1922 's The Enchanted Cottage constructs the story of a couple who find themselves transformed by their love for one another. Owen Nares and Laura Cowie are the lucky pair. The drama runs at the Duke of York's Theatre in London.
1944 Even the bright lights of Broadway are affected by World War II. A midnight curfew quiets the Times Square nightlife.
1957 Opening night for the final show to bear the Ziegfeld Follies name, 50 years after the very first edition, and 25 years after its namesake's death. The features songs by , , , , and . The cast includes , , and . It runs at the Winter Garden.
1964 's tale of two brothers in South Africa, Blood Knot, stars and . stages at the Cricket Theatre in New York.
1979 and 's opens at Broadway's Uris Theatre. stars as the bedeviled barber and plays the cannibalistic cook in the production that makes a piercing factory whistle infamous. The musical sweeps the Tony Awards, taking home the prize for Best Musical, Leading Actor and Actress, Director for Harold Prince, Best Book, Score, and Scenic, and Costume Design.
1981 Gregory Hines, Judith Jamison, Hinton Battle, and Phyllis Hyman star in Donald McKayle's tribute to Duke Ellington, Sophisticated Ladies. The revue opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and Battle goes on to win a Tony for his toe-tapping performance.
1998 's international hit play opens at the Royale Theatre with , , and starring. The comedy about a blank painting took top honors at France's Moli猫re Awards and London's Olivier Awards, and also wins the Tony Award for Best Play.
2005 The musical Altar Boyz, which spoofs the boy-band craze, opens Off-Broadway. It runs more than 2,000 performances at New World Stages.
2009 A Broadway revival of that uses animated projections and introduces author Damon Runyon as a character, opens at the Nederlander Theatre. The classic "musical fable of Broadway" is directed by , and stars as Sky Masterson, as Nathan Detroit, as Sarah Brown, and as Miss Adelaide.
2011 A stage production of The Wizard of Oz, based the 1939 MGM film musical featuring music and lyrics by and , opens at the London Palladium. Danielle Hope鈥攚inner of the reality TV casting show Over the Rainbow鈥攕tars as Dorothy, alongside as The Wizard and as the Wicked Witch of the West. The score is supplemented with four new songs written by and .
2017 The Tooting Arts Club鈥檚 immersive production of Sweeney Todd, which was first staged in an actual pie shop in London, opens Off-Broadway. The production transforms New York's Barrow Street Theatre into a working pie shop, with audiences able to purchase authentic meat pies prior to each performance. Jeremy Secomb and Siobh谩n McCarthy, who starred in the London run, reprise their roles as Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett.
Today's Birthdays: (1867鈥�1942), (1885鈥�1946), Paul Hartman (1904鈥�1973), (1922鈥�1975), (b. 1926), Marilyn Strauss (1927鈥�2018), (b. 1927), John Napier (b. 1944), (b. 1962), (b. 1963), Lupita Nyong'o (b. 1983), (b. 1983)
Watch highlights from the 2011 London production of The Wizard of Oz:
