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By Playbill Staff | 09/18/2020Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance, starring Bernadette Peters, opens on Broadway in 1985. -
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By Playbill Staff | 09/17/2020In 1978, the late Nick Cordero is born in Hamilton, Canada.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/16/2020Jaclyn Backhaus' kaleidoscopic, time-hopping comedy, Wives opens at Playwrights Horizons in 2019.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/15/2020In 2010, the marquee of Broadway's newly renamed Stephen Sondheim Theatre is lit for the first time.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/15/2020Hairspray opens on Broadway on this date in 2002.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/14/2020Kecia Lewis and Rebecca Naomi Jones open Off-Broadway in Marie and Rosetta in 2016.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/13/2020Today's birthdays include Nell Carter, Claudette Colbert, and Roald Dahl.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/12/2020After 5,773 performances, Mamma Mia! closes on Broadway in 2015.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/11/2020Today's birthdays include Harry Connick Jr., Adriane Lenox, and Reed Birney.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/10/2020In 2000, the original Broadway production of Cats closes after a run of nearly 18 years.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/09/2020The Color Purple musical has its world premiere at the Alliance Theatre, starring LaChanze, in 2004.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/08/2020In 1975 jazz titans Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie make their Broadway debuts in The Concert.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/07/2020In 2008, Rent closes on Broadway after 5,123 performances.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/06/2020In 1985, George Hearn, Mandy Patinkin, Barbara Cook, and Lee Remick star in Follies at Avery Fisher Hall.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/05/2020Betrayal, starring Zawe Ashton, Charlie Cox, and Tom Hiddleston, opens on Broadway in 2019.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/04/2020Happy birthday to Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/03/2020In 1910, impresario David Belasco renames Broadway's Stuyvesant after himself—and resides in a now-abandoned duplex apartment above the theatre.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/02/2020Happy birthday to three-time Tony nominee Joshua Henry.
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By Playbill Staff | 09/01/2020Tony nominee Ramin Karimloo stars in the U.K. concert premiere of the Broadway musical Doctor Zhivago on this date in 2019.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/31/2020Hercules, starring Jelani Alladin, begins at the Delcorte Theatre in 2019.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/30/2020Today's birthdays include Elizabeth Ashley, Shirley Booth, and Jeff Bowen.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/29/2020Today's birthdays include stage and screen star Ingrid Bergman and Frances Ruffelle, who originated the role of Eponine in Les Misérables on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/27/2020In 2001, Urinetown begins previews on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/26/2020Broadway's Tony-nominated Sister Act closes in 2012 after 561 performances.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/25/2020The musical, based on the 1933 film, opened on at the Winter Garden Theatre August 25, 1980.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/25/2020Leonard Bernstein, co-creator of West Side Story, was born on this day in 1918.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/24/2020In 2017, the Harold Prince retrospective Prince of Broadway opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/23/2020Today's birthdays include Andrew Rannells, Marian Seldes, and Charles Busch.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/22/2020In 1983, Cicely Tyson and Peter Gallagher star on Broadway in The Corn Is Green.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/21/2020La Cage aux Folles opens on Broadway in 1983.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/20/2020The stage and screen actor celebrates his birthday August 20.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/20/2020In 1957, Langston Hughes and David Martin's musical Simply Heavenly re-opens on Broadway after being forced out of the 85th Street Playhouse.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/19/2020The story of The Cavalla Kings hits Broadway when Kat and the Kings opens in 1999.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/18/2020Roundabout Theatre Company presents the first Broadway revival of The Boys From Syracuse on this date in 2002.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/17/2020In 1955, George Abbott, Helen Hayes, and Mary Martin star in a revival of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/16/2020Pretty Woman, starring Samantha Barks and Andy Karl, opens on Broadway in 2018.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/14/2020The musical Lennon, starring Will Chase, Mandy Gonzalez, Terrence Mann, and Julia Murney, opens on Broadway in 2005.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/13/2020In 2018, Gettin’ the Band Back Together opens at the Belasco Theatre.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/12/2020Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline star in The Public's 2001 staging of The Seagull in Central Park.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/11/2020Academy Award and two-time Tony winner Viola Davis celebrates her birthday.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/10/2020The Freaky Friday movie musical premieres in 2018, starring Heidi Blickenstaff.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/09/2020In 2018, Be More Chill opens Off-Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/08/2020In 1975, Liza Minnelli joins the Broadway cast of Chicago as Roxie Hart.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/07/2020In 1984, Judith Ivey, Harvey Keitel, Cynthia Nixon, Jerry Stiller, and Sigourney Weaver star on Broadway in Hurlyburly.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/06/2020In 2015, Hamilton opens on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/05/2020In 2013, Young Jean Lee returns to the Claire Tow Theater with her band Future Wife for another sold-out run of We're Gonna Die.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/04/2020Denzel Washington made his Broadway debut on this day in 1988 in Checkmates.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/03/2020The Bridges of Madison County has its world premiere in 2013.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/02/2020Burn the Floor and Gilda Radner—Live From New York both open on Broadway.
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By Playbill Staff | 08/01/2020In 2012, Bring It On: The Musical opens on Broadway.
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