Calendar: June
compiled by John Kenrick
(Copyright 2000, Revised 2003)

1

• Vaudvillian/actor/producer Lew Fields born (1867)
• Actor Frank Morgan born (1890)
• Actress/singer Molly Picon born (1898)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1914 opened on Broadway (1914)
• Actress/singer Marilyn Monroe born (1926)
• Actor/singer Rene Auberjonois born (1940)
• Actor/singer Jonathan Pryce born (1947)
• Kander & Ebb's Chicago opened on Broadway (1975)

2

• A Chinese Honeymoon opened on Broadway (1902)
• George White's Scandals of 1919 opened on Broadway (1919)
• Actor/singer Milo O'Shea born (1926)
• Composer Marvin Hamlisch born (1944)
• Actress/singer Joanna Gleason born (1950)
• Your Arms Too Short to Box With God opened on Broadway (1980)
• Blues in the Night opened on Broadway (1982)

3

• Composer Charles Lecocq born (1832)
• Actor/singer Maurice Evans born (1901)
• Actress/singer Dorothy Stone born (1905)
• Actress/singer/dancer Josephine Baker born (1906)
• George M. Cohan's The Honeymooners opened on Broadway (1907)
• Burlesque stripper Lili St. Cyr born (1918)
• Schwartz & Dietz's The Band Wagon opened on Broadway (1931)
• Rodgers & Hart's By Jupiter opened on Broadway (1942)
• Sleepy Hollow opened on Broadway (1948)
• Actress/singer Mary Bond Davis born (1958)
• Actor/singer/songwriter Jeff Blumenkrantz born (1965)

4

• Lyricist/librettist Robert Smith born (1875)
• Actress Rosalind Russell born (1912)
• Rodgers & Hart's second Garrick Gaieties opened on Broadway (1930)
• Earl Carroll's 2nd Sketchbook opened on Broadway (1935)
• Actress/singer Mary Testa born (1955)
• Actor/singer Sam Harris born (1961)

5

• Actress/singer Judy Holliday born (1922)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1922 opened on Broadway (1922)
• Actor/singer Colm Wilkinson born (1944)
• Revival of The Music Man starring Dick Van Dyke opened on Broadway (1980)

6

• Actress/singer Helen Ford born (1897)
• Hitchy Koo of 1918 opened on Broadway (1918)
• Playwright/librettist/actor/singer Harvey Fierstein born (1954)
• Actor/singer Max Casella born (1967)

7

• Hitchy Koo of 1917 opened on Broadway (1917)
• George White's Scandals of 1920 opened on Broadway (1920)
• Actress/singer Dolores Gray born (1924)
• Composer Charles Strouse born (1928)
• Annie Get Your Gun starring Dolores Gray opened in London (1947)
• Grease moved to Broadway (1972)

8

• The Merry Widow opened in London (1907)
• Actor/singer Robert Preston born (1918)
• Actress/singer Alexis Smith born (1921)
• Rodgers & Hart's first Garrick Gaities opened on Broadway (1925)
• British actress/singer Millicent Martin born (1954)
• William Finn's Falsettoland opened Off-Broadway (1990)

9

• Composer/lyricist Cole Porter born (1891)

10

• Lyricist Al Dubin born (1891)
• Composer Frederick Loewe born (1904)
• Actress/singer Judy Garland born (1922)
• Artists and Models of 1930 opened on Broadway (1930)
• Taking My Turn opened Off-Broadway (1983)
• Revival of She Loves Me opened on Broadway (1993)

11

• Actress/singer Adrienne Barbeau born (1945)
• Barnum starring Michael Crawford opened in London (1981)

12

• Ziegfeld Follies of 1916 opened on Broadway (1916)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1917 opened on Broadway (1917)
• Composer/lyricist Richard M. Sherman born (1928)
• Revival of Dames at Sea opened Off-Broadway (1985)

13

• Actress/singer Mary Wickes born (1910)
• Producer/theatre owner Bernard Jacobs born (1916)
• Actor/singer Paul Lynde born (1926)
• Courtin' Time opened on Broadway (1951)
• Shangri-La opened on Broadway (1956)
• Jonathan Larson's tick, tick . . . BOOM opened Off-Broadway (2001)

14

• Actor/singer Cliff Edwards ("Ukulele Ike") born (1895)
• Actor/singer Burl Ives born (1909)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1909 opened on Broadway (1909)
• The Passing Show of 1923 opened on Broadway (1923)
• Composer Cy Coleman born (1929)
• Anything Goes opened in London (1935)
• New Faces of 1956 opened on Broadway (1956)
• I'm Getting My Act Together opened Off-Broadway (1978)

15

• Orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett born (1894)
• Actress/singer Mary Ellis born (1897)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1908 opened on Broadway (1908)
• Grand Street Follies of 1926 opened on Broadway (1926)
• Ethel Merman & Mary Martin costar in Ford's 50th Anniversary Special on CBS and NBC (1953)
• Bye Bye Birdie opened in London (1961)
• Actor/singer Neil Patrick Harris born (1973)
• Fearless Frank opened on Broadway (1980)

