1

• Actress/dancer/singer Marilyn Miller born (1898)
• Actress/singer Yvonne DeCarlo born (1922)
• The closing performance of Contact at Broadway's Vivian Beaumont Theatre is broadcast live on PBS (2002)

2

• Producer Jean Dalrymple born (1902)
• Dancer Marge Champion born (1919)
• Rudolph Friml's Rose Marie opened on Broadway (1924)
• Virginia opened on Broadway (1937)
• Actor/singer P. J. Benjamin born (1951)

3

• British actor/singer Laddie Cliff born (1891)
• Actress/singer Kitty Carlisle Hart born (1910)
• Kern & Hammerstein's Sweet Adeline starring Helen Morgan opened on Broadway (1929)
• Actress/singer Eileen Brennan born (1935)

4

• Adonis starring Henry E. Dixey opened on Broadway (1884)
• Sally, Irene and Mary opened on Broadway (1922)
• Actress/singer Mitzi Gaynor born (1931)
• Leave It to Me opened on Broadway (1934)

5

• Kalmar & Ruby's Good Boy opened on Broadway (1928)
• Actress/singer Carol Lawrence born (1934)
• Actress/singer Raquel Welch born (1940)
• Revival of The Desert Song opened on Broadway (1973)

6

• Producers agree to Actor's Equity's terms, ending Broadway first-ever strike (1919)
• Good News opened on Broadway (1927)
• Gertrude Lawrence dies (1952)
• Catch a Star opened on Broadway (1955)
• Revival of Peter Pan starring Sandy Duncan opened on Broadway (1979)

7

• Actor Peter Lawford born (1923)
• Actor/singer Charles Braswell born (1924)
• Director/actor Jerry Zaks born (1946)
• Singer/pianist Michael Feinstein born (1956)

8

• British take over the New Amsterdam colony and rename it New York (1664)
• Lyricist/publicist Howard Dietz born (1896)
• Actor/singer Harry Secombe born (1921)
• Actor/comic Sid Caesar born (1922)
• Carnival in Flanders opened on Broadway (1953)
• Actor/singer Zero Mostel died (1977)

9

• Playwright/librettist S.N. Behrman born (1893)
• MGM composer/film producer Arthur Freed born (1894)
• The Geisha opened in London (1896)
• Producer/songwriter Billy Rose born (1899)
• Actor/singer Topol born (1935)
• Actor/singer Tom Wopat born (1951)

10

• Actress/singer/dancer Adele Astaire born (1897)
• Film director Robert Wise born (1914)
• Actor/singer/dancer Harry Groener born (1951)
• Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1924 opened on Broadway (1924)
• Singer Yma Sumac born (1927)
• Cats closes on Broadway after 7,485 performances (2000)

11

• Composer Herbert Stothart born (1885)
• Actor Henderson Forsythe born (1917)
• Lyricist Alan Bergman born (1925)
• Hold On To Your Hats starring Al Jolson opened on Broadway (1940)
• Statue of George M. Cohan unveiled on Times Square (1959)
• Singer Harry Connick Jr. born (1967)
• Long-running revival of Anything Goes starring Patti LuPone opened on Broadway (1987)
• Romance, Romance opened in London (1996)
• Terrorist attack destroys World Trade Center -- all Broadway shows suspend performances (2001)

12

• The Black Crook opened on Broadway (1866)
• Actor/singer Maurice Chevalier born (1888)
• Actor/singer Billy Daniels born (1918)
• Romberg's My Maryland opened on Broadway (1927)
• Composer Harvey Schmidt born (1929)
• Actor/singer Peter Scolari born (1954)
• Actor/singer Gregg Edelman born (1958)

13

• Producer Leland Hayward born (1902)
• The Chocolate Soldier opened on Broadway (1909)
• Actress/singer Nell Carter born (1948)
• Yul Brynner marked his 4000th performance in The King and I in Los Angeles (1983)
• Broadway shows reopen two days after attack on World Trade Center (2001)

14

• Musical director/author Lehman Engel born (1910)
• Actress/singer Kay Medford born (1920)
• George White's Scandals of 1931 opened on Broadway (1931)
• Shubert-produced Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 opened on Broadway (1936)
• George White's Scandals of 1939 opened on Broadway (1939)
• Charlie and Algernon opened on Broadway (1980)
• Revival of Sweeney Todd opened on Broadway (1989)
• Finn's Falsettoland opened Off-Broadway (1990)

15

• Flying Colors opened on Broadway (1932)
• Ivor Novello's King's Rhapsody opened in London (1945)
• Revival of Man of La Mancha starring Richard Kiley opened on Broadway (1977)

16

• Actress Isabel Jeans born (1891)
• Producer/director Earl Carroll born (1893)
• Actress Lauren Bacall born (1924)
• Youmans & Caesar's No, No Nanette opened on Broadway (1925)

