1

• Actor/singer George S. Irving born (1922)
• Actress/singer Beth Fowler born (1940)
• Top Banana starring Phil Silvers opened on Broadway (1951)
• Molly opened on Broadway (1973)
• Revival of Oh, Kay! opened on Broadway (1990)

2

• Actor/singer Dennis King born (1897)
• Rodgers & Hart's I'd Rather Be Right starring George M. Cohan opened on Broadway (1937)
• Kean starring Alfred Drake opened on Broadway (1961)
• The Grass Harp starring Barbara Cook opened on Broadway (1971)
• Meet Me In St. Louis opened on Broadway (1989)
• Revival of On the Town opened on Broadway (1998)

3

• Rodgers & Hart's A Connecticut Yankee opened on Broadway (1927)
• Actor/singer/dancer Ken Berry born (1933)
• Willson's The Unsinkable Molly Brown starring Tammy Grimes opened on Broadway (1960)
• Oil City Symphony opened Off-Broadway (1987)
• Bring In Da' Noise opened Off-Broadway (1995)

4

• Humorist Will Rogers born (1879)
• Performer Gaby Deslys born (1881)
• Park Avenue opened on Broadway (1946)
• Harold Rome's Fanny opened on Broadway (1954)
• Actress/singer Daisy Eagan born (1979)

5

• Producer Vinton Freedley born (1891)
• Actress Vivien Leigh born (1913)
• Victor Herbert's Miss 1917 opened on Broadway (1917)
• Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet opened on Broadway (1929)
• Artists and Models of 1943 opened on Broadway (1943)
• Actor/singer Howard McGillin born (1953)
• Actress/singer Andrea McArdle born (1963)
• Sondheim's Into The Woods opened on Broadway (1987)
• Revival of Threepenny Opera starring Sting opened on Broadway (1989)

6

• Composer/bandleader John Philip Sousa born (1854)
• Lyricist Gus Kahn born (1886)
• Actress/singer Juanita Hall born (1901)
• Ziegfeld's The Century Girl opened on Broadway (1916)
• Conductor/arranger/pianist Peter Matz born (1928)
• Actor/singer Eddie Korbich born (1960)
• Actor/singer Michael Cerveris born (1960)
• Revival of Hello Dolly starring Pearl Bailey opened on Broadway (1975)
• Maltby & Shire's Closer Than Ever opened off-Broadway (1989)

7

• George M. Cohan's Little Johnny Jones opened on Broadway (1904)
• Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta opened on Broadway (1910)

8

• Actress/vaudevillian "Baby" June Havoc born (1913)
• Director Gene Saks born (1921)
• George & Ira Gershwin's Oh Kay opened on Broadway (1926)
• Kern & Hammerstein's Music in the Air opened on Broadway (1932)

9

• Actress/singer Marie Dressler born (1869)
• Actress Edna May Oliver born (1883)
• A Trip to Chinatown opened on Broadway (1893)
• Actor Ed Wynn born (1896)
• Composer/performer Kay Thompson born (1903)
• Arranger/composer/producer Roger Edens born (1905)
• Cole Porter's Leave It To Me opened on Broadway (1938)
• The Prince of Central Park opened on Broadway (1989)
• Frank Wildhorn's The Scarlet Pimpernel opened on Broadway (1997)

10

• Floradora opened on Broadway (1900)
• Actor Richard Burton born (1925)
• Lyricist Marilyn Bergman born (1929)
• Lyricist Tim Rice born (1944)
• Dancer/actress/choreographer Ann Reinking (1949)
• The Vamp starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway (1955)
• Nowhere to Go But Up opened on Broadway (1962)
• Something More starring Barbara Cook opened on Broadway (1964)
• Rodgers & Charnin's Two by Two starring Danny Kaye opened on Broadway (1970)
• Oh Brother opened on Broadway (1981)
• Revival of Joseph & The Amazing . . . Dreamcoat opened on Broadway (1993)

