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On this day in theatre history ... 1992 Tennessee Williams' immortal character Stanley Kowalski is reborn in the form of Alec Baldwin as a revival of A Streetcar Named Desire opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Amy Madigan and Jessica Lange also star in the production, directed by Gregory Mosher. HTC produced this in 1998!

On this day in theatre history ... 1991 Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg's Miss Saigon opens, updating Madame Butterfly, making a star of Lea Salonga, and causing a ruckus when Englishman Jonathan Pryce is chosen to play a Eurasian "Engineer." Both Pryce and Salonga win Tony Awards for their performances, and it runs for 4,092 performances at the Broadway Theatre.

On this day in theatre history ... 2011 Aaron Tveit is a young con man with the golden touch in Catch Me If You Can, the new musical by Hairspray songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman and playwright Terrence McNally that opens at the Neil Simon Theatre. Jack O'Brien directs a cast that also includes Norbert Leo Butz, Tom Wopat, and Kerry Butler.

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On this day in theatre history ... 1964 John Gielgud directs Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway, which runs for 137 performances. Also in the cast: Alfred Drake, George Rose, Barnard Hughes, John Cullum, Hume Cronyn, Gerome Ragni, and Gielgud himself as the Ghost.

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On this day in theatre history ... 2008 DreamWorks Pictures makes its first foray into Broadway producing as the stage adaptation of its popular animated film Shrek opens at the Broadway Theatre. Shrek the Musical stars Brian d'Arcy James as the green ogre of the title, Sutton Foster as the princess he saves, and Daniel Breaker as his donkey sidekick. Jason Moore directs the show, which has music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire. It runs 441 performances.

On this day in theatre history ... 2018 A new stage adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, with a script by Aaron Sorkin, opens at Broadway's Shubert Theatre. Jeff Daniels takes on the central role of Atticus Finch in the staging, which frames the Alabama-set story as a memory play as Scout (Celia Keenan-Bolger) recalls the 1930s trial in which her father defended a black man accused of raping a white girl. Keenan-Bolger wins a Tony Award for her performance.

On this day in theatre history ... 2000 Opening night of David Yazbek and Terrence McNally's The Full Monty, a musical adaptation of the hit British film about a group of unemployed blue-collar workers who become male strippers in order to pay their bills. Featuring Patrick Wilson, André De Shields, Kathleen Freeman, and Emily Skinner, it runs 770 performances at the O'Neill Theatre.

On this day in theatre history ... 2013 The world premiere of American Psycho, Duncan Sheik and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's musical based on the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel, opens at London's Almeida Theatre. Doctor Who star Matt Smith plays serial killer Patrick Bateman in the thriller set during the height of the 1980s era of Wall Street greed. Three years later, the musical opens on Broadway starring Benjamin Walker.

On this day in theatre history ... 1992 David Mamet's new play, Oleanna, opens at the Orpheum Theatre. The play has exceptional advance sales of $200,000, an amount especially healthy for an Off-Broadway production. Rebecca Pidgeon is the girl who accuses her professor, played by William H. Macy, of sexual harassment in the show, which runs 513 performances.

On this day in theatre history ... 2002 Pop songwriter Billy Joel makes his Broadway debut with Movin' Out, consisting of songs from his pop catalog fashioned by director/choreographer Twyla Tharp into an all-dancing narrative about three buddies' experience in the Vietnam War. It wins Tony Awards for both its primary creators: Best Choreography for Tharp, Best Orchestrations for Joel.

On this day in theatre history ... 1972 The cast of Pippin has "magic to do" as it opens at the Imperial Theatre. Ben Vereen, John Rubinstein, Irene Ryan, Jill Clayburgh, and Leland Palmer head the cast of the show about accepting oneself for who you are. The story follows Pippin, son of Holy Roman Empire patriarch Charlemagne, as he realizes he is just not the hero he is or wants to be. Instead he learns to settle down and live life with a hearth and home. The legendary Bob Fosse directs and choreographs the show, which wins him rave reviews and a Tony Award. The show has a very successful run of 1,944 performances.

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On this day in theatre history ... 1926 The Ladder, J. Frank Davis' drama about reincarnation, opens its 789-performance run. Among its stars is Antoinette Perry, later namesake of the Broadway awards. The show is unusual in that its producer keeps it running long after it begins to lose moneyoften allowing people in for freebecause he thinks the world needs to hear its message. When the production finally closes, it is Broadway's biggest failure to date, losing over a million pre-Depression dollars.

