1

• Librettist/lyricist Ludovic Halevy born (1834)
• Actor/producer Lew Fields born (1867)
• Singer/showgirl Lillian Lorraine born (1892)
• George M. Cohan's Forty Five Minutes From Broadway opened on Broadway (1906)

2

• Burlesque fan dancer Sally Rand born (1903)
• Actress/dancer Vera Zorina born (1917)
• Songwriter Roger Miller born (1936)
• Fig Leaves Are Falling opened on Broadway (1969)

3

• Musician/comedian Victor Borge born (1909)
• Rodgers & Hart's She's My Baby starring Bea Lillie opened on Broadway (1928)
• Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock opened on Broadway (1938)
• Revival of Pal Joey starring Vivienne Segal opened on Broadway (1952)

4

• Merry Widow co-librettist Victor Leon born (1858)
• Actor/singer Sterling Holloway born (1905)
• The Shubert-produced Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 opened on Broadway (1934)
• Actor/singer Patrick Cassidy born (1962)
• Home Sweet Homer starring Yul Brynner opened on Broadway (1976)

5

• Songwriter/performer Jack Norworth born (1879)
• Gilbert & Sullivan's Princess Ida opened in London (1884)
• The Wiz opened on Broadway (1975)
• Revival of Show Boat opened on Broadway (1946)

6

• Actor/librettist Henry E. Dixey born (1859)
• Singer/actress Bonnie Franklin born (1944)
• Lionel Bart's Oliver opened on Broadway (1963)

7

• Big Boy starring Al Jolson opened on Broadway (1925)
• Actor/singer/dancer Harvey Evans born (1941)
• Cole Porter's Something For the Boys opened on Broadway (1943)
• Shenandoah starring John Cullum opened on Broadway (1975)
• Revival of The King & I starring Yul Brynner opened on Broadway (1985)

8

• Stripper/actress Gypsy Rose Lee (Hovick) born (1911)
• Actor/singer/director Jose Ferrer born (1912)
• Actor/singer/director Stanley Prager born (1917)
• Actor Ron Moody born (1924)
• Actor/singer Elvis Presley born (1935)
• Company opened in London (1972)
• Revival of The Pirates of Penzance moved to Broadway (1981)
• Children of Eden opened in London (1991)

9

• British singer Gracie Fields born (1898)
• Choreographer George Balanchine born (1904)
• Actor/singer Eric Berry born (1913)
• Stripper/actress Gypsy Rose Lee born (1914)
• Andre Charlot's Revue of 1924 opened on Broadway (1924)
• Kurt Weill's Street Scene opened on Broadway (1947)
• Actor/singer J. K. Simmons born (1955)

10

• Actor/dancer/singer Ray Bolger born (1904)
• Lane and Harburg's Finian's Rainbow opened on Broadway (1947)
• Director/librettist James Lapine born (1948)

11

• D'Oyly Carte comedienne/soprano Jessie Bond born (1853)
• Composer Mary Rodgers born (1931)
• Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures opened on Broadway (1976)
• Jerry Herman's The Grand Tour opened on Broadway (1979)
• James Joyce's The Dead opened on Broadway (2000)

12

• Actress/celebrity Texas Guinan born (1884)
• Actress/comedian Patsy Kelly born (1910)
• Actress Luise Rainer born (1910)
• Actor/singer/dancer Andre De Shields born (1946)
• Showgirl starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway (1961)

13

• Mulligan Guards Ball opened on Broadway - Harrigan & Hart's first full-length musical (1879)
• Singer/actress Sophie Tucker born (1884)
• Dancer/actress/singer Gwen Verdon born (1926)
• Actor/singer/director Charles Nelson Reilly born (1931)
• Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1940 opened on Broadway (1940)
• Your Own Thing opened Off-Broadway (1968)
• Revival of The Most Happy Fella opened on Broadway (1992)

14

• Designer/photographer Cecil Beaton born (1904)
• George & Ira Gershwin's Strike Up the Band opened on Broadway (1930)
• British director Trevor Nunn born (1940)
• Sandy Wilson's The Boyfriend opened in London (1954)
• Fosse opened on Broadway (1999)

15

• D'Oyly Carte baritone Rutland Barrington born (1853)
• Actor/composer Ivor Novello born (1893)
• Producer/director Cy Fuer born (1911)
• Actress/singer/comedian Andrea Martin born (1947)
• Revue Make Mine Manhattan opened on Broadway (1948)
• Ari opened on Broadway (1971)
• Forbidden Broadway opens Off-Broadway (1982)

16

• Actress/singer Irene Bordoni born (1895)
• Actress/singer Ethel Merman born (1908)
• Actress/singer/dancer/choreographer Debbie Allen born (1950)
• Actress/singer Liz Larsen born (1959)
• Conquering Hero opened on Broadway (1961)
• Jerry Herman's Hello Dolly! starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway (1964)

