1859 Birthday of who, as half of the team of Klaw and Erlanger, produced dozens of Broadway shows during the first three decades of the 20th century, including Dracula, Peg o' My Heart, and The Jazz Singer.
1891 Opening night of the musical extravaganza Wang, starring .
1943 , , , and are cast members in . 's drama about a woman told she might die if she has children is staged by . It runs for 22 performances at Broadway's Morosco Theatre.
1976 It will be a short visit to . 's musical about former presidents and their wives lasts just seven performances. composes the score.
1976 Side by Side by Sondheim is exactly that in the revue filled with songs by . (who also stages), , , and make up the cast at London's Mermaid Theatre. It later moves to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre for 781 performances.
1982 Playwright-director 's opens on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre. The play involves a white South African boy and his two Black servants and stars , , and .
1993 's opens at the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway. The first half of Kushner's soon-to-be Pulitzer and Tony Award winner stars , , , , , Jeffrey Wright, and David Marshall Grant.
1999 Having begun March 12, 1987, the and musical reaches its 5,000th performance. As of March 1999, nearly 400 shows had closed on Broadway since Les Mis茅rables opened, and the on-stage turntable had made a dizzying 159,744 revolutions. Les Mis茅rables finally closes in May 2003, having played a total of 6,680 performances.
2003 and star in the PBS Hollywood Presents television version of 's Pulitzer-winning drama The Gin Game.
2005 dances the title role of on opening night, just weeks after breaking her ankle in a fall during the show's out-of-town tryout.
2008 The hit London revival of , 's sex farce about a swinging bachelor and his three stewardess girlfriends, opens on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre. It stars , , , and , and is directed by . Rylance wins the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, and the production wins for Best Revival of a Play.
2008 Costume designer dies at age 92. Colt designed costumes for more than 50 Broadway productions, and won a Tony Award for the 1955 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical .
2011 The production of King Lear, starring in the title role, opens at the . directs the Shakespeare tragedy's month-long run.
2011 , a Tony-winning stage and film actor known for her way with maternal and earthy characters, dies at age 83. Routinely described as one of her generation's finest actors, her breakout performance was in the original 1970 production of 's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, and she won her Tony Award for her performance in .
2017 Exactly 24 years after Millennium Approaches opened on Broadway, and star in a London revival of Angels in America at the . directs the production, which includes both Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, running in repertory. It wins the Olivier Award for Best Revival, and the following year.
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