1908 or 1909 or 1912 There's no birthday like Merm's birthday. Ethel Zimmermann is born in Astoria, New York. In years to come, she acts and belts all over town as . She gives all three birth years.
1912 No word is ever spoken in Sumurun, billed as "a wordless play in nine tableaux" set in a sheik's harem, which opens at the Casino Theatre and runs 62 performances. 's production is imported from Berlin's Deutsches Theatre.
1933 scripts and stars in comedy . The intermissionless production plays 70 performances at the Harris and Lyceum Theatres in New York before heading out on tour.
1935 Actually, the opening night is September 16, but the play is . The Ambassador Theatre is the site of a nightly trial in 's drama. Members of the audience are sworn in and endings are written to suit either a guilty or innocent verdict. and are in the courtroom.
1958 and are at the Booth Theatre. The comedy about a married man and the younger woman who helps him "find" himself runs 750 performances. penned the script. It is later adapted into a film starring Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine and still later into the Broadway musical .
1964 Say stars as the musical Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi at the St. James Theatre. Adapted by from 's play , it has music and lyrics by . directs and choreographs. It runs 2,844 performances, which makes it, briefly, the longest-running Broadway musical ever.
1967 plays a teacher who instructs her students in how to have peak moments in their lives in 's drama , which opens at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre and continues for 379 performances. Maggie Smith wins an Academy Award for her performance in the film adaptation.
1980 Tony, Pulitzer, Grammy, and Emmy winner is born in New York. He both writes and stars in the Tony Award-winning musicals (music and lyrics) and (book, music, and lyrics).
2000 , the longest-running revue in Broadway history, closes after 2,036 performances. The musical features words and music by and .
2006 McHale's Restaurant, the unofficial watering hole for Broadway's tech folk and their friends, closes after decades at the corner of 46th Street and Eighth Avenue. It is demolished to make way for one of the new high-rises springing up across the Theatre District.
2014 The first Broadway revival of 's opens on Broadway at the 's American Airlines Theatre. stars as real-life murderer Ruth Snyder, who was executed for killing her husband in 1928.
2020 Les Mis茅rables officially reopens London's newly restored and renamed Sondheim Theatre. The show would temporarily close later that year due to the COVID pandemic and then resume performances on September 25, 2021.
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