1

• British actor/singer Sonnie Hale born (1902)
• Menotti's The Medium/The Telephone opened on Broadway (1947)
• Revival of The Threepenny Opera starring Raul Julia opened on Broadway (1976)
• A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine opened on Broadway (1980)
• Tommy Tune's My One And Only opened on Broadway (1983)
• Romance, Romance moved to Broadway (1988)
• Cy Coleman's Will Rogers Follies opened on Broadway (1991)
• Revival of Gypsy starring Bernadette Peters opened on Broadway (2003)

2

• Actor/dancer Vernon Castle born (1887)
• Lyricist Lorenz Hart born (1895)
• Actor/Singer Theodore Bikel born (1924)
• Actress/singer Christine Baranski born (1952)
• Revival of The King and I starring Yul Brynner opened on Broadway (1977)
• Sunday In The Park With George opened on Broadway (1984)
• Revival of 42nd Street opened on Broadway (2001)
• Caroline, or Change moved to Broadway (2004)

3

• Actor/singer Bing Crosby born (1903)
• Composer/lyricist/librettist/actress Betty Comden born (1915)
• Director/choreographer Joe Layton born (1931)
• Lyricist/librettist/film producer Howard Ashman born (1950)
• Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella opened on Broadway (1956)
• Actor/singer Robert Cuccioli born (1958)
• The Fantasticks opened Off-Broadway (1960)
• Harold Rome's musical Gone With The Wind opened in London (1972)
• Annie opened in London (1978) 
• The Moony Shapiro Songbook opened on Broadway (1981)
• Kander & Ebb's Kiss of the Spiderwoman opened on Broadway (1993)

4

• Theatre owner A. L. Erlanger born (1860)
• Wang starring DeWolf Hopper opened on Broadway (1891)
• Actor Howard Da Silva born (1909)
• Ernest In Love opened Off-Broadway (1960)
• Bernstein & Lerner's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue opened on Broadway (1976)
• Forever Plaid opened Off-Broadway (1990)
• The Look of Love opened on Broadway (2003)

5

• Actress Ursula Jeans born (1906)
• Actress/singer Alice Faye born (1912)
• Actress/singer Pat Carroll born (1927)
• Revival of Of Thee I Sing opened on Broadway (1952)
• Damn Yankees opened on Broadway (1955)

6

• Actor/singer Jan Kiepura born (1902)
• Revival of Sally starring
• Bambi Lynn opened on Broadway (1948)
• Once on This Islandopened Off-Broadway (1990)
• Annie Warbucks opened Off-Broadway (1993)

7

• Cole Porter's Can Can opened on Broadway (1953)
• Actress/singer Donna Murphy born (1968)
• Kurt Weill's Happy End opened on Broadway (1977)
• Is There Life After High School? opened on Broadway (1982)
• Song of Singapore opened Off-Broadway (1991)

8

• Actor/singer Ezio Pinza born (1892)
• Actress/singer Carmen Mathews born (1914)
• Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened . . .  opened on Broadway (1962)
• Lionel Bart's Blitz opened in London (1962)

9

• Playwright James M. Barrie (creator of Peter Pan) born (1860)
• Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1928 opened on Broadway (1928)
• Fats Waller revue Ain't Misbehavin' moved to Broadway (1978)
• Maury Yeston's Nine opened on Broadway (1982)
• Sondheim's Passion opened on Broadway (1994)

10

• Lyricist/librettist Henry Blossom born (1866)
• Erminie starring Francis Wilson opened on Broadway (1886)
• Dancer/singer/actor Fred Astaire born (1899)
• Actress/singer Nancy Walker born (1922)
• The Garrick Gaities of 1926 opened on Broadway (1926)
• Playwright/librettist Arthur Kopit born (1937)
• Actress-singer Maureen Lippman born (1946)
• Angel opened on Broadway (1978)
• The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public opened on Broadway (1994)

11

• Composer/lyricist Irving Berlin born (1888)
• Actor/singer/comedian Phil Silvers born (1911)
• Rodgers & Hart's I Married an Angel opened on Broadway (1938)
• Actor/singer Boyd Gaines born (1953)
• Actor/singer George Dvorsky born (1959)
• Once Upon a Mattress starring Carol Burnett opened Off-Broadway (1959)
• Flora The Red Menace starring Liza Minnelli opened on Broadway (1965)
• The Baker's Wife opened on the road (1976)
• Lerner & Strouse's Dance A Little Closer opened & closed on Broadway (1983)
• Long-running revival of Grease opened on Broadway (1994)

12

• Actress Katherine Hepburn born (1907)
• Composer Burt Bacharach born (1928)
• The Nervous Set opened on Broadway (1959)
• Lena Horne: A Lady and Her Music opened on Broadway (1981)
• Legendary flop Carrie opened on Broadway (1988)

