1836 Birthday of satirist , later to achieve immortality as the lyricist half of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta-writing team that produces The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, and other staples of the genre.
1919 Irene, the story of a shop girl charming a wealthy young man begins its run. and star. wrote the book with music by and . Irene runs seven months in the 1919鈥�1920 season and an additional 428 performances in the 1920鈥�21 season.
1930 says it's . Her play about a prima donna (played by future Richard Nixon opponent ) and an opera scout () runs almost seven months. It is 's last production before his death.
1930 , , , and , are all . The production, with a score by , is based on a story about a French waif brought to America for a taste of the high life.
1933 has his first featured role on Broadway in 's , also starring , , , , and .
1941 is in the play adapted by and from 's stories. directs the look at teenage sub-debs.
1942 An ice age, a hurricane, and the possible end of the world are visited upon the Antrobus family of New Jersey in , 's surreal parable about the survival of man against all odds. The opening night cast features , , and . The play wins the Pulitzer Prize and runs 359 performances.
1945 Birthday of actor and director , whose 1996 staging of becomes Broadway's longest-running American musical.
1946 stars on Broadway as Joan of Arc in 's . It runs 199 performances at the Alvin Theatre.
1961 Hoping to follow up her success in , takes the role of Liesl in , and 's musical version of La Ronde. It runs just 113 performances at the Shubert Theatre.
1964 plays a young writer having an affair with his prostitute neighbor () in by , which opens at the ANTA Theatre and runs 428 performances. A 1970 film adaptation stars and .
1999 Broadway brushes up its Shakespeare, as opens for the first time since 1965. Starring and , the production runs 882 performances at the Martin Beck Theatre.
2001 Another notable day for Alan Alda: He opens on Broadway in the (nearly) solo show, , in which he impersonates thoughtful physicist Richard Feynman at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater.
2004 After attending the opening night of the drama , composer falls ill at the cast party and is rushed to the hospital where he dies of a heart attack at age 75. Coleman won Best Score Tony Awards for his work on , , and . His other scores include , , , , , and .
2008 and 's Road Show, starring and as the eccentric Mizner brothers, opens at . The musical went through several years of development (and a few different titles), before landing Off-Broadway in the -helmed production.
2010 The world premiere of 's , a globe-spanning work set in New Orleans, Haiti, and France at the turn of the 19th century, opens on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. stages the sprawling production that is centered in New Orleans following the Haitian slave revolts, when聽its large population of Free People of Color (or the "Gens de Couleur Libres") inhabited a city that was more European than American in the early 17th century.
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