1

• Vienna operetta star Louis Treumann born (1872)
• Actor/singer Harry Belafonte born (1924)
• Set/costume designer John Napier born (1944)
• Actor/singer Bryan Batt born (1963)
• Timbuktu opened on Broadway (1978)
• Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd opened on Broadway (1979)

2

• British singer/actor (original Mikado) Richard Temple born (1847)
• Composer Kurt Weill born (1900)
• Composer/lyricist/librettist Marc Blitzstein born (1905)
• Actor/singer John Cullum born (1930)
• Thirteen Daughters opened on Broadway (1961)
• Bubbling Brown Sugar opened on Broadway (1976)
• Smokey Joe's Cafe opened (1995)
• The Pajama Game revived (2nd time) on Broadway (2006)

3

• Choreographer Hanya Holm born (1893)  
• Flying High opened on Broadway (1930)
• Here's Where I Belong opened on Broadway (1968)
• Goodtime Charley starring Joel Grey & Ann Reinking opened on Broadway (1975)
• Revival of Damn Yankees opened on Broadway (1994)

4

• Strike Me Pink starring Jimmy Durante opened on Broadway (1933)
• The Goodbye Girl starring Bernadette Peters opened on Broadway (1993)
• Revival of Annie Get Your Gun starring Bernadette Peters opened on Broadway (1999)

5

• Actor/singer Rex Harrison born (1908)
• Actor/singer Jack Cassidy born (1927)
• Lyricist/librettist Alain Boublil born (1941)
• Actress/singer Elaine Paige born (1948)
• Romberg's The Girl In Pink Tights opened on Broadway (1954)
• Damn Yankees starring Gwen Verdon opened on Broadway (1955)
• Revival of Hello Dolly starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway (1978)
• Bring Back Birdie opened on Broadway (1981)
• Kander & Ebb's revue And The World Goes 'Round opened Off-Broadway (1991)

6

• Actress/singer Ella Logan born (1913)
• Composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz born (1948)
• Long running revue This Was Burlesque opened Off-Broadway (1962)
• Over Here starring The Andrews Sisters opened on Broadway (1974)
• Long-running revival of On Your Toes opened on Broadway (1983)

7

• Gilbert & Sullivan's The Grand Duke opened in London (1896)
• Director/librettist Morton DaCosta born (1914)
• Actor/singer Lewis J. Stadlen born (1947)
• Actress/singer Donna Murphy born (1958)
• Actress/singer Vicki Lewis born (1960)
• You're A Good Man Charlie Brown opened Off-Broadway (1967)
• Actress/singer Ruthie Henshall born (1967)
• Maltby & Shire's revue Starting Here, Starting Now opened Off-Broadway (1977)

8

• Actress/singer Anna Held born (1873)
• Actor/singer Darrell Fancourt born (1888)
• Dancer/actress Cyd Charisse born (1921 or 1923)
• Frank Loesser's Greenwillow opened on Broadway (1960)

9

• Actor/singer/vaudevillian Eddie Foy Sr. born (1854)
• Composer Howard Talbot born (1865)
• Composer/lyricist Jerry Ross born (1926)
• Actor/singer Raul Julia born (1940)
• Actor/singer/director Lonny Price born (1959)
• Juno starring Shirley Booth opened on Broadway (1959)

10

• Humpty Dumpty starring George L. Fox opened on Broadway (1868)
• No, No Nanette opened in London (1925)
• Revival of Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway (1953)
• Long-running revival of The Threepenny Opera opened Off-Broadway (1954)
• Long-running revival of Candide moved to Broadway (1974)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on Broadway (1975)

11

• British actress/singer Jessie Matthews born (1907)
• The Golden Apple opened on Broadway (1954)
• Actor/singer Stephen Bogardus born (1954)
• Actor/singer John Barrowman born (1968)
• A Class Act opened on Broadway (2001)

12

• Producer/dancer George White born (1892)
• Actor/singer Gordon MacRae born (1921)
• Actress/singer Liza Minnelli born (1946)
• Les Miserables opened on Broadway (1987)
• Revival of The Sound of Music starring Rebecca Luker opened on Broadway (1998)
• Ring of Fire opened on Broadway (2006)

13

• Actor/singer Joseph Emmet born (1841)
• Actress/singer Tessie O'Shea born (1913)
• Friml's The Three Musketeers opened on Broadway (1928)
• Lerner & Loewe's Brigadoon opened on Broadway (1947)
• Revival of Irene starring Debbie Reynolds opened on Broadway (1973)

14

• Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado opened in London (1885)
• Sweet Smell of Success opened on Broadway (2002)

15

• Florodora composer Leslie Stuart born (1864)
• Producer Florenz Ziegfeld born (1867)
• Actress/singer Zarah Leander born (1907)
• Actor/dancer/choreographer/director Thommie Walsh born (1950)
• Menotti's The Consul opened on Broadway (1950)
• Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady opened on Broadway (1956)
• Richard Rodgers's No Strings opened on Broadway (1962)
• Purlie opened on Broadway (1970)
• Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express opened on Broadway (1987)

16

• Actress/singer Elsie Janis born (1889)
• The Crinoline Girl starring Julian Eltinge opened on Broadway (1914)
• Actor/singer Victor Garber born (1949)
• The Music Man starring Van Johnson opened in London (1961)
• Revue This Was Burlesque moved to Broadway (1965)
• 1776 opened on Broadway (1969)
• Riverdance opened on Broadway (2000)

