1922 The Lucky One is the brother who doesn't get the girl in the play. It's staged at the Theatre Guild by with a cast including , , and .
1934 's opens at Maxine Elliot's Theatre. Its lesbian theme causes a stir, but Brooks Atkinson calls the play "venomously tragic." The stars are , , and in the show that runs for 691 performances.
1943 An interesting wartime artifact, , opens a 212-performance run at the 44th Street Theatre. writes the script and writes the music for the military-themed play with music, the only Broadway show ever produced by The U.S. Army Air Forces.
1946 Lillian Hellman has another show on Broadway on this day in theatre history. This time, she directs her play, , which opens at the Fulton Theatre. It revisits some of the characters from earlier in their lives. The cast includes , , and in the 23-week run.
1952 's comedy , about a married man longing to stray with a beautiful neighbor, opens at the Fulton Theatre. The cast includes and in the role that Marilyn Monroe immortalizes in the 1955 movie (which also stars Ewell). The Broadway production runs for an incredible 1,141 performances and wins Ewell a Tony Award for Best Dramatic Actor.
1957 The Rope Dancers, directed by , with a cast including , , , and , begins a 24-week run. The drama by deals with the lives of a New York tenement family at the turn of the century.
1966 "Life is beautiful" inside the Broadhurst Theatre as opens on Broadway. Adapted by from 's The Berlin Stories, with a score by and , the show runs for 1,165 performances. It wins eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical (), and Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (). Grey repeats his performance as Master of Ceremonies in 's 1972 film adaptation, winning him an Academy Award.
1983 Opening night for , a rock opera about the life of movie star Marilyn Monroe. Despite a team of ten songwriters working on the score, the show manages just 17 performances at the Minskoff Theatre. plays Norma Jean/Marilyn.
1989 Final Broadway opening for two titans, and , in a revival of 's . It runs 208 performances at the Ambassador Theatre.
1990 's best-selling novel Shogun becomes an unsuccessful musical, debuting at the Marquis Theatre. Paul Chihara and John Driver's , with elaborate costumes and sets, stars . "Pillowing" is the only song in a Broadway musical this season in praise of sexual toys: "It never tires of women like a lazy, jaded man."
2002 Without an understudy and up a creek due to the illness of the lead actor (Misty Cotton) in its staging of The Spitfire Grill, the Laguna Playhouse in California puts out an all-points bulletin to find a replacement to star in its three-week-old production. New York composer gets a frantic request from California: Are any Percys from recent regional productions willing and able to jump into the production? Valcq has the answer: New York actor Kathryn Blake, who was nominated for a 2002 Carbonell Award for her performance in the Florida Stage production. She jets to California and jumps back into the role for the rest of the run.
2008 The production of 鈥檚 , starring , , , and , opens on Broadway at the Booth Theatre. directs the comedy-drama about the battling Gordon clan of Harrison, Texas, who must decide whether to sell the family mansion to developers.
2011 , 's play about the creative and personal tensions of four young novelists who are taking a private writing class with a potentially damaging teacher, opens on Broadway at the Golden Theatre. The production stars as the acid-tongued teacher, with , , , and as his students.
2014 A revival of 's Pulitzer Prize-winning family drama opens on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre. The cast includes , , , , , and .
2016 stars in an intimate Off-Broadway staging of Sweet Charity, opening at the Pershing Square Signature Center. The New Group revival of , , and ' musical is directed by and choreographed by .
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