1920 Two of Broadway's greatest songwriting talents make their Main Stem debuts: lyricst , age 25, and composer , age 18, open their first musical, , at the Central Theatre. The pair had missed the show's out-of-town tryout, and were surprised to discover at the New York opening that producer cut half their score, and inserted new songs by and .
1998 opens at Broadway's Booth Theatre. Featuring the composer himself, along with and , the musical revue highlights some of Herman's greatest songs from his musicals, from shows that were hits (, , ) and those that weren't ( and ). After failing to find an audience during the slow summer months, however, the show is forced to close in late August, about a month earlier than originally announced.
1999 presents 's Jar the Floor at its new Eighth Avenue space. The cast of the play about four generations of African-American women features , Irma P. Hall, and . directs the Off-Broadway production.
2000 Jesus Hopped the A Train by opens at Off-Off-Broadway's Center Stage. The 's production starring alongside , Elizabeth Canavan, Sal Inzerillo, and is helmed by , fresh from his stint in Broadway's . The "prison/court room/comic drama" transfers to Off-Broadway's East 13th Street Theatre later that year.
2005 Seaside Music Theater in Daytona Beach, Florida, presents the first major professional U.S. production of Moby Dick! The Musical. originally produced the quirky show鈥攊n which students at a girls' school put on a benefit musical based on the novel鈥攊n London's West End in 1993. The show is by Robert Longden and Hereward Kaye.
2012 The world premiere of All the Way, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright 's dramatization of President Lyndon B. Johnson鈥檚 first year in office, opens at the . The cast includes as LBJ, Kenajuan Bentley as Martin Luther King Jr., and as Sen. Hubert Humphrey. The play , with in the lead role, winning Tony Awards for both Best Play and Actor in a Play.
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