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Calendar: July
Compiled by John Kenrick

(Copyright 2000, Revised 2004)

1

2

  • D'Oyly Carte contralto Rosina Brandram born (1854)
  • British producer Jack Hylton born (1892)
  • George White's Scandals of 1928 opened on Broadway (1928)
  • Ziegfeld's Show Girl opened on Broadway (1929)
  • Actor/singer Jarod Emick born (1969)
  • Singin' In the Rain opened on Broadway (1985)

3

4

  • Composer Irving Caesar born (1895)
  • Actress Gertrude Lawrence born (1898)
  • Playwright/librettist Neil Simon born (1927)
  • Irving Berlin's This is the Army opened on Broadway (1942)

5

  • Earl Carroll Vanities of 1923 opened on Broadway (1923)
  • Padlocks of 1927 starring Texas Guinan opened on Broadway (1927)
  • Actor/singer Douglas Sills born (1960)

6

7

  • Actor/librettist Richard Carle born (1871)
  • Composer/librettist Gian-Carlo Menotti born (1911)
  • Noel Coward's Ace of Clubs opened in London (1950)
  • Let My People Come moved to Broadway (1976)

8

  • Ziegfeld's Follies of 1907 (1st edition) opened on Broadway (1907)
  • Actress/singer Gertrude Neisen born (1911)
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers opened on Broadway (1982)

9

  • Librettist/director William McGuire born (1885)
  • Revival of Fiddler on the Roof (3rd) starring Herschel Bernardi opened on Broadway (1990)
  • Revival of Camelot starring Richard Burton opened on Broadway (1980)

10

  • Lyricist/librettist Noble Sissle born (1889)
  • Composer Jimmy McHugh born (1894)
  • Actress/singer Evelyn Laye (1900)
  • Composer/lyricist Jerry Herman Born (1932)
  • Xanadu opened on Broadway (2007)

11

12

  • Lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II born (1895)
  • Comedian Milton Berle born (1908)
  • Comedian Joey Faye born (1909)
  • Librettist/critic John Lahr born (1941)
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard opened in London (1993)

13

  • Actress/singer Didi Conn born (1951)

14

  • Librettist/playwright Jerome Lawrence born (1915)
  • Librettist/director Arthur Laurents born (1918)
  • Actress/singer Polly Bergen born (1930)

15

  • Producer Charles Frohman born (1856)
  • British actress/singer Marie Tempest born (1864)
  • British composer/lyricist Noel Gay born (1898)
  • Lyricist/librettist Dorothy Fields born (1905)
  • Actress/singer Joan Roberts born (1918)
  • Irving Berlin's Miss Liberty opened on Broadway (1949)
  • Revival of Pirates of Penzance opened in NY's Central Park (1980)
  • Olympus On My Mind opened Off-Broadway (1986)

16

17

  • Actor/singer/dancer James Cagney born (1899)
  • Actress/singer Phyllis Diller born (1917)
  • Actress/singer Mimi Hines born (1933)
  • Actress/singer Lucie Arnaz (1951)
  • [title of show] opened on Broadway (2008)

18

  • Actor/comedian Red Skelton born (1913)
  • Marinka opened on Broadway (1945)
  • Actor/singer Craig Bierko born (1965)

19

  • Actress/singer Helen Gallagher born (1926)
  • Two On The Aisle opened on Broadway (1951)

20

  • Actress/singer Sally Ann Howes born (1930)
  • Actress Natalie Wood born (1938)
  • Stop the World I Want to Get Off opened in London (1961)

21

  • Actor/singer Chauncey Olcott born (1860)
  • Actress/singer Lilas White born (1951)
  • Guys and Dolls all-black cast revival opens on Broadway (1976)

22

  • The Passing Show of 1912 opened on Broadway (1912)
  • Actor/dancer/choreographer Grover Dale born (1935)
  • Galt MacDermot's Two Gentlemen of Verona opened in Central Park (1971)

23

  • Actress/singer Laura Benanti born (1979)

24

  • The Passing Show of 1913 opened on Broadway (1913)
  • Producer Alexander Cohen born (1920)
  • Actress/singer Michelle Lee born (1942)
  • Actress/singer Kristin Chenoweth born (1968)
  • Revival of Mame starring Angela Lansbury opened on Broadway (1983)
  • Revival of Big River opened on Broadway (2003)

25

  • Actor/singer/producer Tony Hart born (1855)
  • Singer/actress Yvonne Printemps born (1895)
  • Actor Jack Gilford born (1913)
  • The Passing show of 1918 opened on Broadway (1918)
  • A Chorus Line moved to Broadway (1975)

26

27

  • Evangeline opened on Broadway (1873)
  • Costume designer Miles White born (1914)
  • Actress/singer Maureen McGovern born (1949)
  • Actor/singer Michael Ball born (1962)
  • Ashman & Menken's Little Shop of Horrors opened Off-Broadway (1982)

28

  • Actor/singer Rudy Vallee born (1901)
  • Dancer/choreographer Jacques d'Amboise born (1934)
  • Actress/singer Georgia Engel born (1948)
  • Actor/singer Michael Hayden born (1963)
  • An Evening With Jerry Herman opened on Broadway (1998)

29

  • Composer Sigmund Romberg born (1887)
  • Emmerich Kalman's The Gay Hussars opened on Broadway (1909)
  • British actress/singer Anne Rogers born (1933)
  • Actor/singer/dancer Robert Lupone born (1946)

30

  • Actor/singer Daniel McDonald born (1960)

31

  • Composer/lyricist George Forrest born (1915)
  • Judy Garland opened her final run at New York's Palace Theatre (1967)
  • But Never Jam Today opened on Broadway (1979)
  • Avenue Q opened on Broadway (2003)

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