Category Archives: Broadway

‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ opens on Broadway 50 years ago today (1962)


Video: '"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Original Broadway cast - Opening scene part 2' (at 7:54)

(Saturday, October 13, 1962) — Edward Albee’s searing four-character drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened at the Billy Rose Theater on Broadway with Arthur Hill as George, Uta Hagen as Martha, George Grizzard as Nick and Melinda Dillon as Honey.

‘My Fair Lady’ closes on Broadway after record 2,717 performances 50 years ago today (1962)


Video: 'My Fair Lady "Wouldn't It Be Lovely" on The Ed Sullivan Show' (Mar. 19, 1961)

(Saturday, September 29, 1962) — The musical My Fair Lady closed on Broadway (at The Broadway Theatre) today after 2,717 performances, a record at the time.