17

• Actress/singer Eartha Kitt born (1927)
• Alive and Kicking opened on Broadway (1950)

18

• Actor/singer Danny Kaye born (1913)
• Kander & Ebb's The Happy Time opened on Broadway (1968)
• Flaherty & Ahrens's Ragtime opened on Broadway (1998)

19

• Choreographer/director/dancer Albertina Rasch born (1896)
• Actor/singer John Raitt born (1917)
• Actress/singer Jean Stapleton born (1923)
• Actor/singer Michael Crawford born (1942)
• Long-running revival of No, No, Nanette opened on Broadway (1971)

20

• George & Ira Gershwin's Pardon My English opened on Broadway (1933)
• Dance Me a Song opened on Broadway (1950)
• Tim Rice's Blondel opened in London (1984)

21

• The Wizard of Oz starring Montgomery & Stone opened on Broadway (1903)
• Nelly Bly opened on Broadway (1946)
• Long-running revival of Sweethearts opened on Broadway (1947)
• Actor/singer Robby Benson born (1956)
• Actor/singer Davis Gaines born (1959)
• Revival of Little Me opened on Broadway (1982)

22

• Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore premiered in London (1887)
• Actor/singer Lee Dixon born (1914)
• Producer/designer Lemuel Ayers born (1915)
• Orchestrator/arranger Sid Ramin born (1919)
• Producer Emmanuel Azenburg born (1934)
• All For Love opened on Broadway (1949)
• Jacques Brel is Alive and Well opened Off-Broadway (1968)
• Celebration opened on Broadway (1969)

23

• Actress/singer/dancer Chita Rivera born (1933)
• Kurt Weill's Lady in the Dark starring Gertrude Lawrence opened on Broadway (1941)
• Bock & Harnick's The Body Beautiful opened on Broadway (1958)

24

• Librettist Fred Thompson born (1884)
• Choreographer/director/performer Donald Saddler born (1918)
• Jonathan Larson (age 36) dies after a dress rehearsal of Rent (1995)

25

• Director/actor/librettist George Abbott born (1887)
• Actress/singer Florence Mills born (1895)
• Actress/singer Paula Laurence born (1916)
• Actor/singer Dean Jones born (1931)
• Jonathan Larson dies hours after final Off-Broadway rehearsal of Rent (1996)

26

• Vaudeville theatre owner B.F. Keith born (1846)
• Composer James Van Heusen born (1913)
• Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway (1988)
• Black & Blue opened on Broadway (1989)
• Jonathan Larson's Rent opened Off-Broadway (1996)

27

• Composer Will Marion Cook born (1869)
• Composer Jerome Kern born (1884)
• Lyricist/librettist Buddy DeSylva born (1895)
• Lyricist Harry Ruby born (1895)
• Actress/singer Benay Venuta born (1911)
• Actress/singer Doretta Morrow born (1928)
• Romberg's Up In Central Park opened on Broadway (1945)
• Plain and Fancy opened on Broadway (1955)
• A Family Affair opened on Broadway (1962)
• Actor/singer Alan Cumming born (1965)
• Styne & Harburg's Darling of the Day opened on Broadway (1968)
• Lorelei starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway (1974)
• Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat opened on Broadway (1982)

28

• Lyricist/librettist Dorothy Donnelly born (1880)
• Film director Ernst Lubitsch born (1892)
• Choreographer Robert Alton born (1897)
• Cole Porter's Mexican Hayride opened on Broadway (1944)
• Revival of The Five O'Clock Girl opened on Broadway (1981)
• Sarafina opened on Broadway (1988)

29

• Actor/comedian W. C. Fields born (1880)
• Ziegfeld showgirl Mary Eaton born (1901)
• Composer/lyricist Leslie Bricusse born (1931)
• Look Ma, I'm Dancin' starring Nancy Walker opened on Broadway (1948)
• Cy Coleman's Sweet Charity starring Gwen Verdon opened on Broadway (1966)
• Paul Simon's The Capeman opened on Broadway (1998)

30

• British actor Seymour Hicks born (1871)
• Lyricist Joe Darion born (1911)
• Actor/singer David Wayne born (1914)
• Composer/producer Mitch Leigh born (1928)
• Producer/director Hal Prince born (1928)
• Actress/singer Tammy Grimes born (1934)
• The Shubert-produced Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 opened on Broadway (1936)

31

• Actor/singer/dancer Jerry Cohan born (1848)
• Actor/singer Eddie Cantor born (1892)
• Actress/singer Carol Channing born (1921)
• Singer/actor Mario Lanza born (1921)
• Musical Harrigan and Hart opened on Broadway (1985)

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