1

• Actor/singer Stanley Holloway born (1890)
• Actor James Whitmore born (1921)
• Actor/singer Tom Bosley born (1927)
• Actor Richard Harris born (1930)
• Actress/singer Julie Andrews born (1935)
• Best Foot Forward opened on Broadway (1941)
• Composer/lyricist/librettist Lynn Ahrens born (1948)
• Berlin to Broadway With Kurt Weill opened Off-Broadway (1972)
• Hal Prince's production of Roza starring Georgia Brown opened on Broadway (1987)

2

• Actor/singer/comedian Groucho Marx born (1890)
• Actor/comedian Bud Abbott born (1892)
• Actor/singer Sting born (1952)
• An Evening with Bea Lillieopened on Broadway (1952)
• Valmouth opened in London (1958)
• Birds of Paradise opened Off-Broadway (1987)
• Hal Prince's revival of Show Boat opened on Broadway (1994)
• Revival of Little Shop of Horrors opened on Broadway (2003)

3

• Actress Elenora Duse born (1859)
• Actor Warner Oland born (1879)
• Actress Gertrude Berg born (1899)
• Composer/lyricist Johnny Burke born (1908)
• Producer Ray Stark born (1914)
• Noel Coward's Sail Away starring Elaine Stritch opened on Broadway (1961)
• Stop the World . . . starring Anthony Newley opened on Broadway (1962)
• Meredith Willson's Here's Love opened on Broadway (1963)
• Sondheim's Forum starring Frankie Howerd opened in London (1963)

4

• British actress/singer Hy Hazell born (1922)
• Revue Oh Coward! opened Off-Broadway (1972)

5

• A Chinese Honeymoon opened in London; first musical to run 1,000 performances (1901)
• Director/librettist Joshua Logan born (1908)
• Actor/singer William Tabbert born (1921)
• Actress/singer Glynis Johns born (1923)
• Harold Arlen's Bloomer Girl opened on Broadway (1944)
• Revival of Hair opened on Broadway (1977)
• Revival of Sondheim's Company opened on Broadway (1995)

6

• Polonaise opened on Broadway (1945)
• Jerry Herman's Mack and Mabel opened on Broadway (1974)

7

• Gilbert & Sullivan's Utopia Limited opened in London (1893)
• Actor/singer Alfred Drake born (1914)
• Actress/singer June Allyson born (1917)
• Actor/singer Reid Shelton born (1924)
• Weill's One Touch of Venus starring Mary Martin opened on Broadway (1943)
• Weill & Lerner's Love Life opened on Broadway (1948)
• Happy Town opened on Broadway (1959)
• Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats opened on Broadway (1982)

8

• Vaudeville theatre manager E.F. Albee born (1857)
• Director Rouben Mamoulian born (1889)
• At The Drop of a Hatopened on Broadway (1959)
• Revue Sugar Babies starring Ann
• Millerand Mickey Rooney opened on Broadway (1979)
• Les Miserables opened in London (1985)

9

• High Button Shoes starring Phil Silvers opened on Broadway (1947)
• Actor/singer Scott Bakula born (1954)
• Actress/singer Marin Mazzie born (1960)
• Dude opened on Broadway (1972)
• Robber Bridegroom moved to Broadway (1976)
• Tango Argentino opened on Broadway (1985)

10

• Producer Richard D'Oyly Carte opens The Savoy Theatre in London (1881)
• Composer Vernon Duke born (1903)
• The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway (1935)
• Actor/singer/dancer Ben Vereen born (1946)
• Actor/singer Gary Beach born (1947)
• Actor/singer Ken Jennings born (1947)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro opened on Broadway (1947)
• Actress/singer/dancer Jodi Benson born (1961)
• Jerry Herman's Milk and Honey opened on Broadway (1961)
• Drat! The Cat! opened on Broadway (1965)
• Revival of The King and I opened in London (1973)

11

• Director/choreographer Jerome Robbins born (1918)
• Frank Loesser's Where's Charley starring
• Ray Bolger opened on Broadway (1948)
• Revival of On Your Toes opened on Broadway (1954)
• Goldilocks starring Elaine Stritch opened on Broadway (1958)
• Pearl Bailey took over lead in Hello Dolly (1967)
• Actress/singer Jane Krakowski born (1968)
• Revival of Most Happy Fella starring Giorgio Tozzi opened on Broadway (1979)

