1942 and are featured in 's musical revue, , which opens a 609-performance run at the Music Box Theatre.
1942 Birthday of actor . Lee's performances include Tony-nominated turns in and , Rosemary in the Broadway and film versions of , and Karen Fairgate in the long-running television drama Knots Landing.
1948 One of the earliest ice-skating revues, , opens a 406-performance run at Broadway's Center Theatre.
1976 stars as Henry and as Katharine in the 's Shakespeare in the Park mounting of Henry V. Among the costars are (as Chorus), , , (as Pistol), , and .
1979 Circle Repertory Company's production of Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein, a monologue play by Marty Martin, opens at Circle Theatre starring Pat Carroll.
1981 's revival of 's opens at the Century Theatre for a run of 157 performances. The production stars , in her Broadway debut, as a working-class English teenager who becomes pregnant by a black sailor.
1992 and star in at the Circle in the Square Theatre. directs the play about a failed writer who uses his almost equally disappointed photographer friend as the inspiration for his latest novel. To help the struggling Circle in the Square, Pacino and the creatives agree to work for union scale, and free tickets are not given to Tony voters.
1997 Off-Broadway gets a taste of the Grand Ole Opry when the musical biography Always...Patsy Cline opens at the Variety Arts Theatre. Ted Swindley directs the musical, which he wrote about the country & western star who died in a plane crash in 1963. Tori Lynn Palazolla and star.
1998 Aasif Mandvi's monologue play Sakina's Restaurant opens at the American Place Theatre. The run, which continued through January 3, 1999, earned The Daily Show correspondent Mandvi an Obie Award, along with its director Kim Hughes. The play would return for a New York run, produced by Audible, in 2018.
1999 Shear Madness, the longest-running show in the history of Washington, D.C.'s , celebrates its 5,000th performance. The improvisational murder-mystery opened for a 12-week run August 12, 1987 and has been playing ever since.
2007 The Civilians' production of Gone Missing returns for a run at the Barrow Street Theatre. Originally seen at the Belt Theater in 2003, the show, a documentary song cycle about loss, was created by the company using its signature interview style. Gone Missing features a book by Steven Cosson and a score by Michael Friedman; the show was revived at New York City Center in 2018 as part of its Encores! Off-Center season, a year after Friedman's passing.
2013 ' comedy Buyer & Cellar, starring as a struggling Los Angeles actor who finds himself working in 's basement, opens at the Barrow Street Theatre. Originally announced as a limited 10-week engagement, it runs for over a year.
2017 Felix Rojas' Growing Up Gonzalez opens at the Actors Temple Theatre Off-Broadway. Andres ("Chulisi") Rodriguez starred as the title character in the monologue play about brotherly love and the power of saying goodbye.
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