BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-phantom-of-the-opera-1986-musical-1988 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19880126 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DESCRIPTION:Opened on January 26\, 1988.\nClosed April 16\, 2023 after 13\, 981 performances — 35.2 years.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show fro m January 9\, 2006 — and still.\n7 Tony Awards in 1988\, including Best Musical\; 7 Drama Desk Awards in 1988\; Broadway's longest-running show an d musical\; First ever Broadway production to surpass 10\,000 performances \n\nThe Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webbe r\, lyrics by Charles Hart\, and additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe\, wi th a libretto by Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe\, inspired by the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux\, it tells the tragic story of beautiful soprano Christine D aaé\, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious and disfigured musical ge nius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opera House.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_%281986_musical%2 9 SUMMARY:👑 The Phantom of the Opera END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:hamilton-musical-2015 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150806 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Public Theater on August 6\, 2015.\nStill running — 4\,021 performances when last counted.\nCurrently running at the Rich ard Rodgers Theatre (venue since opening)\; Most Tony Award nominations fo r a production (16)\n\nHamilton: An American Musical\, known simply as Ham ilton\, is a sung-and-rapped-through biographical musical with music\, lyr ics\, and a book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Based on the 2004 biography Alexan der Hamilton by Ron Chernow\, the musical covers the life of American Foun ding Father Alexander Hamilton and his involvement in the American Revolut ion and the political history of the early United States. Composed from 20 08 to 2015\, the music draws heavily from hip hop\, as well as R&B\, pop\, soul\, and traditional-style show tunes. It casts non-white actors as the Founding Fathers of the United States and other historical figures. Miran da described Hamilton as about "America then\, as told by America now".\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Hamilton END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:cats-musical-1982 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19821007 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20000911 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 7\, 1982.\nClosed September 10\, 2000 after 7 \,485 performances — 17.9 years.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show f rom June 19\, 1997 until January 9\, 2006.\n\nCats is a sung-through music al with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is based on the 1939 poetry colle ction Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. The musical tell s the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they mak e the "Jellicle choice" by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. As of 2024\, Cats remains the fifth-lo ngest-running Broadway show and the eighth-longest-running West End show.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:👑 Cats END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:les-miserables-musical-1987 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19870312 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20030519 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 12\, 1987.\nClosed May 18\, 2003 after 6\,680 p erformances — 16.2 years.\n8 Tony Awards in 1987\, including Best Musica l\; 5 Drama Desk Awards in 1987\, including Outstanding Musical\; Grammy A ward for Best Musical Cast Show Album in 1988 and 1991\n\nLes Misérables\ , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz\, is a sung-through musical bas ed on the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo. It is one of the most popular and hig hest-grossing stage musicals of all time. Set in early 19th-century France \, Les Misérables tells the story of Jean Valjean\, a French convict\, an d his journey of redemption. After stealing a loaf of bread for his sister 's starving child\, Valjean is imprisoned for 19 years and released in 181 5. When a bishop inspires him with a tremendous act of mercy\, Valjean bre aks his parole\, changes his name and starts his life anew. He becomes wea lthy and adopts an orphan\, Cosette. A police inspector named Javert pursu es Valjean over the decades in a single-minded quest for "justice." The pl ot leads the characters to Paris\, where they are swept up in the events o f a revolutionary period in France\, as a group of young idealists attempt s to overthrow the government from a street barricade.\n\nhttps://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Les Misérables END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:fiddler-on-the-roof-1964 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19640922 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19720703 DESCRIPTION:Opened on September 22\, 1964.\nClosed July 2\, 1972 after 3\,2 42 performances — 7.8 years.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from June 17\, 1972 until December 8\, 1979.\n9 Tony Awards in 1965\, including Best Musical\; A Special Tony Award in 1972 for becoming Broadway's longe st-running musical\; Revivals in 1976 (167 performances)\, 1981 (53 perfor mances)\, 1990 (241 performances)\, 2004 (781 performances)\, and 2015 (43 1 performances)\n\nFiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bo ck\, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick\, and book by Joseph Stein\, set in the Pal e of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. It is based on "Tevy e the Dairyman" and other short stories by Sholem Aleichem. The story cent ers on Tevye\, a Jewish milkman in the fictional village of Anatevka\, who attempts to maintain his people's traditions as outside influences encroa ch upon his family's lives. He must cope with the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters who wish to marry for love\; their choices of h usbands are successively less palatable for Tevye. An edict of the tsar ev entually evicts the Jews from their village.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/Fiddler_on_the_Roof SUMMARY:👑 Fiddler on the Roof END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:les-miserables-musical-2014 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140323 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160905 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 23\, 2014 (a 2014 revival).\nClosed September 4 \, 2016 after 1\,024 performances — 2.5 years.\n\nLes Misérables\, coll oquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz\, is a sung-through musical based on the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo. It is one of the most popular and highest-g rossing stage musicals of all time. Set in early 19th-century France\, Les Misérables tells the story of Jean Valjean\, a French convict\, and his journey of redemption. After stealing a loaf of bread for his sister's sta rving child\, Valjean is imprisoned for 19 years and released in 1815. Whe n a bishop inspires him with a tremendous act of mercy\, Valjean breaks hi s parole\, changes his name and starts his life anew. He becomes wealthy a nd adopts an orphan\, Cosette. A police inspector named Javert pursues Val jean over the decades in a single-minded quest for "justice." The plot lea ds the characters to Paris\, where they are swept up in the events of a re volutionary period in France\, as a group of young idealists attempts to o verthrow the government from a street barricade.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Les Misérables · 2014 revival END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:humpty-dumpty-1868 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18680310 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18690516 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 10\, 1868.\nClosed May 15\, 1869 after 483 perf ormances — 14 months.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from March 1 \, 1868 until May 1\, 1881.\n\nHumpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme\, probably originally a riddle\, and is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg\, though he is not explicitly described as such. The first recorded versions of the rhyme date from late eighteenth-centur y England and the tune from 1870 in James William Elliott's National Nurse ry Rhymes and Nursery Songs. Its origins are obscure\, and several theorie s have been advanced to suggest original meanings. The rhyme is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index as No. 13026.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu mpty_Dumpty SUMMARY:👑 Humpty Dumpty END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:hair-musical-1968 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19680429 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19720702 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Joseph Papp's Public Theater on April 29\, 1968.\ nClosed July 1\, 1972 after 1\,750 performances — 4.2 years.\nA Drama De sk Award in 1968\; Grammy Award for Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album in 1969\n\nHair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock mus ical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Ga lt MacDermot. The work reflects the creators' observations of the hippie c ounterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s\, and several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement. The musical's prof anity\, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs\, its treatment of sexua lity\, its irreverence for the American flag\, and its nude scene caused c ontroversy. The work broke new ground in musical theatre by defining the g enre of "rock musical"\, using a racially integrated cast\, and inviting t he audience onstage for a "Be-In" finale.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Hair_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Hair END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-sound-of-music-1959 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19591116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19630616 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 16\, 1959.\nClosed June 15\, 1963 after 1\,4 43 performances — 3.6 years.\n5 Tony Awards in 1960\, including Best Mus ical\; Grammy Award for Best Show Album (Original Cast) in 1961\n\nThe Sou nd of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers\, lyrics by Oscar H ammerstein II\, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is base d on the 1949 book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trap p. Set in Austria on the eve of the Anschluss in 1938\, the musical tells the story of Maria\, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she decides whether to become a nun. She falls in love with the children\, and eventually their widowed father\, Captain von Trapp. He is ordered to accept a commission in the German Navy\, but he opposes the Nazis. He and Maria decide on a plan to flee Austria with the children. Many songs from the musical have become standards\, including "Do-Re-Mi"\, "My Favorite T hings"\, "Edelweiss"\, "Climb Ev'ry Mountain"\, and the title song "The So und of Music".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Music SUMMARY:🎵 The Sound of Music END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:chicago-musical-1996 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19961114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 14\, 1996 (a 1996 revival).\nStill running — 11\,792 performances when last counted.\n\nChicago is an American musi cal with music by John Kander\, lyrics by Fred Ebb\, and book by Ebb and B ob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the Jazz Age\, the musical is based on the 192 6 play of the same name by Maurine Dallas Watkins\, then a journalist cove ring the city's courthouse beat. A satire on corruption in the administrat ion of criminal justice\, the plot follows felons who manipulate their sto ries to develop celebrity status.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago _%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Chicago · 1996 revival END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:mamma-mia-musical-2001 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20011018 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150913 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Orpheum Theatre on October 18\, 2001.\nClosed Sep tember 12\, 2015 after 5\,758 performances — 13.9 years.\n\nMamma Mia! i s a jukebox musical written by British playwright Catherine Johnson\, base d on songs recorded by Swedish group ABBA and composed by members Benny An dersson and Björn Ulvaeus. The musical's title is taken from the group's 1975 chart-topper "Mamma Mia". Ulvaeus and Andersson were involved in the development of the show from the beginning\, while singer Anni-Frid Lyngst ad was involved financially in the production and also appeared at many of the premieres around the world.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamma_Mi a%21_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Mamma Mia! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:my-fair-lady-1956 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19560315 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19620930 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 15\, 1956.\nClose d September 29\, 1962 after 2\,717 performances — 6.5 years.\n6 Tony Awa rds in 1957\, including Best Musical\n\nMy Fair Lady is a musical with a b ook and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story\ , based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion and on the 1938 film adaptation of the play\, concerns Eliza Doolittle\, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins\, a phonetician\, so that she may pass as a lady. Despite his cynical nature and difficulty un derstanding women\, Higgins grows attached to her.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady SUMMARY:🎵 My Fair Lady END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:evita-musical-1979 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19790925 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19830627 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Orpheum Theatre on September 25\, 1979.\nClosed J une 26\, 1983 after 1\,567 performances — 3.8 years.\n7 Tony Awards in 1 980\, including Best Musical\; 6 Drama Desk Awards in 1980\, including Out standing Musical\; Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album in 1981\n\nEvita is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. It covers the early life\, rise to power\, charity work\, contro versies and death of the Argentine political leader Eva Perón\, the secon d wife of the Argentine president Juan Perón.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evita_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Evita END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:rent-musical-1996 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19960429 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080908 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 29\, 1996.\nClosed September 7\, 2008 after 5\, 123 performances — 12.4 years.\n4 Tony Awards in 1996\, including Best M usical\; 6 Drama Desk Awards in 1996\, including Outstanding Musical\; Pul itzer Prize for Drama in 1996\n\nRent is a rock musical with music\, lyric s\, and book by Jonathan Larson. Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohèm e by Giacomo Puccini\, Luigi Illica\, and Giuseppe Giacosa\, it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and c reate a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village\, in the thriving days of t he bohemian culture of Alphabet City\, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Rent END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:grease-musical-1972 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19720214 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19800414 DESCRIPTION:Opened on February 14\, 1972.\nClosed April 13\, 1980 after 3\, 388 performances — 8.2 years.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from December 8\, 1979 until September 29\, 1983.\n2 Drama Desk Awards in 1972 \n\nGrease is a 1971 musical with music\, lyrics\, and a book by Jim Jacob s and Warren Casey. Named after the 1950s United States working-class yout h subculture known as greasers and set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell Hig h School in Northwest Chicago\, the musical follows ten working-class teen agers as they navigate the complexities of peer pressure\, politics\, pers onal core values\, and love.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_%28mu sical%29 SUMMARY:👑 Grease END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:grease-musical-1994 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19940511 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19980126 DESCRIPTION:Opened on May 11\, 1994 (a 1994 revival).\nClosed January 25\, 1998 after 1\,505 performances — 3.7 years.\nOriginal production in 1972 (3\,388 performances) and revival in 2007 (554 performances)\n\nGrease is a 1971 musical with music\, lyrics\, and a book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers and set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School in N orthwest Chicago\, the musical follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of peer pressure\, politics\, personal core val ues\, and love.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Grease · 1994 revival END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:miss-saigon-1991 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19910411 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20010129 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway Theatre on April 11\, 1991.\nClosed Janu ary 28\, 2001 after 4\,092 performances — 9.8 years.\n3 Tony Awards in 1 991\; 4 Drama Desk Awards in 1991\n\nMiss Saigon is a sung-through stage m usical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil\, with lyrics by Boub lil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera Mad ama Butterfly\, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance in volving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War\, and Madama But terfly's story of marriage between an American lieutenant and a geisha is replaced by a romance between a United States Marine and a seventeen-year- old South Vietnamese bargirl.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Saigon SUMMARY:🎵 Miss Saigon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:cabaret-musical-1998 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19980319 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20040105 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 19\, 1998 (a 1998 revival).\nClosed January 4\, 2004 after 2\,377 performances — 5.8 years.\n4 Tony Awards in 1998\, in cluding Best Revival of a Musical\; 3 Drama Desk Awards in 1998\, includin g Outstanding Revival of a Musical\n\nCabaret is an American musical with music by John Kander\, lyrics by Fred Ebb\, and a book by Joe Masteroff. I t is based on the play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten\, which premiered in 1951\, and which in turn was based on the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_%28musi cal%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Cabaret · 1998 revival END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:oklahoma-1943 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19430331 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19480530 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 31\, 1943.\nClosed May 29\, 1948 after 2\,212 p erformances — 5.2 years.\nA Special Tony Award in 1993 for the show's 50 th anniversary\n\nOklahoma! is a musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs\, it i s set in farm country outside the town of Claremore\, Indian Territory\, i n 1906\, and tells the story of farm girl Laurey Williams and her courtshi p by rival suitors\, cowboy Curly McLain and the frightening farmhand Jud Fry. A secondary romance concerns cowboy Will Parker and his flirtatious f iancée\, Ado Annie.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%21 SUMMARY:🎵 Oklahoma! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:cabaret-musical-1966 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19661120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19690907 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on November 20\, 1966.\nClosed September 6\, 1969 after 1\,165 performances — 2.8 years.\n8 Tony Award s in 1967\, including Best Musical\; Grammy Award for Best Score from an O riginal Cast Show Album in 1968\n\nCabaret is an American musical with mus ic by John Kander\, lyrics by Fred Ebb\, and a book by Joe Masteroff. It i s based on the play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten\, which premiered in 1951\, and which in turn was based on the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_%28musical %29 SUMMARY:🎵 Cabaret END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:avenue-q-2003 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20030731 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090914 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Vineyard Theatre on July 31\, 2003.\nClosed Septe mber 13\, 2009 after 2\,534 performances — 6.1 years.\n3 Tony Awards in 2004\, including Best Musical\n\n Avenue Q is a musical comedy featuring p uppets and human actors with music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Mar x and a book by Jeff Whitty. It won Best Musical\, Book\, and Score at the 2004 Tony Awards. The show's format is a parody of Sesame Street\, but it s content involves adult-oriented themes. It has been praised for its appr oach to themes of racism\, homosexuality and internet pornography.\n\nhttp s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue_Q SUMMARY:🎵 Avenue Q END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-lion-king-musical-1997 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19971113 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Orpheum Theatre on November 13\, 1997.\nStill run ning — 11\,417 performances when last counted.\n\nThe Lion King is a sta ge musical with a book by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi based on the 1994 Walt Disney Animation Studios' film of the same name. Directed by Julie Ta ymor\, the musical features actors in animal costumes as well as giant\, h ollow puppets. The show is produced by Disney Theatrical Productions and f eatures songs from the original film by Elton John and Tim Rice\, while th e majority of new songs were contributed by Lebo M\, Mark Mancina\, Jay Ri fkin\, Tsidii Le Loka\, Taymor\, and Hans Zimmer.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Lion_King_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Lion King END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:beauty-and-the-beast-musical-1994 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19940418 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070730 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 18\, 1994.\nClosed July 29\, 2007 after 5\,462 performances — 13.3 years.\nA Tony Award in 1994\n\nBeauty and the Beast is a musical\, with music by Alan Menken\, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Ti m Rice\, and book by Linda Woolverton. Adapted from Walt Disney Animation Studios's 1991 film – which in turn was based on "Beauty and the Beast" by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont – it tells the story of an unkind p rince who has been magically transformed into an unsightly creature as pun ishment for his selfish ways. To revert into his true human form\, the Bea st must learn to love a bright\, beautiful young lady who he has imprisone d in his enchanted castle and earn her love in return before it is too lat e.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Beauty and the Beast END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-king-and-i-1951 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19510329 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19540321 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 29\, 1951.\nClosed March 20\, 1954 after 1\,246 performances — 3 years.\n5 Tony Awards in 1952\, including Best Musical \; Revivals in 1977 (695 performances)\, 1985 (191 performances)\, 1996 (7 80 performances)\, and 2015 (499 performances)\n\nThe King and I is the fi fth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is based on Margare t Landon's novel Anna and the King of Siam (1944)\, which is in turn deriv ed from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens\, governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. The musical's plot relates the experie nces of Anna\, a British schoolteacher who is hired as part of the King's drive to modernize his country. The relationship between the King and Anna is marked by conflict through much of the piece\, as well as by a love to which neither can admit. The musical premiered on March 29\, 1951\, at Br oadway's St. James Theatre. It ran for nearly three years\, making it the fourth-longest-running Broadway musical in history at the time\, and has h ad many tours and revivals.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_and_ I SUMMARY:🎵 The King and I END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:dear-evan-hansen-2016 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220919 DESCRIPTION:Opened on December 4\, 2016.\nClosed September 18\, 2022 after 1\,672 performances — 5.8 years.\n6 Tony Awards in 2017\, including Best Musical\; Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in 2018\n\nDear Eva n Hansen is a stage musical with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul\, and a book by Steven Levenson. The musical follows Evan Hansen\, a high school senior with social anxiety\, "who invents an important role f or himself in a tragedy that he did not earn".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dear_Evan_Hansen SUMMARY:🎵 Dear Evan Hansen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:a-chorus-line-1975 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19750725 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19900429 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on July 25\, 1975.\nClosed April 28\, 1990 after 6\,137 performances — 14.8 years.\n👑 Broadway's longe st-running show from September 29\, 1983 until June 19\, 1997.\n9 Tony Awa rds in 1976\, including Best Musical\; 5 Drama Desk Awards in 1976\, inclu ding Outstanding Musical\; A Special Tony Award in 1984 for becoming Broad way's longest-running musical\; Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976\n\nA Chor us Line is a 1975 musical conceived by Michael Bennett with music by Marvi n Hamlisch\, lyrics by Edward Kleban\, and a book by James Kirkwood Jr. an d Nicholas Dante.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Chorus_Line SUMMARY:👑 A Chorus Line END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-producers-musical-2001 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20010419 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070423 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 19\, 2001.\nClosed April 22\, 2007 after 2\,502 performances — 6 years.\n\nThe Producers is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Mel Brooks and a book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan. It is ad apted from Brooks's 1967 film of the same name. The story concerns a theat rical producer and his mild-mannered accountant who scheme to get rich by fraudulently overselling interests in a Broadway musical designed to fail. Complications arise when the show is a surprise hit. The humor of The Pro ducers draws on exaggerated accents\, caricatures of Jews\, gay people and Nazis\, and many show business in-jokes.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /The_Producers_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Producers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:annie-musical-1977 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19770421 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19830103 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 21\, 1977.\nClosed January 2\, 1983 after 2\,37 7 performances — 5.7 years.\n\nAnnie is a musical with music by Charles Strouse\, lyrics by Martin Charnin\, and a book by Thomas Meehan. It is ba sed on the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray. The origin al Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years\, setti ng a record for the Alvin Theatre. It spawned numerous productions in many countries\, as well as national tours\, and won seven Tony Awards\, inclu ding for Best Musical. The musical's songs "Tomorrow" and "It's the Hard K nock Life" are among its most popular musical numbers.\n\nhttps://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/Annie_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Annie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:south-pacific-musical-1949 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19490407 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19540117 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 7\, 1949.\nClosed January 16\, 1954 after 1\,92 5 performances — 4.8 years.\n10 Tony Awards in 1950\, including Best Mus ical\; Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950\n\nSouth Pacific is a musical comp osed by Richard Rodgers\, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The work premiered in 1949 on Broadway and w as an immediate hit\, running for 1\,925 performances. The plot is based o n James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1947 book Tales of the Sout h Pacific and combines elements of several of those stories. Rodgers and H ammerstein believed they could write a musical based on Michener's work th at would be financially successful and\, at the same time\, send a strong progressive message on racism.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Paci fic_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 South Pacific END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:equus-play-1974 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19741024 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19771003 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Plymouth Theatre on October 24\, 1974.\nClosed Oc tober 2\, 1977 after 1\,209 performances — 2.9 years.\n2 Tony Awards in 1975\, including Best Play\; 4 Drama Desk Awards in 1975\, including Outst anding Play\n\nEquus is a 1973 play by Peter Shaffer\, about a child psych iatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_%28play%2 9 SUMMARY:🎭 Equus END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:hello-dolly-musical-1964 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19640116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19701228 DESCRIPTION:Opened on January 16\, 1964.\nClosed December 27\, 1970 after 2 \,844 performances — 6.9 years.\n10 Tony Awards in 1964\, including Best Musical\; A Drama Desk Award in 1970\n\nHello\, Dolly! is a 1964 musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart\, base d on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers\, which Wilder r evised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1954. The musical follows the story of Dolly Gallagher Levi\, a strong-willed matchmaker\, as she travels to Y onkers\, New York\, to find a match for the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Hello%2C_Dolly%21_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Hello\, Dolly! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:billy-elliot-the-musical-2008 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081113 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120109 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Imperial Theatre on November 13\, 2008.\nClosed J anuary 8\, 2012 after 1\,312 performances — 3.2 years.\n10 Tony Awards i n 2009\, including Best Musical\; 10 Drama Desk Awards in 2009\, including Outstanding Musical\n\nBilly Elliot the Musical is a coming-of-age stage musical based on the 2000 film of the same name. The music is by Elton Joh n\, and the book and lyrics are by Lee Hall\, who wrote the film's screenp lay. The plot revolves around Billy Elliot\, a motherless British boy who begins taking ballet lessons. The story of his personal struggle and fulfi llment is balanced against a counter-story of family and community strife caused by the 1984–1985 miners' strike in County Durham\, in North East England. Hall's screenplay was inspired in part by A. J. Cronin's 1935 nov el about a miners' strike\, The Stars Look Down\, to which the musical's o pening song pays homage.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Elliot_the _Musical SUMMARY:🎵 Billy Elliot the Musical END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:aida-musical-2000 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20000323 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20040906 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 23\, 2000.\nClosed September 5\, 2004 after 1\, 852 performances — 4.5 years.\n4 Tony Awards in 2000\; A Drama Desk Awar d in 2000\; Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2001\n\nAida is a musical with music by Elton John\, lyrics by Tim Rice\, and a book by Lind a Woolverton\, Robert Falls\, and David Henry Hwang. It is based on the op era of the same name written by Antonio Ghislanzoni with music by Giuseppe Verdi. The musical was originally produced by Hyperion Theatricals.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aida_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Aida END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:amadeus-play-1980 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19801217 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19831017 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on December 17\, 1980.\nClosed October 16\, 1983 after 1\,181 performances — 2.8 years.\n5 Tony Awards in 1981\, including Best Play\; 3 Drama Desk Awards in 1981\, including O utstanding Play\n\nAmadeus is a 1979 play by Peter Shaffer which gives a f ictional account of the lives of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ant onio Salieri\, imagining a rivalry between the two at the court of Joseph II\, Holy Roman Emperor. It was inspired by Alexander Pushkin's short 1830 play Mozart and Salieri\, which Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov used in 1897 as t he libretto for an opera of the same name.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Amadeus_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Amadeus END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:six-musical-2021 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211003 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270104 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 3\, 2021.\nClosed January 3\, 2027 after 2\,0 81 performances — 5.3 years.\n2 Tony Awards in 2022\; 4 Drama Desk Award s in 2022\; Currently running at the Lena Horne Theatre (venue since openi ng)\n\nSix is a British musical with music\, book\, and lyrics by Toby Mar low and Lucy Moss. It is a modern retelling of the lives of the six wives of Henry VIII\, presented in the form of a singing competition and pop con cert. In the show\, the wives take turns telling their stories to determin e who suffered the most from their shared husband\, but ultimately seek to reclaim their individual identities and rewrite their stories.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Six END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:man-of-la-mancha-1965 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19651122 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19710627 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 22\, 1965.\nClosed June 26\, 1971 after 2\,3 28 performances — 5.6 years.\n5 Tony Awards in 1966\, including Best Mus ical\n\nMan of La Mancha is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman\, music by Mitch Leigh\, and lyrics by Joe Darion. It is adapted from Wasse rman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I\, Don Quixote\, which was in turn inspi red by Miguel de Cervantes and his 17th-century novel Don Quixote. It tell s the story of the "mad" knight Don Quixote as a play within a play\, perf ormed by Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits a hearing with th e Spanish Inquisition.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_La_Mancha SUMMARY:🎵 Man of La Mancha END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:spamalot-2005 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20050317 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090112 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 17\, 2005.\nClosed January 11\, 2009 after 1\,5 75 performances — 3.8 years.\n3 Tony Awards in 2005\, including Best Mus ical\; 3 Drama Desk Awards in 2005\, including Outstanding Musical\; Gramm y Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2006\; Revival in 2023 (164 perform ances)\n\nSpamalot is a musical with music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle\, and lyrics and a book by Idle. Based on the 1975 film Monty Python and th e Holy Grail\, the musical offers a highly irreverent parody of Arthurian legend\, with the title being a portmanteau of Spam and Camelot.