1900 The Irish Literary Theatre stages The Bending of the Bough by George Moore, Maeve by Edward Martyn, and The Last Feast of the Fianna by Alice Milligan during a weeklong engagement at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre. These performances are later seen as the first steps of what will become Ireland's famed .
1935 stars in ' drama The study of the effects of the Depression on a family in the Bronx runs 26 weeks at the Belasco Theatre.
1953 opens on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre. 's tale of a handsome drifter's effect on a small Kansas town stars , , , , and . stages the 477 performance run.
1978 , , , and adapt Charles Bruce Millholland's plays into . The musical stars as a glamour queen who's the victim of a con. Also in the cast: , , and . The production runs 449 performances and wins five Tony Awards, including Best Original Score for Comden, Green, and composer .
1981 A revival of the and musical Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well Living in Paris opens at New York's Town Hall. The celebration of the late French artist stars , , , and .
1992 's is reinvented by and as ; thirteen Gershwin songs are added to the production at the Shubert Theatre. Ockrent directs and his future wife, , choreographs. It runs 1,622 performances and wins the Tony Award for Best Musical.
2009 , and and 's two-actor musical about a lifelong friendship (and its sudden ending), opens on Broadway at the Booth Theatre. directs and , who play two childhood friends from ages 6 to 35. The show closes three days later, after only five performances.
2019 A new production of and 's Merrily We Roll Along opens Off-Broadway at the 's Laura Pels Theatre. Fiasco Theater's newly revised version of the musical condenses the show to one act and a cast of six, and incorporates additional material from and 's .
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