12

• Cole Porter's Jubilee opened on Broadway (1935)
• Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam starring Ethel Merman opened on Broadway (1951)
• Let It Ride opened on Broadway (1961)
• Actor/singer Hugh Jackman born (1968)
• Webber & Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar opened on Broadway (1971)
• Marlowe opened on Broadway (1981)
• Revival of Pacific Overtures opened Off-Broadway (1984)

13

• Actress/singer Della Fox born (1871)
• Victor Herbert's Babes in Toyland opened on Broadway (1903)
• Composer/actor Albert Hague born (1920)
• Actor/singer George Lee Andrews born (1942)
• Actress/singer Karen Akers born (1945)

14

• British producer George Edwardes born (1855)
• George Edwardes production of A Gaiety Girl opened in London (1893)
• Actress/singer Pert Kelton born (1907)
• Actor/singer Allan Jones born (1908)
• Lyricist/librettist Lee Adams born (1924)
• The Gershwins' Girl Crazy opened on Broadway (1930)
• Actor/singer Harve Presnell born (1933)
• Legendary flop Buttrio Square opened on Broadway (1952)
• Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying opened on Broadway (1961)
• The Club opened Off-Broadway (1976)

15

• Director/designer Hassard Short born (1877)
• Lyricist/librettist P.G. Wodehouse born (1881)
• Librettist/playwright Robert E. Lee born (1918)
• Artists and Models of 1924 opened on Broadway (1924)
• Three's a Crowd opened on Broadway (1930)
• The Cat and the Fiddle opened on Broadway (1931)
• Actress/singer Linda Lavin born (1937)
• Short-lived Late Nite Comic opened on Broadway (1987)

16

• Austrian actor/singer Karl Blasel born (1831)
• Actress/singer Angela Lansbury born (1925)
• Long-running revival of The Red Mill opened on Broadway (1945)
• Vivian Matalon's revival of Brigadoon opened on Broadway (1980)
• Long-running revival of Zorba with Anthony Quinn opened on Broadway (1983)
• Short-lived Raggedy Ann opened on Broadway (1986)
• Side Show opened on Broadway (1997)
• The Boy From Oz starring Hugh Jackman opened on Broadway (2003)

17

• British stage director James T. Tanner born (1858)
• Actress/singer Irene Ryan born (1902)
• Actress/dancer Rita Hayworth born (1918)
• Actress/singer Gretchen Cryer born (1935)
• Producer Cameron Macintosh born (1946)
• Director/choreographer/dancer Susan Stroman born (1954)
• Copper and Brass starring Nancy Walker opened on Broadway (1957
• Bock & Harnick's Tenderloin opened on Broadway (1960)
• Jennie starring Mary Martin opened on Broadway (1963)
• Lerner & Lane's On A Clear Day You Can See Forever opened on Broadway (1965)
• The 1940's Radio Hour opened on Broadway (1979)
• Revival of Brigadoon opened on Broadway (1980)
• Revival of Flower Drum Song opened on Broadway (2002)

18

• Actress/singer Lotte Lenya born (1898)
• Producer Ben Bagley born (1933)
• Bock & Harnick's The Apple Tree opened on Broadway (1966)
• Raisin opened on Broadway (1973)
• Disney's Snow White opened at Radio City Music Hall (1979)
• Once On This Island moved to Broadway (1990)
• Mamma Mia opened on Broadway (2001)

19

• Victor Herbert's The Enchantress opened on Broadway (1911)
• Weill's Knickerbocker Holiday starring Walter Huston opened on Broadway (1938)
• Sigmund Romberg's My Romance opened on Broadway (1948)
• Actress/singer Jennifer Holliday born (1960)
• Bock & Harnick's The Rothschilds opened on Broadway (1970)
• A Chorus Line moved to Broadway (1975)
• Revue Flamenco Puro opened on Broadway (1986)
• Long-running revival of Anything Goes opened on Broadway (1987)
• Revival of Hello Dolly! starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway (1995)

