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Stage to Page 半岛体育 Vault's Today in Theatre History: January 2 Today's birthdays include Taye Diggs, Christopher Durang, and Beth Malone.
Taye Diggs in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Joan Marcus

1910 American actor dies at age of 63. She was the wife of and the sister-in-law of .

1911 stars as the enviable princess who is too thin. The musical aptly titled The Slim Princess has a book and lyrics by , music by , and additional uncredited music by .

1922 Someone's getting away with at the Republic Theatre in New York. stars in the play about a wife whose husband is seduced by another woman and pays for it by being robbed in a gambling saloon. The comedy runs beyond the season, to the bewilderment of the critics.

1926 stars in , adapted by from Komedie by . It runs 109 performances.

1949 Birthday of iconoclastic playwright , who writes Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, , The Marriage of Bette and Boo, , , , and many more.

1951 revises the late 's last play . plays a retired senator who threatens suicide if his daughter marries a man twice her age. plays the daughter. The comedy runs 126 performances at the Morosco Theatre in New York.

1968 The presents ' Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, its first production, at St. Mark's Playhouse in Greenwich Village. and star in the drama about Portuguese colonialism in Africa.

1969 Untamed sexual desire in the suburbs is the subject of the musical comedy , which manages only a 4-performance run despite music by , lyrics by "Hello Muddah" writer , a leading performance by , and a supporting cast that includes and .

1972 , a sarcastic-titled revue poking fun at New York in some of its darkest days, opens a 9-performance run at the Morosco Theatre with a cast that includes , , , , and .

2011 , an English character actor who brought an unmistakable voice and face to his many performances on stage and screen, dies at age 64 after a battle with cancer. A veteran of the , his theatre credits included the title role in a 2008 production of King Lear at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, and a touring a 90-minute one-man play called Scaramouche Jones.

More of Today's Birthdays: (1917-2003). (1936-1992). Cuba Gooding, Jr. (b. 1968). (b. 1969). (b. 1971). Karina Smirnoff (b. 1978).

Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia..., With Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce and Kristine Nielsen

 
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