1904 Birthday of , Broadway playwright who writes or cowrites , , , , and , to name just a few. He also directs the original Broadway productions of and . He lives to 1961, and is survived by his wife, actor and philanthropist .
1910 Fred Terry stars in the title role of The Scarlet Pimpernel, the non-musical original Broadway adaptation of 's novel.
1935 , a new play by poet , opens at the Vanderbilt Theatre. The play, which follows the trials of a young interracial couple in the Old South, stars and runs 373 performances.
1951 The Ethel Barrymore Theatre hosts and performing together for the first time on a Broadway stage. They star in 's comedy . stages the show, whose entire action takes place in a bedroom. The show runs for 632 performances, and Tandy and Cronyn are compared to and by Daily News critic John Chapman. A musical version of The Fourposter, , becomes a hit for and .
1963 Fresh from their success with The Fantasticks, songwriters Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt make their Broadway debut with based on 's drama, . It runs 330 performances at the Broadhurst Theatre.
1974 has a hit on Broadway as his opens at the Plymouth Theatre. The story follows a tragic young man's fascination with horses until it ultimately affects his sex life. The entire plot takes place in a psychiatric ward, where portrays the psychiatrist who tries his hardest to help the disturbed young man, played by . and also star in the Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle Award-winning play. It runs 1,209 performances.
1984 A new entertainer is introduced to Broadway as opens her at the Lyceum Theatre. directs the 156-performance run. Douglas Watt writes in the Daily News: "Long may she whoop."
1991 Irishman 's opens at the Plymouth Theatre. The story follows five unmarried sisters faced with poverty in rural Ireland. Friel has long been a New York favorite, bringing such works to New York as ; ; ; and . Lughnasa runs 421 performances.
1994 Actor Ra煤l Juli谩 dies at age 54 after suffering a stroke. Heavily involved in the Public's , he starred in and , as well as Broadway's and movies such as The Addams Family. At his funeral, friend says he "asked all the big questions and smoked all the big cigars."
2000 Mary-Louise Parker stars as a woman trying to validate the authorship of her late father's groundbreaking proof about prime numbers in David Auburn's Proof, opening today at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre. The work will go on to three 2001 Tony Awards, including Best Play, Best Actress in a Play for Parker, and Best Direction of a Play for Daniel Sullivan, along with the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
2002 , the legendary Broadway lyricist-librettist and screenwriter who, with partner , created , , , , , , and Singin' in the Rain, dies of natural causes at his Manhattan home.
2002 Pop songwriter makes his Broadway debut with , consisting of songs from his pop catalog fashioned by director/choreographer into an all-dancing narrative about three buddies' experience in the Vietnam War. It wins Tony Awards for both its primary creators: Best Choreography for Tharp, Best Orchestrations for Joel.
2008 Tony Award nominee , a respected director, acting teacher, author, painter, and founder of the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school, dies at age 75. Katselas directed over 60 plays including , the original Off-Broadway production of 's The Zoo Story, and the Broadway production of that starred and .
2013 The world premiere of 's WWI-set drama opens on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. stars as a newly widowed woman who must come to terms with the enormous debt left by her husband, and her son's impending deployment overseas. Directed by , the cast also includes , , , and .
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