Calendar: February
compiled by John Kenrick

(Copyright 2000, Revised 2002)

 

1

2

  • Composer Leo Fall born (1873)
  • Composer Burton Lane born (1912)
  • Actress/singer Elaine Stritch born (1925)
  • Rio Rita opened on Broadway (1927)
  • Arms and the Girl opened on Broadway (1950)
  • Revival (5th) of Fiddler on the Roof starring Alfred Molina opened on Broadway (2004)

3

  • Actress/singer Leonora Braham born (1853)
  • Producer Sam Harris born (1872)
  • Broadway's original Merry Widow Ethel Jackson born (1877)
  • Cabaret singer Mabel Mercer born (1900)
  • Nathan Lane Born (1956)
  • Canterbury Tales opened on Broadway (1969)

4

  • Walter Catlett born (1889)
  • Eddie Foy, Jr. born (1905)
  • Actor Robert Coote born (1909)
  • Conrad John Shuck born (1940)
  • Oh Captain starring Tony Randall opened on Broadway (1958)
  • Composer/lyricist Jonathan Larson born (1960)
  • Golden Rainbow opened on Broadway (1968)
  • Pump Boys and Dinettes opened in New York (1982)
  • Revival of You're a Good Man Charlie Brown opened on Broadway (1999)
  • 5

    • Stuart Damon born (1937)
    • Jonathan Freeman born (1950)
    • Redhead starring Gwen Verdon opened on Broadway (1959)

    6

    • Lute Song starring Mary Martin opened on Broadway (1946)
    • Kelly opened and closed on Broadway (1965)
    • Dear World starring Angela Lansbury opened on Broadway (1969)

    7

    8

    • Vienna's original Merry Widow Mizzi Gunther born (1879)
    • Ray Middleton born (1907)
    • French cabaret star Georges Guetary born (1915)
    • Sunny Days opened on Broadway (1928)
    • Ain't Misbehavin' opened Off-Broadway at MTC (1978)

    9

    • Actress/singer Peggy Wood born (1892)
    • Actress/singer Carmen Miranda born (1909)
    • Burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee born (1914)
    • The Cohan Revue of 1916 opened on Broadway (1916)
    • Actress/singer Kathryn Grayson born (1922)
    • Stars in Your Eyes starring Ethel Merman opened on Broadway (1939)
    • Kander & Ebb's The Rink opened on Broadway (1984)
    10
    • Lyricist Bert Kalmar born (1884)
    • /comedian Jimmy Durante born (1893)
    • Lyricist/librettist Bertolt Brecht born (1898)
    • Rodgers & Hart's America's Sweetheart opened on Broadway (1931)

    11

    • Librettist Fred
      Saidy (Finian's Rainbow) born (1907)
    • Hazel Flagg opened on Broadway (1953)
    • They're Playing Our Song opened on Broadway (1979)

    12

  • British music hall singer Marie Lloyd born (1870)
  • Todd Duncan born (1903)
  • Cohan's George Washington Jr. opened on Broadway (1906)
  • Patrick Quinn born (1950)
  • Revival of Canterbury Tales opened on Broadway (1980)
  • 13

    • Set designer Oliver Smith born (1918)
    • Actress Stockard Channing born (1944)
    • The Duchess Misbehaves opened on Broadway (1946)
    • Merlin starring Doug Henning opened on Broadway (1983)

    14

    • Merry Widow co-librettist Leo Feld born (1869)
    • Actress/singer Florence Henderson born (1934)
    • /dancer Gregory Hines born (1946)
    • Gantry opened and closed on Broadway (1970)
    • Grease premiered Off-Broadway (1972)
    • Revival of Whoopee opened on Broadway (1979)
    • Revival of West Side Story opened on Broadway (1980)
    • Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened Off-Broadway (1998)

    15

    • Composer Walter Donaldson born (1898)
    • Composer Harold Arlen born (1905)
    • Keene Curtis born (1933)
    • Actress/singer Ethel Merman died (1984)

    16

    • Actress/dancer Vera-Ellen born (1921)
    • Foxy starring Bert Lahr opened on Broadway (1964)
    • Baker Street opened on Broadway (1965)
    • Fiddler on the Roof starring Topol opened in London (1967)

    17

    18

    19

    • Actress/manager Lydia Thompson born (1836?)
    • George Rose born (1920)
    • Hugh Panaro born (1964)
    • Cy Coleman's On the 20th Century opened  on Broadway (1978)
    • Stardust opened on Broadway (1987)
    • Crazy For You opened on Broadway (1992)

    20

    21

    • French lyricist/librettist Henri Meilhac born (1831)
    • British actress/singer Gertie Millar born (1879)
    • Actress Tyne Daly born (1946)
    • Actress/singer Christine Ebersole born (1953)
    • Legendary flop Portofino opened on Broadway (1958)
    • Elaine Stritch: At Liberty opened on Broadway (2002)

    22

    • Composer Nacio Herb Brown born (1896)
    • Robert Weede born (1903)
    • Jules Munchin born (1915)
    • Actress/singer Ellen Greene born (1950)
    • Actress/singer Lea Salonga born (1971)

    23

    • Actress/singer Sophie Hayden born (1954)
    • Sarava opened on Broadway (1979)

    24

    • Victor Moore born (1876)
    • Costume designer Patricia Zipprodt born (1925)
    • Barry Bostwick born (1946)
    • Songwriter/librettist Rupert Holmes born (1947)
    • Cole Porter's Silk Stockings opened on Broadway (1955)

    25

    • Actress/singer Lisa Kirk born(1926)
    • Playwright/librettist Larry Gelbart born (1928)
    • Actress/singer Susan Browning born (1941)
    • Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town opened on Broadway (1952)
    • Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music opened on Broadway (1973)

    26

    • Robert Alda born (1914)
    • Actor Jackie Gleason born (1916)
    • Actress/singer Betty Hutton born (1921)
    • Actress/singer/dancer Priscilla Lopez born (1948)
    • The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas opened in London (1981)
    • Jerome Robbins' Broadway opened on Broadway (1989)

    27

    • Actress/singer Elizabeth Welch born (1908)
    • Librettist Peter Stone born (1930)
    • Actress/singer Debra Monk born (1949)
    • What Makes Sammy Run? opened on Broadway (1964)

    28

    29

    • Dancer/ James Mitchell born (1920)
    • Mame starring Ginger Rogers opened in London (1969)