\n\nhttps: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamalot SUMMARY:🎵 Spamalot END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:guys-and-dolls-1950 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19501124 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19531129 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 24\, 1950.\nClosed November 28\, 1953 after 1\,200 performances — 3 years.\n5 Tony Awards in 1951\, including Best M usical\; Revivals in 1955 (31 performances)\, 1965 (15 performances)\, 197 6 (239 performances)\, 1992 (1\,143 performances)\, and 2009 (121 performa nces)\n\nGuys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesse r and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Mi ss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure"\, which are two short stories by Damon Runyon\, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories\, such as "Pick the Winner".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/Guys_and_Dolls SUMMARY:🎵 Guys and Dolls END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:guys-and-dolls-1992 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19920414 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19950109 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 14\, 1992 (a 1992 revival).\nClosed January 8\, 1995 after 1\,143 performances — 2.7 years.\n\nGuys and Dolls is a musi cal with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure"\, which are two short stories by Damon Runyon\, and also borrow s characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories\, such as "Pick t he Winner".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guys_and_Dolls SUMMARY:🎵 Guys and Dolls · 1992 revival END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:kinky-boots-musical-2013 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130404 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190408 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 4\, 2013.\nClosed April 7\, 2019 after 2\,505 p erformances — 6 years.\n\nKinky Boots is a musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and book by Harvey Fierstein.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kinky_Boots_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Kinky Boots END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:in-the-heights-2008 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080309 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110110 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 9\, 2008.\nClosed January 9\, 2011 after 1\,184 performances — 2.8 years.\n4 Tony Awards in 2008\, including Best Music al\; Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2009\n\nIn the Heights is a musical with concept\, music\, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a b ook by Quiara Alegría Hudes. The story is a romance as well as a celebrat ion of community\, culture\, and aspirations. It is set over the course of three days\, involving characters in the largely Hispanic and Latino neig hborhood of Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan\, New York City. The sco re blends hip-hop\, salsa\, merengue\, and soul.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/In_the_Heights SUMMARY:🎵 In the Heights END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:annie-get-your-gun-musical-1946 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19460516 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19490213 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Imperial Theatre on May 16\, 1946.\nClosed Februa ry 12\, 1949 after 1\,147 performances — 2.7 years.\n\nAnnie Get Your Gu n is a 1946 musical with lyrics and music by Irving Berlin and a book by D orothy Fields and her brother Herbert Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley (1860–1926)\, a sharpshooter who st arred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West\, and her romance with fellow sharpshoot er Frank E. Butler (1847–1926).\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_G et_Your_Gun_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Annie Get Your Gun END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:la-cage-aux-folles-musical-1983 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19830821 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19871116 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Palace Theatre on August 21\, 1983.\nClosed Novem ber 15\, 1987 after 1\,761 performances — 4.2 years.\n6 Tony Awards in 1 984\, including Best Musical\; 3 Drama Desk Awards in 1984\n\nLa Cage aux Folles is a musical with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and a book by Ha rvey Fierstein.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cage_aux_Folles_%28mus ical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 La Cage aux Folles END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:matilda-the-musical-2013 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130411 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170102 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 11\, 2013.\nClosed January 1\, 2017 after 1\,55 4 performances — 3.7 years.\n4 Tony Awards in 2013\; 5 Drama Desk Awards in 2013\, including Outstanding Musical\; A Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre in 2013 for the four original leading actresses\n\nRoald Dahl's M atilda\, also known simply as Matilda and Matilda the Musical\, is a music al with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and a book by Dennis Kelly. It is based on the 1988 novel Matilda by Roald Dahl. The musical's narrative cen tres on Matilda Wormwood\, a precocious five-year-old girl with the gift o f telekinesis\, who loves reading\, overcomes obstacles caused by her fami ly and school\, and helps her teacher to reclaim her life. After a twelve- week trial run staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at Stratford- upon-Avon from November 2010 to January 2011\, it received its West End pr emiere on 24 November 2011 at the Cambridge Theatre and its Broadway prem iere on 11 April 2013 at the Shubert Theatre.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matilda_the_Musical SUMMARY:🎵 Matilda the Musical END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:jersey-boys-2005 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20051106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170116 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 6\, 2005.\nClosed January 15\, 2017 after 4\ ,642 performances — 11.2 years.\n4 Tony Awards in 2006\, including Best Musical\; 2 Drama Desk Awards in 2006\; Grammy Award for Best Theatre Show Album in 2006\n\nJersey Boys is a jukebox musical with a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is presented in a documentary-style format th at dramatizes the formation\, success and breakup of the 1960s rock 'n' ro ll group the Four Seasons. The musical is structured as four "seasons"\, e ach narrated by a different member of the band who gives his own perspecti ve on its history and music. Songs include "Big Girls Don't Cry"\, "Sherry "\, "December\, 1963 "\, "My Eyes Adored You"\, "Stay"\, "Can't Take My Ey es Off You"\, "Walk Like A Man"\, "Who Loves You"\, "Working My Way Back t o You" and "Rag Doll".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Boys SUMMARY:🎵 Jersey Boys END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-music-man-1957 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19571219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19610416 DESCRIPTION:Opened on December 19\, 1957.\nClosed April 15\, 1961 after 1\, 375 performances — 3.3 years.\n6 Tony Awards in 1958\, including Best Mu sical\; Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album (Broadway or TV) in 1959 \n\nThe Music Man is a musical with book\, music\, and lyrics by Meredith Willson\, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concern s con man Harold Hill\, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader. He sells band instruments and uniforms to naïve Midwestern townsfolk\, prom ising to train the members of the new band. Harold is no musician\, howeve r\, and plans to skip town without giving any music lessons. Prim libraria n and piano teacher Marian sees through him\, but when Harold helps her yo unger brother overcome his lisp and social awkwardness\, Marian begins to fall in love with him. He risks being caught to win her heart.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_Man SUMMARY:🎵 The Music Man END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:aladdin-2011-musical-2014 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140320 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on March 20\, 2014.\nStill running — 4\,581 performances when last counted.\nCurrently running at t he New Amsterdam Theatre (venue since opening)\n\nAladdin is a stage music al based on the Walt Disney Animation Studios 1992 film of the same name\, with a book by Chad Beguelin\, music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman\, Tim Rice and Beguelin. It resurrects three songs written by Menke n and Ashman for the film but not used\, and adds four songs written by Me nken and Beguelin.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_%282011_musica l%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Aladdin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:pippin-musical-1972 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19721023 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19770613 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 23\, 1972.\nClosed June 12\, 1977 after 1\,94 4 performances — 4.6 years.\n5 Tony Awards in 1973\; 5 Drama Desk Awards in 1973\n\nPippin is a 1972 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schw artz and book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse\, who directed the original Br oadway production\, also contributed to the libretto. The musical uses the premise of a mysterious performance troupe\, led by the Leading Player\, to tell the story of Pippin\, a young prince on his search for meaning and significance. The fourth wall is broken numerous times during most tradit ional productions.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippin_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Pippin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:dreamgirls-1981 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19811220 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19850812 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Imperial Theatre on December 20\, 1981.\nClosed A ugust 11\, 1985 after 1\,521 performances — 3.6 years.\n6 Tony Awards in 1982\; 4 Drama Desk Awards in 1982\; Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Albu m in 1983\n\nDreamgirls is a Broadway musical\, with music by Henry Kriege r and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen. It is based on the show business aspira tions and successes of R&B acts such as The Shirelles\, James Brown\, Jack ie Wilson\, and others\, and particularly The Supremes\, as the musical fo llows the story of a young Black female singing trio from Chicago\, Illino is called "The Dreams"\, who become music superstars.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/Dreamgirls SUMMARY:🎵 Dreamgirls END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:how-to-succeed-in-business-without-really-trying-musical-1961 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19611014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19650307 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 14\, 1961.\nClosed March 6\, 1965 after 1\,41 7 performances — 3.4 years.\n7 Tony Awards in 1962\, including Best Musi cal\; Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1962\; Grammy Award for Best Original Ca st Show Album in 1962\n\nHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a 1961 musical by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows\, Jack Weinstoc k\, and Willie Gilbert\, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same na me. The story concerns young\, ambitious J. Pierrepont Finch\, who\, with the help of the book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying\, ri ses from window washer to chairman of the board of the World Wide Wicket C ompany.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Succeed_in_Business_Withou t_Really_Trying_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:kiss-me-kate-1948 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19481230 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19510729 DESCRIPTION:Opened on December 30\, 1948.\nClosed July 28\, 1951 after 1\,0 77 performances — 2.6 years.\n\nKiss Me\, Kate is a musical with music a nd lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Bella and Samuel Spewack. The story involves the production of a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and the conflict on and off-stage between Fred Graham \, the show's director\, producer\, and star\, and his leading lady\, his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi. A secondary romance concerns Lois Lane\, the actres s playing Bianca\, and her gambler boyfriend\, Bill\, who runs afoul of so me gangsters. The original production starred Alfred Drake\, Patricia Mori son\, Lisa Kirk and Harold Lang.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Me% 2C_Kate SUMMARY:🎵 Kiss Me\, Kate END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-black-crook-1866 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18660912 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18680105 DESCRIPTION:Opened on September 12\, 1866.\nClosed January 4\, 1868 after 4 74 performances — 16 months.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from August 5\, 1867 until March 1\, 1868.\n\nThe Black Crook is a work of musi cal theatre first produced in New York City with great success in 1866. Ma ny theatre writers have cautiously identified The Black Crook as the first popular piece that conforms to the modern notion of a musical. The book i s by Charles M. Barras. The music\, selected and arranged by Thomas Baker\ , consists mostly of adaptations\, but it included some new songs composed for the piece\, notably "You Naughty\, Naughty Men". The story is a Faust ian melodramatic romantic comedy\, but the production became famous for it s spectacular special effects and skimpy costumes.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/The_Black_Crook SUMMARY:👑 The Black Crook END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:42nd-street-musical-1980 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19800825 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19890109 DESCRIPTION:Opened on August 25\, 1980.\nClosed January 8\, 1989 after 3\,4 86 performances — 8.4 years.\n2 Tony Awards in 1981\, including Best Mus ical\; 2 Drama Desk Awards in 1981\n\n42nd Street is a 1980 stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble\, lyrics by Al Dubin and J ohnny Mercer and music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production won t he Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Choreography and it became a long -running hit. The show was also produced in London in 1984 and its 2001 Br oadway revival won the Tony Award for Best Revival.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/42nd_Street_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 42nd Street END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-wiz-1975 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19750105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19790129 DESCRIPTION:Opened on January 5\, 1975.\nClosed January 28\, 1979 after 1\, 672 performances — 4.1 years.\n7 Tony Awards in 1975\, including Best Mu sical\; 5 Drama Desk Awards in 1975\, including Outstanding Musical\; Gram my Award for Best Cast Show Album in 1976\n\nThe Wiz: The Super Soul Music al "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) in the context of conte mporary African-American culture. It opened on October 21\, 1974\, at the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore\, and moved to Broadway's Majestic Theatre with a new cast on January 5\, 1975.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/The_Wiz SUMMARY:🎵 The Wiz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:funny-girl-musical-1964 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19640326 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19670702 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 26\, 1964.\nClosed July 1\, 1967 after 1\,348 p erformances — 3.3 years.\nGrammy Award for Best Score from an Original C ast Show Album in 1965\n\nFunny Girl is a musical with score by Jule Styne \, lyrics by Bob Merrill\, and book by Isobel Lennart\, that first opened on Broadway in 1964. The semi-biographical plot is based on the life and c areer of comedian and Broadway star Fanny Brice\, featuring her stormy rel ationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein.\n\nhttps://en.wiki pedia.org/wiki/Funny_Girl_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Funny Girl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:oh-calcutta-1976 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19760924 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19890807 DESCRIPTION:Opened on September 24\, 1976 (a 1976 revival).\nClosed August 6\, 1989 after 5\,959 performances — 12.9 years.\nOriginal production in 1969 (1\,314 performances)\; First revival to match its original for 1000 + performances\; Broadway's longest-running revue\n\nOh! Calcutta! is an a vant-garde\, risqué theatrical revue created by British drama critic Kenn eth Tynan and produced by Hillard Elkins. The show\, consisting of sketche s on sex-related topics\, debuted Off-Broadway in 1969 and then in the Wes t End in 1970. It ran in London for over 3\,900 performances\, and in New York initially for 1\,314. Revivals enjoyed even longer runs\, including a 1976 Broadway revival that ran for 5\,959 performances\, making the show the longest-running revue in Broadway history\, the second longest-running revival\, and the eighth longest-running Broadway show ever.\n\nhttps://e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh%21_Calcutta%21 SUMMARY:🎭 Oh! Calcutta! · 1976 revival END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:moulin-rouge-musical-2019 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190725 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260831 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on July 25\, 2019.\nClosed August 30\, 2026 after 2\,297 performances — 7.1 years.\n\nMoulin Rouge! The Musical is a jukebox musical with a book by John Logan. The musical i s based on the 2001 film Moulin Rouge! directed by Baz Luhrmann and writte n by Luhrmann and Craig Pearce. Moulin Rouge! is set in Paris during the B elle Epoque\; it follows Christian\, a young composer\, who falls in love with Satine\, a courtesan and the star of the Moulin Rouge cabaret.\n\nhtt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulin_Rouge%21_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Moulin Rouge! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:waitress-musical-2016 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160424 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200106 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the American Repertory Theater on April 24\, 2016.\nC losed January 5\, 2020 after 1\,544 performances — 3.7 years.\nA Drama D esk Award in 2016\; Revival in 2021 (122 performances)\n\nWaitress is a mu sical with music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles and a book by Jessie Nelson. It is based on the 2007 film\, written and directed by Adrienne Shelly. I t tells the story of Jenna Hunterson\, a baker and waitress in an abusive relationship with her husband\, Earl. After Jenna unexpectedly becomes pre gnant with Earl's child\, she begins an affair with her obstetrician\, Jim Pomatter. Looking for ways out of her troubles\, and at the urging of her friends\, she enters a pie-baking contest\, seeing its grand prize as her chance.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitress_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Waitress END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:arsenic-and-old-lace-play-1941 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19410110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19440618 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Fulton Theatre on January 10\, 1941.\nClosed June 17\, 1944 after 1\,444 performances — 3.4 years.\nRevival in 1986 (221 performances)\n\nArsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Jos eph Kesselring\, written in 1939. It has become best known through the 194 4 film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra.\n\nhttp s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Arsenic and Old Lace END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:oh-calcutta-1969 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19690617 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19720813 DESCRIPTION:Opened on June 17\, 1969.\nClosed August 12\, 1972 after 1\,314 performances — 3.2 years.\nOriginal production\; Revival in 1976 (5\,95 9 performances)\n\nOh! Calcutta! is an avant-garde\, risqué theatrical re vue created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan and produced by Hillard Elkins. The show\, consisting of sketches on sex-related topics\, debuted Off-Broadway in 1969 and then in the West End in 1970. It ran in London fo r over 3\,900 performances\, and in New York initially for 1\,314. Revival s enjoyed even longer runs\, including a 1976 Broadway revival that ran fo r 5\,959 performances\, making the show the longest-running revue in Broad way history\, the second longest-running revival\, and the eighth longest- running Broadway show ever.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh%21_Calcutt a%21 SUMMARY:🎭 Oh! Calcutta! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:damn-yankees-1955 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19550505 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19571013 DESCRIPTION:Opened on May 5\, 1955.\nClosed October 12\, 1957 after 1\,019 performances — 2.4 years.\n\nDamn Yankees is a 1955 musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop\, and music and lyrics by Rich ard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust leg end set during the 1950s in Washington\, D.C.\, during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball. It is based on Wallop's 195 4 novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Damn_Yankees SUMMARY:🎵 Damn Yankees END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:come-from-away-2017 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170312 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221003 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on March 12\, 2017.\nCl osed October 2\, 2022 after 1\,669 performances — 5.6 years.\n\nCome fro m Away is a musical\, with book\, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and Da vid Hein. It is based on the events in the Newfoundland town of Gander dur ing the week following the September 11 attacks\, when 38 planes\, carryin g approximately 7\,000 passengers\, were ordered to land unexpectedly at G ander International Airport. The characters in the musical are based on ac tual Gander residents and the stranded travelers they housed and fed.\n\nh ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_from_Away SUMMARY:🎵 Come from Away END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:crazy-for-you-musical-1992 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19920219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19960108 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on February 19\, 1992.\nClosed Ja nuary 7\, 1996 after 1\,622 performances — 3.9 years.\n3 Tony Awards in 1992\, including Best Musical\; 2 Drama Desk Awards in 1992\, including Ou tstanding Musical\n\nCrazy for You is a romantic comedy musical with a boo k by Ken Ludwig\, lyrics by Ira Gershwin\, and music by George Gershwin. B illed as "The New Gershwin Musical Comedy"\, it is largely based on the so ngwriting team's 1930 musical Girl Crazy\, but also incorporates songs fro m several other productions. It won the 1992 Tony Award (Broadway)\, the 1 993 Olivier Award (London)\, and the 1994 Dora Award (Toronto) for Best Mu sical.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_for_You_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Crazy for You END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:mummenschanz-1977 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19770330 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19800421 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 30\, 1977.\nClosed April 20\, 1980 after 1\,326 performances — 3.1 years.\nBroadway's longest-running special\n\nMummen schanz is a Swiss mask theater troupe who perform in a surreal mask- and p rop-oriented style. Founded in 1972 by Bernie Schürch\, Andres Bossard\, and Italian-American Floriana Frassetto\, the group became popular for its play with bizarre masks and forms\, light and shadow\, and their subtle c horeography. The name Mummenschanz is German for "mummery"\, or a play inv olving mummers. Mummer is an Early Modern English term for a mime artist.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummenschanz SUMMARY:🎭 Mummenschanz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-teahouse-of-the-august-moon-play-1953 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19531015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19560325 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 15\, 1953.\nClosed March 24\, 1956 after 1\,0 27 performances — 2.4 years.\n3 Tony Awards in 1954\, including Best Pla y\; Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1954\n\nThe Teahouse of the August Moon is a 1953 play written by John Patrick adapted from the 1951 novel by Vern S neider. The play was later adapted for film in 1956\, and the 1970 Broadwa y musical Lovely Ladies\, Kind Gentlemen.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /The_Teahouse_of_the_August_Moon_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Teahouse of the August Moon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:harvey-play-1944 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19441101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19490116 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 1\, 1944.\nClosed January 15\, 1949 after 1\ ,775 performances — 4.2 years.\nRevival in 1970 (79 performances) and 20 12 (62 performances)\n\nHarvey is a 1944 play by the American playwright M ary Chase\, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work in 1945 . It has been adapted for film and television several times\, most notably in a 1950 film starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull.\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Harvey END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:barefoot-in-the-park-1963 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19631023 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19670626 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 23\, 1963.\nClosed June 25\, 1967 after 1\,53 0 performances — 3.7 years.\nA Tony Award in 1964\n\nBarefoot in the Par k is a romantic comedy stage play by Neil Simon. The play premiered on Bro adway in 1963\, starring Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley. It was made into a film in 1967\, which starred Redford and Jane Fonda.\n\nhttps://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_in_the_Park SUMMARY:🎭 Barefoot in the Park END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:gas-light-1941 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19411205 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19441231 DESCRIPTION:Opened on December 5\, 1941.\nClosed December 30\, 1944 after 1 \,295 performances — 3.1 years.\nRevivals in 1948 (14 performances) and 1975 (52 performances)\n\nGas Light is a 1938 thriller play\, set in 1880s London\, written by the British novelist and playwright Patrick Hamilton. Hamilton's play is a dark tale of a marriage based on deceit and trickery \, and a husband committed to driving his wife insane in order to steal fr om her.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_Light SUMMARY:🎭 Angel Street END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-pajama-game-1954 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19540513 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19561125 DESCRIPTION:Opened on May 13\, 1954.\nClosed November 24\, 1956 after 1\,06 3 performances — 2.5 years.\n\nThe Pajama Game is a musical based on the 1953 novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell.\nThe book is by George Abbott an d Richard Bissell\; the music and lyrics are by Richard Adler and Jerry Ro ss. Dances were staged by Bob Fosse in his choreography debut. The story d eals with labor troubles and romance in a pajama factory.\n\nhttps://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/The_Pajama_Game SUMMARY:🎵 The Pajama Game END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:newsies-musical-2012 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120329 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140825 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 29\, 2012.\nClosed August 24\, 2014 after 1\,00 4 performances — 2.4 years.\n2 Tony Awards in 2012\; 2 Drama Desk Awards in 2012\n\nNewsies: The Musical is a musical with music by Alan Menken\, lyrics by Jack Feldman\, and a book by Harvey Fierstein. The show is based on the 1992 musical film of the same name\, which in turn was inspired by the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899 in New York City\, with Fierstein's script adapted from the film's screenplay by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsies_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Newsies END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-best-little-whorehouse-in-texas-1978 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19780619 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19820328 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Entermedia Theatre on June 19\, 1978.\nClosed Mar ch 27\, 1982 after 1\,584 performances — 3.8 years.\n2 Tony Awards in 19 79\; 3 Drama Desk Awards in 1978\n\nThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a musical with a book by Texas author Larry L. King and Peter Masterson a nd music and lyrics by Carol Hall. It is based on King’s 1974 Playboy ar ticle “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”\, on the closure of the Ch icken Ranch in La Grange\, Texas.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bes t_Little_Whorehouse_in_Texas SUMMARY:🎵 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:me-and-my-girl-1986 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19860810 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19900101 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Marquis Theatre on August 10\, 1986.\nClosed Dece mber 31\, 1989 after 1\,420 performances — 3.4 years.\n3 Tony Awards in 1987\; 5 Drama Desk Awards in 1987\n\nMe and My Girl is a musical with mus ic by Noel Gay and its original book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. A rthur Rose. The story\, set in the late 1930s\, tells of an unapologetical ly unrefined Cockney gentleman named Bill Snibson\, who learns that he is the 14th heir to the Earl of Hareford. The action is set in Hampshire\, an d in Mayfair and Lambeth in London.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_an d_My_Girl SUMMARY:🎵 Me and My Girl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:brighton-beach-memoirs-1983 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19830327 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19860512 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ahmanson Theatre on March 27\, 1983.\nClosed May 11\, 1986 after 1\,299 performances — 3.1 years.\nA Tony Award in 1983\n \nBrighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. Th e play is a coming of age comedy focused on the main character of Eugene M orris Jerome\, a Jewish teenager from a Polish immigrant family. It is set in September 1937 in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn\, New York\, during the Great Depression. According to Simon\, the play tells its story "through the eyes of a 15-year-old boy who is writing his memoirs—which is what I did when I was 15".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_B each_Memoirs SUMMARY:🎭 Brighton Beach Memoirs END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:mister-roberts-play-1948 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19480218 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19510107 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Alvin Theatre on February 18\, 1948.\nClosed Janu ary 6\, 1951 after 1\,157 performances — 2.9 years.\n\nMister Roberts is a 1948 play based on the 1946 Thomas Heggen novel of the same name.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Roberts_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Mister Roberts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-seven-year-itch-play-1952 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19521120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19550814 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Fulton Theatre on November 20\, 1952.\nClosed Aug ust 13\, 1955 after 1\,141 performances — 2.7 years.\n\nThe Seven Year I tch is a 1952 three-act play written by George Axelrod. The original Broad way production starred Tom Ewell and Vanessa Brown.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/The_Seven_Year_Itch_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Seven Year Itch END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:spider-man-turn-off-the-dark-2011 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110614 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140105 DESCRIPTION:Opened on June 14\, 2011.\nClosed January 4\, 2014 after 1\,066 performances — 2.6 years.\n\nSpider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is a musical with music and lyrics by Bono and the Edge of Irish rock band U2 and a bo ok by Julie Taymor\, Glen Berger\, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Based on th e Marvel Comics character Spider-Man\, the story incorporates elements of the 2002 film Spider-Man\, the 2004 film Spider-Man 2 and the Greek myth o f Arachne. It tells Spider-Man's origin story\, his romance with Mary Jane Watson\, and his battles with the Green Goblin. It includes highly techni cal stunts\, such as aerial combat scenes and actors swinging from "webs". \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man%3A_Turn_Off_the_Dark SUMMARY:🎵 Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:life-with-father-1939 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19391108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19470713 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 8\, 1939.\nClosed July 12\, 1947 after 3\,22 4 performances — 7.7 years.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from J une 14\, 1947 until June 17\, 1972.\nBroadway's longest-running straight p lay\n\nLife with Father is a 1939 play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse \, adapted from a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 19 35 by Clarence Day. The Broadway production ran for 3\,224 performances ov er 401 weeks to become the longest-running non-musical play on Broadway\, a record that it still holds. The play was adapted into a 1947 feature fil m and a television series.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_with_Fath er SUMMARY:👑 Life with Father END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:juliet-2022 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270104 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 17\, 2022.\nClosed January 3\, 2027 after 1\ ,627 performances — 4.1 years.\n\n& Juliet is a 2019 jukebox musical fea turing the music of Swedish pop songwriter Max Martin\, with a book by Dav id West Read\, in which Anne Hathaway negotiates with her husband\, Willia m Shakespeare\, to change the ending to Romeo and Juliet so that Juliet do es not kill herself. Juliet's parents plan to send her to a convent\, so s he flees to Paris\, accompanied by her nurse\, a friend and Anne herself\, who writes herself into the play as a new character\, "April". Shakespear e resists Anne's ideas\, and the story unfolds as a tug-of-war between the two writers\, with Juliet consequently buffeted between lovers and advise rs\, as Anne seeks a happy ending for her.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/%26_Juliet SUMMARY:🎵 & Juliet END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:mame-musical-1966 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19660524 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19700104 DESCRIPTION:Opened on May 24\, 1966.\nClosed January 3\, 1970 after 1\,508 performances — 3.6 years.