1

• Vaudeville star Eva Tanguay born (1878)
• Librettist Michael Stewart born (1929)
• Director/choreographer/actor/dancer Geoffrey Holder born (1930)
• Composer/lyricist Lionel Bart born (1930)
• Actor/comedian Dom DeLuise born (1933)
• I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change opened Off-Broadway (1996)

2

• Actress/singer Helen Morgan born (1900)
• Actor/singer Anthony Crivello born (1955)

3

• Actor/singer Nathaniel Frey born (1918)
• Actress/singer/dancer Maria Karnilova born (1920)
• Composer Richard Adler born (1921)
• Revival of Stop the World starring Sammy Davis Jr. opened on Broadway (1978)

4

• Jazz legend Louis Armstrong born (1901)
• Actress/singer Helen Kane ("Betty Boop") born (1903)
• Revival of The Merry Widow opened on Broadway (1943)
• Revival of Pal Joey opened in London (1980)
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood opened in NY's Central Park (1985)

5

• Sigmund Romberg's The Blue Paradise opened (1915)
• Actress/singer Faith Prince born (1957)

6

• Conductor Franz Allers born (1905)
• Actress Lucille Ball born (1910)
• Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1928 opened on Broadway (1928)

7

• Actress Billie Burke born (1885)
• Actor's Equity calls its historic first strike (1919)
• Carol Channing leaves original cast of Hello Dolly! (1965)
• Honky Tonk Nights opened on Broadway (1986)

• Director/lyricist Gene Buck born (1885)
• Actress/singer/producer Rosetta LeNoire born (1911)
• Actress/singer Anne Francine born (1917)
• Actress/swimmer Esther Williams born (1921)
• Actress/singer Marcia Lewis born (1938)
• Revival of Shenandoah opened on Broadway (1989)

• British actor Edmund Hockridge born (1923)
• Webber & Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar opened in London (1972)

10

• Actor/singer Jack Haley born (1899)
• Actor/singer Antonio Banderas born (1960)
• Me and My Girl opened on Broadway (1986)

11

• Actor/producer Joseph Weber born (1867)
• Songwriter John Rosamund Johnson born (1873)
• Actress Helen Broderick born (1891)
• Composer Hugh Martin born (1914)

• Director/choreographer/dancer/actor Michael Kidd born (1919)
• Charlotte Sweet opened Off-Broadway (1982)

• Actor/singer Bert Lahr born (1914)
• Actress/singer Alma Cuervo born (1951)

14

• Actor/comedian Robert Woolsey born (1888)
• Lyricist Lee Adams born (1924)
• Actress/singer Alice Ghostley born (1926)
• Actress/singer Sarah Brightman born (1961)
• Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence married (1963)
• Revue When Pigs Fly opened Off-Broadway (1996)
• Roundabout revival of 1776 opened on Broadway (1997)

15

• Producer/theatre owner Jacob Shubert born (1878)
• Hollywood lyricist Ned Washington born (1901)
• Actor Jim Dale born (1935)
• Actress/singer Jill Haworth born (1945)
• Actor/singer/dancer Michael Berresse born (1964)
• Revival of Ain't Misbehavin' opened on Broadway (1988)
• Hairspray opened on Broadway (2002)

16

• Composer Karl Hoschna born (1877)
  Sigmund Romberg's Maytime opened on Broadway (1917)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 opened on Broadway (1927)
• Actress/singer Anita Gilette born (1936)
• Actress Carol Shelley born (1939)
• Actor/singer Paul Hecht born (1941)
• Actress/singer/dancer Lesley Ann Warren born (1946)
• Actress/singer Dee Hoty born (1952)

17

• MGM's film musical The Wizard of Oz premiered in New York City (1939)
• Lyricist Ira Gershwin dies at age 87 (1983)

18

• Lyricist/librettist Otto Harbach born (1873)
• Camelot starring Laurence Harvey opened in London (1964)
• Revival of My Fair Lady starring Rex Harrison opened on Broadway (1981)
• The Donkey Show opened Off-Broadway (1999)
• Revival of Boys From Syracuse opened on Broadway (2002)

19

• Actor Fred Stone born (1873)
• Irving Berlin's Yip Yip Yaphank opened on Broadway (1918)
• Actor/singer Peter Gallagher born (1956)
• Camelot opened in London (1964)

20

• The Mikado opened on Broadway (1885)
• Singer/actress Julia Sanderson born (1887)
• Artists and Models of 1923 opened on Broadway (1923)
• Simply Heavenly opened on Broadway (1957)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes opened in London (1962)

21

• Lyricist Carolyn Leigh born (1926)
• Song of Norway opened on Broadway (1944)
• Jerry Herman's La Cage Aux Folles opened on Broadway (1983)
• Strouse & Schwartz's Rags opened on Broadway (1986)

22

• Producer Daniel Frohman born (1851)
• Costume designer Theoni V. Aldredge born (1932)

23

• Actor/dancer/singer/director/choreographer Gene Kelly born (1912) 
• George Burns and Gracie Allen's vaudeville act debuts at NY's Palace Theatre (1926)
• Oscar Hammerstein II dies of stomach cancer (1960)

24

• Jerome Kern's The Girl From Utah opened on Broadway (1914)
• Big Boy starring Al Jolson opened on Broadway (1925)
• Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1926 opened (1926)

25

• Actress/dancer Ruby Keeler born (1909)
• Actor/singer Van Johnson born (1916)
• Composer Leonard Bernstein born (1918)
• Gower Champion died the same day that his hit 42nd Street opened on Broadway (1981)

26

• Actress/singer Jan Clayton born (1917)
• Actor/singer Michael Jeter born (1952)
• Musical version of Anna Karenina opened on Broadway (1992)

27

• Producer/theatre owner Sam S. Shubert born (1878)
• Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1931 opened on Broadway (1931)
• Revue Life Begins at 8:40 starring Ray Bolger opened on Broadway (1934)

28

• Actor Sam Levene born (1905)
• Jerome Kern's Leave It to Jane opened on Broadway (1917)
• George White's Scandals of 1922 opened on Broadway (1922)
• George White's Scandals of 1939 opened on Broadway (1939)

29

• Sally in Our Alley opened on Broadway (1902)
• Our Miss Gibbs opened on Broadway (1910)

30

• Actress/singer Fritzi Scheff born (1879)
• Actress Shirley Booth born (1898 or 1907?)
• Madame Sherry opened on Broadway (1910)
• Actor/singer/dancer Donald O'Connor born (1925)

31

• The Girl from Brighton opened on Broadway (1912)
• Lyricist/librettist/author Alan Jay Lerner born (1918)
• The Sweetheart Shop opened on Broadway (1920)
• Actress/singer Deborah Gibson born (1970)