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- Actor/singer William Gaxton
born (1893)
- Friml's The Firefly
opened on Broadway (1912)
- Lyricist/librettist Adolph Green
born (1915)
- Romberg's The Student
Prince in Heidelberg opened on Broadway (1923)
- Oscar Hammerstein II's
Carmen Jones opened on Broadway (1943)
- Hello Dolly! starring
Mary Martin opened in London (1965)
- Buck White starring Muhammad Ali opened on Broadway
(1969)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood moved to Broadway
(1985)
- Marie Christine opened on Broadway (1999)
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- British actress/singer Violet
Cameron born (1862)
- Gilbert& Sullivan's The
Gondoliers opened in London (1889)
- Ziegfeld's Mam'selle
Napoleon starring Anna Held
opened on Broadway (1903)
- Walk a Little Faster starring Bea
Lillie opened on Broadway (1932)
- The Seven Lively Arts opened on Broadway (1944)
- Librettist Mark Bramble
born (1950)
- Harold Arlen's Saratoga
starring Keel & Lawrence
opened on Broadway (1959)
- How Now Dow Jones opened on Broadway (1967)
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- Composer Rudolph Friml
born (1879)
- Actor/singer/dancer Sammy Davis,
Jr. born (1925)
- Jule Styne's Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes opened on Broadway (1949)
- Noel Coward's The Girl
Who Came To Supper opened on Broadway (1963)
- Nick and Nora opened on Broadway (1991)
- Baz Luhrmann's production of La Boheme opened
on Broadway (2002)
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- Actor/singer George Grossmith
born (1847)
- Lyricist/librettist Edgar Smith
born (1857)
- Revival of The Pajama Game opened on Broadway
(1973)
- Revival of My Fair Lady starring Richard Chamberlain
opened on Broadway (1993)
- Swing opened on Broadway (1999)
- Dance of the Vampires starring Michael
Crawford opened on Broadway (2002)
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- Offenbach's Les Brigands premieres in Paris
(1869)
- Lyricist Lew Brown born
(1893)
- John Murray Anderson's Almanacopened on Broadway (1953)
- The Yearling opened on Broadway (1965)
- Flaherty & Ahrens's
My Favorite Year opened on Broadway (1992)
- Jane Eyre opened on Broadway (2000)
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- Librettist Joe Masteroff born (1919)
- Actress/singer/dancer Rita
Moreno born (1931)
- Actress/singer Judy Kaye
born (1948)
- Cy Coleman & David Zippel's
City of Angels opened on Broadway (1989)
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- Victor Herbert's Mlle.
Modiste opened on Broadway (1905)
- Actor/singer Frank Sinatra
born (1915)
- West Side Story opened in London (1958)
- Nunsense opened off-Broadway (1985)
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- Revival of Oklahoma opened on Broadway (1979)
- Revival of Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby opened
on Broadway (1990)
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- British director Edward Royce
born (1870)
- Actor/singer/dancer Dan Dailey
born (1914)
- La Strada opened and closed on Broadway (1969)
- Michael Bennett's Ballroom
starring Dorothy Loudon opened on Broadway (1978)
- Onward Victoria opened & closed on Broadway
(1980)
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- Two's Company starring Bette Davis opened on
Broadway (1952)
- I Had A Ball starring Buddy Hackett opened on
Broadway (1964)
- Charlie Girl opened in London (1965)
- A Joyful Noise starring
John Raitt on Broadway (1966)
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- Composer Lew Henderson
born (1896)
- Composer/lyricist/playwright/actor/singer/director Noel
Coward born (1899)
- Lend An Ear opened on Broadway (1948)
- Wildcat starring Lucille Ball opened on Broadway
(1960)
- Jule Styne's short-lived The
Red Shoes opened on Broadway (1993)
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- British composer Lionel Monckton
born (1891)
- Librettist/director Abe Burrows
born (1910)
- Actress/singer/dancer Betty
Grable born (1916)
- Composer Galt MacDermot
born (1928)
- Coco starring Katherine Hepburn opened on Broadway
(1969)
- Herman's Jerry's Girls
opened on Broadway (1985)
- Sondheim's Assassins
opened in an Off-Broadway workshop (1990)
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- Actress/singer Bertha Belmore
born (1882)
- Actress/singer Irene Dunne
born (1901)
- Dames at Sea opened off-Broadway (1968)
- George Abbott's production of
Music Is opened on Broadway (1976)
- Comin' Uptown opened on Broadway (1979)
- Michael Bennett's production
of Dreamgirls opened on Broadway (1981)
- Wind In The Willows starring Nathan
Lane opened on Broadway (1985)
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- Ziegfeld's production of
Sally starring
Marilyn Miller opened on Broadway
(1920)
- Actor/dancer Harold Lang
born (1923)
- Jerome Robbins's production
of Billion Dollar Baby opened on Broadway (1945)
- Cole Porter's Out of This
World opened on Broadway (1950)
- Revival of Very Good Eddie opened on Broadway
(1975)
- A Broadway Musical opened on Broadway (1978)
- The Tap Dance Kid opened on Broadway (1983)
- The Wind in the Willows opened on Broadway (1985)
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- Whoop-Up opened on Broadway (1958)
- Your Arms Too Short to Box With God opened on
Broadway (1976)
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- Librettist Adrian Ross born (1859)
- Jerome Kern's Very Good
Eddie opened on Broadway (1915)
- Revival of Good News starring
Alice Faye opened on Broadway (1974)
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- The Gershwins' Of Thee
I Sing starring Gaxton
& Moore opened on Broadway
(1933)
- Beggar's Holiday opened on Broadway (1946)
- Do, Re, Mi starring
Phil Silvers & Nancy Walker
opened on Broadway (1960)
- Legs Diamond starring Peter Allen opened on
Broadway (1988)
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- Actress/singer Marlene Dietrich born (1901)
- Actor/musician Oscar Levant born (1906)
- Lyricist Sheldon Harnick
born (1924)
- Kern & Hammerstein's
Show Boat opened on Broadway (1927)
- Sing Out Sweet Land opened on Broadway (1944)
- Jule Styne's Subways Are
For Sleeping opened on Broadway (1961)
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- Lyricist/librettist Harry B.
Smith born (1860)
- Bernstein's On The
Town opened on Broadway (1944)
- How To Be A Jewish Mother opened on Broadway
(1967)
- Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentleman opened on Broadway
(1970)
- Revival (1st) of Fiddler On The Roof starring
Zero Mostel opened on Broadway (1976)
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- Chicago's Iroquois Theatre destroyed by fire, killing
over 600 (1903)
- Cole Porter's Kiss Me
Kate starring Drake &
Morison opened on Broadway (1948)
- Harold Arlen's House of
Flowers opened on Broadway (1954)
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