1927 Birthday of composer , who composes scores for Broadway's , , , , , and other musicals.
1952 's is staged by at the Music Box Theatre. , , and are the Viennese refugees struggling to get to America.
1963 Using the play by and , devises . directs and . Songs are composed by and . There are 264 performances.
1965 plays a lonely woman desperate for love and wondering and provide music and lyrics for ' adaptation of his play . is the married man who comes into her life. There are 220 performances.
1966 The League of Resident Theatres is founded. LORT promotes community interests, raises funds, and renegotiates with labor unions every three years for regional professional theatres. Peter Zeisler is the first director.
1975 Two-time Tony Award winner is born. Her Broadway appearances include starring roles in , , , and .
1993 At the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 's opens after an Off-Broadway run at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. The comedy-drama stars , , and , who wins a Tony for Best Actress in a Play.
1999 Playwright makes his Broadway acting debut at the Booth Theatre in a solo play written by and about himself. (Way of Sadness), which is about the Arab-Israeli conflict, runs through June 13.
2012 , the stage musical based on the film about an Irish singer-songwriter named Guy, who meets a muse in the person of a Czech immigrant named Girl, opens at Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. A company of 13 actor-musicians鈥攍ed by as Guy and as Girl鈥攑erform all roles and serve as the onstage orchestra. The production wins eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical. It runs 1,168 performances.
2014 opens in 's Blithe Spirit at the West End's Gielgud Theatre, marking her first London stage appearance in nearly 40 years. Lansbury reprises the role of Madame Arcati, which she previously played in .
More of Today's Birthdays: (1851鈥�1932). Edward Everett Horton (1886-1970). Patrick Barlow (b. 1947). (b. 1963). Yul V谩zquez (b. 1965). Christopher J. Hanke (b. 1976). Eva Noblezada (b. 1996).
