1922 Birthday of actor , who creates memorable roles in musicals including , , , and his signature role, the title character in .
1943 Initially produced for $75,000 and titled Away We Go, the re-titled comes sweeping into Broadway's St. James Theatre for 2,212 performances. and based the musical on Lynn Riggs' . It grosses millions of dollars. The show is filled with memorable songs and a cast that includes , , , and . 's dance sequences break new ground in choreography. stages.
1944 stars as a rich widow who thinks it might be fun to live under communism in . ' comedy also stars and . It runs for 43 performances at the Belasco Theatre in New York.
1945 Strongly etched and delicately remembered, ' memory play opens at the Playhouse Theatre in New York. makes a powerful comeback as Amanda Wingfield, matriarch of a fragile family. plays her son Tom struggling to find a life. is her delicate daughter Laura. There are 563 performances.
1960 Opening night for 's , a political drama about how far a candidate will go to be elected president. The two antagonists bear a certain resemblance to the year's two prospective presidential candidates, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. The play is revived on Broadway during the and presidential elections.
1983 's drama opens at the John Golden Theatre. plays a daughter who announces her impending suicide to her mother, played by . The play wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
1999 The Women's Project and Productions ends its 20th anniversary season with the world premiere of The Summer in Gossensass, a new play written and directed by . Off-Off-Broadway's Judith Anderson Theatre houses the production by the nine-time Obie Award winner.
2005 Cherry Jones has such Doubt playing Sister Aloysius in John Patrick Shanlee's Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play about a nun who suspects her priest has molested a student at their parochial school in the 1960s. The work opens today at Broadway's Walter Kerr theatre, and will go on to be adapted for the big screen in a film starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Viola Davis.
2009 The Age of Aquarius dawns anew at Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre when the tribal rock musical, , opens in a revival directed by . The production began its life at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park鈥攆irst as a 40th anniversary concert in September 2007, and then as a full production as part of Shakespeare in the Park in summer 2008.
2011 's , starring as the self-questioning title character who roams a haunted patch of Iraq, opens on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
2016 A revival of , 鈥檚 Tony-winning 1953 dramatization of the real-life Salem witch trials, opens on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre. , , , and star. Belgian director , who also staged a Broadway revival of Miller鈥檚 earlier in the season, helms the production.
2017 Singer-songwriter makes her Broadway performing debut when she steps into the central role of Jenna in . Bareilles, who wrote the music and lyrics for the musical, replaces , who originated the role on Broadway.
2019 Off-Broadway hit What the Constitution Means to Me opens on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre. Written by and starring Heidi Schreck, playing a version of herself, the play goes on to earn Tony nominations for Best Play and Best Actress in a Play. It runs for 169 performances.
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