1820 Birthday of , matriarch of the Drew and Barrymore acting dynasty that would eventually include , , , , and today's Drew Barrymore.
1904 is born. The triple threat appears in numerous shows and in 1948 stars in , the musical version of . A yellow brick road stretches out before him in Hollywood.
1910 Musical-comedy star makes her New York City debut in The Old Town at the Globe Theatre. Wood later appears in several plays, including the New York premiere of .
1911 writes his first complete Broadway score for The Whirl of the World, which opens at the Winter Garden. A brochure describes it as "An Isle of Gorgeousness, Fun and Music, Entirely Surrounded by Girls." The formula proves a winner, running 161 performances.
1929 captures a at the Playhouse Theatre in New York. The stark drama about tenement life wins the Pulitzer Prize and runs for 601 performances. In 1947, it is turned into with a score by and lyrics by poet .
1941 Two sweet little old ladies help nudge melancholy people off to a better world in the macabre comedy which opens its 1,444-performance run at the Fulton Theatre. and play the sisters and plays their nephew.
1947 and look to the rainbow in , , and 's musical , about a leprechaun who turns human when his crock of gold is stolen and buried near Fort Knox. It runs 725 performances. and win the very first Tony Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Choreographer, respectively.
1962 , satirizing the end of the Roman Empire, has a much shorter life than its subject, with just 69 performances to its calendar. adapted the work. stars.
1968 Some of first openly gay characters seen on the Broadway stage are played by and in 's , which runs 61 performances at the Biltmore Theatre.
2000 Dirty Blonde, written by and starring , opens at . It runs for 40 performances before .
2005 Composer , who died the previous November, is remembered at a starry memorial service at the Majestic Theatre. Among the speakers are collaborators , , , and . Among the historic performances are and performing "Big Spender" from , and and her daughter Katharine Luckinbill dueting on "Hey, Look Me Over," a song first sung by Arnaz's mother in .
2008 A stage adaptation of the Disney animated film opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. It features the original movie score by and the late , plus ten new songs by Menken and . directs a cast led by as Ariel the mermaid, and as Ursula, the tentacled sea witch. It runs 685 performances.
2013 The Broadway premiere of , 's mysterious play starring as a medical researcher whose health, home life, and workplace are shaken, opens at 's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
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