1893 Birthday of playwright and producer , whose prodigious output of scripts鈥攎any in partnership with 鈥攊苍肠濒耻诲别蝉 and ; the librettos to , , and ; and the longest-running play in Broadway history, .
1905 finds inspiration for a play from a series of drawings by Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator of the Gibson Girl. The Education of Mr. Pipp stars and n and runs at New York's Liberty Theatre for 10 weeks.
1917 When newlyweds must hide their marriage鈥� and collaborate on the musical, and scores. It features the hit song "Till the Clouds Roll By."
1926 Dame Gillian Lynne is born in Bromley, Kent, England. She will go on to a successful career as a dancer and actor before becoming an award-winning choreographer and director, with such legendary titles as Cats and The Phantom of the Opera to her name. In 2018, she becomes the namesake of the first West End theatre to be named for a non-royal woman when The New London Theatre is renamed in her honor.
1928 and are the . 's farce runs 14 weeks at the Hudson Theatre. and co-star.
1934 and collaborate on the unusual Broadway "opera" . It runs 32 performances at the 44th Street Theatre, followed by a 16 performance return engagement at the Empire Theatre.
1973 Demonstrating the difference in sensibilities between London and New York, the farce , opens at Broadway's Ritz Theatre en route to a 16-performance flop run. The original London production continues for 6,761 performances and becomes the West End's longest-running comedy ever.
1980 The Broadway premiere of 's opens at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. The play is the prequel to Wilson's , which, also under the direction of , opens later in the year.
1983 Birthday of future Tony Award winner . She receives a Tony nomination for her 2011 Broadway debut in and wins Best Actress in a Musical for . Other Broadway credits include , , and .
2003 Avenue Q's first Off-Broadway performance at the . The show by , , and earns raves, , and wins the Tony Award as Best Musical.
2014 and 's musical , based on the romance novel about a woman who sees love anew when a rugged photographer pulls into town, opens on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. and star. Brown wins Tony Awards for his orchestrations and score, though the production only runs for 100 performances.
2020 A new take on from the mind of Tony-winning director Ivo van Hove opens at the Broadway Theatre. The revival stars Shereen Pimentel as Maria, Isaac Powell as Tony, and Yesenia Ayala as Anita.
More of Today's Birthdays: (1925-2006). Gillian Lynne (1926-2018). (1927-2022). (b. 1946). (b. 1946). Fred Applegate (b. 1953). David Beach (b. 1964). (b. 1967). (b. 1978). Michael Zegen (b. 1979). Etai Benson (b. 1987).