\n3 Tony Awards in 1966\; Grammy Award for Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album in 1967\n\nMame is a musical with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and music and lyrics by Jer ry Herman. Originally titled My Best Girl\, it is based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis and the 1956 Broadway play of the same name by Lawrence and Lee. A period piece set in New York City and spanning the Great Depression and World War II\, it focuses on eccentric bohemian Mame Dennis\, whose famous motto is "Life is a banquet and most poor sons of bi tches are starving to death." Her fabulous life with her wealthy friends i s interrupted when the young son of her late brother arrives to live with her. They cope with the Depression in a series of adventures.\n\nhttps://e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mame_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Mame END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:promises-promises-musical-1968 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19681201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19720102 DESCRIPTION:Opened on December 1\, 1968.\nClosed January 1\, 1972 after 1\, 281 performances — 3.1 years.\n2 Tony Awards in 1969\; 2 Drama Desk Awar ds in 1969\; Grammy Award for Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album in 1970\n\nPromises\, Promises is a musical with music by Burt Bacharach\, lyrics by Hal David and a book by Neil Simon. It is based on the 1960 fil m The Apartment\, written by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond. The story concerns a junior executive at an insurance company who seeks to climb the corporate ladder by allowing his apartment to be used by his married supe riors for trysts.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promises%2C_Promises_%2 8musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Promises\, Promises END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:torch-song-trilogy-1982 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19820610 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19850520 DESCRIPTION:Opened on June 10\, 1982.\nClosed May 19\, 1985 after 1\,230 pe rformances — 2.9 years.\n2 Tony Awards in 1983\, including Best Play\; 2 Drama Desk Awards in 1983\, including Outstanding Play\n\nTorch Song Tril ogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three a cts: International Stud\, Fugue in a Nursery\, and Widows and Children Fir st! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff\, a Jewish homosexual\, drag queen \, and torch singer who lives in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The four-hour play begins with a soliloquy in which he explains hi s cynical disillusionment with love.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torc h_Song_Trilogy SUMMARY:🎭 Torch Song Trilogy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:1776-musical-1969 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19690316 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19720214 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 16\, 1969.\nClosed February 13\, 1972 after 1\, 217 performances — 2.9 years.\n3 Tony Awards in 1969\, including Best Mu sical\; 2 Drama Desk Awards in 1969\n\n1776 is a musical with music and ly rics by Sherman Edwards and a book by Peter Stone. The show is based on th e events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, te lling a story of the efforts of John Adams to persuade his colleagues to v ote for American independence and to sign the document. The show premiered on Broadway in 1969 where it received acclaim and won three Tony Awards\, including Best Musical. The original production starred William Daniels a s Adams\, Ken Howard as Thomas Jefferson\, and Howard Da Silva as Benjamin Franklin.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 1776 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:grand-hotel-musical-1989 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19891112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19920426 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 12\, 1989.\nClosed April 25\, 1992 after 1\, 017 performances — 2.5 years.\n\nGrand Hotel is a musical in two acts wi th a book by Luther Davis\, music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George F orrest\, and additional music and lyrics by Maury Yeston.\n\nhttps://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Hotel_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Grand Hotel END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:abie-s-irish-rose-1922 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19220523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19271002 DESCRIPTION:Opened on May 23\, 1922.\nClosed October 1\, 1927 after 2\,327 performances — 5.4 years.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from May 23\, 1925 until June 1\, 1939.\nFirst ever Broadway production with 2\,00 0+ performances\; Revivals in 1937 (46 performances) and 1954 (20 performa nces)\n\nAbie's Irish Rose is a popular comedy by Anne Nichols\, which pre miered in 1922. Initially a Broadway play\, it has become familiar through repeated stage productions\, films and radio programs. The basic premise involves an Irish Catholic girl and a young Jewish man who marry despite t he objections of their families.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abie%27s _Irish_Rose SUMMARY:👑 Abie's Irish Rose END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:mj-the-musical-2022 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018 DESCRIPTION:Opened on February 1\, 2022.\nStill running — 1\,957 performa nces when last counted.\n\nMJ the Musical is a jukebox musical based on th e life of the American entertainer Michael Jackson\, focusing on his prepa rations for the 1992 Dangerous World Tour. It features Jackson's music\, a book by Lynn Nottage\, and direction and choreography by Christopher Whee ldon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MJ_the_Musical SUMMARY:🎵 MJ the Musical END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:deathtrap-play-1978 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19780226 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19820614 DESCRIPTION:Opened on February 26\, 1978.\nClosed June 13\, 1982 after 1\,7 93 performances — 4.3 years.\n\nDeathtrap is a 1978 American play writte n by Ira Levin with multiple plot twists driving its play within a play st ory. It is in two acts with one set and five characters. It holds the reco rd for the longest-running comedy-thriller on Broadway\, and was nominated for four Tony Awards\, including Best Play. Deathtrap was well received b y many and has been frequently revived. It was adapted into a film starrin g Michael Caine\, Christopher Reeve and Dyan Cannon in 1982.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathtrap_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Deathtrap END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:born-yesterday-play-1946 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19460204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19500101 DESCRIPTION:Opened on February 4\, 1946.\nClosed December 31\, 1949 after 1 \,642 performances — 3.9 years.\nRevivals in 1989 (153 performances) and 2011 (73 performances)\n\nBorn Yesterday is a play written by Garson Kani n which premiered on Broadway in 1946\, starring Judy Holliday as Billie D awn. The play was adapted into\na successful 1950 film of the same name.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Yesterday_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Born Yesterday END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:memphis-musical-2009 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091019 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120806 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the North Shore Music Theatre on October 19\, 2009.\n Closed August 5\, 2012 after 1\,165 performances — 2.8 years.\n4 Tony Aw ards in 2010\, including Best Musical\; 4 Drama Desk Awards in 2010\, incl uding Outstanding Musical\n\nMemphis is a musical with music by David Brya n\, lyrics by Bryan and Joe DiPietro\, and a book by DiPietro.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Memphis END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-outsiders-musical-2024 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240411 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 11\, 2024.\nStill running — 1\,042 performanc es when last counted.\n\nThe Outsiders: A New Musical\, also known as The Outsiders\, is a 2023 coming-of-age musical with music and lyrics by Jonat han Clay and Zach Chance from the folk rock band Jamestown Revival alongsi de Justin Levine and a book by Adam Rapp and Levine. It is based on The Ou tsiders\, first published in 1967 and written by S. E. Hinton\, and on its 1983 film adaptation written by Kathleen Rowell and directed by Francis F ord Coppola. It is the second stage adaptation of Hinton's novel\, followi ng the 1990 play by Christopher Sergel.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T he_Outsiders_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Outsiders END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:big-river-musical-1985 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19850425 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19870921 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on April 25\, 1985.\nClose d September 20\, 1987 after 1\,005 performances — 2.4 years.\n\nBig Rive r: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a musical with music and lyrics b y Roger Miller\, and a book by William Hauptman.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/Big_River_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Big River END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:ain-t-misbehavin-musical-1978 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19780509 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19820222 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Longacre Theatre on May 9\, 1978.\nClosed Februar y 21\, 1982 after 1\,604 performances — 3.8 years.\n3 Tony Awards in 197 8\, including Best Musical\; 3 Drama Desk Awards in 1978\, including Outst anding Musical\; Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album in 1979\n\nAin't Mi sbehavin' is a musical revue with a book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Mal tby Jr.\, and music by various composers and lyricists as arranged and orc hestrated by Luther Henderson. It is named after the song by Fats Waller\, "Ain't Misbehavin'".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_Misbehavin% 27_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Ain't Misbehavin' END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:sleuth-play-1970 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19701112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19731014 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Royal Theatre on November 12\, 1970.\nClosed Octo ber 13\, 1973 after 1\,222 performances — 2.9 years.\nA Tony Award in 19 71\, Best Play\n\nSleuth is a 1970 play written by Anthony Shaffer. The Br oadway production received the Tony Award for Best Play\, and Anthony Quay le and Keith Baxter received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performa nce. The play was adapted for feature films in 1972\, 2007 and 2014.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleuth_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Sleuth END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:plaza-suite-1968 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19680214 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19701004 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on February 14\, 1968.\nClosed Oc tober 3\, 1970 after 1\,097 performances — 2.6 years.\n\nPlaza Suite is a comedy play by Neil Simon.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Suite SUMMARY:🎭 Plaza Suite END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:tobacco-road-play-1933 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19331204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19410601 DESCRIPTION:Opened on December 4\, 1933.\nClosed May 31\, 1941 after 3\,182 performances — 7.5 years.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from Ju ne 1\, 1939 until June 14\, 1947.\nFirst ever Broadway production with 3\, 000+ performances\; Revivals in 1942 (34 performances)\, 1943 (66 performa nces)\, and 1950 (7 performances)\n\nTobacco Road is a play by Jack Kirkla nd first performed in 1933\, based on the 1932 novel of the same name by E rskine Caldwell. The play ran on Broadway for a total of 3\,182 performanc es\, surpassing Abie's Irish Rose to become the longest-running play in hi story at the time. As of December 2024\, it was still the 21st longest-run ning Broadway show in history\, as well as being the second-longest runnin g non-musical ever on Broadway.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_R oad_%28play%29 SUMMARY:👑 Tobacco Road END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:smokey-joe-s-cafe-revue-1995 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19950302 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20000117 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 2\, 1995.\nClosed January 16\, 2000 after 2\,03 6 performances — 4.9 years.\nBroadway's longest running original music r evue. The longest running musical revue\, Oh! Calcutta!\, was a revival.\n \nSmokey Joe's Cafe is a musical revue showcasing 39 pop standards\, inclu ding rock and roll and rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The Original Broadway cast recording\, Smokey Jo e's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller\, won a Grammy Award in 1997.\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Joe%27s_Cafe_%28revue%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Smokey Joe's Cafe END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:same-time-next-year-play-1975 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19750314 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19780904 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on March 14\, 1975.\nClos ed September 3\, 1978 after 1\,453 performances — 3.5 years.\nA Tony Awa rd in 1975\; 2 Drama Desk Awards in 1975\, including Outstanding Play\n\nS ame Time\, Next Year is a 1975 romantic comedy play by Bernard Slade. The plot focuses on two people\, married to others\, who meet for a romantic t ryst once a year for two dozen years.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam e_Time%2C_Next_Year_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Same Time\, Next Year END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:hellzapoppin-musical-1938 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19380922 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19411218 DESCRIPTION:Opened on September 22\, 1938.\nClosed December 17\, 1941 after 1\,404 performances — 3.2 years.\n\nHellzapoppin is a musical revue wri tten by the comedy team of Olsen and Johnson\, consisting of John "Ole" Ol sen and Harold "Chic" Johnson\, with music and lyrics by Sammy Fain and Ch arles Tobias. The revue was a hit\, running for over three years\, and was at the time the longest-running Broadway musical\, with 1\,404 performanc es\, making it one of only three plays to run more than 500 performances i n the 1930s.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellzapoppin_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Hellzapoppin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:butterflies-are-free-play-1969 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19691021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19720703 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Booth Theatre on October 21\, 1969.\nClosed July 2\, 1972 after 1\,128 performances — 2.7 years.\nA Tony Award in 1970\n\ nButterflies Are Free is a play by Leonard Gershe. The plot revolves aroun d a blind man living in downtown Manhattan whose controlling mother disapp roves of his relationship with a free-spirited hippie.\n\nhttps://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/Butterflies_Are_Free_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Butterflies Are Free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:pins-and-needles-1937 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19371127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19400623 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 27\, 1937.\nClosed June 22\, 1940 after 1\,1 08 performances — 2.6 years.\n\nPins and Needles is a musical revue of s ongs by Harold Rome\, with a book by Arthur Arent\, Marc Blitzstein\, Emma nuel Eisenberg\, Charles Friedman\, David Gregory\, Joseph Schrank\, Arnol d B. Horwitt\, John Latouche\, and Rome. The title Pins and Needles was cr eated by Max Danish\, long-time editor of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) newspaper Justice.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Pins_and_Needles SUMMARY:🎭 Pins and Needles END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:they-re-playing-our-song-1979 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19790211 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19810907 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Imperial Theatre on February 11\, 1979.\nClosed S eptember 6\, 1981 after 1\,082 performances — 2.6 years.\n\nThey're Play ing Our Song is a musical with a book by Neil Simon\, lyrics by Carole Bay er Sager\, and music by Marvin Hamlisch.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ They%27re_Playing_Our_Song SUMMARY:🎵 They're Playing Our Song END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-drunkard-1850 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18500101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18501008 DESCRIPTION:Opened on January 1\, 1850.\nClosed October 7\, 1850 after 100 performances — 9 months.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from Janu ary 1\, 1850 until January 1\, 1853.\n\nThe Drunkard\; or\, The Fallen Sav ed is an American temperance play first performed on February 12\, 1844. A drama in five acts\, it was perhaps the most popular play produced in the United States until the dramatization of Uncle Tom's Cabin premiered in 1853.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drunkard SUMMARY:👑 The Drunkard END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:mary-mary-play-1961 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19610308 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19641213 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 8\, 1961.\nClosed December 12\, 1964 after 1\,5 72 performances — 3.8 years.\n\nMary\, Mary is a play by Jean Kerr. Afte r two previews\, the Broadway production opened on March 8\, 1961\, at the original Helen Hayes Theatre\, where it ran for nearly three years and ni ne months before transferring to the Morosco\, where it closed on December 12\, 1964\, after 1572 performances\, making it the longest-running non-m usical Broadway play of the 1960s.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%2 C_Mary_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Mary\, Mary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-voice-of-the-turtle-play-1943 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19431208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19480104 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Morosco Theatre on December 8\, 1943.\nClosed Jan uary 3\, 1948 after 1\,557 performances — 4.1 years.\n\nThe Voice of the Turtle is a Broadway comedy by John William Van Druten dealing with the c hallenges of the single life in New York City during World War II. Controv ersial in its time\, The Voice of the Turtle explores the sexual struggles of Sally Middleton\, a young woman attempting to reconcile her childhood teachings on the importance of chastity with her newfound affection for Bi ll Page. The play derives its name from a verse in the Song of Solomon in the Bible\, which reads "The voice of the turtle [as in turtle dove] is he ard in our land." On December 8\, 1943\, the show opened at the Morosco Th eatre and ran for 1\,557 performances\, making it the 51st longest-running show and the 9th longest-running play in Broadway history. In 1947\, the stage play was adapted into a film of the same name starring Ronald Reagan \, Eleanor Parker\, Eve Arden\, and Wayne Morris.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Voice_of_the_Turtle_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Voice of the Turtle END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:lightnin-play-1918 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19180826 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19210828 DESCRIPTION:Opened on August 26\, 1918.\nClosed August 27\, 1921 after 1\,2 91 performances — 3 years.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from Ma rch 17\, 1920 until May 23\, 1925.\nFirst ever Broadway production with 1\ ,000+ performances\; Revival in 1938 (54 performances)\n\nLightnin' is a c omedy play in three acts by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon. The play was p roduced by John Golden and directed by P. E. McCoy. With Frank Bacon in th e lead role and billed as "A Live Wire American Comedy"\, Lightnin' made its Broadway debut on August 26\, 1918\, at the Gaiety Theatre and played continuously over three seasons with a record breaking run of 1\,291 perfo rmances. The show began its long national tour at the end of August 1921 a nd continued on for some time after Bacon’s death in November 1922. Ligh tnin' was revived in 1938 for a two-month run at the John Golden Theatre with Fred Stone playing Lightnin’ Bill Jones and was adapted for cinema twice in films starring Jay Hunt (1925) and Will Rogers (1930).\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightnin%27_%28play%29 SUMMARY:👑 Lightnin' END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:cactus-flower-play-1965 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19651208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19681124 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Royale Theatre on December 8\, 1965.\nClosed Nove mber 23\, 1968 after 1\,234 performances — 3 years.\n\nCactus Flower is a farcical play by Abe Burrows. It played for years on Broadway before bei ng adapted by I.A.L. Diamond into a 1969 feature film directed by Gene Sak s.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus_Flower_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Cactus Flower END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:don-t-bother-me-i-can-t-cope-1972 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19720419 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19741028 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Playhouse Theatre on April 19\, 1972.\nClosed Oct ober 27\, 1974 after 1\,065 performances — 2.5 years.\n\nDon't Bother Me \, I Can't Cope is a musical revue first staged in 1971 with music\, lyric s and book by Micki Grant. It was originally produced by Edward Padula.\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Bother_Me%2C_I_Can%27t_Cope SUMMARY:🎭 Don't Bother Me\, I Can't Cope END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:a-trip-to-chinatown-1891 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18911109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18930808 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway’s Madison Square Theatre on November 9 \, 1891.\nClosed August 7\, 1893 after 657 performances — 21 months.\n 👑 Broadway's longest-running show from June 22\, 1893 until March 17\, 1920.\n\nA Trip to Chinatown is a musical comedy in three acts with a book by Charles H. Hoyt\, music by Percy Gaunt and lyrics by Hoyt. In addition to the Gaunt and Hoyt score\, many songs were interpolated into the score at one time or another during the run\, as was fashionable for musicals o f the era. The story concerns a widow who accidentally maneuvers two young suburban couples into a big city restaurant and brings romance to them an d herself. It is loosely based on an 1835 English one-act farce\, A Day We ll Spent\, by John Oxenford.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_Ch inatown SUMMARY:👑 A Trip to Chinatown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:adonis-musical-1884 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18840904 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18860418 DESCRIPTION:Opened on September 4\, 1884.\nClosed April 17\, 1886 after 603 performances — 19 months.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from De cember 1\, 1885 until June 22\, 1893.\n\nAdonis is a musical burlesque in two acts with both book and lyrics by William Gill that is a spoof of the Pygmalion myth. Set in Greece\, the musical tells the story of a gorgeous male statue of the mythological figure Adonis that comes to life and finds human ways so unpleasant that he chooses to turn back into stone – aft er spoofing several famous personalities. Originally envisioned as a starr ing vehicle for the actor Henry E. Dixey in the role of the Adonis\, the p lay parodies the Pygmalion tale through a gender reversal in which the sta tue come-to-life is not female but male. In so doing the story is no longe r one of the sexual objectification of a woman\, but instead places a man as the embodied object of sexual desire.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Adonis_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:👑 Adonis END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:hazel-kirke-1880 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18800204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18810601 DESCRIPTION:Opened on February 4\, 1880.\nClosed May 31\, 1881 after 486 pe rformances — 16 months.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from May 1 \, 1881 until December 1\, 1885.\n\nHazel Kirke is a play in four acts wri tten by American actor and dramatist Steele MacKaye.\n\nhttps://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Hazel_Kirke SUMMARY:👑 Hazel Kirke END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:shenandoah-musical-1975 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19750107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19770808 DESCRIPTION:Opened on January 7\, 1975.\nClosed August 7\, 1977 after 1\,05 0 performances — 2.6 years.\nRevival in 1989 (32 performances)\n\nShenan doah is a 1974 musical with music by Gary Geld\, lyrics by Peter Udell\, a nd book by Udell\, Philip Rose\, and James Lee Barrett. It is based on Bar rett's original screenplay for the 1965 film Shenandoah.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Shenandoah END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003408Z UID:the-great-gatsby-musical-2024 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240425 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261018 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 25\, 2024.\nStill running — 1\,028 performanc es when last counted.\n\nThe Great Gatsby is a musical with music and lyri cs by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen\, and a book by Kait Kerrigan. It is based on the 1925 novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald.\n\nhttps: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Great Gatsby END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:never-too-late-play-1962 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19621127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19650425 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 27\, 1962.\nClosed April 24\, 1965 after 1\, 007 performances — 2.4 years.\n\nNever Too Late is a 1962 Broadway play by Sumner Arthur Long.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Too_Late_%28 play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Never Too Late END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:putnam-the-iron-son-of-76-1844 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18440805 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18441103 DESCRIPTION:Opened on August 5\, 1844.\nClosed November 2\, 1844 after 78 p erformances — 3 months.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from Septe mber 24\, 1844 until January 1\, 1850.\n\nPutnam\, the Iron Son of '76 is an 1844 American play by Nathaniel Bannister\, and his most popular play.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putnam%2C_the_Iron_Son_of_%2776 SUMMARY:👑 Putnam\, the Iron Son of '76 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:uncle-tom-s-cabin-aiken-version-1853 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18530808 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18540514 DESCRIPTION:Opened on August 8\, 1853.\nClosed May 13\, 1854 after 325 perf ormances — 9 months.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from January 1\, 1853 until August 5\, 1867.\n\n SUMMARY:👑 Uncle Tom's Cabin (Aiken version) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:mazeppa-or-the-wild-horse-of-ukraine-1833 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18330722 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18330910 DESCRIPTION:Opened on July 22\, 1833.\nClosed September 9\, 1833 after 43 p erformances — 49 days.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from Januar y 1\, 1833 until September 24\, 1844.\n\n SUMMARY:👑 Mazeppa\, Or\, The Wild Horse of Ukraine END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-elephant-of-siam-and-the-fire-fiend-1831 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18310110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18320101 DESCRIPTION:Opened on January 10\, 1831.\nClosed December 31\, 1831 after 1 8 performances — 12 months.\n👑 Broadway's longest-running show from J anuary 1\, 1831 until January 1\, 1833.\n\n SUMMARY:👑 The Elephant of Siam and the Fire Fiend END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:jesus-christ-superstar-1971 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19711012 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19730701 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on October 12\, 1971.\nClo sed June 30\, 1973 after 711 performances — 21 months.\n\nJesus Christ S uperstar is a sung-through rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber an d lyrics by Tim Rice. Loosely based on the Gospel accounts of the Passion\ , the work interprets the psychology of Jesus and other characters\, with much of the plot centred on Judas\, who is disillusioned with the directio n of Jesus' ministry. Contemporary attitudes\, sensibilities\, and slang p ervade the rock opera's lyrics\, and ironic allusions to modern life are s cattered throughout the depiction of political events\; stage and film pro ductions accordingly contain many intentional anachronisms.\n\nhttps://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar SUMMARY:🎵 Jesus Christ Superstar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-threepenny-opera-1933 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19330413 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19330425 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Empire Theatre on April 13\, 1933.\nRan 12 perfor mances\, to about April 1933.\n\nThe Threepenny Opera is a 1928 German "pl ay with music" by Bertolt Brecht\, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera The Beggar's Op era\, and four ballads by François Villon\, with music by Kurt Weill. Alt hough there is debate as to how much contribution Hauptmann might have mad e to the libretto\, Brecht is usually listed as sole author and Hauptmann as the sole translator\, which was probably an unfair oversimplification t ypical of the time.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Threepenny_Opera SUMMARY:🎵 The Threepenny Opera END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:death-of-a-salesman-1949 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19490210 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19501123 DESCRIPTION:Opened on February 10\, 1949.\nRan 742 performances\, to about November 1950.\n\nDeath of a Salesman is a 1949 stage play written by the American playwright Arthur Miller. The play premiered on Broadway on Febru ary 10\, 1949\, running for 742 performances. It is a two-act tragedy—th e subtitle of the play is "Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem"—set in late 1940s Brooklyn and told through a montage of memor ies\, dreams\, and arguments of the protagonist Willy Loman\, a traveling salesman who is despondent with his life and appears to be slipping into s enility. The play addresses a variety of themes\, such as the American Dre am\, the anatomy of truth\, and infidelity. It won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. Since its premiere\, the play has been revived on Broadway five times\, winning an unprecedented four Tony Awards for Best Revival. It has been adapted for the cinema ten times. In 1999\, New Yorker drama critic John Lahr said that with 11 million copies sold\, it was "probably the most successful modern play ever published."\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_Salesman SUMMARY:🎭 Death of a Salesman END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof-1955 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19550324 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19550803 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Morosco Theater on March 24\, 1955.\nRan 149 perf ormances\, to about August 1955.\n\nCat on a Hot Tin Roof is a 1955 Americ an three-act play by Tennessee Williams. The play\, an adaptation of his 1 952 short story "Three Players of a Summer Game"\, was written between 195 3 and 1955. One of Williams's more famous works and his personal favorite\ , it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Set in the "plantation home in the Mississippi Delta" of Big Daddy Pollitt\, a wealthy cotton tycoon\ , the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family\ , primarily between his son Brick and Maggie "the Cat"\, Brick's wife.\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_on_a_Hot_Tin_Roof SUMMARY:🎭 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:who-s-afraid-of-virginia-woolf-1962 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19621013 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19640517 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Billy Rose Theatre on October 13\, 1962.\nClosed May 16\, 1964 after 664 performances — 19 months.\n\nWho's Afraid of Vir ginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee first staged in October 1962. It e xamines the complexities of the marriage of middle-aged couple Martha and George. Late one evening\, after a university faculty party\, they receive unwitting younger couple Nick and Honey as guests\, and draw them into th eir bitter and frustrated relationship.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W ho%27s_Afraid_of_Virginia_Woolf%3F SUMMARY:🎭 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:porgy-and-bess-1935 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19350930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19360118 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Colonial Theatre on September 30\, 1935.\nRan 124 performances\, to about January 1936.\n\nPorgy and Bess is an English-lan guage opera by American composer George Gershwin\, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin. It was adapted from D orothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward's play Porgy\, itself an adaptation of D uBose Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porgy_a nd_Bess SUMMARY:🎵 Porgy and Bess END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:oliver-1963 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19630106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19641115 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Imperial Theatre on January 6\, 1963.\nClosed Nov ember 14\, 1964 after 774 performances — 22 months.\n\nOliver! is a stag e musical\, with book\, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is ba sed upon the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%21 SUMMARY:🎵 Oliver! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:into-the-woods-1987 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19871105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19890904 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Old Globe Theatre on November 5\, 1987.\nClosed S eptember 3\, 1989 after 50 performances — 22 months.\n\nInto the Woods i s a 1986 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Jam es Lapine. The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fai ry tales\, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests . The main characters are taken from "Little Red Riding Hood"\, "Jack and the Beanstalk"\, "Rapunzel"\, "Cinderella"\, and several others. The music al is tied together by a story involving a childless baker and his wife an d their quest to begin a family\, their interaction with a witch who has p laced a curse on them and encounters with other storybook characters durin g their journey.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Woods SUMMARY:🎵 Into the Woods END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:legally-blonde-musical-2007 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070429 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081020 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Palace Theatre on April 29\, 2007.\nClosed Octobe r 19\, 2008 after 595 performances — 18 months.\n\nLegally Blonde is a 2 007 musical with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin an d a book by Heather Hach. It is based on the novel Legally Blonde by Amand a Brown and the 2001 film of the same name.