1885 Birthday of master tunesmith , who writes the scores to many Broadway classics, including , , , and .
1895 Birthday of lyricist , who supplies words to songs in projects as diverse as , , , and several editions of George White's Scandals.
1895 Yet another songwriter is born on this date: , composer and/or lyricist of and ' .
1931 Broadway debut of 's romantic comedy , with Coward playing Elyot and as Amanda. It runs 256 performances at the Times Square Theatre, and goes on to become Coward's most-produced work鈥攅ight times on Broadway alone.
1939 is Christy Mahon, widely known as The Playboy of the Western World. The revival of 's work plays at London's Mercury Theatre.
1955 has her first hit in an original musical, , set in Pennsylvania Dutch country. The / musical runs 461 performances and becomes a staple of stock companies.
1959 Adapted from the film of the same name, plays at the Music Box Theatre. directs , , and in a 20-week run of the and dramatization from the original Japanese.
1969 ' anti-war comedy Peace is updated by Tim Reynolds, and set to music with a score by Rev. Al Carmines. Lawrence Kornfeld stages the 192 performances at the Astor Place Theatre.
1974 stars as , a and musical, inspired by the show . , , and provide the songs. Direction is handled by .
1982 After a successful life in London and stock productions, and see the first musical they wrote together, , open on Broadway. and are featured in the production, which runs 747 performances at the Royale Theatre.
1991 's new musical Assassins opens Off-Broadway at . Featured in the cast are , , , , and .
1997 's solo performance, , based on his book of the same title, opens at the Gershwin Theatre. The show includes commentary on the relationships between men and women.
2005 Court TV brings the Off-Broadway drama The Exonerated to cable television with , , , , , and David Brown, Jr. starring as the wrongfully imprisoned.
2006 A theatrical tradition bites the dust: no more piles of opening night congratulatory telegrams as Western Union announces it is discontinuing telegram and commercial messaging services after 145 years.
2019 French composer , who wrote the scores for Jacques Demy's movie musicals The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort as well as the 2002 Broadway musical , dies at age 86.
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