1910 Birthday of , the Tony-winning Broadway conductor who founds the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. Among the shows he conducts are the original productions of , , , , , and . He wins the Tony in 1953 as outstanding musical director, an award that is later discontinued.
1916 The Longacre Theatre is the host for the opening of a new comedy by , . stars in the play that follows a stock broker trying not to tell a lie for 24 hours in order to win a $10,000 bet.
1925 by opens at the Fulton Theatre. stars as the cantor's son, Jackie Rabinowitz, who is tempted away from religious music by jazz. The melodrama runs 303 performances, and makes history in 1927 as the first commercially released sound film.
1936 Following a summer hiatus, the reopens at the Winter Garden Theatre. It features songs by and , and performances by , , and .
1949 Treasure Hunt, a comedy by and , opens at the Apollo Theatre in London and tells of an aristocratic pair who decide to take in paying guests to maintain their almost bankrupt estate. The play is directed by and stars , , and Marie Lohr.
1960 , , and take part in staged readings of The World of Carl Sandburg at Henry Miller's Theatre.
1972 's drama , about the reunion of a high school basketball team at which many long-buried truths are revealed, opens at the Booth Theatre. The cast features , , , and . The play goes on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
1980 provides music for , which opens at the Helen Hayes Theatre. The musical is based on the same source material as the 1968 film Charly, about a mentally disabled man who is temporarily transformed into a genius.
1989 The first Broadway revival of and 's musical opens at the Circle in the Square Theatre. and star in the production, which previously played a sold-out Off-Broadway engagement at the .
2000 Writer-performer Pamela Gien takes on 28 roles spanning four generations of South Africans, from apartheid to freedom, in The Syringa Tree at Off-Broadway's Playhouse 91. The play wins the 2001 Obie Award for Best Play and earns Gien a 2001 Drama Desk Award in the category of Solo Performance.
2008 Following an award-winning run at Los Angeles' El Portal Theatre, The Marvelous Wonderettes opens at Off-Broadway's Westside Theatre Upstairs. Written and directed by Roger Bean, the musical features classic songs of the fifties and sixties in a journey back to the 1958 Springfield High School prom.
2015 returns to the London stage in 's Photograph 51, opening at the No毛l Coward Theatre.
2016 The world premiere of Marie and Rosetta by George Brant officially opens Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company. The show stars and Kecia Lewis, who plays famed gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe鈥攁n influence to the likes of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles and Jimi Hendrix.
More of Today's Birthdays: (1879鈥�1936), John Halliday (1880鈥�1947), Lehman Engel (1910鈥�1982), Tom Pedi (1913鈥�1996), (1919鈥�1980), (1933鈥�2020), (1936鈥�2014).
Flip through photos from the three Broadway productions of Sweeney Todd:
