Calendar: September
compiled by John Kenrick
(Copyright 2000, Revised 2004)

1
  • Actress/dancer/singer Marilyn Miller born (1898)
  • Actress/singer Yvonne DeCarlo born (1922)
  • The closing performance of Contact at Broadway's Vivian Beaumont Theatre is broadcast live on PBS (2002)

2
  • Producer Jean Dalrymple born (1902)
  • Dancer Marge Champion born (1919)
  • Rudolph Friml's Rose Marie opened on Broadway (1924)
  • Virginia opened on Broadway (1937)
  • Actor/singer P. J. Benjamin born (1951)

3
  • British actor/singer Laddie Cliff born (1891)
  • Actress/singer Kitty Carlisle Hart born (1910)
  • Kern & Hammerstein's Sweet Adeline starring Helen Morgan opened on Broadway (1929)
  • Actress/singer Eileen Brennan born (1935)

4

5
  • Kalmar & Ruby's Good Boy opened on Broadway (1928)
  • Actress/singer Carol Lawrence born (1934)
  • Actress/singer Raquel Welch born (1940)
  • Revival of The Desert Song opened on Broadway (1973)

6
  • Producer Billy Rose born (1899)
  • Good News opened on Broadway (1927)
  • Gertrude Lawrence dies (1952)
  • Catch a Star opened on Broadway (1955)
  • Revival of Peter Pan starring Sandy Duncan opened on Broadway (1979)

7
  • Actor/singer Charles Braswell born (1924)
  • Director/actor Jerry Zaks born (1946)
  • Singer/pianist Michael Feinstein born (1956)

8
  • British take over the New Amsterdam colony and rename it New York (1664)
  • Lyricist/publicist Howard Dietz born (1896)
  • Actor/singer Harry Secombe born (1921)
  • Actor/comic Sid Caesar born (1922)
  • Carnival in Flanders opened on Broadway (1953)
  • Actor/singer Zero Mostel died (1977)

9
  • Playwright/librettist S.N. Behrman born (1893)
  • MGM composer/film producer Arthur Freed born (1894)
  • The Geisha opened in London (1896)
  • Producer/songwriter Billy Rose born (1899)
  • Actor/singer Topol born (1935)
  • Actor/singer Tom Wopat born (1951)

10
  • Actress/singer/dancer Adele Astaire born (1897)
  • Film director Robert Wise born (1914)
  • Actor/singer/dancer Harry Groener born (1951)
  • Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1924 opened on Broadway (1924)
  • Singer Yma Sumac born (1927)
  • Cats closes on Broadway after 7,485 performances (2000)

11
  • Composer Herbert Stothart born (1885)
  • Actor Henderson Forsythe born (1917)
  • Lyricist Alan Bergman born (1925)
  • Hold On To Your Hats starring Al Jolson opened on Broadway (1940)
  • Actor/singer Jonathan Hadary born (1947)
  • Statue of George M. Cohan unveiled on Times Square (1959)
  • Singer Harry Connick Jr. born (1967)
  • Long-running revival of Anything Goes starring Patti LuPone opened on Broadway (1987)
  • Romance, Romance opened in London (1996)
  • Terrorist attack destroys World Trade Center -- all Broadway shows suspend performances (2001)

12
  • The Black Crook opened on Broadway (1866)
  • Actor/singer Maurice Chevalier born (1888)
  • Actor/singer Billy Daniels born (1918)
  • Romberg's My Maryland opened on Broadway (1927)
  • Composer Harvey Schmidt born (1929)
  • Actor/singer Peter Scolari born (1954)
  • Actor/singer Gregg Edelman born (1958)

13
  • Producer Leland Hayward born (1902)
  • The Chocolate Soldieropened on Broadway (1909)
  • Actress/singer Nell Carter born (1948)
  • Yul Brynner marked his 4000th performance in The King and I in Los Angeles (1983)
  • Broadway shows reopen two days after attack on World Trade Center (2001)

14
  • Musical director/author Lehman Engel born (1910)
  • Actress/singer Kay Medford born (1920)
  • George White's Scandals of 1931 opened on Broadway (1931)
  • Shubert-produced Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 opened on Broadway (1936)
  • George White's Scandals of 1939 opened on Broadway (1939)
  • Charlie and Algernon opened on Broadway (1980)
  • Revival of Sweeney Todd opened on Broadway (1989)
  • Finn's Falsettoland opened Off-Broadway (1990)