A little 'play' called MY with Andrew Botsford, Rosemary Cline, Terrance Fiore and George Loizides. Enjoy! Oh my!

On this day in theatre history ... 1954 The musical Peter Pan shows audiences how fun it is to be a kid as it opens at the Winter Garden Theatre. The show is based on the 1904 fantasy by James M. Barrie and features a score by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne, Carolyn Leigh, and Mark Charlap. Mary Martin in the title role wins critical acclaim as she performs with her 12-year-old daughter Heller Halliday (playing Liza, the maidservant) and Cyril Ritchard as menacing Captain Hook. Walter Kerr reports that he "doesn't know what all the fuss is about. I always knew Mary Martin could fly." Although very well received by critics and a following that is too big to imagine, the original production runs only 152 performances. Future Broadway revivals star Sandy Duncan (1979) and Cathy Rigby (1990, 1991, 1998, 1999).

1954 The musical Peter Pan shows audiences how fun it is to be a kid as it opens at the Winter Garden Theatre. The show is based on the 1904 fantasy by James M. Barrie and features a score by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne, Carolyn Leigh, and Mark Charlap. Mary Martin in the title role wins critical acclaim as she performs with her 12-year-old daughter Heller Halliday (playing Liza, the maidservant) and Cyril Ritchard as menacing Captain Hook. Walter Kerr reports that he "doesn't know what all the fuss is about. I always knew Mary Martin could fly." Although very well received by critics and a following that is too big to imagine, the original production runs only 152 performances. Future Broadway revivals star Sandy Duncan (1979) and Cathy Rigby (1990, 1991, 1998, 1999).

On this day in theatre history ... 1975 Almost three months after it began previews at the Shubert Theatre, A Chorus Line opens on Broadway. Opening night was originally announced for September 28, but a 28-day musician strike forced it to be postponed. Despite the extended preview period, A Chorus Line proves to be, as its lyrics say, "one singular sensation," racking up 6,137 performances to become Broadway's longest running show up to that time. Conceived, choreographed, and directed by Michael Bennett, the original Broadway cast includes Kelly Bishop, Priscilla Lopez, Robert LuPone, and Donna McKechnie. It wins 9 Tony Awards, including Best Book (James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante), Best Score (Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban), and Best Musical; and also wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

On this day in theatre history ... 1990 Once on This Island opens on Broadway at the Booth Theatre. LaChanze, Jerry Dixon, and Kecia Lewis-Evans star in the musical about Caribbean fairy tales and the collision of two cultures as a young, French Antillean woman (LaChanze) falls in love with an American aristocrat (Dixon). The show, which transferred from Playwrights Horizons, marks the Broadway debut for future Tony Award-winning songwriters Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. It runs 469 performances.

On this day in theatre history ... 1982 A revival of Sam Shepard's True West opens at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Gary Sinise directs and stars in the show, which runs 762 performances. Co-stars are John Malkovich, Sam Schacht, and Margaret Thomson. Although the original production at the Public Theater in 1980 was repudiated by its author, he says he appreciates the new version, as do critics and theatregoers, who come to regard the mounting as a landmark. True West finally reaches Broadway in 2000, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternating roles at Circle in the Square.

On this day in theatre history ... 1997 Side Show, a musical about the real-life conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, who became vaudeville and Follies stars, opens on Broadway. Though it runs only 91 performances, it attracts a small but dedicated cult of fans, many of whom see it again and again during its short run. Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner star as the twins, and receive a joint Tony nomination for their performance.

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On this day in theatre history ... 2009 Rebuilt from (below) the ground up, the 1918 vintage Henry Miller’s Theatre reopens with Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Bye Bye Birdie. Nolan Gerard Funk, Gina Gershon, Jayne Houdyshell, Bill Irwin, John Stamos, and Allie Trimm star in the first Broadway revival of the 1960 musical about a rock singer whose manager plans one last publicity stunt before he’s drafted into the army.

On this day in theatre history ... 1961 Frank Loesser reteams with his Guys and Dolls collaborator Abe Burrows on another musical about life in the big city, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, opening at the 46th Street Theatre. This time, Burrows and Loesser look not at the lowlife underground, but at the high life and the goings on within a high-rise office building. The story follows a young man's progression from window washer to CEO of a major company in New York. Although Hugh Lambert is credited with choreographing the show, Bob Fosse is on the bill as having done the "musical staging." Robert Morse co-stars with Donna McKechnie and Rudy Vallee in the musical comedy satire, which gets rave reviews, seven Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and runs for more than 1,400 performances.