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Stage to Page 半岛体育 Vault鈥檚 Today in Theatre History: May 20 Today's birthdays include Sierra Boggess, Lisa Kron, and Judy Kuhn.
Judy Kuhn and Sierra Boggess Arturo Olmos

1919 and call it Kissing Time at London鈥檚 Winter Garden Theatre. provides the music for the tale of complications arising when French ladies carry on correspondence with younger men during the war. Lips lock for 430 performances.

1936 London鈥檚 New Theatre hosts 鈥檚 staging of s The Seagull. In the cast are , , and .

1969 La Corporation du Grand Theatre de Quebec is founded to promote the arts in Quebec City, Canada. The building has a large 1,800-seat theatre for operas, concerts, and dramas; a 300鈥�600-seat flexible room for plays; and a music conservatory for the 250鈥�350 students.

1990 The fateful four in Forever Plaid harmonize their way to Off-Broadway鈥檚 Steve McGraw鈥檚 Supper Club (renamed the Triad Theatre years later). , , , and compose the cast of 鈥� musical about a quartet who get to perform their last show they never made it to.

1999 Next year鈥檚 Tony nominees () and () star in the Drama Dept.鈥檚 double bill of 鈥檚 The Author鈥檚 Voice and 鈥� Imagining Brad. directs both productions at the Greenwich House Theatre.

2001 , the Broadway musical based on the stories of , closes after a tumultuous seven-month run.

2001 wins most of the top musical prizes at the Drama Desk Awards, setting the stage for its record-breaking Tony Award win a few weeks later.

2012 Peter Gethers and Daniel Okrent鈥檚 Old Jews Telling Jokes, an evening of comedy whose title says it all, opens Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre. The revue stars , , , Audrey Lynn Weston, and .

Today鈥檚 Birthdays: (1903鈥�1973); (1908鈥�1997); (b. 1933); (b. 1958); (b. 1959); (b. 1961); (b. 1982).

 
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