1903 's Babes in Toyland opens on Broadway, introducing the songs "I Can't Do the Sum," "Go To Sleep," "Toyland," and "The March of the Wooden Soldiers." The last title is adopted as the title of a 1930s film version, starring Laurel and Hardy.
1924 's comedy opens on Broadway with , , and . It runs 496 performances.
1955 's comedy of social climbing in the business world, opens on Broadway with a cast that features , , , and . It runs 444 performances.
1958 , star of stage and screen, actually auditioned for the Actor's Studio last week. According to Leonard Lyon's column, which was published today, "star or no star, she still had to audition. She passed." Bancroft is remembered for her portrayal both on stage (1960) and in film (1962) of teacher Annie Sullivan in . She wins both a Tony Award and an Academy Award for the role.
1962 's opens at the Billy Rose Theatre (now the Nederlander). , , , and are the cast who perform the three-and-half hour long show six times a week. The show is so challenging and long, a separate cast does matinee performances. Woolf, about two couples who bare their personal secrets, runs 664 performances in New York before heading to London with Hagen and Hill in tow, where it runs 428 performances.
1964 's production of , by , opens at the Martin Beck Theatre. The drama, about a group of scientists who hide out in an insane asylum, stars the husband and wife team and . The show runs 55 performances.
1987 gets a shining moment at as his Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune opens. The story involves a middle-aged cook and waitress who sleep together one night and find themselves dealing with whether or not they should be involved. stars with in the production, which runs for 533 performance. The play is turned into a movie in 1991 starring and Michelle Pfeiffer, and finally starring and .
1998 The rarely-produced play Pericles sees a production at Off-Broadway's . The mounting is directed by and stars and . The Public also produced the last major New York production of the play in 1991, with directing in the title role.
1999 Screen star takes over the title role in the Off-Broadway rock musical about a sex-change operation gone wrong, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Sheedy's portrayal of Hedwig is the first and last time a woman plays the title role in the production. Sheedy remains with the show for only a few stormy weeks, until assumes the role on January 6.
2005 British playwright wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.
2005 Onetime Cheech and Chong comedian makes his Broadway directing debut with , 's collection of comic monologues about the Latino experience in America.
2007 The musical premieres on MTV. It had been filmed live at the Palace Theatre, in its entirety, at the September 18 performance.
2010 America's angst-ridden adolescence rocks out on Broadway as and 's opens at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. stars as the seventh President of the United States, portrayed as a rebellious rock star leading a nation through its troubled teens. The 90-minute musical is equal parts sketch comedy, underground rock concert, and revisionist history lesson.
2011 's Olivier Award-winning drama , starring and , opens on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Set in a Memphis motel room on April 3, 1968, the play re-imagines the events leading up to the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
2012 George and Martha return to Broadway in , opening 50 years to the day of its 1962 Broadway premiere. This time around, and play the college-town husband and wife, in the staging first seen in late 2010 at 's home in Chicago. The production earns three 2013 Tony Awards: Best Actor in a Play (Letts), Best Direction of a Play (), and Best Revival of a Play.
2016 Following a sold-out, world-premiere run Off-Broadway, 鈥� opens on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. and reprise their roles as two strangers who embark on a life-changing journey.
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