1927 Birthday of , ingenue of the 1950s who creates lead roles in , , , and (as the original Marian the Librarian), and later reinvents herself as a top-flight cabaret singer.
1939 The first play to win both a Pulitzer Prize and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, 's , opens at the Booth Theatre. The story tells of a group of denizens in a San Francisco bar. and are in the ensemble of the play, which runs 185 performances, followed by a 32 performance return engagement. Sarayon sends Columbia University a telegram rejecting his Pulitzer Prize because he does "not believe in prizes or awards in the realm of art."
1940 and the dancers are featured in the / musical , with choreography by . It runs 156 performances at the Martin Beck Theatre.
1956 's double-bill opens at the Music Box Theatre and earns a Tony Award for leading lady . It runs 332 performances.
1992 's new play, Oleanna, opens at the Orpheum Theatre. The play has exceptional advance sales of $200,000, an amount especially healthy for an Off-Broadway production. is the girl who accuses her professor, played by , of sexual harassment in the show, which runs 513 performances.
1995 After being absent from the Broadway stage for nearly 35 years, returns in , the , , and musical. The original film version, in 1982, was directed by Edwards, as is the Broadway production. and star in the gender-bending musical, which has additional music by . The show runs 734 performances, with the title role later taken on by and .
2001 Pop crooner makes his debut as a Broadway composer with the musical , directed and choreographed by , which opens a limited run through January 6, 2002.
2006 Butley, starring Nathan Lane as the title character, who smokes and drinks his way through a day when he loses both his wife and his lover, opens at the Booth Theatre. Directed by Nicholas Martin, the revival also stars , Pamela Gray, , , Darren Pettie and
2007 Solo show A Bronx Tale, which marks the Broadway debut of stage and screen star Chazz Palminteri, officially opens on at the Walter Kerr Theatre, directed by Jerry Zaks.
2009 Opening night for a Broadway revival of , which is planned to run in alternating repertory with another Neil Simon play, Broadway Bound. The two plays share a setting and many characters. The production closes abruptly on its first weekend, and the second production is scratched.
2010 , , and star in the Broadway premiere of 's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, , which opens a limited engagement the John Golden Theatre.
2015 's The Humans opens Off-Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre. directs a cast including , , and . The production , winning Tony Awards for Birney's and Houdyshell's performances, and Best Play.
2018 After an absence of more than 50 years, returns to the Broadway stage in 's . , , , and co-star in the production, opening at the Golden Theatre. May wins a Tony Award for her performance as Gladys Green, the owner of a small Greenwich Village art gallery who is battling Alzheimer's disease.
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