15
  • Flying Colors opened on Broadway (1932)
  • Ivor Novello's King's Rhapsody opened in London (1945)
  • Revival of Man of La Mancha starring Richard Kiley opened on Broadway (1977)

16
  • Actress Isabel Jeans born (1891)
  • Producer/director Earl Carroll born (1893)
  • Actress Lauren Bacall born (1924)
  • Youmans & Caesar's No, No Nanette opened on Broadway (1925)

17
  • Revival of Oklahoma opened in London (1980)
  • Actress/singer Dorothy Loudon born (1933)
  • Gypsy Lady opened on Broadway (1946)
  • Boy Meets Boy opened Off-Broadway (1975)

18

19
  • Actor Ernest Truex born (1889)
  • Film producer Joseph Pasternak born (1900)
  • Mr. Wix of Wickham starring Julian Eltinge opened on Broadway (1904)
  • Librettist/director Burt Shevelove born (1915)
  • Romberg & Hammerstein's The New Moon opened on Broadway (1928)
  • At Home Abroad opened on Broadway (1935)
  • Actress/singer Twiggy bon (1949)
  • Actor/singer Rex Smith born (1956)
  • Revival of Going Up opened on Broadway (1976)

20
  • Revue director John Murray Anderson born (1886)
  • The Passing Show of 1922 opened on Broadway (1922)
  • Director Albert Marre born (1925)
  • Magdalena opened on Broadway (1948)
  • Eubie Blake revue Eubie opened on Broadway (1978)
  • Urinetown opened on Broadway (2001)

21

22

23
  • Mulligan Guards Picnic opened on Broadway - Harrigan & Hart's first one-act (1878)
  • Actor/singer/dancer Mickey Rooney born (1920)
  • Earl Carroll's Sketchbook of 1929 opened on Broadway (1929)
  • George White's Scandals of 1929 opened on Broadway (1929)
  • Fine and Dandy starring Joe Cook and Eleanor Powell opened on Broadway (1930)
  • Playwright/director George C. Wolfe born (1954)
  • Actor/singer/dancer Jason Alexander born (1959)
  • Revival (1st) of Gypsy starring Angela Lansbury opened on Broadway (1974)
  • Hal Prince's production of A Doll's Life opened on Broadway (1982)
  • Bob Fosse died (1987)

24
  • Producer Cheryl Crawford born (1902)
  • Whoop-Dee-Doo starring Weber & Fields opened on Broadway (1903)
  • Victor Herbert's The Red Mill opened on Broadway (1906)
  • Actor/singer/composer/lyricist Anthony Newley born (1931)
  • Long-running revival of Oh Calcutta! opened on Broadway (1976)

25
  • Composer/lyricist Robert Wright born (1914)
  • Director Albert Marre born (1925)
  • Actress/singer/dancer Juliet Prowse born (1936)
  • Houston Opera revival of Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway (1976)
  • Webber & Rice's Evita opened on Broadway (1979)
  • Quilters opened on Broadway (1984)

26

27
  • Lyricist Joseph McCarthy born (1885)
  • Composer Vincent Youmans born (1898)
  • Actor/singer Stephen Douglass born (1921)
  • Actress/singer Mary McCarty born (1923)
  • Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1932 opened on Broadway (1932)
  • Hair opened in London (1968)
  • Return to the Forbidden Planet opened Off-Broadway (1991)

28
  • Ixion starring Lydia Thompson opened on Broadway (1868)
  • The Belle of New York opened on Broadway (1897)
  • Actor/singer Gregory Jbara born (1961)

29
  • Sigmund Romberg's Blossom Time opened on Broadway (1921)
  • Actress/singer Madeline Kahn born (1942)
  • Actress/singer Debbie Shapiro Gravitte born (1954)
  • Irma La Douce opened on Broadway (1960)
  • Actor/singer Roger Bart born (1962)
  • Actress/singer Lynette Perry born (1963)
  • My Fair Lady closes on Broadway after 2,717 performances (1962)
  • A Chorus Line breaks the longest-running Broadway show record (1983)

30
  • Actress/singer Patricia Neway born (1919)
  • Actress Deborah Kerr born (1921)
  • Songwriter/performer Donald Swann Born (1923)
  • Novelist/librettist Truman Capote born (1924)
  • Irving Berlin's As Thousands Cheer opened on Broadway (1933)
  • Actor/singer Len Cariou born (1939)
  • The Boyfriend opened on Broadway (1954)
  • Oh, What a Lovely War opened on Broadway (1964)