August 31–September 6, 2020: Sophie Tucker gets a black eye, Nathan Lane gets blacklisted, and Follies comes to concert this week in theatre history!
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June 8–14, 2020: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark finally opens on Broadway; The Odd Couple gets a revised production; Broadway discovers Shangri-La for however briefly; and more!
June 1–7, 2020: Bob Fosse, Gwen Verdon, and Chita Rivera gave ‘em the old razzle dazzle when Chicago debuted on Broadway in 1975.
May 31, 2020: The Boys came to town in 2018, when The Boys in the Band made its long-awaited Broadway debut.
May 30, 2020: Happy birthday to Tony winner Idina Menzel!
May 29, 2020: Bob Fosse played the part he had always coveted when he starred in the title role of Pal Joey at City Center in 1963.
May 28, 2020: Broadway had Magic to do when Stephen Schartz contributed the score to The Magic Show, starring Doug Henning.
May 27, 2020: After regional productions, I Am My Own Wife made its Off-Broadway debut in 2003 at Playwrights Horizons.
May 26, 2020: Carol Burnett came to Broadway in her second musical, Fade Out - Fade In, which has one of the best scores you’ve probably never heard.
May 25, 2020: Happy birthday to Ian McKellan and Leslie Uggams!
May 24, 2020: It’s Today! Mame, starring Angela Lansbury, opened in 1966.
May 23, 2020: Hadestown began its road to Tony Awards glory when it opened Off-Broadway in 2016.
May 22, 2020: Laurence Olivier, whose name became synonymous with the British theatre, was born in 1907.
May 21, 2020: Light the lights, because Gypsy made its Broadway debut in 1959!
May 20, 2020: Forever Plaid materialized Off-Broadway in 1990.
May 19, 2020: Bravo Giovanni, about a restaurateur’s inventive efforts to beat his competition, opened in 1962.
May 18, 2020: Broadway said goodbye (for a very short time) to Les Miserables in 2003
May 17, 2020: Godspell took it “Day by Day” Off-Broadway in 1971
May 16, 2020: Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition—Ethel Merman opened in Annie Get Your Gun today in 1946.
May 15, 2020: Vivien Leigh became an overnight sensation with the West End opening of The Mask of Virtue in 1935.
May 14, 2020: Gwen Verdon and Thelma Ritter opened in New Girl in Town, the 1957 musical adaptation of Anna Christie.
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