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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)
  • Actor/singer Nathan Lane Born (1956)
  • Canterbury Tales opened on Broadway (1969)

4

  • Actor/singer Walter Catlett born (1889)
  • Actor/singer Eddie Foy, Jr. born (1905)
  • Actor Robert Coote born (1909)
  • Actor/singer 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

  • Actor/singer Stuart Damon born (1937)
  • Actor/singer 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

  • Actor/singer Francis Wilson born (1854)
  • Composer Eubie Blake born (1883)
  • Actor/singer Eddie Bracken born (1915)

8

  • Vienna's original Merry Widow Mizzi Gunther born (1879)
  • Actor/singer 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)
  • Actor/singer/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)
  • Actor/singer Todd Duncan born (1903)
  • Cohan's George Washington Jr. opened on Broadway (1906)
  • Actor/singer 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)
  • Actor/singer/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)
  • Actor/singer 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

  • Composer Edward German born (1862)
  • Actor/singer Donald Brian born (1877)
  • Composer Tom Jones (The Fantasticks) born (1928)
  • British actress/singer Patricia Routledge born (1929)
  • Face The Music opened on Broadway (1932)
  • Actress/singer Julie McKenzie born (1941)
  • Actor/singer Chris Groenendaal born (1948)
  • Actor/singer/director Don Scardino born (1949)
  • Lionel Bart's Fings Ain't What They Used to Be opened in London (1959)
  • Gower Champion's production of Rockabye Hamlet opened on Broadway (1976)
  • Bea Arthur On Broadway opened (2002)

18

  • In Dahomey starring Williams & Walker opened on Broadway (1903)
  • Maid in America starring Nora Bayes opened on Broadway (1915)
  • Rodgers & Hart's Simple Simon Starring Ed Wynn opened (1930)
  • Actor/singer Christopher Sieber born (1969)
  • Actress/singer Susan Egan born (1970)

19

  • Actress/manager Lydia Thompson born (1836?)
  • Actor/singer George Rose born (1920)
  • Actor/singer 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)
  • Actor/singer Robert Weede born (1903)
  • Actor/singer 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

  • Actor/singer Victor Moore born (1876)
  • Costume designer Patricia Zipprodt born (1925)
  • Actor/singer 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

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

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