1

• British actress/singer Cicely Courtneidge born (1893)
• Actor/singer Art Lund born (1915)
• Actress/singer Jane Powell born (1929)
• Actress/singer Debbie Reynolds (1932)
• The Shuberts' Ziegfeld Follies of 1943 opened on Broadway (1943)

2

• Actor/singer/dancer Jack Buchanan born (1891)
• Actor/singer/dancer Buddy Ebsen born (1908)
• Revival of The Mikado opened on Broadway (1987)

3

• Costume designer Lucinda Ballard born (1906)
• Composer Sherman Edwards born (1919)
• Actress/singer Doris Day born (1922)
• Actress/singer Myoshi Umeki born (1929)
• Barefoot Boy With Cheek opened on Broadway (1947)
• Say Darling opened on Broadway (1958)
• The Happiest Girl in The World starring Cyril Ritchard opened on Broadway (1961)
• Cry For Us All opened on Broadway (1970)
• Revue Dream opened on Broadway (1997)

4

• The New Moon opened in London (1929)
• Rodgers & Hart's Higher and Higher opened on Broadway (1940)
• Actor/singer Walter Charles born (1945)
• Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle opened on Broadway (1964)
• The Education of H*Y*M*A*N*K*A*P*L*A*N opened on Broadway (1968)
• Sondheim's Follies opened on Broadway (1971)
• Sondheim's Assassins opened on Broadway (2004)

5

• Lyricist/librettists Basil Hood born (1864)
• Actress Bette Davis born (1908)
• Record producer Goddard Lieberson born (1911)
• Actor/singer Christopher Hewitt born (1922)
• Actor/singer Frank Gorshin born (1933)
• The Human Comedy opened on Broadway (1984)
• Revival of Sondheim's Follies opened on Broadway (2001)

6

• Actor/singer Walter Huston born (1884)
• Ahrens & Flaherty's Once On This Island opened Off-Broadway (1990)

7

• Actress/dancer Irene Castle born (1893)
• Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific opened on Broadway (1949)
• High Spirits starring Bea Lillie opened on Broadway (1964)

8

• The Archers premiered in NYC -- arguably the first American musical (1796)
• Lyricist E. Y. "Yip" Harburg born (1896)
• Skater/actress/producer Sonja Henie born (1912)
• Jerome Kern's Sitting Pretty opened on Broadway (1924)
• Lyricist Fred Ebb born (1932)
• Director/choreographer/dancer Michael Bennett born (1943)
• Follow The Girls opened on Broadway (1944)
• By The Beautiful Sea opened on Broadway (1954)
• Lerner & Lane's Carmelina opened on Broadway (1979)
• Leader of the Pack opened on Broadway (1985)
• Webber's Aspects of Love opened on Broadway (1990)
• Five Guys Named Moe opened on Broadway (1992)

9

• Actor/singer Paul Robeson born (1898)
• Sugar opened on Broadway (1972)

10

• British librettist Owen Hall born (1853)
• Actress/singer Edith Day born (1896)
• George M! opened on Broadway (1968)
• Bob Fosse's Big Deal opened on Broadway (1986)
• Revival of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes opened on Broadway (1995)
• Revival of Nine opened on Broadway (2003)

11

• Actor/singer Richard Halliday born (1893)
• Actor/singer Joel Grey born (1932)
• Rodgers & Hart's On Your Toes opened on Broadway (1936)
• Illya Darling opened on Broadway (1967)
• Miss Saigon opened on Broadway (1991)
• Revival of The King and I opened on Broadway (1996)

12

• The Belle of New York opened in London (1898)
• British actress/singer Muriel Barron born (1906)
• Actress/singer/dancer Ann Miller born (1919)
• Actress/singer Pat Stanley born (1931)
• Actor/singer David Cassidy born (1950)
• Revival of Bells Are Ringing opened on Broadway (2001)

