1694 Birthday of French author Fran莽ois Marie Arouet, better known as , whose satirical novel Candide serves as source material for .
1888 Birthday of , better known as Harpo, silent sibling of comedy team, seen on Broadway in , , and , and a character in the biographical musical .
1933 has just seven performances at the 49th Street Theatre. 's play deals with the suffering of a German-Jewish family under the Nazi regime.
1934 With words and music by , opens at the Alvin Theatre. The cast includes , , and in the one year-plus run. The book, about cabaret singer Reno Sweeney and Public Enemy No. 13 chasing around a France-bound ocean liner, is provided by , , , and . Songs include "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "Blow, Gabriel, Blow."
1944 directs his own script of , based on the Pulitzer-winning novel by . plays the title character, and the production runs 384 performances at the Lyceum Theatre.
1979 , based on a story by , comes to the Helen Hayes Theatre after first being seen at the Chelsea Theatre Center. stars as a horse named Strider and is saddled with the part for 27 weeks.
1983 's comic strip comes to life in a musical by Trudeau and . It runs just 104 performances at the Biltmore Theatre, but features several future stars: , , and .
1994 and star in the -directed Vita and Virginia, based on the correspondence between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, at the Union Square Theatre. Atkins had previously played Woolf in a 1991 Off-Broadway stage adaptation of A Room of One's Own. This show, which The Times calls a "literary tea-for-two," runs 29 performances.
1999 raises a glass with fellow partygoers , , , and as they try at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The cocktail party is a front to perform a "review" of songs by . The show was conceptualized and created by Sondheim in 1992, when it was produced in London by . It then came to Off-Broadway starring . Now on Broadway at last, the show runs 101 performances.
2004 The national tour of the new Disney musical On the Record, featuring more than 50 songs from the Disney catalog, bows at Cleveland's Palace Theatre, starring and . It continues through summer 2005 but does not go to Broadway.
2010 's , an odd-couple comedy about two inmates from a mental institution who are given a shot at living on their own, opens on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Directed by , the cast includes , , , , and . The production closes the following Sunday, after 9 performances.
2011 For the first time since they dazzled audiences in the original Broadway production of , Tony winners and share a Broadway stage in . The pair perform songs including "Everything's Coming Up Roses," "The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues," "Don't Cry For Me Argentina," "Oh What a Circus," and the famous bench scene from . The limited engagement runs 63 performances at the Barrymore Theatre.
2013 The world premiere of 's The Commons of Pensacola opens Off-Broadway at . and star in the play about a woman who was forced to leave her luxurious New York life after her husband's Wall Street scam became headline news.
2017 plays a shy, Midwestern man masquerading as a highbrow Londoner in 's solo play Harry Clarke, opening Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre. The production extends twice at the Vineyard, and later transfers to the Minetta Lane Theatre for a return engagement.
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