Musicals101.com's Historic Calendar
September
Compiled by John Kenrick
(Copyright 2000, Revised 2004)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 6
- Producers agree to Actor's Equity's terms, ending Broadway's first-ever shut down due to a labor 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)
September 7
- Actor Peter Lawford born (1923)
- Actor/singer Charles Braswell born (1924)
- Director/actor Jerry Zaks born (1946)
- Singer/pianist Michael Feinstein born (1956)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 15
- Flying Colors opened on Broadway (1932)
- Ivor Novello's King's Rhapsody opened in London (1945)
- Second Revival of Man of La Mancha starring Richard Kiley opened on Broadway (1977)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 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)
September 26
- Composer George Gershwin born (1898)
- Bernstein & Sondheim's West Side Story opened on Broadway (1957)
September 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)
September 28
- Ixion starring Lydia Thompson opened on Broadway (1868)
- The Belle of New York opened on Broadway (1897)
- Actor/singer Gregory Jbara born (1961)
September 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)
September 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)