1951 Performer dies in Hollywood at age 60. Her showbiz career began with wins in a series of amateur nights at vaudeville theatres in Brooklyn, before a foray into burlesque as a Yiddish-dialect comedian. She was the first female comic hired by for his legendary Follies series. She made her debut in 1910 and became one of the Follies鈥� signature acts. She starred in her first film in 1928, but did not pursue a movie career. She created the character Baby Snooks on stage, and it later became the centerpiece of her long-running radio show. Her life was immortalized in the Broadway musical , starring .
1951 returns to New York, exactly three years after its original production closed on Broadway. The national tour of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, which visited 114 cities since its start in 1943, opens a limited 100-performance engagement at the Broadway Theatre.
1959 Comedian-singer Max Bygraves spends 328 performances Swinging Down the Lane at London鈥檚 Palladium Theatre.
1963 stars in the 鈥檚 revival of , presented as part of the company鈥檚 spring season dedicated to the musicals of . The cast also includes as Vera Simpson, as Ludlow Lowell (re-creating the role he played in the musical鈥檚 ), as Gladys Bumps, and as Linda English. The New York Times hails , writing that in the role of reporter Melba Snyder she 鈥渂rings down the house鈥� with her performance of the song 鈥淶ip.鈥�
1998 Kevin Knight, who directed the London premiere of Birdy, brings the American premiere to the Philadelphia Theatre Company. Naomi Wallace鈥檚 adaptation of William Wharton鈥檚 novel is set in Philadelphia just after World War II, and examines the friendship between the sensitive, bird-obsessed Birdy and body building-obsessed Al and their struggle with identity.
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