1903 Birthday of Broadway leading man , who creates the role of Porgy in and stars in the original productions of and .
1906 Opening night of 's George Washington Jr. at the Herald Square Theatre. The musical introduces the standard "You're a Grand Old Flag."
1915 The Neighborhood Playhouse opens at 466 Grand Street in New York. It is funded by Alice and , noted for their arts and education philanthropies.
1924 How fast is a ? Come to the Broadhurst Theatre to find out. and 's comedy limning the dream of a harried composer runs beyond the season. and star.
1929 English actor dies in Monaco. She made her stage debut with the Bancrofts at the Haymarket in 1881 and organized her own company that toured England and America. She was 77 years old.
1930 An honest schoolteacher finds himself drawn into a confidence scheme in 's drama , starring and . The drama plays 150 performances at the Music Box Theatre and is later filmed at least five times.
1958 plays a faded musical hall star in 's bitter drama on Broadway.
1967 alights at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The comedy, shown with his The White Lies as a curtain raiser, stars , , , and . It runs 337 performances.
1969 stars in his own comedy, , about a nebbishy film buff who uses the ghost of Humphrey Bogart to help him win the affection of his dream girl, played by . It runs 453 performances at the Broadhurst Theatre.
1979 After more than a month of previews, 's musical reluctantly has its opening night鈥攂ut only after theatre critics from major papers threaten to review it anyway. Starring , the romance lasts 101 performances.
1980 New York's , a movie theatre built on the former site of 's (1899鈥�1915), returns to legitimate performance with a revival of the musical . The production, which began life as a showcase at the , runs for only two weeks.
1998 's solo show , subtitled "A Semi Demi Quasi Pseudo Autobiography (His Most Dangerous Work Yet)," opens at the Cort Theatre. The production extends twice, receives Tony nominations for Best Play and Best Performance by a Leading Actor, and is filmed for HBO by .
2013 ' 20th anniversary revival of ' All in the Timing opens Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters. Directed by , the collection of short comedies stars , Jenn Harris, , , and .
2014 , who, as the star of the 1950s live comedy show Your Show of Shows, became one of the first television celebrities and set the bar for sketch comedy, dies at age 91. Your Show of Shows, fueled by comedy writers such as , , and , debuted on NBC on February 23, 1950, and ran for four years. Caesar received a Tony nomination for his starring performance in Neil Simon, , and 's 1962 musical comedy .
2019 directs a stage adaptation of All About Eve, opening at London's No毛l Coward Theatre. Gillian Anderson and Lily James star as Margo Channing and Eve Harrington, the roles originated by and in the Oscar-winning film.
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