1903 Birthday of Jerome Lester Horwitz, better known by his stage name Curly Howard, who teams up with his brother Harry Moses Horwitz (a.k.a. Moe) and Larry Fine to form the comedy team . They appear on Broadway in the musicals and the 1939 edition of , as well as dozens of short film comedies.
1926 , ' drama about reincarnation, opens its 789-performance run. Among its stars is , later namesake of the Broadway awards. The show is unusual in that its producer keeps it running long after it begins to lose money鈥攐ften allowing people in for free鈥攂ecause he thinks the world needs to hear its message. When the production finally closes, it is Broadway's biggest failure to date, losing over a million pre-Depression dollars.
1932 and 's opens on Broadway for a 232-performance run. The Depression-era story follows a group of invitees to a swanky dinner party, each of whom is suffering from financial desperation, but trying to hide the fact from the others, dreaming that the others will help them. The ironic story leads to a film version and numerous revivals.
1942 鈥攖丑别 play, not the song鈥攐pens on Broadway with and . It runs 95 performances.
1951 Carnegie Hall hosts a one-night-only reading of 's Don Juan in Hell. This is the first time it has been staged in New York, although the performance has its stars in evening clothes holding their scripts in front of them. directs and also stars, alongside , , and , of Bewitched fame. The very limited engagement is followed by a short tour.
1956 , silky, wide-eyed star of Lucky Stiff, Hello Again, , , and , is born.
1958 by and , opens on Broadway. The comedy of manners stars Skinner, , , , and . It continues for 474 performances.
1959 stars in 's musical , based on an unlikely source: 's It has a 448-performance run, and introduces a young actor destined for greatness: .
1964 "The playwright's name is , and I know nothing about him," says Michael Smith in the Village Voice, "except that he has written a pair of provocative and genuinely original plays." This is the response to the opening of Shepard's first-ever produced works: Cowboy and The Rock Garden at the St. Marks, produced by Theatre Genesis in the Bouwerie Church in the East Village. Shepard goes on to become a well known name in American drama for his plays, , Curse of the Starving Class, and Pulitzer-winner .
1975 stars as Bessie Smith in the solo, , which opens at the Ambassador Theatre. She has co-written the show with . The show runs 453 performances.
1992 Having had productions all over New York City, allows the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater to be host for her new play, The Sisters Rosenweig, which opens for a run 149-performance run. Among the stars are , , , and . The sisterly show , where it runs 556 performances.
2002 , the Canadian theatrical impresario who mounted lavish Broadway musical productions including and , is one of four former executives of the former producing organization arrested and charged with "fraud affecting the public market," the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announces. After a four-year criminal investigation into the financial activities of the entertainment company, the charges pertaining to "accounting irregularities within Livent Inc." between 1989 and 1998 are finally made. Drabinsky and three of his Livent colleagues, Myron I. Gottlieb, Gordon Eckstein, and Robert Topol are all taken into police custody this morning, and later granted bail. Drabinsky had retired to his native Canada after similar charges were brought in the U.S. in 1998.
2006 , who played George to 's Martha in the original production of , dies at age 84.
2009 's three-character , a new take on 's famous 1888 play about class and relationships, opens at the American Airlines Theatre. , , and star in the production.
2012 The New York premiere of 's Disgraced, starring and , opens Off-Broadway at LCT3's Claire Tow Theater. The play about a Pakistani-American lawyer who distances himself from his cultural roots as he climbs the corporate ladder, is later awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The production .
2015 ,聽the 1968 Off-Broadway musical that helped launch the career of , premieres on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre. directs and choreographers a cast including , , and . It runs for 85 performances.
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