1912 Birthday of composer , who writes the music for , , , and .
1920 's first full-length drama, , opens at the Morosco Theatre. The drama of the Mayo brothers and the woman they both love stars , , and . It wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
1923 Broadway columnist is born in Fort Worth, Texas.
1925 Tony Award-winning performer is born in Detroit, Michigan. Her Broadway appearances include , , , , and her Tony-winning solo show .
1926 is at the Ambassador Theatre. Also starring and , the adaptation of 's novel by runs 14 weeks. directs.
1927 Opening night of 's first non-revue musical, , by and . It's the inaugural production at the new Ziegfeld Theatre and runs 494 performances.
1966 Opening night of 's murder mystery , about a blind woman stalked by a killer. It runs 374 performances.
1969 , who came to life on film as Frankenstein's monster, dies at age 82 in Sussex, England. He made his first stage appearance in 1910. In 1941 he appeared in the comedy at the Fulton Theatre in New York.
1972 and are Jumpers. 's farce of wordplay and mystification plays London's Old Vic Theatre. The play two years later.
2004 , who created the role of Simba in Broadway's , is found dead of an apparent suicide at age 28, in Yass, Australia.
2006 and star as parents grieving for the loss of their only child in David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole. Nixon wins a Tony Award for her performance, and the play wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
2014 Academy Award-winning stage and screen actor is found dead in his Manhattan apartment. He starred in three Broadway productions, earning Tony nominations for all three performances: Austin/Lee in , James Tyrone, Jr. in , and Willy Loman in . Hoffman also appeared in and directed numerous Off-Broadway productions, including many at the where he was co-artistic director.
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