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/Legally_Blonde_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Legally Blonde END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:marat-sade-1965 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19651227 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19660504 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 27\, 1965.\nRan 1 45 performances\, to about May 1966.\n\nThe Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade\, usually shortened to Marat/Sa de\, is a play written in 1963 by Peter Weiss and fully staged for the fir st time the following year. The work was first published in German.\n\nhtt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marat%2FSade SUMMARY:🎭 Marat/Sade END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:an-inspector-calls-1947 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19471021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19480114 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Booth Theatre on October 21\, 1947.\nRan 95 perfo rmances\, to about January 1948.\n\nAn Inspector Calls is a modern moralit y play and drawing room play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley. It was first performed in the Soviet Union in May 1945 and at the New The atre in London the following year. It is one of Priestley's best-known wor ks for the stage and is considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th c entury English theatre. The play's success and reputation were boosted by a successful revival by English director Stephen Daldry for the National T heatre in 1992 and a tour of the UK in 2011–2012.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/An_Inspector_Calls SUMMARY:🎭 An Inspector Calls END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:sunset-boulevard-musical-1993 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19930712 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19940420 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Adelphi Theatre on July 12\, 1993.\nClosed April 19\, 1994 after 1\,530 performances — 9 months.\n\nSunset Boulevard is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber\, and lyrics and libretto by Do n Black and Christopher Hampton\, based on the 1950 film. The plot follows Norma Desmond\, a faded star of the silent-screen era\, living in her dec aying mansion on Sunset Boulevard in 1949 Los Angeles. When young screenwr iter Joe Gillis accidentally crosses her path\, she sees an opportunity to make her return to the big screen\, with romance and tragedy to follow.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Sunset Boulevard END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:show-boat-1932 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19320101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19330517 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1932.\nRan 572 performances\, to about May 1933.\n\nS how Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Osc ar Hammerstein II. It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name. The musical follows the lives of the performers\, stagehan ds and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom\, a Mississippi River show boat\ , over 40 years from 1887 to 1927. Its themes include racial prejudice and tragic\, enduring love. The musical contributed such classic songs as "Ol ' Man River"\, "Make Believe"\, and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man".\n\nhttps: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_Boat SUMMARY:🎵 Show Boat END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:anastasia-musical-2017 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170401 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190401 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre in April 2017.\nClosed March 3 1\, 2019 after 556 performances — 2 years.\n\nAnastasia is a stage music al with music and lyrics by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens\, and a book by Terrence McNally. Based on the 20th Century Fox Animation 1997 film of the same name directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman\, the musical adapts the legend of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia\, who was r umored to have escaped and survived the execution of the Russian Imperial family. Many years later\, an amnesiac young woman named Anya hopes to fin d some trace of her past by siding with two con men\, who wish to take adv antage of her resemblance to Anastasia.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A nastasia_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Anastasia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:anna-christie-1921 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19211102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19220407 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2\, 1921.\nRan 177 performances\, to about April 1922.\n\nAnna Christie is a play in four ac ts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2\, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this work. According to historian Paul Avrich\, the character of Anna Christie was based on Christine Ell\, an anarchist cook in Greenwich Villa ge\, who was the lover of Edward Mylius\, a Belgian-born radical living in England who libeled the British king George V.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Anna_Christie SUMMARY:🎭 Anna Christie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-forum-1962 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19620508 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19640830 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Alvin Theatre on May 8\, 1962.\nClosed August 29\ , 1964 after 964 performances — 2.3 years.\n\nA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondhei m and book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/A_Funny_Thing_Happened_on_the_Way_to_the_Forum SUMMARY:🎵 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:blood-brothers-musical-1993 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19930425 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19950501 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Alex Theatre on April 25\, 1993.\nClosed April 30 \, 1995 after 840 performances — 2 years.\n\nBlood Brothers is a musical with book\, lyrics\, and music by Willy Russell and was produced by Bill Kenwright until his death in 2023 and the production was then picked up by Bill Kenwright Limited\, a company founded by the late producer. The stor y is a contemporary nature versus nurture plot\, revolving around fraterna l twins Mickey and Edward\, who were separated at birth\, one subsequently being raised in a wealthy family\, the other in a poor family. The differ ent environments take the twins to opposite ends of the social spectrum\, one becoming a councillor\, and the other unemployed and in prison. They b oth fall in love with the same girl\, causing a rift in their friendship. Russell says that his work was based on a one-act play that he read as a c hild "about two babies switched at birth ... it became the seed for Blood Brothers."\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Brothers_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Blood Brothers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-prisoner-of-second-avenue-1971 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19711111 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19730930 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on November 11\, 1971.\nCl osed September 29\, 1973 after 798 performances — 23 months.\n\nThe Pris oner of Second Avenue is a 1975 American black comedy film written by Neil Simon\, directed and produced by Melvin Frank and starring Jack Lemmon an d Anne Bancroft. Neil Simon adapted the screenplay from his 1971 Broadway play.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Second_Avenue SUMMARY:🎭 The Prisoner of Second Avenue END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:mourning-becomes-electra-1931 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19311026 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19320307 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Guild Theatre on October 26\, 1931.\nRan 150 perf ormances\, to about March 1932.\n\nMourning Becomes Electra is a play cycl e written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Bro adway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 perform ances before closing in March 1932\, starring Lee Baker (Ezra)\, Earle Lar imore (Orin)\, Alice Brady (Lavinia) and Alla Nazimova (Christine). In May 1932\, it was unsuccessfully revived at the Alvin Theatre with Thurston H all (Ezra)\, Walter Abel (Orin)\, Judith Anderson (Lavinia) and Florence R eed (Christine)\, and\, in 1972\, at the Circle in the Square Theatre\, wi th Donald Davis (Ezra)\, Stephen McHattie (Orin)\, Pamela Payton-Wright (L avinia)\, and Colleen Dewhurst (Christine).\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/Mourning_Becomes_Electra SUMMARY:🎭 Mourning Becomes Electra END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-pillowman-2005 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20050410 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20050919 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Booth Theatre on April 10\, 2005.\nClosed Septemb er 18\, 2005 — 5 months.\n\nThe Pillowman is a 2003 play by Martin McDon agh. It received its first public reading in an early version at the Finbo rough Theatre\, London\, in 1995\, also a final and completed version of t he play was publicly read in 1998 and then finished and released as a book in some places in 1999. Production started in 2000 for the eventual 2003 performance. It tells the tale of Katurian\, a fiction writer living in a police state\, who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of bizarre child murders occur ring in his town. The play received the 2004 Olivier Award for Best New Pl ay\, the 2004-5 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play\, and two Tony Awards for production. It was nominated for the 2004 E vening Standard Award for Best New Play.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The_Pillowman SUMMARY:🎭 The Pillowman END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:carousel-musical-1945 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19450419 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19470608 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 19\, 1945.\nRan 890 performances\, to about Jun e 1947.\n\nCarousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers ( music) and Oscar Hammerstein II. The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Mol nár's 1909 play Liliom\, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline. The story revolves around carousel barker Billy Bigelow\, whose romance with millworker Julie Jordan comes at the price of both their job s. He participates in a robbery to provide for Julie and their unborn chil d\; after it goes tragically wrong\, he is given a chance to make things r ight. A secondary plot line deals with millworker Carrie Pipperidge and he r romance with ambitious fisherman Enoch Snow. The show includes the songs "If I Loved You"\, "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" and "You'll Never Walk Alone". Richard Rodgers later wrote that Carousel was his favorite of all his musicals.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Carousel END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:next-to-normal-2009 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090401 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110117 DESCRIPTION:Opened in April 2009.\nClosed January 16\, 2011 after 734 perfo rmances — 22 months.\n\nNext to Normal is a 2008 American rock musical w ith book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt. The story cente rs on a mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effec ts that managing her illness has on her family. The musical addresses grie f\, depression\, suicide\, drug abuse\, ethics in modern psychiatry\, and the underbelly of suburban life.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_to_ Normal SUMMARY:🎵 Next to Normal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-addams-family-musical-2010 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100401 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120101 DESCRIPTION:Opened in April 2010.\nClosed December 31\, 2011 after 722 perf ormances — 21 months.\n\nThe Addams Family is a musical comedy with musi c and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. The show is based upon The Addams Family characters created by Charles Ad dams in his single-panel gag cartoons\, which depict a ghoulish American f amily with an affinity for all things macabre. Although numerous film and television adaptations of Addams' cartoons exist\, the musical is the firs t stage show based on the characters. The Addams Family is also the first show produced by Elephant Eye Theatricals.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/The_Addams_Family_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Addams Family END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:gypsy-musical-1959 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19590521 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19610326 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the The Broadway Theatre on May 21\, 1959.\nClosed Ma rch 25\, 1961 after 702 performances — 22 months.\n\nGypsy: A Musical Fa ble is a musical with music by Jule Styne\, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim\, a nd a book by Arthur Laurents. It is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of s triptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee\, and focuses on her mother\, Rose\, whose name has become synonymous with "the ultimate show business mother." It f ollows the dreams and efforts of Rose to raise two daughters to perform on stage and casts an affectionate eye on the hardships of show business life . The character of Louise is based on Lee\, and the character of June is b ased on Lee's sister\, the actress June Havoc.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gypsy_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Gypsy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:sweet-charity-1966 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19660101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19670716 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1966.\nClosed July 15\, 1967 after 608 performances — 18 months.\n\nSweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman\, ly rics by Dorothy Fields\, and book by Neil Simon\, based on the screenplay for the 1957 Italian film Nights of Cabiria. It was directed and choreogra phed for Broadway by Bob Fosse starring his wife and muse Gwen Verdon as a dancer-for-hire at a Times Square dance hall\, alongside John McMartin.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Charity SUMMARY:🎵 Sweet Charity END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:night-of-january-16th-1934 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19341022 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19360405 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 22\, 1934.\nClosed April 4\, 1936 after 283 p erformances — 17 months.\n\nNight of January 16th is a theatrical play b y Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand\, inspired by the death of Swedish industrialist Ivar Kreuger. The play is set in a courtroom during a murde r trial\, and an unusual feature is that members of the audience are chose n to play the jury. The court hears the case of Karen Andre\, a former sec retary and lover of businessman Bjorn Faulkner who is accused of his murde r. The play does not directly portray the events leading to Faulkner's dea th\; instead the jury must rely on character testimony to decide whether A ndre is guilty. The play's ending depends on the verdict. Rand's intention was to dramatize a conflict between individualism and conformity\, with t he jury's verdict revealing which viewpoint they preferred.\n\nhttps://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_January_16th SUMMARY:🎭 Night of January 16th END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:beyond-the-horizon-play-1920 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19200203 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19270206 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Morosco Theatre on February 3\, 1920.\nClosed Feb ruary 5\, 1927 after 79 performances — 7 years.\n\nBeyond the Horizon is a play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Although he first c opyrighted the text in June 1918\, O'Neill continued to revise the play th roughout the rehearsals for its 1920 premiere. His first full-length work to be staged\, Beyond the Horizon won the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Horizon_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Beyond the Horizon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:candide-operetta-1956 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19561201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19570204 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 1\, 1956.\nRan 73 performances\, to about February 1957.\n\nCandide is an operetta with mus ic composed by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics primarily by the poet Richard Wilbur\, based on the 1759 novella of the same name by Voltaire. Other con tributors to the text were John Latouche\, Dorothy Parker\, Lillian Hellma n\, Stephen Sondheim\, John Mauceri\, John Wells\, and Bernstein himself. Maurice Peress and Hershy Kay contributed orchestrations.\n\nhttps://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/Candide_%28operetta%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Candide END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:godspell-1971 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19710517 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19760614 DESCRIPTION:Opened on May 17\, 1971.\nClosed June 13\, 1976 after 2\,124 pe rformances — 5.1 years.\n\nGodspell is a musical in two acts with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John-Michael Tebelak. The sho w is structured as a series of parables\, primarily based on the Gospel of Matthew\, interspersed with music mostly set to lyrics from traditional h ymns\, with the passion of Christ appearing briefly near the end.\n\nhttps ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspell SUMMARY:🎵 Godspell END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-odd-couple-play-1965 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19650101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19670703 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1965.\nClosed July 2\, 1967 after 964 performances — 2.5 years.\n\nThe Odd Couple is a play by Neil Simon. Following its pr emiere on Broadway in 1965\, the characters were revived in a successful 1 968 film and 1970s television series\, as well as several other derivative works and spin-offs. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates: the neat \, uptight Felix Ungar and the slovenly\, easygoing Oscar Madison. Simon a dapted the play in 1985 to feature a pair of female roommates in The Femal e Odd Couple. An updated version of the 1965 show appeared in 2002 with th e title Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd Couple.\n\nhttps://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/The_Odd_Couple_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Odd Couple END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-cocktail-party-1950 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19500121 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19510115 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Henry Miller's Theatre on January 21\, 1950.\nRan 409 performances\, to about January 1951.\n\nThe Cocktail Party is a vers e drama in three acts by T. S. Eliot written in 1948 and performed in 1949 at the Edinburgh Festival. It was published in 1950. It was the most popu lar of Eliot's seven plays in his lifetime\, although his 1935 play\, Murd er in the Cathedral\, is better remembered today. It focuses on a troubled married couple who\, through the intervention of a mysterious stranger\, settle their problems and move on with their lives.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/The_Cocktail_Party SUMMARY:🎭 The Cocktail Party END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:a-view-from-the-bridge-1955 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19550929 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19560208 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Coronet Theatre on September 29\, 1955.\nRan 149 performances\, to about February 1956.\n\nA View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was first staged on September 29 \, 1955\, as a one-act verse drama with A Memory of Two Mondays at the Cor onet Theatre on Broadway. The run was unsuccessful\, and Miller subsequent ly revised and extended the play to contain two acts\; this version is the one with which audiences are most familiar. The two-act version premiered in the New Watergate theatre club in London's West End under the directio n of Peter Brook on October 11\, 1956.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_ View_from_the_Bridge SUMMARY:🎭 A View from the Bridge END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:sunday-in-the-park-with-george-1984 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19840101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19851014 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1984.\nClosed October 13\, 1985 after 16 performances — 21 months.\n\nSunday in the Park with George is a 1984 musical with m usic and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It was inspi red by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday A fternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The plot revolves around George \, a fictionalized version of Seurat\, who immerses himself deeply in pain ting his masterpiece\, and his great-grandson\, a conflicted and cynical c ontemporary artist. The Broadway production opened in 1984.\n\nhttps://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_in_the_Park_with_George SUMMARY:🎵 Sunday in the Park with George END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:camelot-musical-1960 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19601001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19630106 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 1\, 1960.\nClosed January 5\, 1963 after 873 performances — 2.3 years.\n\nCamelot is a musical with music by Frederic k Loewe and lyrics and a book by Alan Jay Lerner. It is based on the legen d of King Arthur as adapted from the 1958 novel The Once and Future King b y T. H. White.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Camelot END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:das-dreimaderlhaus-1921 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19210929 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19230302 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ambassador Theatre on September 29\, 1921.\nRan 5 92 performances\, to about March 1923.\n\nDas Dreimäderlhaus\, adapted in to English-language versions as Blossom Time and Lilac Time\, is a Viennes e pastiche operetta with music by Franz Schubert\, rearranged by Heinrich Berté (1857–1924)\, and a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Re ichert. The work gives a fictionalized account of Schubert's romantic life \, and the story was adapted from the 1912 novel Schwammerl by Rudolf Hans Bartsch (1873–1952). Originally the score was mostly Berté\, with just one piece of Schubert's\, but the producers required Berté to discard hi s score and create a pasticcio of Schubert music.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Das_Dreim%C3%A4derlhaus SUMMARY:🎵 Das Dreimäderlhaus END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:sweet-bird-of-youth-1959 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19590310 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19600203 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on March 10\, 1959.\nRan 375 performances\, to about February 1960.\n\nSweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 pl ay by Tennessee Williams that tells the story of a gigolo and drifter\, Ch ance Wayne\, who returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star\, Alexandra del Lago\, whom he hopes to use to help him break into t he movies. The main reason for his homecoming is to get back what he had i n his youth\, primarily\, his old girlfriend\, whose father had run him ou t of town years before. The play was written for Tallulah Bankhead\, a goo d friend of Williams.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Bird_of_Youth SUMMARY:🎭 Sweet Bird of Youth END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-rose-tattoo-1950 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19501229 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19510924 DESCRIPTION:Opened on December 29\, 1950.\nRan 306 performances\, to about September 1951.\n\nThe Rose Tattoo is a three-act play written by Tennesse e Williams in 1949 and 1950\; after its Chicago premiere on December 29\, 1950\, he made further revisions to the play for its Broadway premiere on February 2\, 1951\, and its publication by New Directions the following mo nth. A film adaptation was released in 1955. The Rose Tattoo tells the sto ry of an Italian-American widow in Mississippi who has withdrawn from the world after her husband's death and expects her daughter to do the same.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rose_Tattoo SUMMARY:🎭 The Rose Tattoo END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-cat-and-the-canary-play-1922 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19220207 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19220618 DESCRIPTION:Opened on February 7\, 1922.\nRan 148 performances\, to about J une 1922.\n\nThe Cat and the Canary is a 1922 stage play by John Willard\, adapted at least four times into feature films\, in 1927\, 1930\, 1939\, and again in 1979. The original stage play opened on Broadway February 7\, 1922.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_and_the_Canary_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Cat and the Canary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-miracle-worker-play-1959 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19591019 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19610702 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Playhouse Theatre on October 19\, 1959.\nClosed J uly 1\, 1961 after 719 performances — 20 months.\n\nThe Miracle Worker i s a three-act play by William Gibson adapted from his 1957 Playhouse 90 te leplay of the same name. It was based on Helen Keller's 1903 autobiography The Story of My Life.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Miracle_Worker _%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Miracle Worker END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-diary-of-anne-frank-play-1955 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19550101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19560921 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Cort Theatre in 1955.\nRan 717 performances\, to about September 1956.\n\nThe Diary of Anne Frank is a stage adaptation of the posthumously published 1947 book The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Fra nk. It premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 1955. Its script also primarily formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning 1959 film adaptati on.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_Anne_Frank_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Diary of Anne Frank END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:shrek-the-musical-2008 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100104 DESCRIPTION:Opened in December 2008.\nClosed January 3\, 2010 after 441 per formances — 13 months.\n\nShrek the Musical is a musical with music by J eanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on the 2001 DreamWorks Animation film Shrek\, along with elements of its sequ els: Shrek 2\, Shrek Forever After and William Steig's 1990 book Shrek!. A fter a trial run in Seattle\, the original Broadway production opened in D ecember 2008 and closed after a run of over 12 months in January 2010. It was followed by a tour of the United States which opened in 2010\, and a r e-vamped West End production from June 2011 to February 2013.\n\nhttps://e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek_the_Musical SUMMARY:🎵 Shrek the Musical END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:dracula-1977-play-1927 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19271001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19280520 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Fulton Theatre in October 1927.\nClosed May 19\, 1928 after 261 performances — 8 months.\n\nDracula is a stage play writt en by the Irish actor and playwright Hamilton Deane in 1924\, then revised by the American writer John L. Balderston in 1927. It was the first autho rized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. After touring in Eng land\, the original version of the play appeared at London's Little Theatr e in July 1927\, where it was seen by the American producer Horace Liverig ht. Liveright asked Balderston to revise the play for a Broadway productio n that opened at the Fulton Theatre in October 1927. This production starr ed Bela Lugosi in his first major English-speaking role.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_%281977_play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Dracula END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:war-horse-play-2011 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110315 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130107 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Vivian Beaumont Theater on March 15\, 2011.\nClosed January 6\, 2013 after 3\,000 performances — 22 months.\n\ nWar Horse is a play based on the book of the same name by writer Michael Morpurgo\, adapted for stage by Nick Stafford. Originally Morpurgo thought "they must be mad" to try to make a play from his best-selling 1982 novel \; but the play was a great success. The play's West End and Broadway prod uctions are directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris\; it features life -size horse puppets by the Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa\, the movements of which were choreographed by Toby Sedgwick.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/War_Horse_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 War Horse END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:irma-la-douce-musical-1956 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19560101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19620101 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1956.\nClosed December 31\, 1961 after 1\,512 perform ances — 6 years.\n\nIrma la douce is a 1956 French musical with music by Marguerite Monnot and lyrics and book by Alexandre Breffort. The musical premiered in Paris in 1956\, and was subsequently produced in the West End in 1958 and on Broadway\, by David Merrick\, in 1960. The English lyrics and book (1958) are by Julian More\, David Heneker\, and Monty Norman.\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_La_Douce_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Irma La Douce END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:inherit-the-wind-play-1955 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19550421 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19570328 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway’s National Theatre on April 21\, 1955. \nRan 806 performances\, to about March 1957.\n\nInherit the Wind is an Am erican play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee\, which debuted in Dal las under the direction of Margo Jones in 1955. The story fictionalizes th e 1925 Scopes trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy t rials.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherit_the_Wind_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Inherit the Wind END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:a-little-night-music-1973 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19730225 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19740804 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Colonial Theatre on February 25\, 1973.\nClosed A ugust 3\, 1974 after 601 performances — 17 months.\n\nA Little Night Mus ic is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the 1955 Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Nigh t\, it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a lite ral English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade No. 13\, K. 525\, Eine kleine Nachtmusik. The musical includes the popular song "Se nd In the Clowns"\, written for Glynis Johns.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/A_Little_Night_Music SUMMARY:🎵 A Little Night Music END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:brigadoon-1947 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19470101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19480525 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre in 1947.\nRan 581 performances\, to about May 1948.\n\nBrigadoon is a musical with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and score by Frederick Loewe. The plot features two American m en who stumble upon Brigadoon\, a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every 100 years\; one man soon falls in love with a youn g woman from Brigadoon. The show's song "Almost Like Being in Love" subseq uently became a standard.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadoon SUMMARY:🎵 Brigadoon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:noises-off-1983 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19831211 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19850409 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on December 11\, 1983.\nR an 553 performances\, to about April 1985.\n\nNoises Off is a 1982 farce b y the English playwright Michael Frayn.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N oises_Off SUMMARY:🎭 Noises Off END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:on-the-town-musical-1944 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19441228 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19460203 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Adelphi Theater on December 28\, 1944.\nClosed Fe bruary 2\, 1946 after 462 performances — 13 months.\n\nOn the Town is a musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comde n and Adolph Green\, based on Jerome Robbins' idea for his 1944 ballet Fan cy Free\, which he had set to Bernstein's music. The musical introduced se veral popular and classic songs\, among them "New York\, New York"\, "Lone ly Town"\, "I Can Cook\, Too"\, and "Some Other Time". The story concerns three American sailors on a 24-hour shore leave in New York City in 1944\, during World War II. Each of the three sailors meets and quickly connects with a woman.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Town_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 On the Town END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:aspects-of-love-1990 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19900408 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19910303 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on April 8\, 1990.\nClosed Mar ch 2\, 1991 after 377 performances — 11 months.\n\nAspects of Love is a musical with music and book by Andrew Lloyd Webber\, and lyrics by Don Bla ck and Charles Hart. It is based on the 1955 novel by David Garnett.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspects_of_Love SUMMARY:🎵 Aspects of Love END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-deputy-1964 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19640226 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19641130 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on February 26\, 1964.\nR an 316 performances\, to about November 1964.\n\nThe Deputy\, a Christian tragedy\, also published in English as The Representative\, is a controver sial 1963 play by Rolf Hochhuth which portrayed Pope Pius XII as having fa iled to take action or speak out against the Holocaust. It has been transl ated into more than twenty languages. The play's implicit censure of a ven erable if controversial pope has led to numerous counterattacks\, includin g the 2007 allegation that Hochhuth was the dupe of a KGB disinformation c ampaign\, later confirmed by both the Venona Project and Mitrokhin Files i n declassification of the Soviet disinformation campaign Operation Seat 12 . The Encyclopædia Britannica assesses the play as "a drama that presente d a critical\, unhistorical picture of Pius XII" and Hochhuth's depiction of the pope having been indifferent to the Nazi genocide as "lacking credi ble substantiation." However\, it has since been discovered that Pope Pius XII seems to have known about concentration camps\, at least knowing of t he first camp built\, which was partly made for priests at the Dachau conc entration camp.