13

• Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan born (1842)
• Actress/singer Bea Arthur born (1923)
• Actor/singer John Michael King born (1926)
• Adler & Ross's The Pajama Game opened on Broadway (1954)
• Cyrano starring Christopher Plummer opened on Broadway (1973)
• Revue Rodgers & Hart opened on Broadway (1975)
• The Utter Glory of Morrisey Hall opened & closed on Broadway (1979)
• Mayor opened Off-Broadway (1985)

14

• Vaudevillian/actor/female impersonator Julian Eltinge born (1883)
• Fain & Harburg's Flahooley opened on Broadway (1951)
• Bob Merrill's New Girl in Town starring Gwen Verdon opened on Broadway (1957)
• Working opened on Broadway (1978)
• Chess opened in London (1986)

15

• Producer/theatre owner Lee Shubert born (1873)
• Actress/singer Ellen Hanley born (1926)
• Actress/singer Anna Maria Alberghetti born (1936)
• Actress/singer Lanie Kazan born (1940)
• Actor/singer Jason Graae born (1958)
• The film Gigi premiered (1958)
• Revival of Anything Goes opened Off-Broadway (1962)

16

• Singer/actor Richard Tauber born (1892)
• Weber & Fields' Whoop-Dee-Doo opened on Broadway (1905)
• Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun starring Ethel Merman opened on Broadway (1947)
• New Faces of 1952 opened on Broadway (1952)
• The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd opened on Broadway (1965)

17

• Composer/lyricist Bob Merrill born (1921)
• Actor/singer Jerry Lanning born (1943)
• Stephen Schwartz's Godspell opened Off-Broadway (1971)

18

• Composer/lyricist/librettist Meredith Willson born (1902)
• Actor/singer Robert Morse born (1931)
• Dream With Music opened on Broadway (1944)
• Donnybrook opened on Broadway (1961)
• The Me Nobody Knows opened Off-Broadway (1970)

19

• Composer Sandy Wilson born (1924)
• Blossom Time opened on Broadway (1924)
• Ziegfeld's revival of Show Boat opened on Broadway (1932)
• Bravo Giovanni opened on Broadway (1962)
• Bob Merrill's Hannah, 1939 opened Off-Broadway (1990)

20

• Minstrel Thomas D. Rice born (1808)
• Actress/singer Constance Towers born (1933)
• Actress/singer Judy Kuhn born (1958)
• Forever Plaid opened Off-Broadway (1990)

21

• Composer Harry Tierney born (1890)
• Composer Fats Waller born (1904)
• Actor/singer Marc Jacoby born (1947)
• Styne & Sondheim's Gypsy starring Ethel Merman opened on Broadway (1959)
• A Time for Singing opened on Broadway (1966)

22

• British actress/singer/dancer Binnie Hale born (1899)

23

• British actress/singer Jose Collins born (1887)
• Actress/singer Betty Garrett born (1919)
• Eubie Blake's revue Shuffle Along opened in New York (1921)
• Revival of Finian's Rainbow opened on Broadway (1960)

24

• Jerry Herman's Mame starring Angela Lansbury opened on Broadway (1966)
• Revival of The Wiz opened on Broadway (1984)

25

• Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore opened in London (1878)
• Dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson born (1878)
• Actress/singer Leslie Uggams born (1943)

26

• Ziegfeld's designer Joseph Urban born (1872)
• Actor Charles Winninger born (1884)
• Actor/singer Al Jolson born (1886?)
• Actor/singer/comedian Bob Hope born (1903)
• British actor/singer George Formby born (1904)
• George Gershwin's La La Lucille opened on Broadway (1919)
• Singer/songwriter Peggy Lee born (1920)
• Actor/singer Ron Holgate born (1937)
• Seventh Heaven opened on Broadway (1955)
• Fade Out Fade In starring Carol Burnett opened on Broadway (1964)

27

• Composer Harold Rome born (1928)
• Something's Afoot opened on Broadway (1976)
• Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? opened on Broadway (1982)

28

• Vaudeville impresario Tony Pastor born (1848)
• The Grand Street Follies of 1928 opened on Broadway (1928)
• Irving Berlin's Louisiana Purchase opened on Broadway (1940)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein's Me and Juliet opened on Broadway (1953)
• The Magic Show starring Doug Henning opened on Broadway (1974)

29

• Actress/singer Bea Lillie born (1894)
• Musical theatre & film historian Stanley Green born (1923)
• Gypsy starring Angela Lansbury opened in London (1973)

30

• Producer Charles B. Dillingham born (1868)
• Librettist Joseph Stein born (1912)
• Actor/singer Scott Holmes born (1952)
• Actress/singer Tonya Pinkins born (1962)

31

• Producer/librettist Frank Mandel born (1884)
• Actor/singer Don Ameche born (1908)
• Hollywood Pinaforeopened on Broadway (1945)
• Cole Porter's Around the World in 80 Days opened on Broadway (1946)
• Actor/singer Gregory Harrison born (1950)
• Revival of Annie Get Your Gun starring Ethel Merman opened on Broadway (1966)
• Beatlemania began performances on Broadway - never officially opened (1977)
• Richard Rodgers' I Remember Mama opened on Broadway (1979)