11

• British lyricist/librettist Francis Burnanad born (1836)
• Floradora premiered in London (1899)
• Actor/singer Stubby Kaye born (1918)
• What's Up opened on Broadway (1943)
• Revue La Plume De Ma Tante opened on Broadway (1958)
• Amen Corner opened on Broadway (1983)
• Revival of Friml's The Three Musketeers opened on Broadway (1984)
• Revival of Fiddler on the Roof (4th) starring Topol opened on Broadway (1990)

12

• Actor/singer Bert Williams born (1874)
• Composer Richard Whiting born (1891)
• Lerner & Loewe's Paint Your Wagon opened on Broadway (1951)
• Actress/singer/dancer Karen Ziemba born (1957)
• Platinum starring Alexis Smith opened on Broadway (1978)
• Teddy and Alice opened on Broadway (1987)
• Tommy Tune's production of Grand Hotel opened on Broadway (1989)
• Revival of Little Me starring Martin Short opened on Broadway (1998)

13

• Singer/actress Norma Terris born (1904)
• Lyricist John LaTouche born (1917)
• George M. Cohan's Little Nelly Kelly opened on Broadway (1922)
• As The Girls Go opened on Broadway (1948)
• The Gay Life starring Barbara Cook opened on Broadway (1961)
• Skyscraper opened on Broadway (1964)
• Lerner & Loewe's stage version of Gigi opened on Broadway (1973)
• Revue A Musical Jubilee opened on Broadway (1975)
• Disney's The Lion King opened on Broadway (1997)
• Taboo opened on Broadway (2003)

14

• Director/librettist George S. Kaufmann born (1889)
• Actor/singer Dick Powell born (1904)
• Actor/singer/dancer Gregg Burge born (1957)
• Record breaking revival of Chicago opened on Broadway (1996)

15

• Choreographer/dancer Tillie Losch born (1904)
• Actress/singer Carol Bruce born (1919)
• Artists and Models of 1927 opened on Broadway (1927)
• Actress/singer Petula Clark born (1932)
• Actor/singer Bob Gunton born (1945)
• Lil' Abner opened on Broadway (1956)
• Revival of Camelot starring Richard Harris re-opened on Broadway (1981)
• Revival of The Rocky Horror Show opened on Broadway (2000)

16

• Rodgers & Hart's Jumbo opened on Broadway (1935)
• Sadie Thompson opened on Broadway (1944)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music opened on Broadway (1959)
• Actress/singer/dancer Michelle Pawk born (1961)
• Applause opened in London (1972)
• Sondheim's short-lived Merrily We Roll Along opened on Broadway (1981)
• Revival of Gypsy starring Tyne Daly opened on Broadway (1989)

17

• Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer opened in London (1877)
• Actor/dancer/film director Charles Walters born (1911)
• Sweet and Low opened on Broadway (1930)
• Very Warm for May opened on Broadway (1939)
• Revival of A Connecticut Yankee opened on Broadway (1943)
• Actor/singer Brent Carver born (1951)
• Actress/singer Mary Mastrantonio born (1958)
• Director/choreographer/dancer Rob Marshall born (1960)
• Cy Coleman's Little Me opened on Broadway (1962)
• Kander & Ebb's Zorba starring Herschel Bernardi opened on Broadway (1968)
• Godspell opened in London (1971)
• The short-lived The First opened on Broadway (1981)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein's A Grand Night For Singing opened on Broadway (1983)
• Webber's Sunset Boulevard starring Glen Close opened on Broadway (1994)

18

• Lyricist/librettist/director W. S. Gilbert born (1836)
• Comedienne Imogene Coca born (1908)
• Songwriter Johnny Mercer born (1909)
• Irene starring Edith Day opened on Broadway (1919)
• Producer Robert Fryer born (1920)
• Singer Dorothy Collins born (1926)
• Smiles opened on Broadway (1930)
• Jerome Kern's Roberta opened on Broadway (1933)
• The Gay Life starring Barbara Cook opened on Broadway (1961)
• Revival of Kiss Me Kate starring Brian Stokes Mitchell opened on Broadway (1999)