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deputy SUMMARY:🎭 The Deputy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-musical-2017 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170108 DESCRIPTION:Opened on January 7\, 2017.\nClosed January 7\, 2017 after 305 performances — 0 days.\n\nCharlie and the Chocolate Factory is a musical based on the 1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl\, with book by David Gre ig\, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman\, with original songs from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory by L eslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charli e_and_the_Chocolate_Factory_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:lost-in-yonkers-1990 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19901231 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19921114 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on December 31\, 1990.\nR an 780 performances\, to about November 1992.\n\nLost in Yonkers is a play by Neil Simon. The play won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Yonkers SUMMARY:🎭 Lost in Yonkers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:pal-joey-musical-1940 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19401225 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19530419 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on December 25\, 1940.\nC losed April 18\, 1953 after 374 performances — 12.3 years.\n\nPal Joey i s a 1940 musical with a book by John O'Hara and music and lyrics by Richar d Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The musical is based on a character and situati ons O'Hara created in a series of short stories published in The New Yorke r\, which he later published in novel form. The title character\, Joey Eva ns\, is a manipulative small-time nightclub performer whose ambitions lead him into an affair with the wealthy\, middle-aged and married Vera Simpso n. It includes two songs that have become standards: "I Could Write a Book " and "Bewitched ".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pal_Joey_%28musical%2 9 SUMMARY:🎵 Pal Joey END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:peter-pan-1954-musical-1954 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19541020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19550227 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 20\, 1954.\nClos ed February 26\, 1955 after 152 performances — 4 months.\n\nPeter Pan is a 1954 musical based on J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and his 1911 n ovelization of it\, Peter and Wendy. The music is by Moose Charlap and the lyrics by Carolyn Leigh.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_%2819 54_musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Peter Pan END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-deep-blue-sea-play-1953 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19531105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19540302 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 5\, 1953.\nRan 132 performances\, to about M arch 1954.\n\nThe Deep Blue Sea is a British stage play by Terence Rattiga n from 1952. Rattigan based his story and characters in part on his secret relationship with Kenny Morgan\, and the aftermath of the end of their re lationship. The play was first performed in London on 6 March 1952\, direc ted by Frith Banbury\, and won praise for actress Peggy Ashcroft\, who co- starred with Kenneth More. In the US\, the Plymouth Theater staged the pla y in October 1952\, with Margaret Sullavan. The play with Sullavan subsequ ently transferred to Broadway\, with its Broadway premiere on 5 November 1 953\, and running for 132 performances.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T he_Deep_Blue_Sea_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Deep Blue Sea END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-lion-in-winter-1966 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19660303 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19660524 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ambassador Theatre on March 3\, 1966.\nRan 92 per formances\, to about May 1966.\n\nThe Lion in Winter is a 1966 play by Jam es Goldman\, depicting the personal and political conflicts of Henry II of England\, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine\, their children and their guests during Christmas 1183. It premiered on Broadway at the Ambassador Theatre on March 3\, 1966\, starring Robert Preston and Rosemary Harris\, who won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Eleanor. It was adapted by Goldman into an Academy Award-winning 1968 film of the same name\, starring Peter O'To ole and Katharine Hepburn. The play has been produced numerous times\, inc luding Broadway and West End revivals.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th e_Lion_in_Winter SUMMARY:🎭 The Lion in Winter END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:assassins-musical-1990 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19900101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19910217 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1990.\nClosed February 16\, 1991 after 73 performance s — 14 months.\n\nAssassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephe n Sondheim and a book by John Weidman\, based on an original concept by Ch arles Gilbert Jr.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Assassins END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:kiss-of-the-spider-woman-musical-1993 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19930503 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19950702 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on May 3\, 1993.\nClosed July 1\, 1995 after 904 performances — 2.2 years.\n\nKiss of the Spider Woman is a musical with music by John Kander\, lyrics by Fred Ebb\, and a book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the 1976 novel by Manuel Puig. Directe d by Harold Prince\, the musical had runs in Toronto (1992)\, the West End (1992-93)\, and Broadway (1993). It won the 1993 Tony Award for Best Musi cal\, Best Book of a Musical\, and Best Original Score\, as well as acting awards for all three principals in the cast.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Kiss_of_the_Spider_Woman_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Kiss of the Spider Woman END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:m-butterfly-1988 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19880101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19900128 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1988.\nClosed January 27\, 1990 after 777 performance s — 2.1 years.\n\nM. Butterfly is a play by David Henry Hwang. The story is inspired by the opera Madama Butterfly and on the real-life relationsh ip between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu\, a Beijing op era singer. The play premiered on Broadway in 1988 and won the 1988 Tony A ward for Best Play. In addition\, it was a Pulitzer Prize for Drama finali st in 1989.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Butterfly SUMMARY:🎭 M. Butterfly END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:gentlemen-prefer-blondes-musical-1949 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19490101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19510916 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1949.\nClosed September 15\, 1951 after 740 performan ces — 2.7 years.\n\nGentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos\, lyrics by Leo Robin\, and music by Jule St yne\, based on the best-selling 1925 novel of the same name by Loos. The s tory involves an American woman's voyage to Paris to perform in a nightclu b.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen_Prefer_Blondes_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-mystery-of-edwin-drood-musical-1985 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19850801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19870517 DESCRIPTION:Opened in August 1985.\nClosed May 16\, 1987 after 608 performa nces — 21 months.\n\nThe Mystery of Edwin Drood is a mystery musical com edy written by Rupert Holmes based on the unfinished Charles Dickens novel of the same name. The show was the first Broadway musical with multiple e ndings. The show won five Tony Awards\, including Best Musical\, with Holm es awarded for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Edwin_Drood_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Mystery of Edwin Drood END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:wonderful-town-1953 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19530101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19540507 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Forrest Theatre in 1953.\nRan 559 performances\, to about May 1954.\n\nWonderful Town is a 1953 musical with book written b y Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov\, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green\, and music by Leonard Bernstein. The musical tells the story of tw o sisters who aspire to be a writer and actress respectively\, seeking suc cess from their basement apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village. I t is based on Fields and Chodorov's 1940 play My Sister Eileen\, which in turn originated from autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney first published in The New Yorker in the late 1930s and later published in book form as My Sister Eileen. Only the last two stories in McKenney's book we re used\, and they were heavily modified.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Wonderful_Town SUMMARY:🎵 Wonderful Town END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:ah-wilderness-1933 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19331002 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19341030 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Guild Theatre on October 2\, 1933.\nRan 448 perfo rmances\, to about October 1934.\n\nAh\, Wilderness! is a comedy play by A merican playwright Eugene O'Neill that premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on October 2\, 1933. It differs from a typical O'Neill play in its happy ending for the central character\, and depiction of a happy family in turn-of-the-century America. It is O'Neill's only well-known comedy.\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah%2C_Wilderness%21 SUMMARY:🎭 Ah\, Wilderness! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-heiress-1947-play-1947 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19470929 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19480919 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Biltmore Theatre on September 29\, 1947.\nClosed September 18\, 1948 after 410 performances — 12 months.\n\nThe Heiress i s a 1947 play by American playwrights Ruth and Augustus Goetz adapted from the 1880 Henry James novel Washington Square. Two years later\, the play was adapted into the film The Heiress starring Olivia de Havilland.\n\nhtt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heiress_%281947_play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Heiress END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:she-loves-me-1963 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19630101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19630923 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1963.\nRan 301 performances\, to about September 1963 .\n\nShe Loves Me is a musical with a book by Joe Masteroff\, music by Jer ry Bock\, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. The plot revolves around Budapest shop employees Georg and Amalia\, who\, despite being consistently at odd s with each other at work\, are unaware that each is the other's secret pe n pal met through lonely-hearts ads. It was the third adaptation of the 19 37 play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklós László\, following th e 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner and the 1949 musical version In the Good Old Summertime. It was followed by the 1998 movie You've Got Mail.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Loves_Me SUMMARY:🎵 She Loves Me END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-time-of-your-life-1939 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19390101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19400128 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1939.\nClosed January 27\, 1940 after 249 performance s — 13 months.\n\nThe Time of Your Life is a 1939 five-act play by Ameri can playwright William Saroyan. The play is the first drama to win both th e Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Th e play opened on Broadway in 1939.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ti me_of_Your_Life SUMMARY:🎭 The Time of Your Life END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:ghost-musical-2012 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120401 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121007 DESCRIPTION:Opened in April 2012.\nClosed October 6\, 2012 after 136 perfor mances — 6 months.\n\nGhost is a musical with book and lyrics by Bruce J oel Rubin and music and lyrics by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard. Based on the hit 1990 romantic fantasy thriller film of the same name\, it centres on lovers Sam and Molly\, who are attacked as they are returning to their apartment. When Sam dies he becomes caught between the real world and the next. Molly is in danger and Sam cannot leave her. A medium\, Oda Mae Brow n\, helps Sam to get in touch with Molly to warn her.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/Ghost_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Ghost END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-sunshine-boys-1972 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19721220 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19730222 DESCRIPTION:Opened on December 20\, 1972.\nRan 72 performances\, to about F ebruary 1973.\n\nThe Sunshine Boys is an original two-act play written by Neil Simon that premiered December 20\, 1972\, on Broadway starring Jack A lbertson as Willie Clark and Sam Levene as Al Lewis and later adapted for film and television.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunshine_Boys SUMMARY:🎭 The Sunshine Boys END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:high-button-shoes-1947 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19470101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19500101 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1947.\nClosed December 31\, 1949 after 727 performanc es — 3 years.\n\nHigh Button Shoes is a 1947 musical with music by Jule Styne\, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and book by George Abbott and Stephen Longstr eet. It was based on the semi-autobiographical 1946 novel The Sisters Like d Them Handsome by Stephen Longstreet. The story concerns the comic entang lements of the Longstreet family with two con men in Atlantic City.\n\nhtt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Button_Shoes SUMMARY:🎵 High Button Shoes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:silk-stockings-1955 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19550224 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19560415 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Imperial Theatre on February 24\, 1955.\nClosed A pril 14\, 1956 after 478 performances — 14 months.\n\nSilk Stockings is a musical with a book by George S. Kaufman\, Leueen MacGrath\, and Abe Bur rows and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The musical is loosely based on the Melchior Lengyel story Ninotchka and the 1939 film adaptation it inspi red. It ran on Broadway in 1955. This was the last musical that Porter wro te for the stage.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Stockings SUMMARY:🎵 Silk Stockings END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-corn-is-green-1940 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19401101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19420118 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the National Theatre in November 1940.\nClosed Januar y 17\, 1942 after 477 performances — 15 months.\n\nThe Corn Is Green is a 1938 semi-autobiographical play by Welsh dramatist and actor Emlyn Willi ams. The play premiered in London at the Duchess Theatre in September 1938 \; with Sybil Thorndike as Miss Moffat and Williams himself portraying Mor gan Evans\, the West End production ran in all for 600 performances. The o riginal Broadway production starred Ethel Barrymore and premiered at the N ational Theatre in November 1940\, running for 477 performances.\n\nhttps: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corn_Is_Green SUMMARY:🎭 The Corn Is Green END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:song-and-dance-1985 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19850918 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19861109 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Royale Theatre on September 18\, 1985.\nClosed No vember 8\, 1986 after 474 performances — 14 months.\n\nSong and Dance is a musical comprising two acts\, one told entirely in "Song" and one entir ely in "Dance"\, tied together by a unifying love story.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Song_and_Dance SUMMARY:🎵 Song and Dance END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:of-thee-i-sing-1931 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19310101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19320123 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1931.\nRan 441 performances\, to about January 1932.\ n\nOf Thee I Sing is a musical with a score by George Gershwin\, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. The musi cal lampoons American politics\; the story concerns John P. Wintergreen\, who runs for President of the United States on the "love" platform. When h e falls in love with the sensible Mary Turner instead of Diana Devereaux\, the beautiful pageant winner selected for him\, he gets into political ho t water.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Thee_I_Sing SUMMARY:🎵 Of Thee I Sing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-little-foxes-1939 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19390215 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19400204 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the National Theatre on February 15\, 1939.\nClosed F ebruary 3\, 1940 after 410 performances — 12 months.\n\nThe Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman\, considered a classic of 20th century drama. Its title comes from Chapter 2\, Verse 15\, of the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible\, which reads\, "Take us the foxes\ , the little foxes\, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grape s." Set in a small town in Alabama in 1900\, it focuses on the struggle fo r control of a family business. Tallulah Bankhead starred in the original production as Regina Hubbard Giddens.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The _Little_Foxes SUMMARY:🎭 The Little Foxes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:lady-be-good-musical-1924 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19241201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19250913 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Liberty Theatre on December 1\, 1924.\nClosed Sep tember 12\, 1925 after 330 performances — 9 months.\n\nLady\, Be Good! i s a musical written by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson with music by George a nd lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was first presented on Broadway in 1924\; th e West End production followed in 1926. The story of the musical is about a brother and sister who are out of money\; both are eager to sacrifice th emselves to help the other. This was the first Broadway collaboration of t he Gershwin brothers\, and the Astaire siblings play a brother-sister danc e team.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%2C_Be_Good_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Lady\, Be Good END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:paint-your-wagon-musical-1951 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19511112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19520720 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on November 12\, 1951.\nClosed Ju ly 19\, 1952 after 289 performances — 8 months.\n\nPaint Your Wagon is a Broadway musical comedy\, with book and lyrics by Alan J. Lerner and musi c by Frederick Loewe. The story centers on a miner and his daughter and fo llows the lives and loves of the people in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California. Popular songs from the show included "Wand'rin' Star"\, "I Tal k to the Trees"\, and "They Call the Wind Maria".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Paint_Your_Wagon_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Paint Your Wagon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:private-lives-1931 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19310127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19310909 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Times Square Theatre on January 27\, 1931.\nRan 2 56 performances\, to about September 1931.\n\nPrivate Lives is a 1930 come dy of manners in three acts by the English playwright Noël Coward. It con cerns a divorced couple who\, while honeymooning with their new spouses\, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel. Despit e a perpetually stormy relationship\, they realise that they still have fe elings for each other. Its second-act love scene was nearly censored in Br itain as too risqué. Coward wrote one of his most popular songs\, "Someda y I'll Find You"\, for the play.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_ Lives SUMMARY:🎭 Private Lives END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-skin-of-our-teeth-1942 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19421015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19421223 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 15\, 1942.\nRan 77 per formances\, to about December 1942.\n\nThe Skin of Our Teeth is a play by Thornton Wilder that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It opened on Octobe r 15\, 1942\, at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven\, Connecticut\, before m oving to the Plymouth Theatre on Broadway on November 18\, 1942. It was pr oduced by Michael Myerberg and directed by Elia Kazan with costumes by Mar y Percy Schenck. The play is a three-part allegory about the life of manki nd\, centering on the Antrobus family of the fictional town of Excelsior\, New Jersey. The epic comedy-drama is noted as among the most heterodox of classic American comedies\, as it breaks nearly every established convent ion of theatrical performances that was in effect when Wilder wrote it.\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skin_of_Our_Teeth SUMMARY:🎭 The Skin of Our Teeth END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:a-moon-for-the-misbegotten-1923 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19230901 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19231101 DESCRIPTION:Opened in September 1923.\nRan 68 performances\, to about Octob er 1923.\n\nA Moon for the Misbegotten is a play in four acts by Eugene O' Neill. The play is a sequel to O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night\, w ith the Jim Tyrone character as an older version of Jamie Tyrone. He began drafting the play late in 1941\, set it aside after a few months and retu rned to it a year later\, completing the text in 1943 – his final work\, as his failing health made it physically impossible for him to write. The play premiered on Broadway in 1957 and has had four Broadway revivals\, p lus a West End engagement.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Moon_for_the _Misbegotten SUMMARY:🎭 A Moon for the Misbegotten END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:night-mother-2004 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20041114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20050110 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Royale Theatre on November 14\, 2004.\nClosed Jan uary 9\, 2005 after 65 performances — 56 days.\n\n'night\, Mother is a p lay by American playwright Marsha Norman. The play won the 1983 Pulitzer P rize for Drama and was nominated for the 1983 Tony Award for Best Play.\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27night%2C_Mother SUMMARY:🎭 'night\, Mother END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:love-letters-play-1989 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19890327 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19890523 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Long Wharf Theatre on March 27\, 1989.\nRan 64 pe rformances\, to about May 1989.\n\nLove Letters is a play by A. R. Gurney that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play centers on two characters\, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. Using the epistolary form sometimes found in novels\, they sit side by side at table s and read the notes\, letters and cards – in which over nearly 50 years \, they discuss their hopes and ambitions\, dreams and disappointments\, v ictories and defeats – that have passed between them throughout their se parated lives.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Letters_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Love Letters END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:stop-the-world-i-want-to-get-off-1962 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19621003 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19621031 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 3\, 1962.\nRan 30 perf ormances\, to about October 1962.\n\nStop the World – I Want to Get Off is a 1961 musical with a book\, music\, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. In 1966 Warner Bros. released a film adaptation of the pla y. In 1996\, a film version was produced for TV\, made for the A&E Network .\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_the_World_%E2%80%93_I_Want_to_Get_ Off SUMMARY:🎵 Stop the World – I Want to Get Off END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:merrily-we-roll-along-musical-1981 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19811116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19811201 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 16\, 1981.\nRan 16 performances\, to about N ovember 1981.\n\nMerrily We Roll Along is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth. It is based on the 1934 pl ay of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.\n\nhttps://en.wiki pedia.org/wiki/Merrily_We_Roll_Along_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Merrily We Roll Along END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:grand-hotel-musical-1958 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19580925 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19610304 DESCRIPTION:Opened on September 25\, 1958.\nRan 1\,017 performances\, to ab out March 1961.\n\nGrand Hotel is a musical in two acts with a book by Lut her Davis\, music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest\, and add itional music and lyrics by Maury Yeston.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Grand_Hotel_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Grand Hotel END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:can-can-musical-1953 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19530507 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19550626 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on May 7\, 1953.\nClosed June 25\ , 1955 after 892 performances — 2.1 years.\n\nCan-Can is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter\, and a book by Abe Burrows. The story con cerns the showgirls of the Montmartre dance halls during the 1890s.\n\nhtt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can-Can_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Can-Can END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:victor-victoria-musical-1995 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19951025 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19970728 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Marquis Theatre on October 25\, 1995.\nClosed Jul y 27\, 1997 after 734 performances — 21 months.\n\nVictor/Victoria is a musical with a book by Blake Edwards\, music by Henry Mancini\, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and additional musical material by Frank Wildhorn. It is b ased on the 1982 film of the same name\, which was a remake of the German film comedy Viktor und Viktoria shot by Reinhold Schünzel in 1933 from hi s own script.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%2FVictoria_%28musica l%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Victor/Victoria END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:rose-marie-1924 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19240902 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19260104 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Imperial Theatre on September 2\, 1924.\nRan 557 performances\, to about January 1926.\n\nRose-Marie is an operetta-style m usical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart\, and book and lyri cs by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II. The story is set in the Canad ian Rocky Mountains and concerns Rose-Marie La Flemme\, a French Canadian girl who loves miner Jim Kenyon. When Jim falls under suspicion for murder \, her brother Emile plans for Rose-Marie to marry Edward Hawley\, a city man.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose-Marie SUMMARY:🎵 Rose-Marie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:me-and-juliet-1953 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19530101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19540316 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1953.\nRan 500 performances\, to about March 1954.\n\ nMe and Juliet is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers\, and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II. The sixth stage collaboration by Rodgers & Hammerstein\, it tells a story of romance backstage at a long-running musi cal: assistant stage manager Larry woos chorus girl Jeanie behind the back of her electrician boyfriend\, Bob. Me and Juliet premiered in 1953 and w as considered a modest success — it ran for much of a year on Broadway a nd had a limited run in Chicago\, and returned a small profit to its backe rs.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_Juliet SUMMARY:🎵 Me and Juliet END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-boy-friend-musical-1954 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19540930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19551127 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Royale Theatre on September 30\, 1954.\nClosed No vember 26\, 1955 after 485 performances — 14 months.\n\nThe Boy Friend i s a musical by Sandy Wilson. Its original 1953 London production ran for 2 \,078 performances\, briefly making it the third-longest running musical i n West End or Broadway history until they were all surpassed by Salad Days . The Boy Friend marked Julie Andrews' American stage debut.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Friend_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Boy Friend END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:picnic-play-1953 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19530219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19540414 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Music Box Theatre on February 19\, 1953.\nRan 477 performances\, to about April 1954.\n\nPicnic is a 1953 play by William I nge. The play premiered at the Music Box Theatre\, Broadway\, on 19 Februa ry 1953 in a Theatre Guild production\, directed by Joshua Logan\, which r an for 477 performances.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_%28play%2 9 SUMMARY:🎭 Picnic END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:redhead-musical-1959 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19590205 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19600320 DESCRIPTION:Opened on February 5\, 1959.\nClosed March 19\, 1960 after 452 performances — 13 months.\n\nRedhead is a musical with music composed by Albert Hague and lyrics by Dorothy Fields\, who with her brother\, Herber t\, along with Sidney Sheldon and David Shaw wrote the book/libretto. Set in London in the 1880s\, around the time of Jack the Ripper\, the musical is a murder mystery in the setting of a wax museum.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Redhead_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Redhead END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-price-play-1968 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19680101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19690216 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1968.\nClosed February 15\, 1969 after 429 performanc es — 14 months.\n\nThe Price is a two-act play written in 1967 by Arthur Miller. It is about family dynamics\, the price of furniture and the pric e of one's decisions. The play premiered on Broadway in 1968\, and has bee n revived four times on Broadway. It was nominated for two 1968 Tony Award s.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Price END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:j-b-play-1958 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19581211 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19591025 DESCRIPTION:Opened on December 11\, 1958.\nClosed October 24\, 1959 after 3 64 performances — 10 months.\n\nJ.B. is a 1958 play written in free vers e by American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish\, and is a modern-day retelling of the story of the biblical figure Job. The play is about J.B. \, a devout millionaire with a happy domestic life whose life is ruined. T he play went through several incarnations before it was finally published. MacLeish began the work in 1953 as a one-act production\, but within thre e years\, had expanded it to a full\, three-act manuscript.\n\nhttps://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/J.B._%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 J.B. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:craig-s-wife-1925 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19251012 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19260822 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Morosco Theatre on October 12\, 1925.\nClosed Aug ust 21\, 1926 after 360 performances — 10 months.\n\nCraig's Wife is a 1 925 play written by American playwright George Kelly. It won the 1926 Puli tzer Prize for Drama\, and has been adapted for three feature films.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%27s_Wife SUMMARY:🎭 Craig's Wife END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:shirley-valentine-1989 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19890216 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19891128 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Booth Theatre on February 16\, 1989.\nRan 324 per formances\, to about November 1989.\n\nShirley Valentine is a one-characte r play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged\, working class Liverpool housewife\, it focuses on her life before and aft er a transforming holiday abroad.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley _Valentine SUMMARY:🎭 Shirley Valentine END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:zorba-musical-1968 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19680101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19680925 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1968.\nRan 305 performances\, to about September 1968 .\n\nZorba is a musical with a book by Joseph Stein\, lyrics by Fred Ebb\, and music by John Kander. Adapted from the 1946 novel Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis and the subsequent 1964 film of the same name\, it focus es on the friendship that evolves between Zorba and Nikos\, a young Americ an who has inherited an abandoned mine on Crete\, and their romantic relat ionships with a French woman and a local widow\, respectively.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Zorba END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:oh-kay-1926 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19260101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19260814 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1926.\nRan 256 performances\, to about August 1926.\n \nOh\, Kay! is a musical with music by George Gershwin\, lyrics by Ira Ger shwin\, and a book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse. It is based on the p lay La Présidente by Maurice Hennequin and Pierre Veber. The plot revolve s around the adventures of the Duke of Durham and his sister\, Lady Kay\, English bootleggers in Prohibition Era America. Kay finds herself falling in love with a man who seems unavailable. The show is remembered for its e nduring song\, "Someone to Watch Over Me".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Oh%2C_Kay%21 SUMMARY:🎵 Oh\, Kay! