1925 is for a group of dope dealers. The - comedy runs at the Eltinge Theatre for almost three months.
1926 , based on the popular novel of the same title, opens at the Greenwich Village Theatre. It runs only 35 performances, but a 1930s film adaptation receives an Oscar nomination for Best Picture.
1933 's unlikely story of a prostitute who inherits a ranch lasts just three performances. It's a very at the Plymouth Theatre in New York.
1940 Birthday of playwright , who chronicles Vietnam-era angst in and and comes back in the 1980s with a searing vision of Hollywood's periphery in .
1953 A revival of the Gershwins' opens a 305-performance run at the Ziegfeld Theatre that outlasts the 1935 original. The revival stars , , , and .
1954 A posthumous revival of 's proves to be his biggest hit. The Theatre de Lys revival, translated by and directed by , initially runs for 96 performances. Due to popular demand, the production and runs for seven years, becoming Off-Broadway's longest running show (a record eventually surpassed by The Fantasticks). Stars of the production include , , , , , and .
1959 plays at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York. stars as an aging actor with as her paid escort alongside , , and . The drama plays for 375 performances. stages.
1965 's opens on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre. and star as mismatched roommates Felix and Oscar. It runs for 966 performances and is later turned into a successful film and television series.
1974 Director Hal Prince turns Leonard Bernstein's short-lived 1956 operatic musical based on the Voltaire novella into a hit with a new adaptation that features an altered song list (with both cuts and new songs added) and a new book by Hugh Wheeler. Following a well-received Off-Broadway run at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Candide opens at the Broadway Theatre in a raucous production that transforms the traditional proscenium stage into a black box with playing spaces throughout the theatre. Prince's revision of the musical will become the template upon which most future productions of the now-beloved work are built.
1975 Critics and audiences don't know what to make of 's London import, a bizarre science-fiction musical called . It runs just 45 performances at the Belasco Theatre. , , and O'Brien also star in the film version, which becomes one of the all-time successful cult classics.
1999 and join the cast of revival as the new Captain Von Trapp and Maria Rainer, following the departures of and . They close out the production, which ends June 20 after 533 performances.
2000 Performances begin for 's Broadway musical starring , , and . Coincidentally, it is the second New York musical of this season to be based on that 1928 poem by . Off-Broadway's staged composer-lyricist-librettist 's version with the same title.
2002 's controversial drama opens on Broadway. The story of a man who destroys his marriage and life when he falls in love with a goat goes on to win the 2003 Tony Award for Best Play.
2014 ' irreverent comedy Hand to God opens Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. stars as soft-spoken Christian Puppet Ministry student Jason, who is possessed by his foul-mouthed sock puppet. The production .
2016 and star in the Broadway debut of 's at the Belasco Theatre. directs the play about a 27-year-old woman who finds and confronts the man who sexually abused her when she was 12. The play was previously seen in New York in a 2007 Off-Broadway production, also directed by Mantello, starring Daniels opposite .
2019 and 's musical opens at the Lyceum Theatre. The show arrives on Broadway with a cult following, thanks to the popularity of the cast recording from its 2015 world premiere at New Jersey's Two River Theater. stars as Jeremy, an average teenager who takes a pill purported to make people more鈥攜ou guessed it鈥攃hill.
2019 Tori Sampson鈥檚 If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka premieres at Playwrights Horizons, directed by Leah C. Gardiner and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly. A finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the play is a contemporary riff on a West African fable brimming with live music and dance. In the village of Affreakah-Amirrorkah, no one questions that Akim is the one true, perfect beauty鈥攏ot even her jealous classmates. But they鈥檒l be damned before they let her be the leading lady in this story.
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