1905 Blanche Bates is Minnie, sweetheart of the mines in Girl of the Golden West. She tends a saloon, fugitive lover, and pursuing sheriff. Writer, director, and producer David Belasco is no stranger to the subject, having worked as an actor in Virginia City, Nevada, during the Comstock Lode boom. Composer later adapts the story into the opera La Fanciulla del West.
1945 stars as a presidential candidate trying to present a happy facade to voters with his estranged wife () in . and 's play opens a 765-performance run at the Hudson Theatre. It wins the 1946 Pulitzer Prize and is in 1948 is made into a film by Frank Capra, starring and .
1950 London's , damaged during the war, presents Bartholomew Fair in its restored theatre.
1950 The witches of begin their brew. 's play stars as a witch falling in love with mortal . The run spans 233 performances at the Barrymore Theatre.
1971 Just a year after they worked together on , playwright and director team up for , a program of one-act plays featuring . It opens at the Broadhurst Theatre and runs 289 performances, winning Thompson a 1972 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play.
1977 is directed by in the play, . This documentary-style drama about Israel's former prime minister runs 13 weeks.
1993 's , three plays tracing the place of Kentucky in American history, 1775鈥�1975, opens at the Royale Theatre. It is one of the few plays to win the Pulitzer Prize before it opens in New York, and New York audiences do not take to it. Despite the presence of in major roles, it closes after just 33 performances.
1996 The spirit of infuses a bare-bones revival of and 's that becomes the runaway smash of the season. Director , choreographer staging the show "in the style of Bob Fosse," and actors and , all take home Tonys, as does the show itself. Broadway's longest running revival, the show celebrated its 9,000th performance in 2018.
1999 , , , and star in a benefit reading of 's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. The special reading benefits the HB Playwrights Foundation & Theatre, which is named for Herbert Berghof, who was married to Uta Hagen. A gala supper follows the performance at the Marriott Marquis. Among the more than 130 playwrights who find a home at HB are , , , , , and .
2002 "I want to hear a poem," 1999 Fresh Poet of the Year says as opens on Broadway, featuring the contemporary urban slam-style poetry pioneered on his HBO show of the same name. The production runs 198 performances at the Longacre Theatre, and wins the 2003 Tony Award as Best Special Theatrical Event.
2003 , who created one of the more indelible portraits in musical comedy history with her Tony-winning portrayal of the slatternly, orphan-hating Miss Hannigan in the original , dies at age 70. Other credits in a long career included playing opposite Katharine Hepburn in in 1981 and starring in the original Broadway production of in 1983. Loudon was born September 17, 1933, in Boston, and went to school at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She earned three Tony nominations: for the aforementioned plus and Michael Bennett's .
2003 As part of a new initiative to spread the influence and awareness of the Tony Awards throughout the year, the 2003 Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre are bestowed in a ceremony at the Lyceum Theatre. Honorees include the principal ensemble of , hair and wig designer , , and .
2006 The Broadway revival of Chicago celebrates its tenth anniversary with a special benefit performance that brings together some three dozen stars who appeared in the show over the years, playing each scene with multiple actors.
2010 stars as Buddy the elf in , which opens on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Based on the 2003 film about a boy who was raised to believe he was one Santa's elves, the musical has a score by and , book by and , and co-stars , , , and .
2012 Playwright makes his Broadway debut with the comedy , opening at the Longacre Theatre. Set at the Adult Film Awards in Las Vegas, the play stars , , , , , and . After receiving mostly mixed to negative reviews, the production closes after only 6 performances.
2013 and 's musical Little Miss Sunshine, based on the 2006 road-trip comedy of the same name, opens Off-Broadway at . The show has been heavily revised since it's 2011 world premiere at , retaining only three songs from the previous version. The production stars Hannah Rose Norberg, , , and .
2016 makes his Broadway debut as in 's , opening at the Imperial Theatre. directs the musical, based on a 70-page slice of Tolstoy's War and Peace, that transforms the theatre into an opulent Russian salon that engulfs the audience. The show's cast also includes , , , and . It runs 336 performances.
More of Today's Birthdays: (1913-2011). (1921-1997). (b. 1951). Danny Gurwin (b. 1972). David Moscow (b. 1974). Russell Tovey (b. 1981). Cory Michael Smith (b. 1986).
