STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 8/19/15- GREASE
Today in 2007, the second Broadway revival of Grease opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it ran for 554 performances.
Today in 2007, the second Broadway revival of Grease opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it ran for 554 performances.
Today in 1981, the second Broadway revival of My Fair Lady opened at the Uris Theatre (now the George Gershwin Theatre), where it ran for 120 performances.
Today in 2008, the first Broadway revival of A Chrous Line closed at the Schoenfeld Theatre, where it ran for 759 performances.
Happy Birthday, Cristin Milioti! Milioti currently stars in the Tony-Award winning musical ONCE.
Today in 2002, Hairspray opened at the Neil Simon Theatre, where it ran for 2642 performances.
Today in 1997, the first Broadway revival of 1776 opened at Criterion Center Stage Right, where it ran for 333 performances.
Today in 1986, Me and My Girl opened at the Marquis Theatre, where it ran for 1420 performances.
Today in 1989, the first Broadway revival of Shenandoah opened at the Virginia Theatre (now the August Wilson Theatre), where it ran for 32 performances.
Happy Birthday Rachel York! York has appeared on Broadway as Fantine in Les Miserables; Norma in Victor/Victoria (Drama Desk Award) with Julie Andrews; Marguerite in The Scarlet Pimpernel; Miss Fancy in Sly Fox with Richard Dreyfuss; and Christine Colgate in Dirty Rotten Scoundrelswith Jonathan Pryc
Today in 1995, the first Broadway revival of Damn Yankees closed at the Marquis Theatre, where it ran for 533 performances.
Today in 1974, A Little Night Music closed at the Shubert Theatre, where it ran for 601 performances.
Today in 1965, Oliver! opened at the Martin Beck Theatre, where it ran for 64 performances.
Today in 2003 Avenue Q opened at the John Golden Theatre, where it ran for 2534 performances.
Happy Birthday, Sam Mendes! Sam Mendes is best known for whis work as the artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, and his direction of the film American Beauty and the Broadway production of Cabaret on Broadway starring Alan Cumming.
Today in 2008, A Catered Affair closed at the Walter Kerr Theatre, where it ran for 116 performances.
Today in 1975, A Chrous Line opened at the Shubert THeatre, where it ran for 6137 performances.
Happy Birthday Kristin Chenoweth! On Broadway, Chenoweth has appeared in Steel Pier, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Epic Proportions, Funny Girl, Wicked, The Apple Tree, and Promises, Promises.
Happy Birthday Daniel Radcliffe! Radcliffe is best known for playing the title role in all eight of the blockbuster Harry Potter films.
Happy Birthday Alan Menken! For Disney, Menken has scored The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas, each of which won him two Academy Awards.
Today in 1976, Guys and Dolls opened at the Broadway Theatre, where it ran for 239 performances.
Today in 2004, Assassins opened at Studio 54, where it ran for 101 performances.
Today in 2008, [title of show] opened at the Lyceum Theatre, where it ran for 102 performances.
Happy Birthday Tony Kushner! Kushner's best known work is Angels in America, a seven-hour epic about the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York, which was later adapted into a miniseries for which Kushner wrote the screenplay.
Happy Birthday Arthur Laurents! Laurents' first play, Home of the Brave, opened on Broadway in 1945, followed by many others.
Today in 2011, the return engagement of the second Broadway revival of HAIR opened at the St.
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