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By Playbill Staff | 01/15/2021Today's birthdays include Andrea Martin, Jerry Mitchell, and Molière. -
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By Playbill Staff | 01/13/2021In 1925, Sweet Charity and Chicago star Gwen Verdon is born.
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By Playbill Staff | 01/12/2021The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, starring Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis, opens on Broadway on this date in 2012.
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By Playbill Staff | 01/11/2021In 1976, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Pacific Overtures opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 01/10/2021In 2008, Disney's The Little Mermaid opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 01/09/2021In 1978, Mary Martin has her final Broadway opening night in Do You Turn Somersaults?
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By Playbill Staff | 01/08/2021In 1981, Kevin Kline stars on Broadway in The Pirates of Penzance.
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By Playbill Staff | 01/07/2021In 1943, Ethel Merman and Betty Garrett star in Cole Porter's Something for the Boys.
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By Playbill Staff | 01/06/2021In 1974, Liza Minnelli opens a concert engagement at the Winter Garden Theatre.
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By Playbill Staff | 01/05/2021The Wiz opens on Broadway on this date in 1975.
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By Playbill Staff | 01/04/2021In 1981, Frankenstein opens—and closes—on Broadway at the Palace Theatre.
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By Playbill Staff | 01/03/2021In 1952, Harold Lang, Helen Gallagher, Elaine Stritch, and Vivienne Segal star in a revival of Pal Joey.
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By Playbill Staff | 01/02/2021Today's birthdays include Taye Diggs, Christopher Durang, and Beth Malone.
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By Playbill Staff | 01/01/2021Today's birthdays include Frank Langella, Joe Orton, and Louise Pitre.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/30/2020In 1948, Kiss Me, Kate opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/29/2020Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst open in a Broadway revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten on this date in 1973.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/28/2020In 1944, the original production of On the Town opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/27/2020In 1927, the original production of Show Boat opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/26/2020In 1960, Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker star in the musical Do Re Mi on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/25/2020In 1940, Pal Joey opens on Broadway, starring Vivienne Segal and Gene Kelly.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/23/2020In 1982, Kate Burton plays the title role in Alice in Wonderland on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/22/2020Joshua Logan directs Alvin Ailey in Tiger Tiger Burning Bright, opening on this date in 1962.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/21/2020In 2017, Hamilton opens in London.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/20/2020In 1981, the original production of Dreamgirls opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/19/2020In 1957, The Music Man opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/18/2020In 1969, Katharine Hepburn opens on Broadway in the musical Coco.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/17/2020In 1998, the musical Parade opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/16/2020In 1960, Lucille Ball makes her Broadway debut in the musical Wildcat.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/15/2020Birthday of Tony-winning The Lion King director Julie Taymor.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/14/2020In 2008, Shrek the Musical opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/13/2020In 2009, Angela Lansbury and Catherine Zeta-Jones open in the first Broadway revival of A Little Night Music.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/12/2020In 2013, the musical American Psycho opens in London, starring Matt Smith.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/11/2020In 1983, the original Broadway production of Noises Off opens starring Dorothy Loudon.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/10/2020In 2015, The Color Purple gets new life on Broadway with breakout star Cynthia Erivo.
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By Marc J. Franklin | 12/10/2020The Tony-winning revival opened at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre December 10, 2015.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/08/2020The late Sammy Davis Jr. was born on this date in 1925.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/07/2020In 2006, the musical High Fidelity opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/06/2020In 2015, School of Rock – The Musical opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/05/2020In 2002, Brian Stokes Mitchell stars in a Broadway revival of Man of La Mancha.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/04/2020In 2016, Dear Evan Hansen opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/03/2020In 1947, Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/02/2020In 1985, The Mystery of Edwin Drood opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 12/01/2020In 2005, the original production of The Color Purple, starring LaChanze, opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 11/30/2020The Parisian Woman opens in 2017, starring Phillipa Soo and Uma Thurman.
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By Playbill Staff | 11/29/2020In 2006, Raúl Esparza stars in a John Doyle-helmed actor-musician revival of Company.
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By Playbill Staff | 11/28/2020In 1972, the musical Via Galactica opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 11/27/2020The first part of Tom Stoppard's epic The Coast of Utopia opens on Broadway in 2006.
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By Playbill Staff | 11/25/2020Once Upon a Mattress opens on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre in 1959.
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By Playbill Staff | 11/24/2020Repertory productions of No Man's Land and Waiting for Godot, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, open on Broadway on this date in 2013.
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By Playbill Staff | 11/23/2020In 2014, Chicago surpasses Cats to become the second longest-running show in Broadway history.
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