1902 Joseph Hart's popular musical Foxy Grandpa opens a 120-performance run at the 14th Street Theatre.
1916 stars as the chauffeur to a millionaire who dreams of being Robinson Crusoe, Jr. scores and Jolson improvises with his favorite songs. The musical runs at the Winter Garden for 139 performances.
1919 The Royal Vagabond, a spoof of operettas with a score by , , and , runs 208 performances at the Cohan and Harris Theatre in New York.
1925 's Hamlet reigns at the Haymarket in London. , , and join him for the show's 67 performances.
1932 It's time to at the New Amsterdam Theatre. provides the score to 's book. For 21 weeks, audiences are asked "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee."
1976 Opening night for the infamously short-lived . ' rock musical version of Shakespeare's tragedy runs seven performances at the Minskoff Theatre. The cast includes as Hamlet, as Ophelia (who commits suicide by strangling herself with her immense microphone cord), and as a Priest.
1982 Instructor-teacher , the foremost advocate of Method acting, dies at the age of 80. "Art is longer than life," he once said, and his style of acting lives on at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institutes in New York and Los Angeles.
1999 The Drama Desk organization officially celebrates its 50th anniversary. Six years after the organization's inception, the Drama Desk Awards were created to recognize excellence in both Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre.
2003 Several Broadway shows cancel performances after a blizzard drops more than 20 inches of snow in Times Square.
2015 Hamilton, 's musical exploring the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, opens Off-Broadway at the . Miranda stars in the title role, alongside a cast that includes , , , and Following its sold-out run at the Public, it in July of the same year. Hamilton goes on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
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