1905 Birthday of composer , a cantor's son who cut his musical teeth in 1920's Harlem, and went on to write music for Broadway shows , , , and , as well as for the MGM film musical The Wizard of Oz.
1923 and are featured in The Dancers at Wyndham's Theatre in London. Hubert Parson penned the romance of a dance hall proprietor who inherits a title and fortune, but never forgets his true love.
1933 stars and as plain people struggling through hard times. 's drama runs first at the Little Theatre, and then at the 48th Street Theatre.
1939 forages the old South and comes up with . Tallulah Bankhead leads the cast in the drama that runs at the National Theatre in New York.
1950 Before TV's Hazel typecast her as a frumpy maid, won a Tony for starring in 's drama . Two years later, Booth repeats her performance as Lola in a film adaptation of the play, winning her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
1998 presents its first annual Broadway Bears event. The fundraiser auctions off little stuffed bears designed to look like famous performers in theatre roles. Among the first ursines are a bear, a bear, a bear, and a bear.
2007 A London revival of Boeing-Boeing starring Roger Allam, Francis de la Tour, and Mark Rylance opens at the Comedy Theatre. Matthew Warchus directs with Tamzin Outhwaite, Daisy Beaumont, and Michelle Gomez rounding out the cast. Warchus and Rylance moved with the production to Broadway in 2008, with the latter winning a Tony Award for his performance as Robert.
2017 The New York premiere of Tracy Letts' 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist, Man from Nebraska, opens Off-Broadway at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theatre. The David Cromer-helmed production stars Reed Birney, Annette O鈥橳oole, Nana Mensah, Max Gordon Moore, and Heidi Armbruster.
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