STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 1/27/15- JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Today in 1982, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat opened at the Royale Theatre (now the Bernard B, Jacobs Theatre), where it ran for 747 performances.
Today in 1982, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat opened at the Royale Theatre (now the Bernard B, Jacobs Theatre), where it ran for 747 performances.
Today in 1988, The Phantom of the Opera opened at the Majestic Theatre, where it has played for 9980 performances and still running.
Today in 1938, Pygmalion opened at the Maxine Elliott's Theatre.
Today in 2010, A View From the Bridge opened at the Cort Theatre, where it ran for 81 performances.
Today in 2005, Little Women opened at the Virginia Theatre (now the August Wilson Theatre), where it ran for 137 performances.
Today in 1942, the first revival of Porgy and Bess opened at the Majestic Theatre, where it ran for 286 performances.
Today in 1903, The Wizard of Oz opened at the Majestic Theatre, where it ran for 293 performances.
Happy Birthday Michael Crawford! In 1981, Crawford starred in the Original London production of Cy Coleman's Barnum (1981) as the illustrious American showman P.
Today in 1998, Ragtime opened at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (now the Foxwoods Theatre), where it ran for 834 performances.
Today in 1931, Broadway veteran James Earl Jones was born.
Happy Birthday, Lin-Manuel Miranda! Miranda is most famous for writing and starring as 'Usnavi' in the Broadway musical In the Heights, which opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 2008, and for which he won the Tony Award as composer and lyricist.
Today in 2008, The 39 Steps opend at the American Airlines Theatre, where it ran for 771 performances.
Today in 1939, The Importance of Being Earnest opened at the Vanderbilt Theatre, where it ran for 61 performances.
Today in 1976, Pacific Overtures opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it ran for 193 performances.
Today in 2008, The Little Mermaid opened at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre, where it ran for 685 performances.
Today in 2011, In the Heights closed at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 1184 performances.
Today in 1981, Joe Papp's revival of THe Pirates of Penzance opened at the Uris Theatre, where it ran for 787 performances.
Today in 1985, the second Broadway revival of THe King and I opened at the Broadway THeatre, where it ran for 191 performances.
Today in 1963, Oliver! opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre, where it ran for 774 performances.
Today in 1946, the second Broadway revival of Showboat opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre, and ran for 418 performances.
Today in 2009, Hairspraiy closed at the Neil Simon Theatre after 2,641 performances.
Today in 1938, The Cradle Will Rock opened at the Windsor Theatre.
Happy Birthday, Taye Diggs! In 1996, Diggs originated the role of the landlord Benny in Jonathan Larson's Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent.
Happy Birthday, Frank Langella! Langella won his first Tony Award for his performance in Edward Albee's Seascape and 1975 and was nominated for another for what may have been the performance for which he was best known for in the early part of his career: the title role of the 1977 Broadway producti
Happy Birthday, Bebe Neuwirth! Neuwirth made her Broadway debut in the role of Sheila in A Chorus Line in 1980.
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