1914 A farce about selling soap called , by and , opens at the Cohan Theatre. It stars and y.
1925 Comedian toplines , a musical version of 's hit comedy . The show runs 167 performances.
1932 's melodrama opens on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre for a 28-performance run. , , and star in the play about a brilliant but deformed man who is driven to madness when he finds out his employer is having an affair with his wife.
1943 The wartime revue opens a 126-performance run with a cast featuring , , , and the dance team of .
1953 Legendary short-lived musical opens at the New Century Theatre. Despite a score by and , a book by , and a famous leading man in the person of , the show only has a six-performance run. Notably, leading lady wins the 1954 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, the briefest run to be so honored.
1975 Jazz titans , , and make their Broadway debuts in at the Uris Theatre. The sold-out two week engagement features Sinatra and Fitzgerald singing against the backdrop of Basie's 18-man band (with 20 additional strings added for Sinatra's set).
1977 , star of stage and screen, dies at age 62. His most notable work included leading the original Broadway casts of and and starring in the film The Producers.
1999 Off-Broadway's Century Theatre becomes The Exact Center of the Universe as Joan Vail Thorne's comedy moves to a commercial run. The Southern-fried family comedy features as a matron unsettled by her son's romance. directs the star and a cast that also features , , Tracy Thorne, and . It runs 142 performances.
2004 British actor Fritha Goodey, 32, who had been scheduled to star with in an upcoming Cambridge production of 's Man and Boy, is found dead at her home in London.
2009 , who joined in 2005 as resident producer and became vice president the following year, succeeds as president of the company.
2009 Army Archerd, who chronicled the projects and practitioners of show business for a half a century through his column in Variety, dies at age 87.
2016 Spamilton, a satirical musical by Forbidden Broadway creator Gerard Alessandrini, opens at Off-Broadway's Triad cabaret. Inspired by the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning , the show both celebrates and parodies the landmark musical, along with much of the rest of Broadway. Originally announced as an 18-performance limited engagement, the show extends at the Triad before transferring to an open-ended engagement at the 47th Street Theatre/The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in June 2017.
2019 Red Bull Theater celebrates the Off-Broadway opening of Keith Hamilton Cobb's American Moor at the Cherry Lane Theatre. The monologue play is a journey through Shakespeare and race, as an African-American actor auditioning for the role of Othello must respond to the dictates of a younger, white director.
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