20

• Lyricist/librettist Morrie Ryskind born (1895)
• Actress/singer Anna Neagle born (1904)
• Dancer Fayard Nicholas born (1914)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1923 opened on Broadway (1923)
• Actor/singer Jerry Orbach born (1935)
• Peter Pan starring Mary Martin & Cyril Ritchard opened on Broadway (1954)
• Irving Berlin's Mr. President opened on Broadway (1962)
• Golden Boy starring Sammy Davis Jr. opened on Broadway (1964)
• Her First Roman starring Richard Kiley opened on Broadway (1968)
• Hello Again opened on Broadway (1994)
• Michel Legrand's short-lived Amour opened on Broadway (2002)

21

• Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow opened on Broadway (1907)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1912 opened on Broadway (1912)
• Actress/singer Julie Wilson born (1924)
• Actress/singer Georgia Brown born (1933)
• The Gershwins' Let 'Em Eat Cake opened on Broadway (1933)
• Scott Joplin's Treemonisha opened on Broadway (1975)
• Nunsense II opened Off-Broadway (1994)
• Saturday Night Live opened on Broadway (1999)

22

• Actress/singer Judy Blazer born (1956)
• Bob Merrill's Take Me Along opened on Broadway (1959)
• Me and Bessie opened on Broadway (1975)
• King of Hearts opened on Broadway (1978)
• Short-lived Into the Light opened on Broadway (1986)
• Swingin' On a Star opened on Broadway (1995)
• Footloose opened on Broadway (1998)

23

• Animal Crackers opened on Broadway (1928)
• Noel Coward's Conversation Piece opened on Broadway (1934)
• Actor/singer/songwriter Michael Rupert born (1951)
• Kwamina opened on Broadway (1961)
• Henry Sweet Henry opened on Broadway (1967)
• Maggie Flynn starring Shirley Jones opened on Broadway (1968)
• Jimmy opened on Broadway (1969)
• Stephen Schwartz's Pippin opened on Broadway (1972)
• Tintypes moved to Broadway (1980)
• Buddy opened on Broadway (1990)
• Triumph of Love opened on Broadway (1997)

24

• Playwright/librettist/director Moss Hart born (1904)
• Actor/singer Kevin Kline born (1947)
• 110 in the Shade opened on Broadway (1963)
• Billy Joel's Movin' Out opened on Broadway (2002)

25

• Composer Johann Strauss, Jr. born (1852)
• Actress/singer Barbara Cook born (1927)
• Cabin In The Sky opened on Broadway (1940)
• Actor/singer Adam Pascal born (1970)
• Revival of My Fair Lady opened in London (1979)
• Victor/Victoria starring Julie Andrews opened on Broadway (1995)
• The short-lived Thou Shalt Not opened on Broadway (2002)

26

• Actor/singer/lyricist/librettist/producer
  Edward "Ned" Harrigan born (1844)
• Actor/singer Anthony Rapp born (1971)
• Jolsonopens in London (1995)
• The Full Monty opened on Broadway (2000)

27

• Actress/singer Nanette Fabray born (1922)
• Actress/singer Jane Connell born (1925)
• My Darlin' Aidaopened on Broadway (1952)
• Ben Franklin in Paris starring Robert Preston opened on Broadway (1964)

28

• Actress/singer Cleo Laine born (1927)
• Costume designer Florence Klotz born (1928)
• Andrew Lloyd Webber's short-lived By Jeeves opened on Broadway (2001)

29

• Actress/singer Fanny Brice born (1891)
• British composer Vivian Ellis born (1904)
• Cole Porter's Red, Hot and Blue starring Merman & Durante opened on Broadway (1936)
• Actress/singer Melba Moore born (1945)
• Lighting designer Ken Billington born (1946)
• Hair premiered Off-Broadway at The Public Theatre (1967)
• In Gay Company opened Off-Broadway (1974)
• Kander & Ebb's The Act starring Liza Minnelli opened on Broadway (1977)
• Revival of Cabaret starring Joel Grey opened on Broadway (1987)

30

• Actress/singer Jane White born (1922)
• Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars opened on Broadway (1949)
• Cole Porter's Panama Hattie starring Ethel Merman opened on Broadway (1940)
• Pippin opened in London (1973)
• Stephen Schwartz's Wicked opened on Broadway (2003)

31

• Actor/singer Charles King born (1889)
• Actress/singer Ethel Waters born (1896)
• Actor/singer David Ogden Stiers born (1942)
• Marc Blitzstein's Regina opened on Broadway (1949)
• Actor/singer Brian Stokes Mitchell born (1957)
• Harold Arlen's Jamaica starring Lena Horne opened on Broadway (1957)