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Stage to Page 半岛体育 Vault's Today in Theatre History: March 27 In 2008, Patti LuPone stars in a Broadway revival of Gypsy.
Boyd Gaines, Laura Benanti, and Patti LuPone in Gypsy. Joan Marcus

1924 Long before Madonna sang about Vogueing, there were the . The revue at the Shubert Theatre stars and . It runs for almost three months.

1933 The School for Scandal is revived at London's Old Vic. In the cast are , , and .

1974 The Prospect Theatre Company stages 's Pericles at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. Toby Robertson directs and plays the lead.

1977 and play cancer patients finding different ways to accept their fates in Cold Storage. The drama by runs for six weeks at the American Place Theatre in New York.

1978 , an anthology of dance vignettes directed and choreographed by , opens on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. Fosse wins a Tony Award for his choreography, and the production runs 1,774 performances.

1983 Playwright begins his Brighton Beach trilogy as opens at Broadway's Alvin Theatre. stars as Eugene Jerome, a role he reprises two years later in the trilogy's second play, .

1988 opens its run at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and stars and . The play, about a family in 1911 Pittsburgh, runs 105 performances.

1996 Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1945 film musical makes its Broadway debut at the Music Box Theatre. , , , and star. It is the final Broadway show produced by "abominable showman" .

2003 A Broadway adaptation of the film opens at the Broadhurst Theatre, with a score cobbled together from more than a dozen songwriters. After receiving harsh reviews, the show struggles on for 60 performances.

2008 brings her summer 2007 Encores! revival of the musical to Broadway, co-starring and . The three win 2008 Tony Awards for their performances. Librettist directs.

2011 climbs the ladder from window washer to corporate wunderkind in the 50th anniversary revival of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. directs and choreographs the musical, which features a score by and book by , , and .

2012 The King's Speech, David Seidler's play that was adapted as the Oscar-winning 2010 feature film, opens at the West End's Wyndham's Theatre. Directed by , the production stars as King George VI and Jonathan Hyde as speech therapist Lionel Logue. The stage version does not repeat the film's success, and closes seven weeks later.

2017 The New York premiere of 's Latin History for Morons opens Off-Broadway at the Public Theater. The satirical solo show is inspired by Leguizamo's observation that Latinos are often overlooked in the teaching of American history. The production later the same year.

2019 Jordan E. Cooper's Ain't No Mo', directed by Stevie Walker-Webb, opens at the Public Theater. Using a series of vignettes, the new play is a satirical odyssey portraying the departure of Black Americans from the country. Cooper himself stars, alongside March谩nt Davis, Fedna Jacquet, Crystal Lucas-Perry, Ebony Marshall-Oliver, and Simone Recasner.

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