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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 Almanac opened 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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- 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)
- Actor/singer Dennis Morgan born (1908)
- 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)
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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)
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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)
- Dancer Buzz Miller born (1923)
- Actor/singer Harry Guardino born (1925)
- Revival of Good News starring Alice Faye
opened on Broadway (1974)
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- Film director Michael Curtiz born (1888)
- Composer Harry Warren born (1893)
- Dancer/choreographer/actress Carol Haney born (1924)
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- Actress/singer Fay Templeton born (1865)
- Performer Evelyn Nesbit born (1885)
- Victor Herbert's Mlle. Modiste opened on Broadway (1905)
- Actor/singer/musician Cab Calloway born (1907)
- Actor/singer Tony Martin born (1912)
- Going Up opened on Broadway (1915)
- George White's Scandals of 1935 opened on Broadway (1935)
- Rodgers & Hart's
Pal Joey starring Gene Kelly opened on
Broadway (1940)
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- The Gershwins' Of Thee I Sing
starring Gaxton & Moore
opened on Broadway (1931)
- Beggar's Holiday opened on Broadway (1946)
- Do, Re, Mi starring Phil Silvers &
Nancy Walker opened on Broadway (1960)
- Actor/singer Jack Noseworthy born (1969)
- 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)
- Actor/dancer Tommy Rall born (1929)
- 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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