19

• Actor/singer/dancer Clifton Webb born (1891)
• Little Mary Sunshine opened off-Broadway (1959)
• Ambassador starring Howard Keel opened on Broadway (1972)
• Dancer/actor Savion Glover born (1973)
• The Biograph Girl opened in London (1980)
• Revival of On the Town opened on Broadway (1998)

20

• Actress/singer Kaye Ballard born (1926)
• Kander & Ebb's Cabaret opened on Broadway (1966)
• Marilyn opened on Broadway (1983)

21

• Actress/dancer Eleanor Powell born (1910)
• Actress/singer Vivian Blaine born (1921)
• Cole Porter's Anything Goes opened on Broadway (1934)
• Actress/singer Lorna Luft born (1952)
• Actor/singer Peter Shoeffler born (1958)
• Doonsbury opened on Broadway (1983)
• Cyrano (Dutch version) opened on Broadway (1993)
• Sondheim's Putting It Together starring Carol Burnett opened on Broadway (1999)

22

• Actress/singer Ethel Levey born (1880)
• George & Ira Gershwin's Funny Face opened on Broadway (1927)
• Man of La Mancha starring Richard Kiley opened Off-Broadway (1967)
• Lerner & Loewe's The Day Before Spring opened on Broadway (1945)

23

• Lyricist/librettist Guy Bolton born (1884)
• Actress/singer Ruth Etting born (1907)
• Choreographer/dancer Peter Gennaro born (1919)
• Composer Jerry Bock born (1928)
• Rodgers & Hart's The Boys From Syracuse opened on Broadway (1938)
• Bock & Harnick's Fiorello opened on Broadway (1959)
• Bajour opened on Broadway (1964)
• Revival of Jesus Christ Superstar opened on Broadway (1977)
• Revival of Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby returned to Broadway (1998)
• Revival of Wonderful Town opened on Broadway (2003)

24

• Lyricist/director/performer Martin Charnin born (1934)
• Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30 opened on Broadway (1936)
• Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls opened on Broadway (1950)
• Smile opened on Broadway (1986)
• Street Corner Symphony opened on Broadway (1997)

25

• Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe opened in London (1882)
• Composer/film producer Arthur Schwartz born (1900)
• Texas, L'il Darlin' opened on Broadway (1949)
• Once Upon a Mattress starring Carol Burnett moved to Broadway (1959)
• Actor/singer Kevin Chamberlin born (1963)

26

• Actor/singer Robert Goulet born (1933)
• Walking Happy opened on Broadway (1966)
• Revival of Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby opened on Broadway (1991)

27

• Broadway producer David Merrick born (1911)
• Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen opened on Broadway (1929)
• Harold Rome's revue Pins and Needles opened on Broadway (1937)
• Actor/singer Bruce Adler born (1944)

28

• Composer Louis Hirsch born (1887)
• Via Galactica opened on Broadway (1972)

29

• Vaudevillian Trixie Friganza born (1870)
• Film director/choreographer Busby Berkley born (1895)
• Designer Raoul Pene Du Bois born (1912)
• Stripper Ann Corio born (1914)
• Actor/singer Michael Kermoyan born (1921)
• Cole Porter's The Gay Divorce opened on Broadway (1932)
• Bells Are Ringing opened on Broadway (1956)
• Actor/singer/dancer Hinton Battle born (1956)
• Anya opened on Broadway (1965)
• Revival of The Boyfriend opened in London (1967)
• Shogun - The Musical opened on Broadway (1990)

30

• Ziegfeld's Miss Innocence starring Anna Held opened on Broadway (1908)
• Romberg & Hammerstein's The Desert Song opened on Broadway (1926)
• Actor/singer Robert Guillaume born (1937)
• Actor/singer Mandy Patinkin born (1952)
• Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pipe Dream opened on Broadway (1955)
• Loesser revue Perfectly Frank opened on Broadway (1980)
• Flaherty & Ahrens's The Seussical opened on Broadway (2000)
• Caroline, or Change opened Off-Broadway (2003)

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