1856 A dramatic genius is born in the person of . Among Shaw's many playwriting credits are Pygmalion, Man and Superman, and Saint Joan. The first, a comedy about one Professor Henry Higgins determined to turn a cockney flower girl into a "lady," becomes the basis for the - masterpiece .
1945 Stage and film star is born in London, England. She receives repeated acclaim for playing Queen Elizabeth II, winning an Academy Award for the film The Queen, and Tony and Olivier Awards for . In 2003, she receives a damehood for services to drama.
1955 The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company presents King Lear. , Helen Cherry, and star in the tragedy.
1999 is The Cat in the Hat in the workshop of the new - musical The Seussical (later known as Seussical the Musical, and then just Seussical) in Toronto. Director helms a cast that includes , , , , , and others. The musical based on the work of late children's author (real name: Theodore Geisel) 鈥攂ut with as the Cat.
2000 Thrice extended at Chicago's Goodman Studio Theatre, Rebecca Gilman's comedy Spinning Into Butter opens Off-Broadway at 's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Directed by , the show featuring and exposes the cosmetic and sometimes destructive political correctness that erupts on a small Vermont college campus when an African-American student finds several racist notes pinned to his door.
2006 Gavin Creel makes his London stage debut in the West End production of Mary Poppins.
2010 The New York premiere of Leslye Headland's Bachelorette, starring Celia Keenan-Bolger, Tracee Chimo, Katherine Waterston, Fran Kranz, Eddie Kaye Thomas, and Carmen M. Herlihy as attendees of a bachelorette party that goes bad, opens at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre as part of Second Stage Uptown series. Headland later writes and directs a feature film adaptation of the play.
2018 The musical , which combines 's 16th-century pastoral romance Arcadia with the songs of the 1980's female rock group The Go-Go's, opens on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre. The cast includes, , , , , , , and .
2019 Singer-songwriter Barry Manilow returns to Broadway for a limited concert engagement at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
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