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-good-doctor-play-1973 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19731127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19740526 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on November 27\, 1973.\nCl osed May 25\, 1974 after 208 performances — 6 months.\n\nThe Good Doctor is a comedy with music written by Neil Simon. It is a series of short pla ys based on short stories and other works of Russian writer Anton Chekhov\ , framed by a writer commenting on them.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The_Good_Doctor_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Good Doctor END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:winterset-play-1935 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19350925 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19360315 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on September 25\, 1935.\nRan 195 performances\, to about March 1936.\n\nWinterset is a play by Maxwell Anderson.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterset_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Winterset END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:cabin-in-the-sky-musical-1940 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19400101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19410309 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1940.\nClosed March 8\, 1941 after 156 performances — 14 months.\n\nCabin in the Sky is a musical with music by Vernon Duke\ , book by Lynn Root\, and lyrics by John Latouche. The musical opened on B roadway in 1940. The show is described as a "parable of Southern Negro Lif e with echoes of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom and Marc Connelly's The Green Pas tures." Several songs from the Broadway musical were released as a 3-recor d shellac set under the title "The Music of Cabin in the Sky featuring Eth el Waters" in 1940.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_in_the_Sky_%28m usical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Cabin in the Sky END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-girl-in-pink-tights-1954 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19540305 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19540613 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 5\, 1954.\nClosed June 12\, 1954 after 115 performances — 3 months.\n\nThe Girl in Pink T ights is a musical comedy with music by Sigmund Romberg\; lyrics by Leo Ro bin\; and a musical book by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields. The musical opened on Broadway on March 5\, 1954 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre where it ran for a total of 115 performances until it closed on June 12\, 1954.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_in_Pink_Tights SUMMARY:🎵 The Girl in Pink Tights END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:torch-song-trilogy-1978 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19780202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19780407 DESCRIPTION:Opened on February 2\, 1978.\nRan 72 performances\, to about Ap ril 1978.\n\nTorch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey F ierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud\, Fugue in a Nursery\, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff\, a Je wish homosexual\, drag queen\, and torch singer who lives in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The four-hour play begins with a solil oquy in which he explains his cynical disillusionment with love.\n\nhttps: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_Song_Trilogy SUMMARY:🎭 Torch Song Trilogy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-blue-flame-play-1920 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19200315 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19210102 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on March 15\, 1920.\nClosed Janua ry 1\, 1921 after 48 performances — 10 months.\n\nThe Blue Flame is a fo ur-act play written by George V. Hobart and John Willard\, who revised an earlier version by Leta Vance Nicholson. In 1920\, producer Albert H. Wood s staged the play on Broadway and took it on tour across the United States . Ruth Gordon\, the plays' main character\, is a religious young woman who dies and is revived by her scientist fiancé as a soulless femme fatale. She seduces several men and involves them in crimes\, including drug use a nd murder. In the final act\, her death and resurrection are revealed to b e a dream. The production starred Theda Bara\, a popular silent film actre ss who was known for playing similar roles in movies.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Flame_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Blue Flame END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:by-jeeves-2001 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20010101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20010205 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 2001.\nRan 38 performances\, to about February 2001.\ n\nBy Jeeves\, originally Jeeves\, is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber\, and lyrics and book by Alan Ayckbourn. It is based on the series of novels and short stories by P. G. Wodehouse that centre around the cha racter of Bertie Wooster and his loyal valet\, Jeeves.\n\nhttps://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/By_Jeeves SUMMARY:🎵 By Jeeves END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:babes-in-toyland-operetta-1929 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19291223 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19300121 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Jolson's 59th Street Theatre on December 23\, 192 9.\nRan 32 performances\, to about January 1930.\n\nBabes in Toyland is an operetta composed by Victor Herbert with a libretto by Glen MacDonough\, which wove together various characters from Mother Goose nursery rhymes in to a musical extravaganza. Following the extraordinary success of their st age musical The Wizard of Oz\, which was produced in New York beginning in January 1903\, producer Fred R. Hamlin and director Julian Mitchell hoped to create more family musicals. MacDonough had helped Mitchell with revis ions to the Oz libretto by L. Frank Baum. Mitchell and MacDonough persuade d Victor Herbert to join the production. Babes in Toyland features some of Herbert's most famous songs – among them "Toyland"\, "March of the Toys "\, "Go to Sleep\, Slumber Deep"\, and "I Can't Do the Sum". The theme son g "Toyland"\, and the most famous instrumental piece from the operetta\, " March of the Toys"\, occasionally show up on Christmas compilations.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babes_in_Toyland_%28operetta%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Babes in Toyland END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:entertaining-mr-sloane-1965 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19651012 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19651025 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lyceum Theatre on October 12\, 1965.\nRan 13 perf ormances\, to about October 1965.\n\nEntertaining Mr Sloane is a three-act play written in 1963 by the English playwright Joe Orton. It was first pr oduced in London at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964 and transferred to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre on 29 June 1964.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Entertaining_Mr_Sloane SUMMARY:🎭 Entertaining Mr Sloane END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:city-of-angels-musical-1989 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19891211 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19920120 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Virginia Theatre on December 11\, 1989.\nClosed J anuary 19\, 1992 after 879 performances — 2.1 years.\n\nCity of Angels i s a satirical musical comedy with music by Cy Coleman\, lyrics by David Zi ppel\, and a book by Larry Gelbart. The show takes a critical look at Holl ywood through the eyes of Stine\, a successful writer who is adapting his latest novel into a film. The musical explores two parallel storylines: on e following Stine's struggles to adapt his novel\, and the other taking pl ace within the world of the film he's creating. The musical also serves an ode to the classic film noir genre of the 1940s.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/City_of_Angels_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 City of Angels END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-bat-play-1920 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19200823 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19220922 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Morosco Theatre on August 23\, 1920.\nRan 867 per formances\, to about September 1922.\n\nThe Bat is a three-act play by Mar y Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood that was first produced by Lincoln Wa genhals and Collin Kemper in 1920. The story combines elements of mystery and comedy as Cornelia Van Gorder and guests spend a stormy night at her r ented summer home\, searching for stolen money they believe is hidden in t he house\, while they are stalked by a masked criminal known as "the Bat". The Bat's identity is revealed at the end of the final act.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Bat END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:broadway-bound-1986 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19861204 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19880926 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on December 4\, 1986.\nClosed September 25\, 1988 after 756 performances — 22 months.\n\nBroadway Boun d is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. It is the last chapter in his Eugene trilogy\, following Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Bound SUMMARY:🎭 Broadway Bound END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:bye-bye-birdie-1960 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19600414 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19610929 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on April 14\, 1960.\nRan 607 performances\, to about September 1961.\n\nBye Bye Birdie is a stage music al with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams\, with a book by Michael Stewart.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bye_Bye_Birdie SUMMARY:🎵 Bye Bye Birdie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-unsinkable-molly-brown-musical-1960 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19601103 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19620211 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on November 3\, 1960.\nClos ed February 10\, 1962 after 532 performances — 15 months.\n\n The Unsink able Molly Brown is a 1960 musical with music and lyrics by Meredith Wills on and book by Richard Morris. The plot is a fictionalized account of the life of Margaret Brown\, who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic\, and her wealthy miner-husband. A musical film version\, also titled The Unsin kable Molly Brown\, with screenplay by Helen Deutsch\, was released in 196 4.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unsinkable_Molly_Brown_%28musical% 29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Unsinkable Molly Brown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-desert-song-1926 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19261130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19280118 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Casino Theatre on November 30\, 1926.\nRan 471 pe rformances\, to about January 1928.\n\nThe Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II\, Ot to Harbach and Frank Mandel. It was inspired by the 1925 uprising of the R iffs\, a group of Berber fighters\, against French colonial rule in Morocc o. It was also inspired by stories of Lawrence of Arabia aiding native gue rrillas. Many tales romanticizing Saharan North Africa were in vogue\, inc luding Beau Geste and The Son of the Sheik.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/The_Desert_Song SUMMARY:🎵 The Desert Song END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:lady-in-the-dark-1941 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19410123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19420531 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Alvin Theatre on January 23\, 1941.\nClosed May 3 0\, 1942 after 467 performances — 16 months.\n\nLady in the Dark is a mu sical with music by Kurt Weill\, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book and direc tion by Moss Hart. It was produced by Sam Harris. The protagonist\, Liza E lliott\, is the unhappy editor of a fashion magazine who is undergoing psy choanalysis. The musical ran on Broadway in 1941\, and in the United Kingd om in 1981. A film version was released in 1944\, and a live television sp ecial followed in 1954.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_in_the_Dark SUMMARY:🎵 Lady in the Dark END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:will-success-spoil-rock-hunter-play-1955 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19550926 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19561104 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Plymouth Theatre on September 26\, 1955.\nClosed November 3\, 1956 after 444 performances — 13 months.\n\nWill Success Sp oil Rock Hunter? is an original stage comedy in three acts and four scenes by George Axelrod. After a try-out run at the Plymouth Theatre in Boston from September 26\, 1955\, it opened at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway on October 13\, starring Jayne Mansfield\, Walter Matthau and Orson Bean. Di rected by the author and produced by Jule Styne\, it closed on November 3\ , 1956\, after 444 performances.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Suc cess_Spoil_Rock_Hunter%3F_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:whoopee-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19280101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19291124 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1928.\nClosed November 23\, 1929 after 407 performanc es — 23 months.\n\nWhoopee! is a 1928 musical comedy play with a book ba sed on Owen Davis's play\, The Nervous Wreck. The musical libretto was wri tten by William Anthony McGuire\, with music by Walter Donaldson and lyric s by Gus Kahn. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1928\, starring Eddie Cantor\, and introduced the hit song "Love Me or Leave Me"\, sung by Ruth Etting. A film version opened in 1930.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wh oopee%21 SUMMARY:🎵 Whoopee! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:watch-on-the-rhine-play-1941 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19410401 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19420227 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on April 1\, 1941.\nRan 378 p erformances\, to about February 1942.\n\nWatch on the Rhine is a 1941 Amer ican play by Lillian Hellman. In an essay on World War II\, a contributor to The Companion to Southern Literature (2002) wrote that the play's "pecu liar combination of drawing-room comedy in a genteel southern home with si nister corruption of the Nazi regime in Europe made for a unique and power ful drama\, one strong enough to win the New York Drama Critics' Circle Aw ard."\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_on_the_Rhine_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Watch on the Rhine END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-royal-family-play-1927 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19271228 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19281026 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Selwyn Theatre on December 28\, 1927.\nRan 345 pe rformances\, to about October 1928.\n\nThe Royal Family is a play written by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. Its premiere on Broadway was at the Selwyn Theatre on 28 December 1927\, where it ran for 345 performances to close in October 1928. It was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1927–1928.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Family_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Royal Family END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:idiot-s-delight-play-1936 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19360324 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19361213 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on March 24\, 1936.\nRan 300 perf ormances\, to about December 1936.\n\nIdiot's Delight is a 1936 Pulitzer-P rize-winning play written by American playwright Robert E. Sherwood and pr esented by the Theatre Guild. The play takes place in the Hotel Monte Gabr iel in the Italian Alps during 24 hours at the beginning of a world war. T he guests trapped in the hotel by the sudden onset of hostilities are from Germany\, France\, the United States and Britain. Directed by Bretaigne W indust\, the cast starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (Irene)\, with Syd ney Greenstreet as Dr. Waldersee and Francis Compton as Achille Weber. The play was the runner-up for the 1936 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot%27s_Delight _%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Idiot's Delight END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:roberta-musical-1933 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19331118 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19340805 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on November 18\, 1933.\nRan 295 performances\, to about August 1934.\n\nRoberta is a musical from 193 3 with music by Jerome Kern\, and lyrics and book by Otto Harbach. The pla yful romantic comedy is based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller. It features the songs "Yesterdays"\, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"\, " Let's Begin"\, "You're Devastating"\, "Something Had To Happen"\, "The Tou ch of Your Hand" and "I'll Be Hard to Handle".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roberta_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Roberta END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:lost-in-the-stars-1949-musical-1949 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19490801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19500702 DESCRIPTION:Opened in August 1949.\nClosed July 1\, 1950 after 281 performa nces — 11 months.\n\nLost in the Stars is a 1949-premiered musical with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and music by Kurt Weill\, based on the novel Cry\, the Beloved Country (1948) by Alan Paton. The musical premier ed on Broadway in 1949\; it was the composer's last work for the stage bef ore he died the following year.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_t he_Stars_%281949_musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Lost in the Stars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-cocoanuts-musical-1925 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19251208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19260808 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 8\, 1925.\nClosed Augus t 7\, 1926 after 276 performances — 8 months.\n\nThe Cocoanuts is a musi cal with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a book by George S. Kaufman \, with additional text by Morrie Ryskind.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/The_Cocoanuts_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Cocoanuts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-greeks-had-a-word-for-it-1930 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19300925 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19310503 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broad Street Theatre on September 25\, 1930.\nClo sed May 2\, 1931 after 263 performances — 7 months.\n\nThe Greeks Had a Word for It is a 1930 play written by Zoe Akins. It is a three-act comedy that becomes farce only at the end. It has a medium-sized cast\, multiple settings\, and pacing that reviewers said showed "indecision" and "sluggis hness". It is so episodic in nature that one critic called it three one-ac t plays joined together by leading characters. It depicts the relationship s of three ex-chorus girls with one another and with would-be paramours. T he author never reveals what word she had in mind.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/The_Greeks_Had_a_Word_for_It SUMMARY:🎭 The Greeks Had a Word for It END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:funny-face-musical-1927 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19271122 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19280624 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 22\, 1927.\nRan 244 performances\, to about June 1928.\n\nFunny Face is a 1927 musical composed by George Gershwin\, w ith lyrics by Ira Gershwin\, and book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smi th. When it opened on Broadway on November 22\, 1927\, as the first show p erformed in the newly built Alvin Theatre\, it starred Fred Astaire and hi s sister Adele Astaire. It was in this show that Astaire first danced in e vening clothes and a top hat.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funny_Face_ %28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Funny Face END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-boys-from-syracuse-1938 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19380101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19390611 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1938.\nClosed June 10\, 1939 after 235 performances — 17 months.\n\nThe Boys from Syracuse is a musical by Richard Rodgers a nd lyrics by Lorenz Hart\, based on William Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors\, as adapted by librettist George Abbott. The score includes swi ng and other contemporary rhythms of the 1930s. The show was the first mus ical based on a Shakespeare play. The Comedy of Errors was itself loosely based on a Roman play\, The Menaechmi\, or the Twin Brothers\, by Plautus. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_from_Syracuse SUMMARY:🎵 The Boys from Syracuse END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:dinner-at-eight-play-1932 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19321022 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19330507 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Music Box Theatre on October 22\, 1932.\nClosed M ay 6\, 1933 after 232 performances — 6 months.\n\nDinner at Eight is a 1 932 American play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. The plot deals wit h the Jordan family\, who are planning a society dinner\, and what they\, as well as various friends and acquaintances—all of whom have their own problems and ambitions—do as they prepare for the event. The film adapta tion Dinner at Eight followed\, and Mentone Productions released a spoof\, Supper at Six. Several revivals\, a made-for-TV movie\, and an opera foll owed.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_at_Eight_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Dinner at Eight END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:animal-crackers-musical-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19281023 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19290407 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 23\, 1928.\nClosed April 6\, 1929 after 191 p erformances — 5 months.\n\nAnimal Crackers is a musical play with music and lyrics by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and a book by George S. Kaufman a nd Morrie Ryskind. The musical starred the Marx Brothers and is set at the Long Island Home of Mrs. Rittenhouse\; a character portrayed by Margaret Dumont in the 1928 production on Broadway.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Animal_Crackers_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Animal Crackers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-rainmaker-play-1954 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19541028 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19550216 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Cort Theatre on October 28\, 1954.\nRan 125 perfo rmances\, to about February 1955.\n\nThe Rainmaker is a play written by N. Richard Nash in the early 1950s. It was first performed in August 1953 on NBC's live TV show\, The Philco Television Playhouse. The play then opene d on Broadway on October 28\, 1954\, at the Cort Theatre\, and ran for 125 performances. The Broadway production was directed by Joseph Anthony and produced by Ethel Linder Reiner.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rain maker_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Rainmaker END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:american-buffalo-play-1977 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19770101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19770419 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1977.\nRan 122 performances\, to about April 1977.\n\ nAmerican Buffalo is a 1975 play by American playwright David Mamet that h ad its premiere in a showcase production at the Goodman Theatre\, Chicago. After two additional showcase productions\, it opened on Broadway in 1977 .\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Buffalo_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 American Buffalo END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:la-la-lucille-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19190526 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19190826 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Henry Miller's Theatre on May 26\, 1919.\nRan 104 performances\, to about August 1919.\n\nLa La Lucille is a musical with a book by Fred Jackson\, primary lyrics by Arthur J. Jackson (1893–1922) and Buddy DeSylva\, additional lyrics by Lou Paley and Irving Caesar\, and music by George Gershwin.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_La_Lucille SUMMARY:🎵 La La Lucille END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:lucky-guy-play-2013 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130401 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130702 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on April 1\, 2013.\nRan 104 pe rformances\, to about July 2013.\n\nLucky Guy is a play by Nora Ephron tha t premiered in 2013\, the year after her death. It was Ephron's final work and marked Tom Hanks's Broadway debut\, in which he earned a Theatre Worl d Award and a Tony nomination. It depicts the story of journalist Mike McA lary beginning in 1985 and ending with his death at the age of 41 in 1998. The plot covers the high points and tribulations of McAlary's career as h e traverses the clubby atmosphere of the New York City tabloid industry in what some regard as its heyday. The play includes his near fatal automobi le accident and devotes a large portion to his recovery.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Guy_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Lucky Guy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:machinal-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19280907 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19281125 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Plymouth Theatre on September 7\, 1928.\nClosed N ovember 24\, 1928 after 91 performances — 3 months.\n\nMachinal is a 192 8 play by American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell\, inspired b y the real-life case of convicted and executed murderer Ruth Snyder. Its B roadway premiere\, directed by Arthur Hopkins\, is considered one of the h ighpoints of Expressionist theatre in history of the American stage.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinal SUMMARY:🎭 Machinal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:let-em-eat-cake-1933 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19331021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19340108 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Imperial Theatre on October 21\, 1933.\nRan 89 pe rformances\, to about January 1934.\n\nLet 'Em Eat Cake is a 1933 Broadway musical with music by George Gershwin\, lyrics by Ira Gershwin\, and book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind. A political satire\, it tells th e story of a fictional American president who fails to get reelected. Insp ired by fascism in Europe\, he and the former vice president decide to ove rthrow the government.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_%27Em_Eat_Cake SUMMARY:🎵 Let 'Em Eat Cake END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:pipe-dream-musical-1955 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19551130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19560701 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 30\, 1955.\nClosed June 30\, 1956 after 70 p erformances — 7 months.\n\nPipe Dream is the seventh musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II\; it premiered on Broadway on November 30\, 1955. The work is based on John Steinbeck's novel Sweet Thu rsday—Steinbeck wrote the novel\, a sequel to Cannery Row\, in the hope of having it adapted into a musical. Set in Monterey\, California\, the mu sical tells the story of the romance between Doc\, a marine biologist\, an d Suzy\, who in the novel is a prostitute\; her profession is only alluded to in the stage work. Pipe Dream was not an outright flop but was a finan cial disaster for Rodgers and Hammerstein.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Pipe_Dream_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Pipe Dream END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:maybe-happy-ending-2024 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240216 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 2024.\nRan 51 performances\, to about February 2024.\ n\nMaybe Happy Ending is a South Korean musical with lyrics written by Hue Park\, music composed by Will Aronson\, and book written by both Park and Aronson. The musical\, which is performed without intermission\, follows two human-like helper-bots\, Oliver and Claire\, who discover each other i n Seoul later in the 21st century and develop a connection that challenges what they believe is possible for themselves\, exploring relationships\, love and mortality.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maybe_Happy_Ending SUMMARY:🎵 Maybe Happy Ending END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:incident-at-vichy-1964 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19641203 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19650508 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre on December 3\, 19 64.\nClosed May 7\, 1965 after 32 performances — 5 months.\n\nIncident a t Vichy is a one-act play written in 1964 by American dramatist Arthur Mil ler. It depicts a group of men who have been detained in Vichy France in 1 942\; they are being held for their "racial" inspection by German military officers and Vichy French police. The play focuses on the subjects of hum an nature\, guilt\, fear\, and complicity and examines how the Nazis were able to perpetrate the Holocaust with so little resistance. Miller said of Incident at Vichy\, "What is dark if not unknown is the relationship betw een those who side with justice and their implication in the evil they opp ose. [...] The good and the evil are not compartments but two elements of a transaction."\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_at_Vichy SUMMARY:🎭 Incident at Vichy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:two-for-the-seesaw-play-1958 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19580116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19591101 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Booth Theatre on January 16\, 1958.\nClosed Octob er 31\, 1959 after 750 performances — 21 months.\n\nTwo for the Seesaw i s a three-act\, two-person play written by William Gibson. The play opened on Broadway on January 16\, 1958\, at the Booth Theatre in New York and r an for 750 performances\, closing on October 31\, 1959. With the opening c ast of Henry Fonda and Anne Bancroft\, the play was directed by Arthur Pen n and produced by Fred Coe. A surprise hit\, Two for the Seesaw earned Ann e Bancroft\, making her Broadway debut\, her first Tony Award for Best Fea tured Actress in a Play. The play was adapted into a film of the same name in 1962\, directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine\, and was later adapted into the musical Seesaw in 1973. The pla y marked the Broadway debut of writer William Gibson\, who would later col laborate with Penn and Coe on the play and film adaptations of The Miracle Worker\, which also featured Bancroft in the lead role.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Two_for_the_Seesaw_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Two for the Seesaw END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:that-championship-season-1972 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19720914 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19740521 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Booth Theatre on September 14\, 1972.\nRan 700 pe rformances\, to about May 1974.\n\nThat Championship Season is a 1972 play by Jason Miller. It was the recipient of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Dram a and the 1973 Tony Award for Best Play.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ That_Championship_Season SUMMARY:🎭 That Championship Season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:one-touch-of-venus-1943 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19431007 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19450211 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Imperial Theatre on October 7\, 1943.\nClosed Feb ruary 10\, 1945 after 567 performances — 16 months.\n\nOne Touch of Venu s is a 1943 musical with music written by Kurt Weill\, lyrics by Ogden Nas h\, and book by S. J. Perelman and Nash\, based on the 1885 novella The Ti nted Venus by Thomas Anstey Guthrie\, and very loosely spoofing the Pygmal ion myth. The show satirizes contemporary American suburban values\, artis tic fads and romantic and sexual mores. Weill had been in America for eigh t years by the time he wrote this musical\, and his music\, though retaini ng his early haunting power\, had evolved into a very different Broadway s tyle.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Touch_of_Venus SUMMARY:🎵 One Touch of Venus END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:blackbirds-of-1928-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19280104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19290403 DESCRIPTION:Opened on January 4\, 1928.\nRan 518 performances\, to about Ap ril 1929.\n\nBlackbirds of 1928 was a hit Broadway musical revue that star red Adelaide Hall\, Bill Bojangles Robinson\, Tim Moore and Aida Ward\, wi th music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Dorothy Fields. It contained the hi t songs "Diga Diga Do"\, the duo's first hit\, "I Can't Give You Anything But Love"\, "Bandanna Babies" and "I Must Have That Man" all sung by Hall. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbirds_of_1928 SUMMARY:🎵 Blackbirds of 1928 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:abe-lincoln-in-illinois-play-1938 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19381015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19391203 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Plymouth Theatre on October 15\, 1938.\nRan 472 p erformances\, to about December 1939.\n\nAbe Lincoln in Illinois is a play written by the American playwright Robert E. Sherwood in 1938\, based pri ncipally on the 1926 biography Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg. The play\, in three acts\, covers the life of President Abraham Lincoln from his childhood through his final speech in Illinois before he left for Washington. The play also covers his romance with Mary Todd and h is debates with Stephen A. Douglas\, and uses Lincoln's own words in some scenes. Sherwood received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1939 for his wor k.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Lincoln_in_Illinois_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Abe Lincoln in Illinois END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:the-trial-of-mary-dugan-play-1927 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19270919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19281007 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the National Theatre on September 19\, 1927.\nRan 437 performances\, to about October 1928.\n\nThe Trial of Mary Dugan is a pla y written by Bayard Veiller.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of _Mary_Dugan_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Trial of Mary Dugan END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:du-barry-was-a-lady-1939 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19391206 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19401213 DESCRIPTION:Opened on December 6\, 1939.\nClosed December 12\, 1940 after 4 08 performances — 12 months.