13

• British actress/singer Ellaline Terriss born (1871)
• Librettist Jerome Weidman born (1913)
• Actor/singer Howard Keel born (1917)
• Film director Stanley Donen born (1924)
• Brecht & Weill's The Threepenny Opera opened on Broadway (1933)
• Bob Merrill's Carnival opened on Broadway (1961)
• Actress/singer Liz Callaway born (1961)
• Funny Girl starring Barbra Streisand opened in London (1966)
• Cy Coleman's Welcome to the Club opened on Broadway (1989)
• La Chiusa's The Wild Party opened on Broadway (2000)
• A Year With Frog and Toad opened on Broadway (2003)

14

• Rodgers & Hart's Babes In Arms opened on Broadway (1937)
• Brigadoon opened in London (1949)
• Strouse & Adams' Bye Bye Birdie opened on Broadway (1960)
• Revival of The Boy Friend opened on Broadway (1970)
• Revival of Take Me Along opened on Broadway (1985)
• Mail opened on Broadway (1988)
• Revival of Guys and Dolls opened on Broadway (1992)

15

• Sophie opened on Broadway (1963)
• Hit revival of Boys From Syracuse opened Off-Broadway (1963)
• Kander & Ebb's 70 Girls, 70 opened on Broadway (1971)
• A Chorus Line opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theatre (1975)
• A Little Night Music opened in London (1975)

16

• Composer/lyricist Henry Mancini born (1924)
• Actress/singer Edith Adams born (1927)
• Producer Robert Stigwood born (1934)
• Sammy Cahn's Words and Music opened on Broadway (1974)
• Copperfield starring George S. Irving opened on Broadway (1981)
• Grind starring Ben Vereen opened on Broadway (1985)
• Metro opened on Broadway (1992)
• Revival of Jesus Christ Superstar opened on Broadway (2000)

17

• Actress/singer Marta Eggerth born (1912)
• Musical version of Cafe Crown opened on Broadway (1964)
• Coleman & Stewart's I Love My Wife opened on Broadway (1977)
• Tommy Tune's The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas opened Off-Broadway (1978)
• Tintypes opened Off-Broadway (1980)
• Blast opened on Broadway (2001)

18

• Composer Franz Von Suppe born (1819)
• Director Peter Coe born (1929)
• Actor/singer Clive Revill born (1930)
• Harold Rome's revue Call Me Mister opened on Broadway (1946)
• Make A Wish opened on Broadway (1951)
• Ankles Aweigh opened on Broadway (1955)
• Side By Side By Sondheim opened on Broadway (1977)
• Five Guys Named Mo opened on Broadway (1992)
• Ain't Broadway Grand opened on Broadway (1993)
• Ashman, Rice & Menken's Beauty and the Beast opened on Broadway (1994)
• Revival of Sondheim's Forum starring Nathan Lane opened on Broadway (1996)
• Thoroughly Modern Millie opened on Broadway (2002)

19

• Actress/singer Vivienne Segal born (1897)
• Actress/singer Constance Carpenter born (1904)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel opened on Broadway (1945)
• Actor/singer Tim Curry born (1946)
• Musical version of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn opened on Broadway (1951)
• Actress/singer Betsy Joslyn born (1954)
• Hot Spot starring Judy Holliday opened on Broadway (1963)
• Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope opened on Broadway (1972)
• Mel Brooks' The Producers opened on Broadway (2001)

20

• John Phillip Sousa's El Capitan opened on Broadway (1896)
• George M. Cohan's The Yankee Prince opened on Broadway (1908)
• Four Saints in Three Acts opened on Broadway (1934)
• Allah Be Praised opened on Broadway (1944)
• The Golden Apple opened on Broadway  (1954)
• From A to Z opened on Broadway (1960)

21

• Actor/comic David Montgomery born (1870)
• Producer Harry Rigby born (1925)
• Actress/singer Patti Lupone born (1949)
• The Most Happy Fella opened in London (1960)
• Actor/singer/librettist John Cameron Mitchell born (1963)
• Strouse & Charnin's Annie opened on Broadway (1977)

22

• British actor/singer Hayden Coffin born (1862)
• Actor/singer Martyn Green born (1899)
• Actor/singer Eddie Albert born (1908)
• Actress/singer Charlotte Rae born (1926)
• The Who's Tommy opened on Broadway (1983)
• Frank Wildhorn's The Civil War opened on Broadway (1999)

