revue featuring swing music by such composers as and . The lively show runs for a substantial 461 performances and receives six 2000 Tony Award nominations, including one for Best Musical.
2002 , a campy musical about vampires stalking the European village of Lower Belabartokovich opens at the Minskoff Theatre. , who wrote many songs for rocker Meat Loaf, rolls out his first full Broadway score. The production had been a long-running hit in Austria and Germany, but after six weeks of previews on Broadway it it runs just 56 performances after disappointing reviews. The show marks the (brief) return to Broadway of Phantom of the Opera star as the bloodthirsty Count von Krolock.
2007 's 1890's farce gets its long-delayed Broadway debut after the manuscript is rediscovered by a researcher, and playwright does a contemporary adaptation. , , , , and are featured in the cast.
2018 The world premiere of ' Slave Play, directed by , opens Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop. The play, which looks at race, gender, and sexuality in 21st-century America, the following year.
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