1900 Opening night of legendary musical Floradora at the Casino Theatre for a 553-performance run鈥攖he first major hit of the 20th century. The production is remembered principally for the Florodora Sextet in the song "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden." The chorus line of beautiful women became a staple of Broadway musicals.
1903 is The Pretty Sister of Jose in 's play at the Empire Theatre.
1920 and star in the U.S. premiere of 's Heartbreak House. It runs 125 performances at the Garrick Theatre.
1925 Birthday of , who starred in , , and on Broadway, but perhaps most memorably as King Arthur in the musical , and in the film version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf opposite his then-wife .
1942 The year 1942 finds and . The Theatre Guild presents the play, which tours and then runs 113 performances on Broadway.
1944 Birthday of , who writes lyrics to , , , , and many other musicals.
1949 Birthday of , who achieves stardom with , and evolves into a Tony-winning choreographer (, ).
1950 and star in the Broadway premiere of ' at the Lyceum Theatre. Hagen wins the 1951 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play.
1960 , , , and work through a . The Helen Hayes Theatre is home for the 132 performances of ' play.
1964 Critics want a whole lot more from , a musical that runs only 15 performances at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. What they get is a well-received but an otherwise apparently undistinguished show by composer , lyricists and , and librettist . directed.
1965 Long before came the Broadway play-with-music, , whose plot鈥攁ccording to Best Plays annual鈥攎ay be summed up as, "the family of a frisky Jewish granddad hires a Zulu as a companion for him." The show, starring , , and , was supposed to open November 9, but the East Coast black-out postponed the opening by 24 hours. Gentle reviews and Skulnik's lasting appeal from his Yiddish theatre days, carry the show to 179 performances.
1970 as Noah? It worked for and , whose musical retelling of Noah's Ark, , begins a ten-month run. The production is remembered for Kaye's increasingly wild improvisations and ad-libs, which were scarcely affected by a broken leg that caused him to play the part in a wheelchair.
1985 The first day of advance ticket sales for the December 5 opening of 's A Lie of the Mind sets a new one-day mark for Off-Broadway of $41,210. The star-studded cast includes , , and .
1981 , 's musical based on The Comedy of Errors, relocates Shakespeare's story of mistaken identity to revolutionary Iran. The taking of American hostages during its prep period does little to help its appeal, and it closes after just three performances, despite the presence of , , , and . The cast album inspires a modest cult of fans.
1993 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat opens on Broadway in its first revival production, a transfer of Steven Pimlott's hit West End staging that included a full children's choir onstage throughout. Michael Damian and Kelli Rabke lead the cast as Joseph and the Narrator.
1997 An array of wondrous props and puppets fail to help the satire, , bring in the crowds. The carnival-like look at the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis runs 128 performances at the Belasco Theatre.
2004 The Broadway production of plays its 7,000th performance.
2011 returns to The Great White Way in his musical evening, , opening at the Broadhurst Theatre. During the limited run, Jackman breaks records both at the box office and for money raised for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. In recognition of his "contributions to the Broadway community, both as a performer and humanitarian; his tireless dedication to charitable works of many types; and his personal generosity of spirit," Jackman receives a Special Tony Award in 2012.
2013 's all-male productions of and open on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre. Directed by , the plays star , and . Rylance receives a Tony nomination for his performance in the title role of Richard III, and wins for his performance as Olivia in Twelfth Night.
2019 The Transport Group and Public Theater鈥檚 world premiere of Broadbend, Arkansas opens at the Duke on 42nd Street. Starring Justin Cunningham (When They See Us) and Danyel Fulton (Jasper in Deadland), the musical traces three generations of an African-American family as they grapple with inequality, violence, and suppression in the South.
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