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In 2015, Helen Mirren stars in The Audience on Broadway.

Helen Mirren in The Audience. Joan Marcus

1920 enjoys a run at the New Amsterdam Roof Theatre. This revue boasts the talents of and .

1932 and star in , a musical by , , and , at the Ziegfeld Theatre. It's the last original musical produced by impresario , who dies four months later.

1960 The same year Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opens, star returns makes his musical debut in 's  at Broadway's Alvin Theatre.

1961 's comedy opens at the Helen Hayes Theatre. and star as a divorced couple forced to spend the night together because of a snowstorm. It runs 1,572 performances, overlapping with a 1963 film adaptation that stars Nelson opposite .

1984 Nancy Marchand, Harry Hamlin, Benjamin Hendrickson, and Frances McDormand star in a revival of Awake and Sing!, a family drama set in the Depression-era Bronx. Theodore Mann directs the Clifford Odets play at Circle in the Square Theatre.

1999 Everybody's Ruby, Thulani Davis's drama based on Zora Neale Hurston's coverage of a real murder trial, opens at the Joseph Papp Public/Anspacher Theater. stars, with staging by .

1999 Don't be afraid... . Or maybe you should be. stars as Danny, smiling and sinister, in the revival of 's 1936 thriller. and costar. directs at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre.

2001 A star-studded production of Jon Robin Baitz's newest play Ten Unknowns opens at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Donald Sutherland returns to the New York stage for the first time in 20 years alongside Julianna Margulies, Justin Kirk, and Denis O'Hare.

2007 John Mahoney, Alan Tudyk, and Annie Parisse star in Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas at Roundabout's American Airlines Theatre. The play follows an old man and a young bride who accidentally switch bodies and end up learning the true meaning of love.

2015 's , starring as Queen Elizabeth II in imagined meetings with each of her Prime Ministers, opens on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Mirren wins a Tony Award for her performance, as does for his performance as Harold Wilson.

2016 and 's musical , a parody of 1970's disaster movies, opens on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre. The cast includes , , , , , , and .

2016 Motown the Musical makes its West End debut at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. Cedric Neal stars as Berry Gordy with Lucy St. Louis at Diana Ross, Charl Brown as Smokey Robinson, and Sifiso Mazibuko as Marvin Gaye. The show is directed by Charles Randolph-White and designed by David Korins.

Today's Birthdays: Anna Held (1872鈥�1918). Darrell Fancourt (1886鈥�1953). Victor Wolfson (1909鈥�1990).  (1918鈥�2008). Douglass Wallop (1920鈥�1985).  (1922鈥�2008). Joseph Hardy (b. 1929). Timothy O'Brien (b. 1929).  (1929鈥�1989).&苍产蝉辫; (b. 1936).  (1943鈥�2010).&苍产蝉辫; (b. 1947). Constanza Romero (b. 1958). Camryn Manheim (b. 1961). Robert Stanton (b. 1963). Rick Younger (b. 1969). Boris Kodjoe (b. 1973).  (b. 1985). 

 
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