1882 U.S. premiere of and 's operetta Iolanthe, about fairies and other supernatural folk who get involved with Parliamentary peers.
1907 Caesar and Cleopatra opens at London's Savoy Theatre. The history play had its premiere at the Grand Theatre, Leeds, in September of the same year. The players in the production include Johnstone Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliott, Philip Tonge, and Elizabeth Watson.
1913 Could have realized his appearance in The Misleading Lady would begin a 76 year career in the theatre? and are the authors of the play about a woman who tricks a man into marriage just for a joke. is the star directed by .
1929 by stars , , , and an unknown in a walk-on, his Broadway debut. Presented by the Theatre Guild and directed , the play will run six weeks.
1933 Playwright and critic team up for the play , which runs just 57 performances at the Morosco Theatre. Kaufman uses Woollcott as the subject of his 1939 comedy, .
1952 The Mousetrap by is set at the Ambassadors' Theatre in London. The cast, trapped in a lonely snow-bound manor, is led by Richard Attenborough and his off-stage wife Sheila Sim. The longest uninterrupted run in the history of world theatre, it has played over 27,000 performances.
1959 A musical written as a resort show proves to be a Broadway hit: , based on the fairytale of "The Princess and the Pea," transfers to the Alvin Theatre, following a downtown run at the Phoenix. Composer , daughter of , gets a 460-performance hit and a Tony nomination as Best Musical her first time out. It also marks the Broadway debut of comedian , who also earns a Tony nomination and a four-decade-plus career.
2001 Dracula, 's musical based on the horror classic, concludes a successful tryout at La Jolla Playhouse in California, with producers promising a Broadway opening in fall 2002, but 's bloodsucking tale winds up beating it to the Great White Way. Dracula, the Musical finally .
2002 Queen Elizabeth II attends the 50th anniversary performance of The Mousetrap in London's West End. It's the first time the monarch has seen the thriller, which opened the same year she ascended the throne, and both are still reigning.
2008 , the longtime Chairman of the theatre-owning powerhouse known as the Shubert Organization and a man routinely referred to as the most powerful man on Broadway, dies at his home in Manhattan. He was 84 years old.
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Carol Burnett and Jane White in Once Upon A Mattress
Company of Once Upon A Mattress
Carol Burnett in Once Upon A Mattress
Carol Burnett and Jane White in Once Upon A Mattress
Company of Once Upon A Mattress
Company of Once Upon A Mattress
Company of Once Upon A Mattress
Carol Burnett and company of Once Upon A Mattress