\n\nDu Barry Was a Lady is a Broadway musica l\, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter\, and the book by Herbert Fields and Buddy DeSylva. The musical starred Bert Lahr\, Ethel Merman and Betty Grable\, and the song "Friendship" was one of the highlights. The musical was made into the 1943 Technicolor film Du Barry Was a Lady\, starring Red Skelton\, Lucille Ball\, Gene Kelly\, and Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Barry_Was_a_Lady SUMMARY:🎵 Du Barry Was a Lady END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:peter-pan-1950-musical-1950 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19500424 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19510131 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 24\, 1950.\nRan 321 performances\, to about Jan uary 1951.\n\nPeter Pan is a 1950 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 190 4 play Peter Pan\, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up with music and lyrics b y Leonard Bernstein\; it opened on Broadway on April 24\, 1950. This versi on starred Jean Arthur as Peter Pan\, Boris Karloff in the dual roles of G eorge Darling and Captain Hook\, and Marcia Henderson as Wendy. The show w as orchestrated by Trude Rittmann and Hershy Kay and conducted by Benjamin Steinberg. The show ran for 321 performances\, closing on January 27\, 19 51.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_%281950_musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Peter Pan END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:i-can-get-it-for-you-wholesale-1962 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19620322 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19621211 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on March 22\, 1962.\nRan 300 perf ormances\, to about December 1962.\n\nI Can Get It for You Wholesale is a musical originally produced by David Merrick\, with music and lyrics by Ha rold Rome\, and book by Jerome Weidman\, based on his 1937 novel of the sa me title. Its 1962 production marked the Broadway debut of 19-year-old Bar bra Streisand\, who was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Act ress in a Musical. The story is set in the New York City Garment District in 1937\, during the Great Depression\, and the songs utilize traditional Jewish harmonies evocative of the setting and the period of the show.\n\nh ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_Get_It_for_You_Wholesale SUMMARY:🎵 I Can Get It for You Wholesale END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:seesaw-musical-1973 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19730318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19731203 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Uris Theatre on March 18\, 1973.\nRan 296 perform ances\, to about December 1973.\n\nSeesaw is a 1973 American musical with a book by Michael Bennett\, music by Cy Coleman\, and lyrics by Dorothy Fi elds.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seesaw_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Seesaw END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:leave-it-to-me-1938 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19381109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19390716 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Imperial Theatre on November 9\, 1938.\nClosed Ju ly 15\, 1939 after 291 performances — 8 months.\n\nLeave It to Me! is a 1938 musical produced by Vinton Freedley with music and lyrics by Cole Por ter. The book was a collaborative effort by Samuel and Bella Spewack\, the former of whom also directed the Broadway production. The musical was bas ed on the play Clear All Wires by the Spewacks\, which was performed on Br oadway for 93 performances in 1932\, and which was filmed in 1933\, starri ng Lee Tracy\, Benita Hume\, Una Merkel and James Gleason.\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_to_Me%21 SUMMARY:🎵 Leave It to Me! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:babes-in-arms-1937 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19370414 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19371219 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on April 14\, 1937.\nClosed Decem ber 18\, 1937 after 289 performances — 8 months.\n\nBabes in Arms is a 1 937 coming-of-age musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers\, lyrics by Lorenz Hart\, and book by Rodgers and Hart. It concerns a group of small- town Long Island teenagers who put on a show to avoid being sent to a work farm by the town sheriff. Several songs in Babes in Arms became pop stand ards\, including the title song\, "Where or When"\, "The Lady Is a Tramp"\ , and "My Funny Valentine". The film version\, released in 1939\, starred Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney and was directed by Busby Berkeley.\n\nhttp s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babes_in_Arms SUMMARY:🎵 Babes in Arms END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003409Z UID:tovarich-musical-1963 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19630318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19631105 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the The Broadway Theatre on March 18\, 1963.\nRan 264 performances\, to about November 1963.\n\nTovarich is a 1963 stage musica l in two acts with book by David Shaw\; music by Lee Pockriss and lyrics b y Anne Croswell\; based on the comedy by Jacques Deval and Robert E. Sherw ood.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tovarich_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Tovarich END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-band-wagon-musical-1931 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19310603 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19320118 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 3\, 1931.\nRan 260 performances\, to about January 1932.\n\nThe Band Wagon is a musical revue with book by George S. Kaufman and Howard Dietz\, lyrics also by Dietz an d music by Arthur Schwartz. It first played on Broadway in 1931\, running for 260 performances. It introduced the song "Dancing in the Dark" and ins pired two films.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band_Wagon_%28musica l%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Band Wagon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:gay-divorce-1932 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19321107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19330702 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Wilbur Theatre on November 7\, 1932.\nClosed July 1\, 1933 after 248 performances — 8 months.\n\nGay Divorce is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Dwight Taylor\, adapted by Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein. It was Fred Astaire's last Broadwa y show and featured the hit song "Night and Day" in which Astaire danced w ith co-star Claire Luce.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Divorce SUMMARY:🎵 Gay Divorce END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:design-for-living-1933 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19330102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19330726 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on January 2\, 1933.\nRan 233 performances\, to about July 1933.\n\nDesign for Living is a comedy p lay written by Noël Coward in 1932. It concerns a trio of artistic charac ters\, Gilda\, Otto and Leo\, and their complicated three-way relationship . Originally written to star Lynn Fontanne\, Alfred Lunt and Coward\, it w as premiered on Broadway\, partly because its risqué subject matter was t hought unacceptable to the official censor in London. It was not until 193 9 that a London production was presented.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Design_for_Living SUMMARY:🎭 Design for Living END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:in-abraham-s-bosom-1926 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19261230 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19270619 DESCRIPTION:Opened on December 30\, 1926.\nClosed June 18\, 1927 after 200 performances — 6 months.\n\nIn Abraham's Bosom is a play by American dra matist Paul Green. He was based in North Carolina and wrote historical pla ys about the South.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Abraham%27s_Bosom SUMMARY:🎭 In Abraham's Bosom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:tip-toes-1925 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19251228 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19260615 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Liberty Theatre on December 28\, 1925.\nRan 192 p erformances\, to about June 1926.\n\nTip-Toes is a musical with a book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson\, lyrics by Ira Gershwin\, and music by Georg e Gershwin. It centers on a vaudeville act composed of Tip-Toes\, her brot her and her uncle\, who try to pass her off as an aristocrat to snare a mi llionaire husband. Farcical complications ensue involving Tip-Toes' tempor ary amnesia and a marital infidelity subplot.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Tip-Toes SUMMARY:🎵 Tip-Toes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:strike-up-the-band-musical-1930 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19300114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19300629 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Times Square Theatre on January 14\, 1930.\nClose d June 28\, 1930 after 191 performances — 5 months.\n\nStrike Up the Ban d is a 1927 musical with a book by Morrie Ryskind\, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and music by George Gershwin. It first ran as a satirical show in Philade lphia that year\, unsuccessfully\, and on Broadway in 1930 after the origi nal book by George S. Kaufman was revised by Ryskind. The show concerned a cheese manufacturer who sponsors a war against Switzerland because it wil l be named after him. Much of the satire of the 1927 version was replaced in the new version by silliness\, leading Ryskind to recall\, "What I had to do\, in a sense\, was to rewrite War and Peace for the Three Stooges." In the 1930 version the opening of Act I of the musical was reset from a c heese factory to a chocolate factory\, and much of the work was re-imagine d as occurring during a dream sequence.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S trike_Up_the_Band_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Strike Up the Band END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:come-back-little-sheba-play-1950 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19500215 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19500802 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Booth Theatre on February 15\, 1950.\nRan 190 per formances\, to about August 1950.\n\nCome Back\, Little Sheba is a 1950 pl ay by the American dramatist William Inge. Inge wrote the play while he wa s a teacher at Washington University in St. Louis.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Come_Back%2C_Little_Sheba_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Come Back\, Little Sheba END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:awake-and-sing-1935 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19350219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19350731 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Belasco Theatre on February 19\, 1935.\nRan 184 p erformances\, to about July 1935.\n\nAwake and Sing! is a drama play writt en by American playwright Clifford Odets. The play was initially produced by The Group Theatre in 1935.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awake_and_S ing%21 SUMMARY:🎭 Awake and Sing! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:sizwe-banzi-is-dead-1974 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19741113 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19750403 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Edison Theatre on November 13\, 1974.\nRan 159 pe rformances\, to about April 1975.\n\nSizwe Banzi Is Dead is a play by Atho l Fugard\, written collaboratively with two South African actors\, John Ka ni and Winston Ntshona\, both of whom appeared in the original production. Its world première occurred on 8 October 1972 at the Space Theatre\, Cap e Town\, South Africa. Its subsequent British première won a London Theat re Critics Award for the Best Play of 1974. Its American première occurre d at the Edison Theatre\, in New York City\, on 13 November 1974. It has b een ranked among the best plays ever made by The Independent\, where it wa s described as a "deceptively light and humane play that outlasts the apar theid era."\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizwe_Banzi_Is_Dead SUMMARY:🎭 Sizwe Banzi Is Dead END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-waltz-of-the-toreadors-1957 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19570117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19570514 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Coronet Theatre on January 17\, 1957.\nRan 132 pe rformances\, to about May 1957.\n\nThe Waltz of the Toreadors is a 1951 pl ay by Jean Anouilh.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waltz_of_the_Tore adors SUMMARY:🎭 The Waltz of the Toreadors END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:why-marry-1917 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19171225 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19180402 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Astor Theatre on December 25\, 1917.\nClosed Apri l 1\, 1918 after 120 performances — 3 months.\n\nWhy Marry? is a 1917 pl ay written by American playwright Jesse Lynch Williams. It won the first P ulitzer Prize for Drama in 1918.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Marr y%3F SUMMARY:🎭 Why Marry? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-belle-of-amherst-1976 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19760428 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19760809 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Longacre Theatre on April 28\, 1976.\nRan 116 per formances\, to about August 1976.\n\nThe Belle of Amherst is a one-woman p lay by William Luce.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belle_of_Amherst SUMMARY:🎭 The Belle of Amherst END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:allegiance-musical-2015 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160215 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Longacre Theatre on November 8\, 2015.\nClosed Fe bruary 14\, 2016 after 111 performances — 3 months.\n\nAllegiance is a m usical with music and lyrics by Jay Kuo and a book by Marc Acito\, Kuo and Lorenzo Thione. The story\, set during the Japanese American internment o f World War II\, was inspired by the personal experiences of George Takei\ , who starred in the musical. It follows the Kimura family in the years fo llowing the attack on Pearl Harbor\, as they are forced to leave their far m in Salinas\, California\, and are sent to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in the rural plains of Wyoming.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al legiance_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Allegiance END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-heidi-chronicles-1988 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19881118 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19890220 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 18\, 1988.\nClosed February 19\, 1989 after 99 performances — 3 months.\n\nThe Heidi Chronicles is a 1988 play by We ndy Wasserstein. The play won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.\n\nhttps: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heidi_Chronicles SUMMARY:🎭 The Heidi Chronicles END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:cinderella-lloyd-webber-musical-2023 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230516 DESCRIPTION:Opened in March 2023.\nRan 85 performances\, to about May 2023. \n\nAndrew Lloyd Webber's Cinderella\, produced on Broadway as Bad Cindere lla\, is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber\, lyrics by David Zip pel\, and a book by Emerald Fennell. Loosely adapted from the classic Cind erella story\, the musical recasts gender relationships\, explores the the me of beauty shaming\, and Cinderella changes her appearance to secure lov e\, but discovers it is better to be true to oneself. Plot changes include Cinderella being made a scapegoat by the town\; the queen colluding with the stepmother\; the prince inviting Cinderella to the ball\; the prince's engagement to a stepsister \; and the prince elopes with Cinderella\, and they leave the town.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_%28Lloyd _Webber_musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Cinderella END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:treasure-girl-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19281108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19290108 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on November 8\, 1928.\nRan 68 per formances\, to about January 1929.\n\nTreasure Girl is a 1928 American mus ical with a book by Fred Thompson and Vincent Lawrence\, music by George G ershwin\, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was one of the several Gershwin s hows produced by Alex A. Aarons and Vinton Freedley.\n\nhttps://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Treasure_Girl SUMMARY:🎵 Treasure Girl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:on-your-toes-1954 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19541011 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19541207 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 11\, 1954.\nRan 64 performances\, to about De cember 1954.\n\nOn Your Toes (1936) is a musical with a book by Richard Ro dgers\, George Abbott\, and Lorenz Hart\, music by Rodgers\, and lyrics by Hart. It was adapted into a film in 1939.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/On_Your_Toes SUMMARY:🎵 On Your Toes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:a-tale-of-two-cities-musical-2008 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080918 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081110 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Asolo Repertory Theatre on September 18\, 2008.\n Closed November 9\, 2008 after 60 performances — 52 days.\n\nA Tale of T wo Cities is a musical with book\, music and lyrics by Jill Santoriello ba sed on the 1859 novel of the same name by Charles Dickens.\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 A Tale of Two Cities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:little-johnny-jones-1904 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19041017 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19041203 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Walnut Street Theatre on October 17\, 1904.\nRan 52 performances\, to about December 1904.\n\nLittle Johnny Jones is a musi cal by George M. Cohan. The show introduced Cohan's tunes "Give My Regards to Broadway" and "The Yankee Doodle Boy." The Johnny Jones character was inspired by real-life Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan.\n\nhttps://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Little_Johnny_Jones SUMMARY:🎵 Little Johnny Jones END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:anna-karenina-musical-1992 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19920826 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19921007 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre on August 26\, 1992. \nRan 46 performances\, to about October 1992.\n\nAnna Karenina is a 1992 musical with a book and lyrics by Peter Kellogg and music by Daniel Levine .\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Anna Karenina END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:pardon-my-english-1933 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19330120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19330228 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Majestic Theatre on January 20\, 1933.\nRan 43 pe rformances\, to about February 1933.\n\nPardon My English is a musical wit h a book by Herbert Fields and Morrie Ryskind\, lyrics by Ira Gershwin\, a nd music by George Gershwin. Set in 1933 Dresden\, the farcical plot satir izes the Prohibition era.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_My_Engli sh SUMMARY:🎵 Pardon My English END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-will-rogers-follies-1991 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19910501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19930906 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Palace Theatre on May 1\, 1991.\nClosed September 5\, 1993 after 981 performances — 2.3 years.\n\nThe Will Rogers Follies is a musical with a book by Peter Stone\, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adol ph Green\, and music by Cy Coleman.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_W ill_Rogers_Follies SUMMARY:🎵 The Will Rogers Follies END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:raisin-musical-1973 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19731018 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19751209 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 18\, 1973.\nClosed December 8\, 1975 after 84 7 performances — 2.1 years.\n\nRaisin is a musical with music by Judd Wo ldin\, lyrics by Robert Brittan\, and a book by Robert Nemiroff and Charlo tte Zaltzberg. It is an adaptation of the Lorraine Hansberry play A Raisin in the Sun\; the musical's book was co-written by Hansberry's husband\, R obert Nemiroff. Ernestine Jackson participated also in the Raisin musical in 1973\, she originated the role of Ruth Younger.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Raisin_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Raisin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:three-men-on-a-horse-1935 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19350130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19361210 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Playhouse Theatre on January 30\, 1935.\nClosed D ecember 9\, 1936 after 835 performances — 22 months.\n\nThree Men on a H orse is a three-act farce co-authored by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott . The comedy focuses on a man who discovers he has a talent for choosing t he winning horse in a race as long as he never places a bet himself. Origi nally titled Hobby Horse by John Cecil Holm\, Three Men On A Horse was a p roperty controlled and produced by Alex Yokel\, who reached out to Warner Bros. for financial assistance\; Warner agreed to provide financing on the condition Yokel find someone to doctor the script and direct the Broadway production. George Abbott\, the director\, who had since 1932 directed an d produced each of his Broadway productions\, immediately saw the potentia l. He rewrote the script and agreed to direct if he received co-author cre dit and split the author's royalties with Holm. Abbott wrote a third act\, resulting in a new three-act play titled Three Men on a Horse.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_on_a_Horse SUMMARY:🎭 Three Men on a Horse END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:agnes-of-god-1982 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19820330 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19830905 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Music Box Theatre on March 30\, 1982.\nClosed Sep tember 4\, 1983 after 599 performances — 17 months.\n\nAgnes of God is a 1979 play by American playwright John Pielmeier which tells the story of a novice nun who gives birth but does not believe she has. After the child is found dead\, a psychiatrist and the mother superior of the convent cla sh during the resulting investigation. The title is a pun on the Latin phr ase Agnus Dei.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_of_God SUMMARY:🎭 Agnes of God END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-show-off-1924 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19240205 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19250620 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Playhouse Theatre on February 5\, 1924.\nRan 571 performances\, to about June 1925.\n\nThe Show-Off is a 1924 stage play by George Kelly about a working-class North Philadelphian family's reluctanc e to accept their daughter's suitor Aubrey Piper\, an overly confident Soc ialist buffoon. The play has been revived five times on Broadway and adapt ed for film four times\; it is Kelly's most frequently produced play.\n\nh ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Show-Off SUMMARY:🎭 The Show-Off END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:look-homeward-angel-play-1957 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19571128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19590407 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 28\, 1957.\nR an 564 performances\, to about April 1959.\n\nLook Homeward\, Angel is a 1 957 stage play by the playwright Ketti Frings. The play is based on Thomas Wolfe's 1929 largely autobiographical novel of the same title.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Homeward%2C_Angel_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Look Homeward\, Angel END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-vagabond-king-1925 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19250101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19260326 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1925.\nRan 511 performances\, to about March 1926.\n\ nThe Vagabond King is a 1925 operetta by Rudolf Friml in four acts\, with a book and lyrics by Brian Hooker and William H. Post\, based upon Justin Huntly McCarthy's 1901 romantic novel and play If I Were King. The story i s a fictionalized episode in the life of the 15th-century poet and thief F rançois Villon\, centering on his wooing of Katherine De Vaucelles\, and relating how he becomes “king for a day” and defends France against th e invading forces of the Duke of Burgundy.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/The_Vagabond_King SUMMARY:🎵 The Vagabond King END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:panama-hattie-1940 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19401030 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19420104 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 30\, 1940.\nClosed January 3\, 1942 after 501 performances — 14 months.\n\nPanama Hattie is a 1940 American musical w ith music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Herbert Fields and B. G. D eSylva. The musical is about a nightclub owner\, Hattie Maloney\, who live s in the Panama Canal Zone and ends up dealing with both romantic and mili tary intrigue. The title is a play on words\, referring to the popular Pan ama hat.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Hattie SUMMARY:🎵 Panama Hattie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:a-few-good-men-play-1989 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19891115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19910125 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Music Box Theatre on November 15\, 1989.\nRan 497 performances\, to about January 1991.\n\nA Few Good Men is a play by Aaro n Sorkin\, first produced on Broadway by David Brown in 1989. It tells the story of military lawyers at a court-martial who uncover a high-level con spiracy in the course of defending their clients\, two United States Marin es accused of murder.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Few_Good_Men_%28p lay%29 SUMMARY:🎭 A Few Good Men END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:rio-rita-musical-1927 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19270202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19280408 DESCRIPTION:Opened on February 2\, 1927.\nClosed April 7\, 1928 after 494 p erformances — 14 months.\n\nRio Rita is a 1927 American stage musical wi th a book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson\, music by Harry Tierney\, lyric s by Joseph McCarthy\, and produced by Florenz Ziegfeld. This musical unit ed Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey as a comedy team and made them famous.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Rita_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Rio Rita END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:call-me-madam-1952 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19520801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19531002 DESCRIPTION:Opened in August 1952.\nRan 486 performances\, to about October 1953.\n\nCall Me Madam is a Broadway musical written by Howard Lindsay an d Russel Crouse\, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin.\n\nhttps://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/Call_Me_Madam SUMMARY:🎵 Call Me Madam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:oh-boy-musical-1917 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19170220 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19180403 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Princess Theatre on February 20\, 1917.\nRan 463 performances\, to about April 1918.\n\nOh\, Boy! is a musical in two acts\ , with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wo dehouse. The story concerns befuddled George\, who elopes with Lou Ellen\, the daughter of Judge Carter. He must win over her parents and his Quaker aunt. His dapper polo champion friend Jim is in love with madcap actress Jackie\, but George must hide her while she extricates herself from a scra pe with a bumbling constable whom she punched at a party raid.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh%2C_Boy%21_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Oh\, Boy! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:new-girl-in-town-1957 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19570504 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19580518 DESCRIPTION:Opened on May 4\, 1957.\nRan 431 performances\, to about May 19 58.\n\nNew Girl in Town is a 1957 musical with a book by George Abbott and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill based on Eugene O'Neill's 1921 play Anna Christie\, about a prostitute who tries to live down her past. New Girl\, unlike O'Neill's play\, focuses on the jealousy of the character Marthy an d on love's ability to conquer all. The musical ends far more hopefully th an the play.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Girl_in_Town SUMMARY:🎵 New Girl in Town END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:ladies-night-play-1920 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19200809 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19210705 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre on August 9\, 1920.\n Ran 375 performances\, to about July 1921.\n\nLadies' Night is a three-act play originally written by Charlton Andrews and later reworked by Avery H opwood. The play was a sex farce with part of the action set in a Turkish bath instead of a bedroom. A. H. Woods staged it on Broadway\, where it op ened under the direction of Bertram Harrison on August 9\, 1920 at the Elt inge 42nd Street Theatre. Ladies' Night had a run of 375 performances with the final curtain falling in June 1921. It was revived on Broadway in ada pted forms in 1945 and 1950.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies%27_Ni ght_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Ladies' Night END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:sunny-musical-1925 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19250922 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19261212 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Forrest Theatre on September 22\, 1925.\nClosed D ecember 11\, 1926 after 364 performances — 15 months.\n\nSunny is a musi cal comedy with music by Jerome Kern and a libretto by Oscar Hammerstein I I and Otto Harbach. The plot involves Sunny\, the star of a circus act\, w ho falls for a rich playboy but comes in conflict with his snooty family. This show was the follow-up to the 1920 hit musical Sally\, both starring Marilyn Miller in the title roles\, and it was Kern's first musical in col laboration with Hammerstein. Sunny also became a hit\, with its original B roadway production in 1925 running for 517 performances. The London produc tion starred Binnie Hale and ran for 364 performances\, while the UK natio nal tour starred Felice Lascelles and ran for nearly three years.\n\nhttps ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Sunny END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:best-foot-forward-musical-1941 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19411001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19420715 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 1\, 1941.\nRan 326 performances\, to about July 1942.\n\nBest Foot Forward is a 1941 mus ical with songs by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane\, and a book by John Cecil Holm. Produced by George Abbott\, the production opened on Broadway on Oct ober 1\, 1941\, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre after an out-of-town tryout \, where it ran for 326 performances. It was directed by Abbott\, with cho reography by Gene Kelly and starred Rosemary Lane. The show was Nancy Walk er's Broadway debut and also launched June Allyson into stardom. Sets and lighting were by Jo Mielziner\, and costumes were by Miles White.\n\nhttps ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Foot_Forward_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Best Foot Forward END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:i-ll-say-she-is-1923 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19230601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19250208 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Walnut Street Theatre in June 1923.\nClosed Febru ary 7\, 1925 after 313 performances — 20 months.\n\nI'll Say She Is (192 4) is a musical comedy revue written by brothers Will B. Johnstone and Tom Johnstone (music). It was the Broadway debut of the Marx Brothers. The in itial production premiered in June 1923 at Walnut Street Theatre in Philad elphia\, Pennsylvania before its national tour.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/I%27ll_Say_She_Is SUMMARY:🎵 I'll Say She Is END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-night-boat-1920 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19200202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19201103 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Liberty Theatre on February 2\, 1920.\nRan 313 pe rformances\, to about November 1920.\n\nThe Night Boat (1920) is a musical in three acts\, based on a farce by Alexandre Bisson\, with a book and ly rics by Anne Caldwell and music by Jerome Kern. The story lampoons the not orious New York City-to-Albany night boat\, on which clandestine romances were common.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Boat SUMMARY:🎵 The Night Boat END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-girl-friend-1926 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19260317 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19261228 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Vanderbilt Theatre on March 17\, 1926.\nClosed De cember 27\, 1926 after 301 performances — 9 months.\n\nThe Girl Friend i s a musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers\, lyrics by Lorenz Hart a nd book by Herbert Fields. This was the longest running show for the trio to that date.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Friend SUMMARY:🎵 The Girl Friend END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-red-mill-1906 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19060924 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19070630 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 24\, 1906.\nCl osed June 29\, 1907 after 274 performances — 9 months.\n\nThe Red Mill i s an operetta written by Victor Herbert\, with a libretto by Henry Blossom . The farcical story concerns two American vaudevillians who wreak havoc a t an inn in the Netherlands\, interfering with two marriages\; but all end s well. The musical premiered on Broadway on September 24\, 1906\, at the Knickerbocker Theatre and ran for 274 performances\, starring comedians Fr ed Stone and David C. Montgomery. It also had a London run and toured exte nsively\, and in 1945 had a long-running Broadway revival. The Red Mill in cludes the famous songs "Every Day is Lady's Day with Me"\, "The Streets o f New York"\, "You Never Can Tell About a Woman"\, and "Because You're You ".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Mill SUMMARY:🎵 The Red Mill END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:little-me-musical-1962 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19621117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19630628 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 17\, 1962.\nClo sed June 27\, 1963 after 257 performances — 7 months.\n\nLittle Me is a musical written by Neil Simon\, with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Car olyn Leigh. The original 1962 Broadway production featured Sid Caesar in m ultiple roles with multiple stage accents\, playing all of the heroine's h usbands and lovers. One of the better-known songs from the musical is "I'v e Got Your Number".