1914 Female impersonator is the lyricist and star of . provides the book and the score. The show plays the Knickerbocker Theatre for 11 weeks.
1918 Actor-manager dies in London at age 60. His most popular role was the lead in The Prisoner of Zenda. In 1889, he began producing the plays of and at his own theatre.
1922 Phileas Fogg is asked to go Round in Fifty instead of 80 days. The musical runs at London's Hippodrome for 471 performances. Circling the globe are , George Robey, and Wallace and .
1933 Right around the is a family that loses its money and doesn't know how to work. and are in the cast of the comedy. It runs nearly 10 weeks at the Cort Theatre.
1948 An unusual double-bill of one-acts opens at the Cort Theatre: 's and 's . It runs 318 performances.
1969 opens at the 46th Street Theatre starring , , , and making her Broadway debut, . wrote the music and lyrics and , the score.
1997 Paula Vogel's How I Learned To Drive opens at Off-Broadway's and stars and . The play transfers to the Century Theatre and wins the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. (It was not eligible for the 1997 award owing to a scheduling technicality.)
2000 After years of international touring and even a TV broadcast, the Celtic dance revue Riverdance opens at the Gershwin Theatre under the title and runs 605 performances.
2003 Playwright opens her first new drama since winning the Pulitzer Prize the previous year, but many newspapers refuse to print the title. Fucking A, her new take on 's The Scarlet Letter, opens at 's Anspacher Theater, with a cast that includes , , and . directs.
2014 , the theatre composer and jingle writer who had a single, but enduring, hit musical with , and who, with a handful of repeated but dramatically escalating musical phrases, gave the world an aspirational anthem in "The Impossible Dream," dies at age 86. Leigh's other Broadway musicals include , , , , and . Also an accomplished director, he received a Tony nomination for his work on the 1985 revival of .
2017 makes his Broadway debut in a revival of 's at the 's American Airlines Theatre. The production also stars , , and .
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