Stage to Page半岛体育 Vault's Today in Theatre History: February 10
In 1949, the original production of Death of a Salesman opens on Broadway.
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A scene from the original Broadway production of Death of a Salesman.
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1893 Birthday of , the comedian who stars on Broadway in , , and . Catchphrases include "Everybody wants to get into the act!," "Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are," and, when comically caught stealing a pachyderm in , standing in front of it and asking his pursuers, "What elephant?"
1898 Birthday of German playwright . An early socialist, he writes scathing attacks on capitalist society, including the musicals and , both with composer . Other plays include and .
1914 Composer makes his Broadway debut with The Whirl of the World. The hit musical runs 161 performances and starts Romberg's 40-year career. He would go on to make , , , , and more.
1949 Willy Loman knows his territory and wants to make a sale. His big pitch happens tonight with 's , starring . It runs 742 performances at the Morosco Theatre and wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and six Tony Awards, including Best Play. Future Broadway revivals star , , , and .
1955 , , and fill . ' thriller about a family held hostage by escaped convicts runs at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre for 212 performances.
1960 and couldn't a hit with their urban musical, which runs just five performances at the Martin Beck. , , , , and all have feature roles.
1965 by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee runs just five performances at the Henry Miller's Theatre. stages.
1965 Albarwild Theatre Arts, a new producing team consisting of , , and , opens its first New Playwrights Series at the Cherry Lane Theatre. The opening bill showcases budding playwrights , , and , two of whom go on to win Pulitzer Prizes and change the course of 20th-century theatre. In the next few years, Albarwild provides a commercial creative engine for the Off-Off-Broadway movement.
1966 Broadway impresario dies at age 66. The dynamo behind such spectacles as Jumbo and the 1939 World's Fair Aquacade was also the owner of the Ziegfeld Theatre.
1998 The 100th anniversary of Bertolt Brecht's birth is celebrated at California's Brecht Centennial. Play readings, performances, cabarets, and seminars honor the father of Epic Theatre.
1999 Brian Dennehy stars in a revival of Arthur Miller's at Broadway's Eugene O'Neill Theatre exactly 50 years after the original Broadway debut of the play.
2005 Arthur Miller, 89, author of Death of Salesman, , , , , , and , dies at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. His last Broadway production before his death was , a parable about his failed marriage to Marilyn Monroe.
2008 The original cast recording of wins the Grammy Award as Best Musical Show Album.
More of Today's Birthdays: (1884-1947). (1892-1950). (1897-1992). (1901-1992). (1906-1990). (1910-1979). (1924-2012). (b. 1927). Barrie Ingham (1932-2015). Billy Goldenberg (1936-2020). (1944-1992), Kenny Leon (b. 1956). Uzo Aduba (b. 1981).
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Look Back at More than 70 Years of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on Broadway
Look Back at More than 70 Years of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on Broadway
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半岛体育 cover for the original Broadway production, 1949
Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock in Death of a Salesman
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Mildred Dunnock, Lee J. Cobb, Arthur Kennedy and Cameron Mitchell in Death of a Salesman
A scene from the original production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, directed by Elia Kazan. Pictured are (l-r) Cameron Mitchell, Lee J. Cobb, Thomas Chalmers and Arthur Kennedy.
Photo by Eileen Darby
半岛体育 cover for the 1975 Broadway revival starring George C. Scott
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