1905 Quivery-voiced actor is born in Cedartown, Georgia. He becomes a fixture of Broadway's The Garrick Gaieties revues of the 1920s and '30s, and achieves a kind of immortality providing the voice for Disney's Winnie the Pooh in cartoons starting in the 1960s.
1924 Future director and actor are featured in ' hillbilly feud drama, , which opens at the Klaw Theatre and goes on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
1934 produces the first Ziegfeld Follies after the death of founder . The features , , , , , , , and the music of . It runs at the Winter Garden.
1956 and are , a pair of fraudulent performers with a mind-reading act. The comedy by and is staged by at the ANTA Playhouse.
1965 dies in London at the age of 77. He is credited with the revival of poetic drama after penning in 1935. He also wrote , , and . His book of poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, is the inspiration for the musical .
1969 Adrienne Kennedy scripts two one-acts titled Cities in Bezique at . Joan Harris and are members of the cast, directed by .
1976 stars in , a musical based on the final chapters of The Odyssey, with a score by composer . Despite the presence of La Mancha star , the show closes on opening night.
1981 Another one-performance show opens and closes on Broadway: , by . The cast includes , , , and .
2004 Director , choreographer , and former cast members attend the 2,378th and final performance of the 1998 Tony-winning revival at Studio 54.
2014 , the high-flying, multimillion dollar musical with music by and , ends its Broadway run at the Foxwoods Theatre after 1,066 performances. The production broke Broadway records for longest preview period (182 performances) and for most expensive musical (it cost $75 million). Over the course of its extended preview period, original director left the project, and writer and director were brought on to try to fix the show. Members of the production suffered numerous injuries during the run, including cast members and .
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