16

• Actor/vaudevillian Bobby Clark born (1888)
• Actor/singer Lupino Lane born (1892)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1913 opened on Broadway (1913)
• The Cradle Will Rock opened on Broadway (1937)
• Actor/singer David Green born (1942)
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold opened on Broadway (1995)

17

• Producer Charles Frohman born (1860)
• British composer Sidney Jones born (1869)
• Composer Sammy Fain born (1902)
• Actress/singer Virginia Martin born (1919)
• Actor/singer Mark Linn-Baker born (1954)
• Oh Calcutta! opened Off-Broadway (1969)

18

• Soprano/actress Jeanette MacDonald born (1901)
• Composer Sammy Cahn born (1913)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 opened on Broadway (1918)
• George White's Scandals of 1923 opened on Broadway (1923)
• Grand Street Follies of 1925 opened on Broadway (1925)
• Actor/singer George Hearn born (1934)
• The Goodspeed Opera House opens in Connecticut (1963)
• William Finn's A New Brain opened Off-Broadway (1998)

19

• Composer Carl Zeller born (1842)
• Actress/singer Mildred Natwick born (1905)
• Actor/singer Louis Jourdan born (1919)
• The revue Streets of Paris opened on Broadway (1939)
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas moved to Broadway (1978)
• Forever Tango opened on Broadway (1997)
• Cats breaks Broadway's long-run record with its 6,148th performance (1997)

20

• Ziegfeld Follies of 1910 opened on Broadway (1910)

21

• Caricaturist Al Hirshfeld born (1903)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1915 opened on Broadway (1915)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1921 opened on Broadway (1921)
• Actress/singer Judy Holliday born (1921)
• Lyricist Don Black born (1936)
• Seventeen opened on Broadway (1951)
• Webber & Rice's Evita opened in London (1978)
• Revival of Camelot starring Robert Goulet opened on Broadway (1993)

22

• Actress/singer May Irwin born (1862)
• Actor/singer Jack Whiting born (1901)
• Actor/singer David Burns born (1902)
• Producer Michael Todd born (1909)
• The Passing Show of 1916 opened on Broadway (1916)
• Director/choreographer/dancer Gower Champion born (1920)
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 opened on Broadway (1920)
• Producer Joseph Papp born (1921)
• George White's Scandals of 1925 opened on Broadway (1925)
• Actor/singer John Cunningham born (1932)
• Revival of Kismet starring Alfred Drake opened on Broadway (1965)
• Revival of Man of La Mancha starring Richard Kiley opened on Broadway (1972)
• Godspell moved to Broadway (1976)
• Fred Astaire dies at age 88 (1987)

23

• Actor/singer Larry Blyden born (1925)
• Director/choreographer/actor/dancer Bob Fosse born (1927)
• Actor/singer Bert Convy born (1933)
• Revival of This Was Burlesque opened on Broadway (1981)

24

• Ziegfeld Follies of 1924 opened on Broadway (1924)
• Artists and Models of 1925 opened on Broadway (1925)
• Michael Todd's Star and Garter opened on Broadway (1942)
• Actor/singer Walter Willison born (1947)

25

• Director/librettist George Abbott born (1887)
• Actress/singer/dancer Charlotte Greenwood born (1893)
• Actor/singer Peter Lind Hayes born (1915)
• Actor/singer Lee Wilkof born (1951)
• Wish You Were Here opened on Broadway (1952)
• The TKTS Booth in Times Square opened (1973)

26

• Ziegfeld Follies of 1911 opened on Broadway (1911)
• Actress Eleanor Parker born (1922)
• Grease opened in London (1973)
• Got Tu Go Disco opened on Broadway (1979)

27

• Actor/singer Michael Ball born (1962)
• Revival of Pal Joey opened on Broadway (1976)
• Play Me a Country Song opened on Broadway (1982)

28

• Producer Max Gordon born (1892)
• Composer/producer Richard Rodgers born (1902)
• Librettist/songwriter Mel Brooks born (1926)
• Mike Todd's Peep Show opened on Broadway (1950)
• Revival of Dreamgirls opened on Broadway (1987)
• William Finn's one-act Falsettoland opened Off-Broadway (1990)

• Singer/actor Nelson Eddy born (1901)
• Composer/lyricist/librettist Frank Loesser born (1910)
• Shirley MacLaine goes on for injured Carol Haney in The Pajama Game (1954)
• Actress/singer/dancer Sharon Lawrence born (1962)
• Revue Whoop-Dee-Doo opened Off-Broadway (1993)

• Singer/actress Lena Horne born (1917)
• George White's Scandals of 1924 opened on Broadway (1932)
• Actor/singer David Garrison born (1952)
• Lionel Bart's Oliver opened in London (1960)