1929 Birthday of Broadway composer , whose scores for shows like , , , , , and show him to be equally adept with jazz, operetta, Big Band, country, and R&B.
1956 The revue showcases the talents of future stars , , , n, , and . The show offers sketches by Neil and , , and , and songs by and , among others.
1969 After 97 preview performances, and 's opens鈥攁nd closes鈥攐n Broadway. The play's unusually long preview period gives it the record for the most previews of a Broadway show before its opening night. Its record is surpassed exactly 42 years later, by Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark.
1979 Flowers for Algernon, a new musical by and , opens at London's Queen's Theatre. Based on the novel by , the show stars a pre-Phantom as Charlie Gordon, the same role that won an Oscar for Charly, the film version of the novel. co-stars in the musical.
1979 Film star (already a household name thanks to the Godfather films and Dog Day Afternoon) returns to his Broadway roots in the title role of .
1988 Director helms a revival of 's at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre. stars as James Tyrone and as his wife Mary in the production that runs in repertory with another O'Neill play, .
1990 John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation premieres at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse, starring Stockard Channing, John Cunningham, and James McDaniel. Inspired by a true story, the play follows a group of wealthy New Yorkers who are taken in by a conman who claims to be the son of actor-director Sidney Poitier. The work eventually transfers to the Vivian Beautmont Theatre on Broadway, where it is Tony-nominated for Best Play and named a Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist.
2001 Young people, New York City, music. Those are the ingredients that matter in a new musical comedy, I Sing!, opening at the Maverick Theatre Off-Broadway. Benjamin Salka directs the new work he co-wrote with composer Eli Bolin and lyricist Sam Forman. The libretto is by Bolin, Forman and Salka. The cast includes newcomers Billy Eichner, Jeff Juday, Jodie Langel, Michael Raine, and Meredith Zeitlin.
2006 Kate Burton stars as a woman scorned opposite Tony Goldwyn as her long estranged ex-husband when Theresa Rebeck's The Water's Edge opens its Off-Broadway premiere at Second Stage Theatre. Directed by Will Frears, the cast also includes Mamie Gummer, Austin Lysy, and Katharine Powell.
2007 10 Million Miles, the new Keith Bunin-Patty Griffin musical at the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theatre. Directed by Tony winner Michael Mayer, the cast includes Matthew Morrison, Irene Molloy, Mare Winningham, and Skipp Sudduth.
2010 Obie, Lucille Lortel, and GLAAD Award winner Colman Domingo, having just been seen Off-Broadway in , joins the Broadway company of Chicago as Billy Flynn for a five-week limited engagement.
2011 Following the longest preview period in Broadway history鈥攑erformances began November 28, 2010鈥� officially opens at Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre. Over the course of its 182 previews, original director/librettist/designer was replaced by creative consultant and librettist , who made changes to the musical during a month-long hiatus in April-May 2011. stars as the superhero with the powers of a spider in the show which cost a reported $75 million, by far the most expensive in Broadway history.
2012 A revival of 's 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy opens on Broadway at Studio 54. The production stars as Elwood P. Dowd, a man whose best friend is a 6-foot-tall rabbit.
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