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