17

• Revival of Oklahoma opened in London (1980)
• Actress/singer Dorothy Loudon born (1933)
• Gypsy Lady opened on Broadway (1946)
• Boy Meets Boy opened Off-Broadway (1975)

18

• Choreographer/director Agnes DeMille born (1905)
• Rodgers & Hart's Dearest Enemy opened on Broadway (1925)
• Composer Stephen Flaherty born (1960)
• Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance starring Bernadette Peters opened on Broadway (1985)
• A Tale of Two Cities opened on Broadway (2008)

19

• Actor Ernest Truex born (1889)
• Film producer Joseph Pasternak born (1900)
• Mr. Wix of Wickham starring Julian Eltinge opened on Broadway (1904)
• Librettist/director Burt Shevelove born (1915)
• Romberg & Hammerstein's The New Moon opened on Broadway (1928)
• At Home Abroad opened on Broadway (1935)
• Actress/singer Twiggy bon (1949)
• Actor/singer Rex Smith born (1956)
• Revival of Going Up opened on Broadway (1976)

20

• Revue director John Murray Anderson born (1886)
• The Passing Show of 1922 opened on Broadway (1922)
• Director Albert Marre born (1925)
• Magdalena opened on Broadway (1948)
• Eubie Blake revue Eubie opened on Broadway (1978)
• Urinetown opened on Broadway (2001)

21

• Ziegfeld's first musical The Parlor Match starring Anna Held opened on Broadway (1896)
• Rudolph Friml's The Vagabond King starring Dennis King opened on Broadway (1925)

22

• Singer Alice Oates born (1849)
• DeKoven & Smith's Robin Hood opened on Broadway (1891)
• Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue (1st edition) opened on Broadway (1921)
• Kern & Hammerstein's Sunny starring Marilyn Miller opened on Broadway (1925)
• The Great Waltz opened on Broadway (1934)
• Bock & Harnick's Fiddler on the Roof starring Zero Mostel opened on Broadway (1964)
• Actor/singer Marc Kudisch born (1966)
• Irving Berlin dies at age 101 (1989)

23

• Mulligan Guards Picnic opened on Broadway - Harrigan & Hart's first one-act (1878)
• Actor/singer/dancer Mickey Rooney born (1920)
• Earl Carroll's Sketchbook of 1929 opened on Broadway (1929)
• George White's Scandals of 1929 opened on Broadway (1929)
• Fine and Dandy starring Joe Cook and Eleanor Powell opened on Broadway (1930)
• Playwright/director George C. Wolfe born (1954)
• Actor/singer/dancer Jason Alexander born (1959)
• Revival (1st) of Gypsy starring Angela Lansbury opened on Broadway (1974)
• Hal Prince's production of A Doll's Life opened on Broadway (1982)
• Bob Fosse died (1987)

24

• Producer Cheryl Crawford born (1902)
• Whoop-Dee-Doo starring Weber & Fields opened on Broadway (1903)
• Victor Herbert's The Red Mill opened on Broadway (1906)
• Actor/singer/composer/lyricist Anthony Newley born (1931)
• Long-running revival of Oh Calcutta! opened on Broadway (1976)

25

• Composer/lyricist Robert Wright born (1914)
• Director Albert Marre born (1925)
• Actress/singer/dancer Juliet Prowse born (1936)
• Houston Opera revival of Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway (1976)
• Webber & Rice's Evita opened on Broadway (1979)
• Quilters opened on Broadway (1984)

26

• Composer George Gershwin born (1898)
• Bernstein & Sondheim's West Side Story opened on Broadway (1957)

27

• Lyricist Joseph McCarthy born (1885)
• Composer Vincent Youmans born (1898)
• Actor/singer Stephen Douglass born (1921)
• Actress/singer Mary McCarty born (1923)
• Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1932 opened on Broadway (1932)
• Hair opened in London (1968)
• Return to the Forbidden Planet opened Off-Broadway (1991)
• Wicked opened in London (2006)

28

• Ixion starring Lydia Thompson opened on Broadway (1868)
• The Belle of New York opened on Broadway (1897)
• Actor/singer Gregory Jbara born (1961)

29

• Sigmund Romberg's Blossom Time opened on Broadway (1921)
• Actress/singer Madeline Kahn born (1942)
• Actress/singer Debbie Shapiro Gravitte born (1954)
• Irma La Douce opened on Broadway (1960)
• Actor/singer Roger Bart born (1962)
• Actress/singer Lynette Perry born (1963)
• My Fair Lady closes on Broadway after 2,717 performances (1962)
• A Chorus Line breaks the longest-running Broadway show record (1983)

30

• Actress/singer Patricia Neway born (1919)
• Actress Deborah Kerr born (1921)
• Songwriter/performer Donald Swann Born (1923)
• Novelist/librettist Truman Capote born (1924)
• Irving Berlin's As Thousands Cheer opened on Broadway (1933)
• Actor/singer Len Cariou born (1939)
• The Boyfriend opened on Broadway (1954)
• Oh, What a Lovely War opened on Broadway (1964)