1933 Trying to follow-up the success of their Pulitzer-winning musical , , , , and bring back President John Wintergreen and VP Alexander Throttlebottom for the musical sequel , which depicts a revolution. Depression-jittery audiences stay away, and it runs just 90 performances.
1953 Onetime Algonquin Round Table wit tries her hand at a Broadway play. is panned by her onetime colleagues, and runs just 45 performances.
1961 acquires the basement space on the Lower East Side that she will eventually turn into Cafe La Mama. The theatre fosters its own company, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, in 1964. The company, which still operates under that name, was founded by , best known for his direction of the rock musical .
1969 A blind man leaves his over-protective mother to live on his own in 's , opening on Broadway at the Booth Theatre. and star. Playing the supporting role of the free-spirited love interest is a young , who wins a Tony Award for her performance. The production goes on to run 1,128 performances.
1975 The long-neglected 1915 opera gets its Broadway debut at the Gershwin Theatre. It runs 64 performances.
1977 A host of future stars make up the cast of 's Uncommon Women and Others, which opens at the Marymount Manhattan Theatre, housed within Marymount Manhattan College on the Upper East Side. , , and play a group of women recalling their college days in the production, which runs only 22 performances. Although reviews are only lukewarm, Kurtz wins an Obie for her role.
1981 opens the double bill of The Actor's Nightmare and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All to You. plays the nun whose pupils all despise her. Clive Barnes writes in the New York Post, "Durang takes irreverence to the point of saintliness鈥攈e not only makes a profession of it, he turns it into a religion." Following its limited engagement at Playwrights Horizons, it transfers to the Westside Theatre where it runs for 947 performances.
1983 The Brooks Atkinson Theatre box office is robbed at gunpoint while the star is napping in his dressing room between performances of .
1990 Underpaid and underrated, theatre actors get a boost when , producer and director of 's , commits to sharing future profits with cast members of the show. The show had been running since May 1990 and runs for a total of 328 performances, with the cast receiving at least some share of the profits.
1999 Though the disco era is long dead, producers mount a splashy stage adaptation of the film , starring and . It boogies for 501 performances.
2002 Star-studded concerts paying tribute to the works of former collaborators and go to head-to-head at two famed New York venues. A Concert Spectacular of Musical Highlights Featuring Stars from the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration bows at Avery Fisher Hall with performances from the six musicals presented at the D.C. theatre the previous summer鈥�Sweeney Todd, Company, Sunday in the Park with George, Passion, Merrily We Roll Along, and A Little Night Music鈥攁s well as songs rendered by . Other actors taking part: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Miriam Shor, , , and . Meanwhile, City Center offers Shall We Dance: A Dance Tribute to Richard Rodgers the same night. Presented by Career Transition for Dancers, the 8th Annual Next Step Gala stars , , , , , , , , , and Tony winners and .
2010 , 's biographical sports play that takes audiences to the living room, locker room, and gridiron of football coach Vince Lombardi, opens at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre. stars as coach Lombardi, with as his wife, and as a young reporter who comes to stay for a week.
2015 The world premiere of 's First Daughter Suite, a follow-up to the composer's 1993 musical First Lady Suite, opens Off-Broadway at the Public Theater. The cast includes , , , , and .
2018 鈥檚 West End hit opens on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Sam Mendes directs a 30+ member cast, including , , and . The production wins four Tony Awards, including Best Play.
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