1893 , film acting pioneer whose Broadway career lasts from 1913 to 1976, is born. Her stage performances include , , and several versions of .
1912 The first Broadway stage adaptation of 's Little Women, with and , opens at the Playhouse Theatre.
1930 The Gershwin Brothers, George and Ira, are at it again with the opening of their new musical, . The show provides an outlet for several unknown stars, both on stage and in the orchestra pit. stops the show singing "I've Got Rhythm" with an incredible 16-beat hold on the "I." She is later reported as being able to "hold a note longer than Chase Manhattan." Ingenue is also in the cast, singing "Embraceable You." In the orchestra are unknown musicians , , , and . The show runs more than 34 weeks, racking up 272 performances.
1958 Pre-Star Trek plays a painter who falls in love with a Hong Kong sex worker () in 's , directed by .
1961 reteams with his collaborator on another musical about life in the big city, , opening at the 46th Street Theatre. This time, Burrows and Loesser look not at the lowlife underground, but at the high life and the goings on within a high-rise office building. The story follows a young man's progression from window washer to CEO of a major company in New York. Although is credited with choreographing the show, is on the bill as having done the "musical staging." co-stars with and in the musical comedy satire, which gets rave reviews, seven Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and runs for more than 1,400 performances.
1967 One of the largest theatrical empires in the world loses its patriarch as David Nederlander, who founded in 1912, dies. He founded the organization first as a small theatre in Detroit, Michigan. It grew to represent theatres, producers, and shows around the world. Today, the organization is responsible for housing such shows as , , and .
1987 's opens at the Plymouth Theatre after successful runs at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum and Off-Broadway's Circle Rep. The play, about a dancer who finds a bully appealing, stars , , , and . The show runs 437 performances.
1999 Steve Buscemi stars alongside Willem Dafoe and Kate Valk in the latest show from Wooster Group, the 15-year-old North Atlantic. The work by James Strahs that looks at the changing role of the military was first staged by the Wooster Group at its Performing Garage in January 1984 starring and Dafoe.
2003 Jerry Springer: The Opera, which enjoyed a smash world premiere run at London's , transfers to the West End's Cambridge Theatre for a commercial run. The musical centers on its title character, talk show host , and his confrontational daytime talk show.
2008 The first show to open at the newly rechristened Samuel J. Friedman Theatre is , 鈥檚 adaptation of the Ernst Lubitsch film comedy about a Polish acting troupe that tries to escape the Nazis during World War II with nothing but their acting ability to help them. directs a cast including , , and for .
2010 ' frothy staging of 's comedic escapade , which pits a princess, a playwright, and a pontificating clown against one another, opens on at the Music Box Theatre. , , and star.
2015 and star in a Broadway revival of 's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, , opening at the Golden Theatre.
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