1905 Birthday of playwright , who writes , , , , and the book to the musical .
1910 opens the Ziegfeld Follies of 1910 with actor as co-star, marking the first time white and black entertainers have appeared on stage together in a major Broadway production.
1929 The musical revue opens a 219-performance run at the Hudson Theatre, featuring some of the great stars of Harlem nightclubs, including the Broadway debut of , and a score by , , and .
1970 Birthday of composer and lyricist , who writes the Tony Award-winning scores for the musicals and . Other works include The Last Five Years, , and .
1984 The first Broadway revival of 's opens at the Circle in the Square Theatre for a run of 245 performances. Directed by , it stars , , and .
1989 A musical version of ? That's what the Jewish boy in The Loman Family Picnic dreams of writing while his family stresses about his bar mitzvah. The play by opens at 's City Center Stage 2.
2000 Composer-lyricist-librettist ' musical about Viceca "Bubbly" Stanton, The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, gets its world premiere at . Wilfredo Medina directs and choreographs the musical memoir starring .
2002 Thunder Knocking on the Door, the musical blues fable about the Devil and a Southern-fried guitar-licks competition, premieres Off-Broadway starring Tony Award winners and Chuck Cooper. directs. The show is written by Keith Glover, with original music by Keb' Mo' and Anderson Edwards.
2003 Bounce, the first musical collaboration between composer and director in more than two decades, opens a tryout at Chicago's . It moves on to Washington D.C. and plays out a limited run without moving to New York. In 2008, directs a revised version of the musical at Off-Broadway's under the title Road Show.
2006 The Broadway company of Beauty and the Beast plays its 5,000th performance.
2012 presents the first New York City revival of and 's 1989 revue Closer Than Ever. Directed by Maltby, the production stars , , , and . Originally announced for a limited run through July 14, the critically acclaimed production extends three times and runs 150 performances.
2019 The production of Lydia R. Diamond鈥檚 Toni Stone officially opens Off-Broadway. The play, directed by Tony Award winner , is the story of Toni Stone, the first woman baseball player to go pro in the Negro Leagues, and the first woman ever to play professionally in a men's baseball league. The world premiere stars April Matthis in the title role, alongside an all-male ensemble made up of Eric Berryman, Harvy Blanks, Phillip James Brannon, Daniel J. Bryant, Jonathan Burke, Toney Goins, Kenn E. Head, and Ezra Knight.
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