1895 Actor E. H. Sothern scores a personal triumph in the adventure melodrama The Prisoner of Zenda.
1922 Bringing the early 20s fad of musicals about plucky heroines like , , and , to its climax, , , , and put them all together in a show called which is yet another hit, and runs 313 performances.
1956 Towards Zero, an mystery, opens in London. It runs for six months.
1972 鈥檚 Relative Values is revived in London at the Westminster Theatre. Margaret Lockwood stars .
1984 Las Vegas meets Off-Broadway as Johnny Seaton performs Elvis Mania at the Off On Broadway Theater. Leslie Irons directs the solo work which includes numbers from over three decades. Seaton as Presley leaves the building on September 16, following 18 performances.
1999 Ending its one-week extension, the and 's musical satire, Urinetown concludes the New York International Fringe Festival鈥攐ne week after all other shows had closed. The little musical that could about a Gotham-esque city where the privilege to relieve oneself is regulated by a single corporation, goes on to play an Off-Broadway run, followed by .
2003 plays blacklisted writer in the solo drama Trumbo, opening Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre. In the months to come, numerous other stage and film stars take the role for short engagements, including , , , , and .
2016 , 鈥� drama that won the 2015 Tony Award as Best Play, ends its 800-performance Broadway run at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Also closing today: the second Broadway revival of , and the return engagement of 's , starring .
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