1917 Birthday of , Broadway lyricist and librettist, mainly in collaboration with . Her works include , , , , , , , and many more.
1927 's music highlights at the 44th Street Theatre. The cast includes , Ted and , , and future Three Stooges stooge, .
1944 's exposes the life of a 15-year-old girl who has a venereal disease and must sort her life out in a hospital and then reform school. It plays five months at the 48th Street Theatre.
1956 provides book, music, and lyrics for , opening at the Imperial Theatre. stars as pretty young waitress Rosabella, opposite as Tony, the aging Italian vineyard owner who falls in love with her from afar. Loesser and Sullivan, who first met while working on the show, marry three years later.
1960 If you could scrape together $55, producer might have called on you. He was trying to get a musical adaptation of an play, Les Romanesques, up and running. Tonight and provide the book, lyrics, and score for a new musical The Fantasticks (no relation to the 1900 comedy of that title, starring ). At the Sullivan Street Theatre, the show stars , , and . 42 years follow, follow, follow, follow....
1981 , a satirical revue celebrating a fictional composer-lyricist, opens at the Morosco Theatre. Judy Kaye, Jeff Goldblum, Gary Beach, and more star.
1988 's , starring in her Broadway debut, opens at the Royale Theatre. and co-star in the production.
1993 , , and work their magic on , based on 's novel about two men confined in a prison cell. directs , , and in the production at the Broadhurst Theatre. The production wins seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
2006 Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore opens at the Lyceum Theatre in a staging helmed by Wilson Milam. The cast includes David Wilmot, Domhall Gleeson, Alison Pill, and Brian d'Arcy James.
2007 Michael Cerveris, Donna Murphy, David Pittu and more can hear the Lovemusik in this Kurt Weill-Alfred Uhry musical. Inspired by letters between Weill and Lotte Lenya, the production is directed by Hal Prince at the Biltmore Theatre.
2012 stars as salesman Theodore Hickman in 's epic The Iceman Cometh at the in Chicago. Among the denizens of a saloon in the -directed production are and . Three years later, the production transfers to New York for a limited engagement at the .
More of Today's Birthdays: (1899-1991). (1902-1983), Howard Bay (1912-1986), (1913-1973), Tom O'Horgan (1924-2009), Herbert Blau (1926-2013), Stanley Chase (1927-2014), (1931-1994), Kenneth Scott (1940-2015), (1947-2000), Ron Canada (b.1949), (b. 1958), 1970, Dul茅 Hill (b. 1975), Rebecca Hall (b.1982), (b. 1989)
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