1887 Birthday of who, with wife and dancing partner , redefines not just what dancing represented on Broadway, but the kind of music used for that dancing. He is featured in About Town, The Girl Behind the Counter, , and before being killed at the front in World War I.
1895 Birthday of , sparkling Broadway lyricist whose most famous collaboration, with , produces , , , , , , and other witty musicals of the 1920s鈥�1930s.
1916 Commemorating the tercentenary of 's death, the company from the Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon presents a special matinee of Julius Caesar at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. Members of the company include Frank Benson, , , and .
1930 Playwright , who pens and , is born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
1957 and ponder at New York's Bijou Theatre. stages the drama that runs just 68 performances.
1977 returns to Broadway in Rodgers and Hammerstein's . The revival plays the Uris Theatre for 696 performances. plays Anna.
1984 and spend as their new musical opens on Broadway at the Booth Theatre. The show, which brings the famous Georges Seurat painting to life, stars and . It runs 604 performances, and wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
2000 's staging of Proof, by , begins performances Off-Broadway. , , , and star in the play that later extends, , and wins newcomer Auburn the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
2001 It's a publicist's dream: A lush revival of the musical opens on the revitalized 42nd Street (at the Ford Center), and goes on to win the Tony Award as Best Revival of a Musical.
2003 First Off-Broadway performance at for 's play I Am My Own Wife, which and wins both the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award as Best Play.
2004 Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change opens at Broadway's Eugene O'Neil following its successful world premiere production at Off-Broadway's Public Theater. Tonya Pinkins stars in the title role of this George C. Wolfe-helmed musical, which will go on to give Anika Noni Rose a Tony Award win for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role.
2005 opens on Broadway after a long rise from Off-Off-Broadway to regional theatre to Off-Broadway. The musical, with a score by , wins Tony Awards for Best Book () and Best Featured Actor in a Musical ().
2010 , a member of England's legendary acting clan, dies at age 67. Redgrave made her professional debut in 1962, as part of the cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Court Theatre. Her numerous Broadway credits included , , , , , , , , , , , , and .
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