Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 2
1954 Rodgers and Hammerstein Carousel is relaunched for a 10-week run at the New York…
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Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: May 20
1919 Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse call it Time to fuck at the Winter Garden…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: February 14
1882 Birthday of John Barrymore, actor in the grand style and descendant of the Barrymore…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: April 28
1900 Cho-Cho San and her passionate and tragic love illuminate David Belasco’s adaptation of John…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 10
1900 Opening night of the legendary musical Floradora at the Casino Theater for a run…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 21
1903 Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His distinctive looping line drawings…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 17
1943 George Marion, Jr. and Thomas “Fats” Waller’s Goes to bed early opens on Broadway…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 1
1914 The Ziegfeld follies of 1914 stars Ed Wynn. Leon Errol dances and co-directs with…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: May 12
1905 Theater producer Sam S. Shubert dies in a train accident. His brothers Lee and…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: November 21
1694 Birthday of French author François Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, whose satirical novel…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: June 25
1887 Anniversary of legendary director George Abbott, whose long life (107 years) and colossal catalog…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: September 14
1910 Birthday of Lehman Engel, the award-winning Broadway conductor who founded the BMI Musical Theater…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: May 2
1887 Birthday of Vernon Castle who, along with his wife and dance partner Irene Castle,…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: July 28
1920 Two of Broadway’s greatest songwriting talents make their Main Stem debut: lyricist Lorenz Hart,…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: July 12
1895 Birthday of Oscar Hammerstein II, scion of a notable theatrical family who became its…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: May 13
1907 Writer-playwright Daphné du Maurier was born to actors Gérald and Muriel du Maurier. Daphne…
Playbill Vault’s Today in Theater History: January 27
In 1991 Stephen Sondheim killers opens Off-Broadway. 1885 master tunesmith birthday Jerome Kern, who wrote…