1913 Birthday of June Hovik, better known as , even better known as namesake of Baby June, the character based on her in the musical . The show pretty accurately sums up her childhood with a hard-driving mom in the dying years of vaudeville, and a sister who later becomes . Havoc has a busy Broadway career of her own, appearing in , , , and her own play, . She's present to advise the cast of the original 1959 Gypsy, as well as the .
1926 Opening night at the Imperial Theatre for the George and musical , about hijinks involving rumrunners at a Long Island estate. and are featured in the show, which runs 256 performances and introduces the standards "Someone To Watch Over Me," "Do Do Do," and "Clap Yo' Hands." In 2012, a reworked version of the musical opens on Broadway under the title .
1932 Opening night for and 's operetta at the Alvin Theatre, beginning a run of 342 performances. The score includes "I've Told Ev'ry Little Star" and "The Song Is You." The cast includes , , , and a pre-I Love Lucy .
1939 , a family comedy based on 鈥檚 stories that was written by and , opens at the Empire Theatre. The cast includes Lindsay himself taking over a role that was turned down by . He appears on stage with his offstage wife, . Lindsay had hoped that the play would run for at least six months. He gets his wish; the play runs for over eight years, setting a new record for a non-musical play, racking up 3,224 performances.
1950 and a young appear together in 's at the Royale Theatre for 151 performances. Gielgud also directs the romantic comedy set in the 15th century.
1973 by opens at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, marking the first time that has a show at Lincoln Center. stars as a middle-aged woman realizing that her adult life is, in reality, not that much better than her abusive childhood. and co-star in the show that wins mixed reviews and a short run of only 37 performances.
1979 opens at the Barrymore Theatre with stars and . The play gets mixed reviews and runs 396 performances.
1990 opens at Lincoln Center after a successful Off-Broadway run. Directed by and starring , , and , the show about a Black impostor posing as a college friend of a White family's son runs for 485 performances at its new home.
2001 's revival of 's not altogether affectionate comic treatise on her sex, , features a constellation of contemporary stars, including , , , , and .
2006 After numerous stage adaptations of movies, Broadway gets a musical based on a TV special. opens at the Hilton Theatre and proves to be so popular, it . stars as the greedy green title character, with as his faithful pooch.
2007 He grunts, he shuffles, he stomps鈥攈e sings! Mary Shelley's 19th-century creature is reinvented for Broadway in , and 's musical based on Brooks' 1974 film comedy, opening at the Hilton Theatre. The production stars as Dr. Frankenstein, as the doctor's love interest Elizabeth, as comely assistant Inga, as The Monster, as castle matron Frau Blucher, and as hunchback Igor. Reviews are less enthusiastic than for Brooks' previous Broadway effort, the smash hit , but the production still runs 485 performances.
2011 , ' two-character play about the relationship between a hungry actor and a controlling writer-director, opens on Broadway at 's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. , who created the role of Vanda in the production's 2010 Off-Broadway premiere, stars opposite . Arianda wins a 2012 Tony Award for her performance.
2012 , the 1977 show that introduced generations of children to the tuneful optimism of traditional Broadway musicals, opens in a new production on Broadway at the Palace Theatre. The 35th anniversary revival of the tale of a red-headed orphan in the care of a billionaire Republican during the Great Depression stars in the title role, as Miss Hannigan, and as Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks.
2015 , , and 's musical , inspired by the childhood of veteran actor , opens on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre. Takei stars alongside and . The production runs 111 performances.
2018 , a Broadway musical based on Merian C. Cooper鈥檚 1932 adventure novel that inspired the 1933 Hollywood classic鈥攁nd a subsequent film franchise鈥攐pens at the Broadway Theatre. The centerpiece of the production is its titular star: a 20-foot-high, 2,000-pound puppeteer-operated gorilla whose lifelike face is capable of expressing a breathtaking range of emotion. The puppet's creators, Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company, receive a Special Tony Award.
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