23

• Playwright William Shakespeare's supposed birthday (1564?)
• Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience opened in London (1881)
• Actress/singer Shirley Temple born (1928)
• Harold Rome's Destry Rides Again opened on Broadway (1959)
• Bock & Harnick's She Loves Me opened on Broadway (1963)
• I'm Solomon opened on Broadway (1968)
• Yeston & Stone's Titanic opened on Broadway (1997)

24

• Actress/singer Blanche Ring born (1877)
• Choreographer Helen Tamiris born (1905)
• Actress/singer/dancer Shirley MacLaine born (1934)
• Singer/actress Barbra Streisand born (1942)
• Bernstein's Peter Pan starring Jean Arthur opened on Broadway (1950)
• Man of La Mancha opened in London (1968)
• Revival of Show Boat starring Donald O'Connor opened on Broadway (1983)
• Revival of Man of La Mancha starring Raul Julia opened on Broadway (1992)
• Kander & Ebb's short-lived Steel Pier opened on Broadway (1997)

25

• Vincent Youmans' Hit The Deck opened on Broadway (1927)
• Half a Sixpence starring Tommy Steele opened on Broadway (1965)
• Rodgers & Harnick's Rex opened on Broadway (1976)
• Big River opened on Broadway (1985)
• The Secret Garden opened on Broadway (1991)
• Blood Brothers opened on Broadway (1993)
Bring In Da' Noise, Bring in Da' Funk moved to Broadway (1996)

26

• The Passing Show of 1917 opened on Broadway (1917)
• Actor/singer Russell Nype born (1924)
• Dancer/actress Bambi Lynn born (1926)
• Rodgers & Hart's Present Arms opened on Broadway (1928)
• Actress/singer Carol Burnett born (1933)
• Hallelujah Baby opened on Broadway (1967)
• Revival of Oliver opened in London (1967)
• Sondheim's Company opened on Broadway (1970)
• Jelly's Last Jam starring Gregory Hines opened on Broadway (1992)
• The Life opened on Broadway (1997)
• It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues opened on Broadway (1999)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer opened on Broadway (2001)

27

• George M. Cohan's Running for Office opened on Broadway (1903)
• Choreographer Jack Cole born (1914)
• The revue Tickets Please! opened on Broadway (1950)
• Revival of West Side Story opened on Broadway  (1960)
• So Long 174th Street opened on Broadway (1976)
• Happy New Year opened on Broadway (1980)
• Revival of Sweet Charity starring Debbie Allen opened on Broadway (1986)
• Starmites opened on Broadway (1989)
• High Society opened on Broadway (1998)
• Revival of The Music Man opened on Broadway (2000)

28

• The Arcadians opened in London (1909)
• Actress/singer/dancer Emily Yancy born (1939)
• Christine starring Maureen O'Hara opened on Broadway (1960)
• Chess opened on Broadway (1988)
• Revival of Gypsy starring Tyne Daly opened on Broadway (1990)
• Maltby & Shire's Big opened on Broadway (1996)
• Wildhorn & Bricusse's Jekyll and Hyde opened on Broadway (1997)

29

• Composer Carl Millocker born (1842)
• Actress/singer Celeste Holm born (1919)
• French actress/singer/dancer Zizi Jeanmaire born (1924)
• Hair moved to Broadway (1968)
• Revival of Oliver opened on Broadway (1984)
• A Change In the Heir opened on Broadway (1990)
• William Finn's two-act Falsettoes opened on Broadway (1992)
• Rent moved to Broadway (1996)
• Revival of Candide starring Jim Dale opened on Broadway (1997)
• Bombay Dreams opened on Broadway (2004)

30

• Singer/actress Hortense Schneider born (1833)
• Composer Franz Lehar born (1870)
• Actress/singer Eve Arden born (1907)
• Lyricist Sheldon Harnick born (1924)
• The Little Show opened on Broadway (1929)
• Inside U.S.A. starring Bea Lillie and Jack Haley opened on Broadway (1948)
• Actor/singer/playwright Craig Lucas born (1951)
• My Fair Lady opened in London (1958)
• Barnum starring Jim Dale opened on Broadway (1980)
• Revival of Can Can opened on Broadway (1981)
• Revival of Into the Woods opened on Broadway (2002)

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