This Day on Broadway

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Friday, October 6, 2006

10/5 In Musical Theater History

The revue Americana (77p) opens at the Shubert Theater this day in 1932. Though it only runs a month, it does leave behind the anthem of the Depression: the Jay Gorney/E.Y. Harburg song Brother Can You Spare a Dime. Opening in the middle of the Disco Era, the first revival of Hair opens this day in... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 4, 2006

10/4 In Musical Theater History

The minor musical The Deacon and the Lady (16p) opens at the New York Theater this day in 1910. The work is notable only for containing the first Broadway appearance of future Follies star Ed Wynn. Opening this day at the Century Promenade in 1923 is Hammerstein’s 9 O’clock Revue (12p). Faced with... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

10/3 In Musical Theater History

Comic Ed Wynn returns to Broadway after 15 years on radio in the revue Boys and Girls Together (191p), opening this day at the Broadhurst Theater in 1940. Opening tonight also at the Broadhurst Theater, but in 1961, is the Noel Coward musical Sail Away (167p) with Elaine Stritch. Opening today at... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, October 2, 2006

10/2 In Musical Theater History

Opening this day in 1882 is the operetta The Vicar of Bray (8p) at the Fifth Avenue Theater. Opening today in 1953 at the John Golden Theater is comic/pianist Victor Borge in his solo revue Comedy in Music. Borge’s revue will become the longest-running solo show in Broadway history at 849... Sign in to see full entry.

10/1 In Musical Theater History

The 3000 seat Bowery Theater opens today in 1826. It is the first theater in the US to boast gas lighting (in an era when most people still lit their homes by candles) and a press agent. The theater will be famous for its rowdy audiences, suffer many major fires and be rebuilt 5 times before finally... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, September 30, 2006

9/30 In Musical Theater History

On this day in 1915 Hip! Hip! Hooray! (425p) opens at the Hippodrome Theater. The show features the premiere of John Phillip Sousa’s The New York Hippodrome March as Sousa and his band is in the pit for the first 100 performances. Opening today in 1933 is Irving Berlin and Moss Hart’s As Thousands... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, September 29, 2006

9/29 In Musical Theater History

A romantic musical of Franz Schubert’s life called Blossom Time (592p) opens today at the Ambassador Theater in 1921. Adapted from an Austrian operetta, Sigmund Romberg writes the music and the Shubert Brothers (no relation) produce. The operetta tours so often over the next 30 years in shabby... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

9/28 In Musical Theater History

Harpo Marx passes away this day in 1964.A radio interview from the 1950s exists to prove that Harpo really did speak. Also passing away this day in 1964 is Singing in the Rain composer Nacio Herb Brown. Brown wrote the music to the last Earl Carroll Vanities in 1940 and was a mainstay in the early... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

9/27 In Musical Theater History

Johann Strauss Jr’s Die Fledermaus has its first performance in New York today in 1878. Broadway will see four different adaptations of the opera in the next 80 years before the operetta moves to the Met in 1952. By some odd trick of fate, all four versions will open in October. Opening tonight at... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

9/26 In Musical Theater History

The Victor Herbert operetta, The Fortune Teller (133p), opens this day at Wallack’s Theater in 1898. Two of Herbert’s best songs come from this work, Romany Life and Gypsy Love Song. Variety publishes a review of a new act seen this day in Chicago in 1914. The act is called the Four Marx Brothers... Sign in to see full entry.

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