1853 Birthday of Broadway impresario , namesake of the , who writes and/or produces dozens of plays including The Return of Peter Grimm and Laugh, Clown, Laugh!, and two that inspire great operas, Madame Butterfly and Girl of the Golden West. His ghost is believed to haunt the Broadway theatre that bears his name.
1968 stars in , a double bill of one-acts, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. The limited engagement breaks box office records, and later transfers to a second limited run at the Music Box Theatre, for a total of 148 performances.
1975 After a smash run at The Public Theater in New York City, the - musical makes the move uptown to Broadway's Shubert Theatre. The -helmed show, including such songs as "What I Did for Love" and "One," features , , and . A Chorus Line truly proves to be, as its lyrics say, "one singular sensation," racking up 6,137 performances to become Broadway's longest running show up to that time. (In June 1997, breaks that record.) A 1985 film version of A Chorus Line, directed by Sir Richard Attenborough, features and in its cast.
1996 Tony Award-winning musical star returns to the Broadway stage in 's , taking over the reins from the play's original Tony Award-winning star, . When LuPone finishes her run as opera diva Maria Callas in the Tony-winning play, stage and television star becomes the third鈥攁nd final鈥攁ctor to play Callas in the production. plays the part on tour.
2001 Director-choreographer 's revival of celebrates its 1,000th performance at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway. Leads on that date are and .
2002 returns to Broadway in the role that earned him the 1986 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play: Nat in 's . The production not only brings back much of the original creative team (director , scenic designer , and lighting designer ), but it also opens at the same theatre鈥攖he Booth. Starring opposite Hirsch in the revival is , taking on the role of Midge originally played by .
2013 and Brett Ryback star as suspects and detective, respectively, in the New York premiere of Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair's two-person whodunit musical Murder for Two, opening at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre as part of the Uptown Series. The production is a hit, and later transfers to New World Stages for an extended run.
2019 Moulin Rouge! the stage adaptation of the 2001 musical, opens on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. With a book y John Logan and direction by Alex Timbers, the musical stars Karen Olivo and Aaron Tveit as lovers Satine and Christian, with Danny Burstein as gleeful empresario Harold Zidler, Sahr Ngaujah as Toulouse-Lautrec, Tam Mutu as The Duke of Monroth, Ricky Rojas as Santiago, and Robyn Hurder as Nini.
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