1812 Birthday of author , whose A Christmas Carol has been adapted to the stage dozens of times. Other major stage hits adapted from his work include , , , and
1883 Birthday of composer , one of the first Black composers to write a Broadway musical. His scores include , , and . His life and songs are the subject of the hit 1978 revue He also appears as a character in 's 2016 musical .
1922 stars in . 's melodrama runs 43 weeks at the National Theatre in New York.
1923 Oscar Eagle directs Edith Day in the musical Wildflower. and devised the plot; and wrote the music. stages.
1957 plays a strange visitor to a Virginia home who claims to be an alien passing judgment on the Earth in 's . The comedy runs 388 performances at the Booth Theatre.
1959 First play reading at Joe Cino's Caffe Cino in New York's Greenwich Village. The space opened as a bar in December 1958, and grows into the cradle of the Off-Off-Broadway movement under Cino's flamboyant stewardship. It's productions examine subjects no commercial producer of the time would touch, especially those with gay themes, and provides a launching pad for the earliest works of , , Jean Claude van Itallie, , and many other playwrights. After Cino's suicide in 1967, his collaborators found Off-Broadway's Circle Rep.
1968 Two estranged brothers reunite to settle their father's estate in's at the Morosco Theatre. , , , and star. It runs 429 performances.
1971 The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, Saul Levitt and Daniel Berrigan's play about the trial of the Berrigan brothers' anti-war protests, opens at the Good Shepherd Faith Church in New York. The production stars and Michael Kane and eventually .
1976 Philadelphia's Shubert Theatre, acquired by The Academy of Music in 1972, reopens with a revival of My Fair Lady.
1980 Film star makes her Broadway debut in at the Martin Beck Theatre. The production is panned by critics and closes two days later.
2002 Film star stars on Broadway as a former minister suffering a crisis of faith in .
2012 A revival of 's music-kissed biographical drama Master Class, starring as a late-career diva Maria Callas, opens at the West End's Vaudeville Theatre. once again directs Daly in the role, having previously done so in 2010 at the Kennedy Center and .
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