Video: 'Angela Lansbury as MAME (1966, Broadway)'
(Tuesday, May 24, 1966, 7:15 p.m. EDT) — Mame, a musical with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, opened on Broadway tonight at Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, starring Angela Lansbury and Beatrice Arthur.
Continue reading ‘Mame’ musical opens on Broadway 60 years ago this hour (May 24 1966)
Video: 'Annie Get Your Gun (1946 Cast Recording)' (12 clips)
(Thursday, May 16, 1946, 8:30 p.m. EDT) — The Irving Berlin musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Ethel Merman as Annie Oakley and Ray Middleton as Frank Butler, opened tonight on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre, 249 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
Video: 'Julie Andrews "I Could Have Danced All Night" on The Ed Sullivan Show' (July 15, 1956)
(Thursday, March 15, 1956, 7:30 p.m. EST) — The Frederick Loewe-Alan Jay musical play My Fair Lady, based on Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, opened on Broadway tonight at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City, starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. Continue reading ‘My Fair Lady’ musical opens on Broadway 70 years ago this hour (Mar 15 1956)
Video: 'Seasons of Love/La Vie Boheme'
(Tuesday, February 13, 1996) — The rock musical Rent, by Jonathan Larson and loosely based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème, opened tonight off-Broadway at the New York Theater Workshop. Continue reading Rock musical ‘Rent’ by opens off-Broadway 30 years ago today (Feb 13 1996)
(Tuesday, February 2, 1926, 8:30 p.m. EST) — The Great Gatsby, a stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s widely read novel, premiered tonight on Broadway at the Ambassador Theatre (219 West 49th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan), bringing the author’s Jazz Age tale of wealth and longing to the New York stage. Continue reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ opens on Broadway 100 years ago this hour (Feb 2 1926)
Video: 'Barbara Harris, John Cullum - On a Clear Day'
(Sunday, October 17, 1965, 7:00 p.m. EDT) — On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, with music by Burton Lane and a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and based loosely on the 1926 play Berkeley Square, opened on Broadway tonight at the Mark Hellinger Theatre at 237 West 51st Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Continue reading ‘On a Clear Day You Can See Forever’ opens on Broadway 60 years ago this hour (Oct 17 1965)
Video: 'Porgy and Bess, 1935 silent home movie'
(Thursday, October 10, 1935, 8:10 p.m. EST) — The George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess, featuring an entire cast of classically trained African-American singers, opened tonight at the Alvin Theatre at 250 West 52nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York. Continue reading Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ opens on Broadway 90 years ago this hour (Oct 10 1935)
Video: 'The Forward Presents: Behind the Curtain - Actors From "The Diary of Anne Frank" 70 Years Later'
(Wednesday, October 5, 1955, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — The Diary of Anne Frank, a stage adaptation of the book The Diary of a Young Girl by Holocaust victim Anne Frank (1929-1945), opened tonight at Cort Theatre, a Broadway theater at 138 West 48th Street, between Seventh Avenue and Sixth Avenue, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York. Continue reading ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ opens on Broadway 70 years ago this hour (Oct 5 1955)
Video: 'A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE by ARTHUR MILLER Explained | Summary | Analysis'
(Thursday, September 29, 1955, 7:30 p.m. EDT) — A View from the Bridge, a one-act version of the Arthur Miller play (later turned it into a two-act play), opened tonight on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre (now the Eugene O’Neill Theatre) at 230 West 49th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York. Continue reading ‘A View from the Bridge’ opens on Broadway 70 years ago this hour (Sep 29 1955)
Video: 'Song of the Vagabonds - Lou Gold and His Orchestra 1925'
(Monday, September 21, 1925, 8:30 p.m. EDT) — The Vagabond King, an operetta by Rudolf Friml in four acts, opened tonight at Casino Theatre in New York City’s Theatre District at 1404 Broadway and West 39th Street. Continue reading ‘The Vagabond King’ operetta opens on Broadway 100 years ago this hour (Sep 21 1925)
