1922 Comedy team Potash and Perlmutter are The show plays 31 weeks at the Selwyn Theatre.
1922 George Ault Mosel Jr. is born in Steubenville, Ohio. Under the name , his adaptation of 's novel A Death in the Family, titled , wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1961.
1926 Scotland Yard is chasing The Ringer. 's mystery has a run of 410 performances at London's Wyndham's Theatre. directs.
1929 , , and are members of the final collection of . The show survives just 93 performances at the Booth Theatre on Broadway.
1983 Originally intended as a revival of the 1927 Gershwin musical , 's transforms into its own new musical as it opens on Broadway. The show, with book by and , and music and lyrics by George and , respectively, plays 767 performances at the St. James Theatre.
1991 Eight years later, Tommy Tune is back on Broadway as he directs and, of course, choreographs which opens at the Palace Theatre. The show garners 11 Tony nominations and wins six of them, including Best Musical.
2001 Brian Stokes Mitchell, Leslie Uggams, Charles Brown, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Mont茅 Russell star in August Wilson's King Hedley II, opening today at Broadway's Virginia Theatre (later re-named the August Wilson). Part of Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, the play takes place in the Pittsburgh of 1985 and centers on an ex-con trying to put his life back together. Davis will go on to win a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance.
2003 stars in a Broadway revival of , which runs 13 months and is nominated for a Tony Award as Best Revival.
2006 After a successful tryout at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, The Drowsy Chaperone opens on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre, starring Bob Martin (also co-bookwriter) and Sutton Foster. It goes on to win five of its 13 Tony nominations, including Best Performance by a Featured Actress for Beth Leavel in the titular role.
2006 The old red-and-white canvas TKTS discount ticket booth, a Times Square landmark since 1974, closes to make way for a new booth to be built on the site. Operations move temporarily to a kiosk at the Marriott Marquis Hotel. The new TKTS booth, featuring an illuminated red glass staircase, opens on October 16, 2008.
2006 , the playwright, director, and screenwriter whose credits included , , and the film of Cabaret, dies of a stroke at her home in Manhattan.
2008 and star in a Broadway revival of at the 's American Airlines Theatre.
2013 A revival of and 's short lived 1981 Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along opens at the West End's Harold Pinter Theatre, following a successful run at the . Directed by , the production stars Mark Umbers as Franklin Shepard, Damian Humbley as Charley Kringas, and as Mary Flynn. It wins Best Musical Revival at the 2014 Olivier Awards.
2016 The New York premiere of , , and 鈥檚 musical Dear Evan Hansen opens Off-Broadway at , following its world premiere run at in Washington, D.C. makes his Off-Broadway debut in the title role. Following glowing reviews and a sold-out run, the production later that year.
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Ben Platt and cast of the original Broadway production of Dear Evan Hansen
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