(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) in New York.
Directed by Martin Ritt,t he production starred Van Heflin as Eddie and Eileen Heckart as Beatrice.
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(Monday, September 21, 1925, 8:30 p.m. EDT) — The Vagabond King, an operetta by Rudolf Friml in four acts, opened tonight at the Casino Theatre on Broadway in New York.
The cast was led by Dennis King as Villon and Carolyn Thomson as Katherine.
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(Friday, July 25, 1975, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — The musical A Chorus Line opened tonight
on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre in New York, beginning a run of 6,137 performances. Continue reading ‘A Chorus Line’ opens on Broadway 40 years ago this hour (July 25 1975)
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(Sunday, June 5, 2005, 8:00-11:00 p.m. EDT) — Monty Python’s Spamalot won three Tony Awards tonight at at Radio City Music Hall in New York, including best musical; the musical play The Light in the Piazza won six prizes, while Doubt was named best drama.
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(Sunday, May 16, 1965, 7:10 p.m. EDT) — The musical The Roar of the Greasepaint — the Smell of the Crowd opened on Broadway tonight at the Shubert Theatre in New York City.
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(Thursday, May 5, 1955, 7:45 p.m. EDT) — Damn Yankees, a new musical based on the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop, opened tonight on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre in New York. The production starred Ray Walston (Mr. Applegate) and Gwen Verdon (Lola).
(Thursday, April 21, 1955, 8:00 p.m. EST) — The Jerome Lawrence-Robert Lee play Inherit the Wind, a story that fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials, opened tonight on Broadway at the National Theatre in New York.
Video: '"If I Loved You" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (stage version)'
(Thursday, April 19, 1945, 8:15 p.m. EWT) — Carousel the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics) about a carousel barker whose romance with a millworker comes at the price of both their jobs, opened tonight on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre.
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(Thursday, March 24, 1955, 8:00 p.m. EST) — Tennessee Williams’ play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the story of a Southern family in crisis starring Barbara Bel Geddes and Ben Gazzara, opened tonight on Broadway at the Morosco Theater.
(Wednesday, March 10, 1965) — Neil Simon’s play The Odd Couple, starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney, opened tonight on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre. The plot concerned two mismatched roommates: the neat, uptight Felix Ungar and the slovenly, easygoing Oscar Madison.
