1902 Birthday of , one of Broadway's most prolific and successful composers. His greatest successes came in partnership with lyricists (, , , , , etc.) and (, , , , , etc.).
1926 Birthday of funnyman , who goes on to write for TV's Your Show of Shows and Broadway musicals and before departing for a long career in Hollywood. He returns to Broadway in triumph in 2001 with a musical adaptation of his Broadway satire, .
1950 Censorship proves to be a problem when opens at New York's Winter Garden Theatre. The legendary producer of the title is soon forced to tone down the revue as a result of talks with the city's Commissioner of Licenses.
1987 Two years after the end of its original Broadway run, and 's returns to New York. Opening at the Ambassador Theatre, the engagement is the final stop of the musical's international tour. Director-choreographer scaled back his original staging for the tour, which first launched in fall 1985. Bennett is sadly not well enough to oversee the new Broadway run, and dies at his home in Arizona from AIDS-related lymphoma four days later.
1990 follows up his In Trousers and March of the Falsettos with the final piece of his "Marvin Trilogy," Falsettoland. The all-sung musical starring , , and throws AIDS into the mix of the already complex issue of sexual identity. The production, which opens at , later transfers to the Lucille Lortel Theatre. March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland are later combined to create the 1992 Broadway musical .
1999 27 years after it premiered Off-Broadway at the Truck and Warehouse Theatre, ' Small Craft Warnings sees the New York stage again when Worth Street Theater Company stages the lyrical drama. Based on an earlier Williams one-act, Confessional, the play is set in a bar in a Southern California coastal town.
2001 opens in Off-Broadway's Blue at the Gramercy Theatre in a Roundabout Theatre Company production. In the Charles Randolph-Wright play, Rashad stars as Peggy Clark, the matriarch of a well-off African-American family who run a funeral home business in South Carolina and who tracks the career of jazz singer Blue Williams. Directed by Sheldon Epps, the cast also features , Hill Harper, Howard W. Overshown, Jewell Robinson, Randall Shepperd, Messeret Stroman and Chad Tucker, with music is by Nona Hendryx of LaBelle fame ("Lady Marmalade") and lyrics by Hendryx and Randolph-Wright. Rashad was set to direct a 2020 revival of Blue at the Apollo Theatre when the COVID-19 pandemic forced theatres across the country to close.
2002 To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of composer Richard Rodgers, Broadway stars gathers for a concert at the Gershwin Theatre. Aptly titled Something Good: A Broadway Salute to Richard Rodgers on His 100th Birthday, the concert features performances by , , , , , , , , , , (accompanied by ), , , , , , and the chorus of
2007 's revival of 's comedy opens on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre. and star as two childhood friends who have grown into successful authors.
2010 On the Levee, the Todd Almond-Marcus Gardley play with music that frames the great Mississippi flood of 1927 through the perspective of a white and black family, opens Off-Broadway at the Duke on 42nd Street. Lear deBessonet conceived and directs the project, which stars Tony Award winner , Amari Cheatom, Michael Sibbery, Sam Numrich, and Dion Graham.
2011 Brooke Shields gets creepy, kooky, and altogether ooky when she joins The Addams Family as Morticia Addams, replacing original star Bebe Neuwirth.
2017 Lin-Manuel Miranda releases the first official music video from The Hamilton Mixtape. Riz Ahmed (as Riz MC), K鈥橬aan, Residente, and Snow Tha Product perform 鈥淚mmigrants (We Get the Job Done),鈥� directed by Tom谩s Whitmore, which explores the unsung impact and hardships of immigrants (鈥淎merica鈥檚 ghost writers,鈥� as Snow Tha Product raps) in American culture.
2018 opens Off-Broadway tonight in the Irish Repertory Theatre revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. and Burton Lane's 1965 musical, about a young woman who goes to a psychiatrist to cure her smoking through hypnosis but instead discovers that she is the reincarnation of a well-born English lady, also starred and John Cudia.
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