1925 Birthday of actor , who stars on Broadway in , , and before going to Hollywood and becoming a film star. He makes a late-career return to the stage in (2002).
1927 , an unlikely comedy penned by , follows the breakup of a marriage. Produced by , it stars and as the couple, with and also in the cast. There are 310 performances.
1931 produces ' cowboy play , starring , , and . It runs 64 performances at Guild Theatre. A decade later it is suggested to the team of and as the possible basis of a musical. They turn it into
1938 and are the at the Golden Theatre in New York. 's play, set in Ireland, contrasts the simple faith of a maid with the learning of a priest.
1944 is a 鈥攁nd she'll be one for over six months. That's how long and 's comedy clings to the Cort Theatre. is also in the cast.
1950 , , and Ring Round the Moon at the Globe Theatre. directs the comedy, adapted by . It runs 682 performances.
1975 Giant talking lizards emerge from the sea and talk philosophy with a picnicking human couple in 's . It runs just 63 performances at the Shubert Theatre, with as the head lizard, but then wins the Pulitzer Prize.
1988 Watch that chandelier! Tonight's the night 's makes Broadway's Majestic Theatre its seemingly permanent haunt. and star in the musicalization of 's novel. The production currently holds the title for the longest-running show in Broadway history.
1989 opens at the Minskoff Theatre. The show is a musical revue, celebrating the influence of American jazz and blues. Black and Blue receives ten 1989 Tony Award nominations and wins three, including one for as Best Actress in a Musical. Having his first Broadway opening is a 15-year-old tap genius named .
1996 The opening of the Off-Broadway musical Rent proves both triumphant and tragic. Triumphant, because reviews and audience interest , where it becomes an award-winning smash. Tragic, because one day earlier, January 25, 1996, author-composer died of an aortic aneurysm.
2003 's short-lived 1946 operetta Pacific 1860 gets its long-delayed U.S. premiere as part of the Musicals in Mufti series at Off-Broadway's .
2012 's production of 's 鈥攖he Pulitzer Prize-winning title's Broadway debut鈥攐pens at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. stars as Vivian Bearing, a steely poetry professor facing terminal cancer.
More of Today's Birthdays: (1905-1987). (1913-1990). Paul Newman (1925-2008). (b. 1929). (b. 1946). (b. 1949). (b. 1978). Michael R. Jackson (b. 1981). Kelli Barrett (b. 1984).