17

• Actress/dancer Tamara Geva born (1907)
• Rodgers & Hart's The Girl Friend opened on Broadway (1926)
• Chu Chem opened on Broadway (1989)

18

• Composer John Kander born (1927)
• Tovarich starring Vivien Leigh opened on Broadway (1963)
• Rodgers & Sondheim's Do I Hear a Waltz? opened on Broadway (1965)
• Come Summer starring Ray Bolger opened on Broadway (1969)
• Cy Coleman & Dorothy Fields's Seesaw opened on Broadway (1973)

19

• Set designer Jo Meilziner born (1901)
• Librettist Hugh Wheeler born (1912)
• Actress/singer Patricia Morrison born (1915)
• Actress/singer Phyllis Newman born (1933)
• Actress/singer Glenn Close born (1947)
• First Impressions opened on Broadway (1959)
• All American starring Ray Bolger opened on Broadway (1962)
• Doctor Jazz opened on Broadway (1975)
• Revival of Cabaret opened on Broadway (1998)

20

• La Belle Paree featuring Al Jolson (NY debut) opened on Broadway (1911)
• Sigmund Romberg's Maytime opened in London (1925)
• Actor/singer Hal Linden born (1931)
• Actor/singer Chip Zien born (1947)
• Play On opened on Broadway (1997)
• Zanna Don't opened Off Broadway (2003)

21

• Producer Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. born (1867)
• Three Wishes for Jamie starring John Raitt opened on Broadway (1952)
• Actor/singer Matthew Broderick born (1962)
• Canterbury Tales opened in London (1968)
• Revival of Little Johnny Jones starring Donny Osmond opened on Broadway (1982)
• Revival of Oklahoma! opened on Broadway (2002)

22

• Noel Coward's revue This Year of Grace opened in London (1928)
• Composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim born (1930)
• Firebrand of Florence opened on Broadway (1945)
• Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber born (1948)
• Mr. Wonderful opened on Broadway (1956)
• I Can Get It For You Wholesale opened on Broadway (1962)
• Billy opened and closed on Broadway (1969)
• Kander & Ebb's Curtains opened on Broadway (2007)

23

• Actress/singer Hazel Dawn born (1891)
• Actress/singer Martha Wright born (1926)
• The Hot Mikado opened on Broadway (1939)
• The Dancing Years opened in London (1939)
• Actress/singer Melissa Errico born (1970)
• Revival of How To Succeed opened on Broadway (1995)
• Elton John & Tim Rice's Aida opened on Broadway (2000)

24

• Lyricist Christopher Hassall born (1912)
• The Palace Theatre in New York presented its first vaudeville bill (1913)
• Actor/singer/dancer Gene Nelson born (1920)
• Choreographer Onna White born (1922)
• Actor/singer Kenneth Nelson born (1930)
• Costume designer Bob Mackie born (1940)
• Flower Drum Song opened in London (1960)
• Gospel at Colonus opened on Broadway (1988)
• Revival of Carousel opened on Broadway (1994)

25

• Merry Widow co-librettist Leo Stein born (1861)
• Producer/theatre owner Lee Shubert born (1871)
• Trial By Jury opened in London - Gilbert & Sullivan's first hit (1875)
• Musical director Jay Blackton born (1909)
• Singer/actor Robert Rounseville born (1914)
• Actress/singer Sarah Jessica Parker born (1965)
• Revival of My Fair Lady opened on Broadway (1976)
• Mama I Want To Sing opened Off-Broadway (1983)

26

• Singer/actor Al Jolson born (1886?)
• Actor/singer Martin Short born (1950)
• Funny Girl starring Barbra Streisand opened on Broadway (1964)
• Minnie's Boys opened on Broadway (1970)
• Revival of Annie opened on Broadway (1997)

27

• British actor/singer Joseph E. Coyne born (1867)
• Dancer Harold Nicholas born (1921)
• Bob Fosse's Dancin' opened on Broadway (1978)
• William Finn's March of the Falsettoes opened Off-Broadway (1981)
• Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? opened on Broadway (1982)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein's State Fair opened on Broadway (1996)
• Urban Cowboy opened on Broadway (2003)

28

• Cole Porter's See America First (his NY debut) opened on Broadway (1916)
• Sherry opened on Broadway (1967)

29

• Theatre manager Marc Klaw born (1848)
• Actor/singer Joseph Cawthorn born (1867)
• Songwriter Albert Von Tilzer born (1878)
• Playwright/actor Howard Lindsay born (1888)
• Actor Warner Baxter born (1889)
• Singer/actress Pearl Bailey born (1918)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King & I opened on Broadway (1951)
• It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman opened on Broadway (1966)
• Look to the Lilies starring Shirley Booth opened on Broadway (1970)
• Kander & Ebb's Woman of the Year opened on Broadway (1981)

30

• Actor/singer DeWolf Hopper born (1858)
• Ziegfeld's dance director Ned Wayburn born (1874)
• St. Louis Woman opened on Broadway (1946)
• Applause opened on Broadway (1970)
• Revival of Forum (1st) starring Phil Silvers opened on Broadway (1972)
• Susan Stroman's Contact opened on Broadway (2000)

31

• British composer/lyricist David Henecker born (1906)
• Actor/singer Richard Kiley born (1922)
• Actor/singer Sydney Chaplin born (1926)
• Actor/singer William Daniels born (1927)
• Actress/singer Shirley Jones born (1934)
• Actor/singer Richard Chamberlain born (1935)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma opened on Broadway (1943)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella starring Julie Andrews premiered on CBS-TV (1957)

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