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Me_%28musical% 29 SUMMARY:🎵 Little Me END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:fifty-million-frenchmen-1929 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19290101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19300706 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1929.\nClosed July 5\, 1930 after 254 performances — 18 months.\n\nFifty Million Frenchmen is a musical comedy with a book by Herbert Fields and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It opened on Broadw ay in 1929 and was adapted for a film two years later. The title is a refe rence to the hit 1927 song "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" by Wil lie Raskin\, Billy Rose\, and Fred Fisher\, which compared free attitudes in 1920s Paris with censorship and prohibition in the United States. The m usical's plot is consistent with the standard boy-meets-girl plots of musi cal comedies of the first half of the twentieth century.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Million_Frenchmen SUMMARY:🎵 Fifty Million Frenchmen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-roar-of-the-greasepaint-the-smell-of-the-crowd-1965 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19650516 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19651206 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on May 16\, 1965.\nRan 231 perfor mances\, to about December 1965.\n\nThe Roar of the Greasepaint – The Sm ell of the Crowd is a musical with a book\, music\, and lyrics by Leslie B ricusse and Anthony Newley. The musical is best known for introducing the standards "Look at That Face"\, "A Wonderful Day Like Today"\, "Who Can I Turn To?"\, "Feeling Good"\, and "The Joker". The show title is a transpos ition of the phrase "the smell of the greasepaint\, the roar of the crowd\ ," referring to the experience of theatre performers.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/The_Roar_of_the_Greasepaint_%E2%80%93_The_Smell_of_the_Crowd SUMMARY:🎵 The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:buddy-the-buddy-holly-story-1990 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19901104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19910521 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on November 4\, 1990.\nRan 225 pe rformances\, to about May 1991.\n\nBuddy: The Buddy Holly Story is a music al in two acts written by Alan Janes\, and featuring the music of Buddy Ho lly. It opened at the Plymouth Theatre Royal in August 1989 before It tran sferred to the Victoria Palace Theatre on 12 October 1989. An early exampl e of the jukebox musical\, Buddy ran in London's West End for over 12 year s\, playing 5\,140 performances. Janes took over the producing of the show himself in 2004\, and Buddy has been on tour extensively in the UK since then\, having played Broadway\, five U.S. National Tours and numerous othe r productions around the world. The show was nominated for an Olivier Awar d for Best Musical.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy%3A_The_Buddy_Ho lly_Story SUMMARY:🎵 Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-garrick-gaieties-1925 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19250101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19250706 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1925.\nRan 211 performances\, to about July 1925.\n\n Garrick Gaieties is a revue with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lo renz Hart\, the first successful musical by this songwriting team.\n\nhttp s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garrick_Gaieties SUMMARY:🎵 The Garrick Gaieties END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-century-girl-1916 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19161106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19170501 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Century Theatre on November 6\, 1916.\nRan 200 pe rformances\, to about April 1917.\n\nThe Century Girl is a musical comedy revue with music by Victor Herbert and Irving Berlin\, and lyrics by Henry Blossom and Berlin.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_Girl SUMMARY:🎵 The Century Girl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:adele-musical-1913 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19130828 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19140217 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Longacre Theatre on August 28\, 1913.\nRan 196 pe rformances\, to about February 1914.\n\nAdele is a musical in three acts w ith book\, music and lyrics by Adolf Philipp. The musical was coyly market ed and published as an English adaptation by Adolf Philipp and Edward A. P aulton with the claim that the original French book and lyrics were by Pau l Hervé\, and the music by Jean Briquet. However\, both Paul Hervé and J ean Briquet were pseudonyms of Adolf Philipp and the work had never been w ritten or performed in French prior to the original English language produ ction. This was done to make the work seem like an authentic French stage work rather than the original creation of Adolf Philipp\, an American.\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Adele END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:paris-1928-musical-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19280101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19280621 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1928.\nRan 195 performances\, to about June 1928.\n\n Paris is a musical with the book by Martin Brown\, and music and lyrics by Cole Porter\, as well as Walter Kollo and Louis Alter (music) and E. Ray Goetz and Roy Turk (lyrics). The musical\, which premiered on Broadway in 1928\, was Porter's first Broadway hit. The musical introduced the song "L et's Do It\, Let's Fall in Love" sung by the show's star\, Irene Bordoni. The story involves a young man from a very proper family in Newton\, Massa chusetts whose mother is horrified by his intention to wed a French actres s.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_%281928_musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Paris END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-gingerbread-lady-1970 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19701213 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19710530 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Plymouth Theatre on December 13\, 1970.\nClosed M ay 29\, 1971 after 193 performances — 5 months.\n\nThe Gingerbread Lady is a play by Neil Simon. It was widely believed to have been written speci fically for actress Maureen Stapleton\, who won both the Tony Award and Dr ama Desk Award for her performance. But in a later autobiography\, Simon w rote that he'd feared Stapleton might be "hurt" if she assumed the charact er's flaws and personal damage were a direct dramatization of her life. Si mon said that it was director Mike Nichols' suggestion to cast Stapleton i n the role\, and that Simon responded\, "This is not really Maureen. It's ten\, twenty different actresses I've met over the years."\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gingerbread_Lady SUMMARY:🎭 The Gingerbread Lady END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-grapes-of-wrath-play-1990 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19900322 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19900904 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Cort Theatre on March 22\, 1990.\nRan 188 perform ances\, to about September 1990.\n\nThe Grapes of Wrath is a 1988 play ada pted by Frank Galati from the classic 1939 John Steinbeck novel of the sam e name\, with incidental music by Michael Smith. The play debuted at the S teppenwolf Theatre in Chicago\, followed by a May 1989 production at the L a Jolla Playhouse in San Diego and a June 1989 production at the Royal Nat ional Theatre in London. After eleven previews\, the Broadway production\, directed by Galati\, opened on March 22\, 1990 at the Cort Theatre\, wher e it ran for 188 performances. The cast included Gary Sinise\, Kathryn Erb e\, Terry Kinney\, Jeff Perry\, Lois Smith\, Sally Murphy\, Francis Guinan \, and Stephen Bogardus. The play was adapted for television in 1990 for t he PBS series American Playhouse.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gra pes_of_Wrath_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Grapes of Wrath END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:watch-your-step-musical-1914 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19141208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19150512 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 8\, 1914.\nRan 175 performances\, to about May 1915.\n\nWatch Your Step is a musical with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a book by Harry B. Smith. Set over the course of one day in New York City\, the musical takes place after the death of a wealthy man who leaves his fortune to whichever relative has n ever been in love and never been kissed. Each hopeful heir plots to get th eir competitors involved in "damaging affairs".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Watch_Your_Step_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Watch Your Step END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:smilin-through-play-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19191230 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19200602 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on December 30\, 1919.\nRan 17 5 performances\, to about June 1920.\n\nSmilin' Through is a 1919 play by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin\, written under a pseudonym\, Allan Langdon Mart in. Cowl also starred in the play in a double role and co-directed it with Priestly Morrison. Smilin' Through was produced by The Selwyns and opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway on December 30\, 1919. It included in the cast Orme Caldara as Kenneth and Jeremiah Wayne\, Henry Stephenson as John Carteret and Ethelbert D. Hales as Dr. Owen Harding. Scenic design was by Joseph Urban. The play was a popular hit and ran for 175 performan ces. It also played for a long run on the road\, and was one of Jane Cowl' s greatest commercial successes.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilin%2 7_Through_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Smilin' Through END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:jubilee-musical-1935 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19350101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19360508 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1935.\nClosed May 7\, 1936 after 169 performances — 16 months.\n\nJubilee is a musical comedy with a book by Moss Hart and mu sic and lyrics by Cole Porter. It premiered on Broadway in 1935 to rapturo us reviews. Inspired by the recent Silver Jubilee of George V of Great Bri tain\, the story is of the royal family of a fictional European country. S everal of its songs\, especially "Begin the Beguine" and "Just One of Thos e Things"\, became independently popular and have become part of the Ameri can Songbook.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Jubilee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:stage-door-play-1936 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19361022 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19370320 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Music Box Theatre on October 22\, 1936.\nRan 169 performances\, to about March 1937.\n\nStage Door is a 1936 stage play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman about a group of struggling actresses wh o room at the Footlights Club\, a fictitious theatrical boardinghouse in N ew York City modeled after the real-life Rehearsal Club. The three-act com edy opened on Broadway on October 22\, 1936\, at the Music Box Theatre and ran for 169 performances. The play was adapted into the 1937 film of the same name\, and was also adapted for television.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/Stage_Door_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Stage Door END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:knickerbocker-holiday-1938 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19381019 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19390312 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 19\, 1938.\nCl osed March 11\, 1939 after 168 performances — 5 months.\n\nKnickerbocker Holiday is a 1938 musical written by Kurt Weill (music) and Maxwell Ander son\, based loosely on Washington Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York about life in 17th-century New Netherland. The musical numbers includ e "September Song"\, now considered a pop standard.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Knickerbocker_Holiday SUMMARY:🎵 Knickerbocker Holiday END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-new-yorkers-1930 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19300101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19300529 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1930.\nRan 168 performances\, to about May 1930.\n\nT he New Yorkers is a musical with score by Cole Porter and book by Herbert Fields that satirizes New York City types during Prohibition\, from high s ociety matrons to con men\, bootleggers\, thieves\, and prostitutes. The m usical premiered on Broadway in 1930\, based on a story by E. Ray Goetz an d Peter Arno\, cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine. Star Jimmy Durante contributed additional songs to feature his character. The original Broadw ay production received mostly positive reviews and ran for 168 performance s.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorkers SUMMARY:🎵 The New Yorkers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:sinbad-1918-musical-1918 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19180214 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19180709 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 14\, 1918.\nRan 164 performances\, to about July 1918.\n\nSinbad is a Broadway musical wi th a book and lyrics by Harold Atteridge and music by Sigmund Romberg\, Al Jolson and others. Jolson plays a porter in old Bagdad where he meets a s eries of characters from the Arabian Nights\, including Sinbad. He is tran sported to various exotic settings.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinba d_%281918_musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Sinbad END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-shrike-play-1952 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19520115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19520601 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Cort Theater on January 15\, 1952.\nClosed May 31 \, 1952 after 161 performances — 5 months.\n\nThe Shrike is a play writt en by American dramatist Joseph Kramm. The play won the 1952 Pulitzer Priz e for Drama.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shrike_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Shrike END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-princess-pat-1915 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19150929 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19160216 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Cort Theatre on September 29\, 1915.\nRan 158 per formances\, to about February 1916.\n\nThe Princess Pat is an operetta in three acts with music by Victor Herbert and book and lyrics by Henry Bloss om. While set on Long Island\, New York\, the story follows the American b orn Princess di Montaldo\, a.k.a. "Princess Pat"\, who is married to the I talian Prince Antonio di Montaldo\, a.k.a. "Prince Toto". Unhappy that her husband ignores her\, she is intent on winning back his attention and aff ections. Herbert wrote the piece as a vehicle for the soprano Eleanor Pain ter.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Pat SUMMARY:🎵 The Princess Pat END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:dodsworth-play-1934 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19340224 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19340704 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on February 24\, 1934.\nRan 147 p erformances\, to about July 1934.\n\nDodsworth is a three-act play by Sidn ey Howard based on the 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis. Through the title cha racter\, it examines the differences between American and European intelle ct\, manners\, and morals.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodsworth_%28p lay%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Dodsworth END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:sweethearts-musical-1913 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19130908 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19140106 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 8\, 1913.\nRan 136 performances\, to about January 1914.\n\nSweethearts is an operetta o r musical play in two acts with music by Victor Herbert\, lyrics by Robert B. Smith and book by Harry B. Smith and Fred de Gresac.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Sweethearts_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Sweethearts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:dear-world-1969 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19690206 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19690601 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on February 6\, 1969.\nClo sed May 31\, 1969 after 132 performances — 4 months.\n\nDear World is a musical with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. With its opening\, Herman became the first composer-lyr icist in history to have three productions running simultaneously on Broad way. It starred Angela Lansbury\, who won the Tony Award for Leading Actre ss in a Musical in 1969 for her performance as the Countess Aurelia.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_World SUMMARY:🎵 Dear World END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:banjo-eyes-1941 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19411225 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19420416 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Hollywood Theatre on December 25\, 1941.\nRan 126 performances\, to about April 1942.\n\nBanjo Eyes is a musical based on t he play Three Men on a Horse by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott. It has a book by Joseph Quinlan and Izzy Ellinson\, music by Vernon Duke\, and ly rics by John La Touche and Harold Adamson.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Banjo_Eyes SUMMARY:🎵 Banjo Eyes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:gigi-musical-2015 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150621 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150622 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Neil Simon Theatre on June 21\, 2015.\nClosed Jun e 21\, 2015 after 103 performances — 0 days.\n\nGigi is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. It is ba sed on the 1944 novella Gigi by Colette and 1958 hit musical film of the s ame name. The story concerns Gigi\, a free-spirited teenaged girl living i n Paris at the turn of the 20th century. She is being groomed as a courtes an in her family's tradition. Before she is deemed ready for her social de but\, she encounters the bon vivant bachelor Gaston Lachaille\, whom she c aptivates as she is transformed into a charmingly poised young lady.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigi_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Gigi END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:big-fish-musical-2013 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130905 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20131230 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Neil Simon Theatre on September 5\, 2013.\nClosed December 29\, 2013 after 98 performances — 4 months.\n\nBig Fish is a m usical with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and book by John August. It i s based on Daniel Wallace's 1998 novel\, Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Propo rtions\, and the 2003 film Big Fish written by John August and directed by Tim Burton.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Fish_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Big Fish END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:forty-five-minutes-from-broadway-1906 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19060101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19060322 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1906.\nRan 90 performances\, to about March 1906.\n\n Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway is a three-act musical by George M. Cohan written about the town of New Rochelle\, New York. The title refers to th e 45-minute train ride from New Rochelle to Broadway. The story concerns a romance between a maid who stands to inherit a fortune and an unpopular o ut-of-towner.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-five_Minutes_from_Bro adway SUMMARY:🎵 Forty-five Minutes from Broadway END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:around-the-world-musical-1946 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19460501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19460804 DESCRIPTION:Opened in May 1946.\nClosed August 3\, 1946 after 75 performanc es — 3 months.\n\nAround the World is a musical based on the 1873 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days\, with a book by Orson Welles and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It involves an around-the-world adven ture by Phileas Fogg. The expensive musical extravaganza opened on Broadwa y in May 1946 but closed after 75 performances.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Around_the_World_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Around the World END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:mack-and-mabel-1974 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19740617 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19741201 DESCRIPTION:Opened on June 17\, 1974.\nClosed November 30\, 1974 after 66 p erformances — 5 months.\n\nMack & Mabel is a musical with a book by Mich ael Stewart and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. The plot involves the tu multuous romantic relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand\, who became one of his biggest stars. In a series of flash backs\, Sennett relates the glory days of Keystone Studios from 1911\, whe n he discovered Normand and cast her in dozens of his early "two-reelers"\ , through his creation of Sennett's Bathing Beauties and the Keystone Cops to Mabel's death from tuberculosis in 1930.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/Mack_and_Mabel SUMMARY:🎵 Mack and Mabel END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:american-psycho-musical-2015 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150219 DESCRIPTION:Opened in January 2015.\nRan 54 performances\, to about Februar y 2015.\n\nAmerican Psycho is a musical with music and lyrics by Duncan Sh eik and a book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. It is based on the controversial 1991 novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis\, which also inspired a 2 000 film of the same name\, that starred Christian Bale. Set in Manhattan during the Wall Street boom of the late 1980s\, American Psycho is about t he daily life of Patrick Bateman\, a young and wealthy investment banker w ho is also secretly a serial killer.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amer ican_Psycho_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 American Psycho END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:a-grand-night-for-singing-1993 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19931117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19940103 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 17\, 1993.\nRan 52 performances\, to about J anuary 1994.\n\nA Grand Night for Singing is a musical revue showcasing th e music of Richard Rodgers and the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II. The sho w had an original cabaret production and a subsequent Broadway engagement where it was nominated for two Tony® Awards.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/A_Grand_Night_for_Singing SUMMARY:🎵 A Grand Night for Singing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:clash-by-night-play-1960 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19600307 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19600420 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 7\, 1960.\nRan 49 performances\, to about April 1960.\n\nClash by Night is a romantic triangle drama by Clifford Odets wh ich premiered on Broadway in 1941 and was later adapted to film and televi sion. The title derives from Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach" (1867):Ah \, love\, let us be true\nTo one another! for the world\, which seems\nTo lie before us like a land of dreams\,\nSo various\, so beautiful\, so new\ ,\nHath really neither joy\, nor love\, nor light\,\nNor certitude\, nor p eace\, nor help for pain\;\nAnd we are here as on a darkling plain\nSwept with confused alarms of struggle and flight\,\nWhere ignorant armies clash by night.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_by_Night_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Clash by Night END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:a-severed-head-1964 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19641028 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19641124 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Royale Theatre on October 28\, 1964.\nRan 29 perf ormances\, to about November 1964.\n\nA Severed Head is a satirical\, some times farcical 1961 novel by Iris Murdoch. It was Murdoch's fifth publishe d novel.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Severed_Head SUMMARY:🎭 A Severed Head END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:putting-it-together-1992 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19920101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19920123 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1992.\nRan 24 performances\, to about January 1992.\n \nPutting it Together is a musical revue showcasing the songs of Stephen S ondheim. Drawing its title from a song in Sunday in the Park with George\, it was devised by Sondheim and Julia McKenzie. The revue has received sev eral productions\, beginning with its premiere in England in 1992\, Off-Br oadway in 1993\, Broadway in 1999 and the West End in 2014.\n\nhttps://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Putting_It_Together SUMMARY:🎵 Putting It Together END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:alfie-play-1964 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19641217 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19650103 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the New York's Morosco Theatre on December 17\, 1964. \nClosed January 2\, 1965 after 21 performances — 16 days.\n\nAlfie is a 1963 stage play written by Bill Naughton. Developed from a radio drama\, the original London production starred John Neville\, and the Broadway tra nsfer starred Terence Stamp.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_%28pla y%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Alfie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:purlie-1970 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19700315 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19700329 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway Theatre on March 15\, 1970.\nRan 14 perf ormances\, to about March 1970.\n\nPurlie is a musical with a book by Ossi e Davis\, Philip Rose\, and Peter Udell\, lyrics by Udell and music by Gar y Geld. It is based on Davis's 1961 play Purlie Victorious.\n\nhttps://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Purlie SUMMARY:🎵 Purlie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:1600-pennsylvania-avenue-musical-1976 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19760504 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19760509 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on May 4\, 1976.\nClosed M ay 8\, 1976 after 7 performances — 4 days.\n\n1600 Pennsylvania Avenue i s a 1976 musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Al an Jay Lerner. It is considered to be a legendary Broadway flop\, running only seven performances. It was Bernstein's last original score for Broadw ay.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1600_Pennsylvania_Avenue_%28musical%2 9 SUMMARY:🎵 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:blue-monday-opera-1922 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19220828 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19220829 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Globe Theatre on August 28\, 1922.\nClosed August 28\, 1922 — 0 days.\n\nBlue Monday was the original name of a one-act "jazz opera" by George Gershwin\, renamed 135th Street during a later prod uction. The English libretto was written by Buddy DeSylva. Though a short piece\, with a running time of between twenty and thirty minutes\, Blue Mo nday is often considered the blueprint to many of Gershwin's later works\, and the "first piece of symphonic jazz" in that it was the first signific ant attempt to fuse forms of classical music such as opera with American p opular music\, with the opera largely influenced by Jazz and the African-A merican culture of Harlem.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_%2 8opera%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Blue Monday END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:miss-1917-1917 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19171105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19180106 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Century Theatre on November 5\, 1917.\nClosed Jan uary 5\, 1918 — 2 months.\n\nMiss 1917 is a musical revue with a book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse\, music by Jerome Kern\, Victor Herbert an d others\, and lyrics by Harry B. Smith\, Otto Harbach\, Henry Blossom and others. Made up of a string of vignettes\, the show features songs from s uch musicals as The Wizard of Oz\, Three Twins\, Babes in Toyland\, Ziegfe ld Follies and The Belle of New York.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mis s_1917 SUMMARY:🎵 Miss 1917 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:goodbye-charlie-play-1959 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19591216 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19600320 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert-Lafayette Theatre on December 16\, 1959.\ nClosed March 19\, 1960 — 3 months.\n\nGoodbye Charlie is a 1959 play wr itten by George Axelrod. It opened on Broadway on December 16\, 1959\, and closed on March 19\, 1960.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_Charl ie_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Goodbye Charlie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:norman-is-that-you-1970 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19700219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19700301 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lyceum Theatre on February 19\, 1970.\nClosed Feb ruary 28\, 1970 — 9 days.\n\nNorman\, Is That You? is a 1970 play in two acts by American playwrights Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick about a Jewish cou ple coming to terms with their son's homosexuality. The work is notably th e first play written by both writers. After 19 preview performances\, the play officially opened on Broadway on February 19\, 1970\, at the Lyceum T heatre. It closed after only 12 more performances on February 28\, 1970. T he production was directed by George Abbott and starred Martin Huston as N orman Chambers\, Walter Willison as Garson Hobart\, Lou Jacobi as Ben Cham bers\, Dorothy Emmerson as Mary\, and Maureen Stapleton as Beatrice Chambe rs.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%2C_Is_That_You%3F SUMMARY:🎭 Norman\, Is That You? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-young-man-from-atlanta-1995 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19950127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19950227 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Signature Theatre on January 27\, 1995.\nClosed F ebruary 26\, 1995 — 30 days.\n\nThe Young Man from Atlanta is a drama wr itten by American dramatist Horton Foote first produced Off-Broadway by th e Signature Theatre in January 1995. Foote received the 1995 Pulitzer Priz e for Drama. This was one of four Foote plays the group produced during it s 1994/1995 season.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Man_from_At lanta SUMMARY:🎭 The Young Man from Atlanta END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:anna-lucasta-play-1944 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19440616 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19461201 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Library Theatre on June 16\, 1944.\nClosed Novemb er 30\, 1946 after 957 performances — 2.5 years.\n\nAnna Lucasta is a 19 44 American play by Philip Yordan. Inspired by Eugene O'Neill's Anna Chris tie\, the play was originally written about a Polish American family. The American Negro Theatre director Abram Hill and director Harry Wagstaff Gri bble adapted the script for an all African American cast\, and presented t he first performance on June 16\, 1944. The play moved from Harlem to Broa dway's Mansfield Theatre\, running August 30\, 1944 – November 30\, 1946 . The Broadway cast included Hilda Simms\, Canada Lee\, and Alice Childres s.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Lucasta_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Anna Lucasta END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:bells-are-ringing-musical-1956 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19561129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19590217 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on November 29\, 1956.\nRan 924 p erformances\, to about February 1959.\n\nBells Are Ringing is a musical wi th a book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule St yne. The story revolves around Ella\, who works at an answering service\, and the characters that she meets there. The main character was based on M ary Printz\, who worked for Green's answering service. Three of the show's tunes\, "Long Before I Knew You"\, "Just in Time"\, and "The Party's Over "\, became standards.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_Are_Ringing_% 28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Bells Are Ringing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:li-l-abner-musical-1956 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19561115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19580716 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 15\, 1956.\nRan 693 performances\, to about July 1958.\n\nLi'l Abner is a 1956 musical with a book by Norman Panama an d Melvin Frank\, music by Gene De Paul\, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Base d on the comic strip Li'l Abner by Al Capp\, the show is\, on the surface\ , a broad spoof of hillbillies\, but it is also a pointed satire on other topics\, ranging from American politics and incompetence in the United Sta tes federal government to propriety and gender roles.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/Li%27l_Abner_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Li'l Abner END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:irene-musical-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19190101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19200815 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1919.\nRan 675 performances\, to about August 1920.\n \nIrene is a musical with a book by James Montgomery\, lyrics by Joseph Mc Carthy\, and music by Harry Tierney. Based on Montgomery's play Irene O'Da re\, it is set in New York City's Upper West Side and focuses on immigrant shop assistant Irene O'Dare\, who is introduced to Long Island's high soc iety when she is hired to tune a piano for a society gentleman.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Irene END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:bloomer-girl-1944 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19441005 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19460428 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 5\, 1944.\nClosed Apri l 27\, 1946 after 657 performances — 19 months.\n\nBloomer Girl is a 194 4 Broadway musical with music by Harold Arlen\, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg\, a nd a book by Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy\, based on an unpublished play by w riter Daniel Lewis James and his wife Lilith. The plot concerns independen t Evelina Applegate\, a hoop skirt manufacturer's daughter who defies her father by rejecting hoopskirts and embracing comfortable bloomers advocate d by her aunt "Dolly" Bloomer\, who was inspired by the women's rights adv ocate Amelia Bloomer. The American Civil War is looming\, and abolitionist Evelina refuses to marry suitor Jeff Calhoun until he frees his slave\, P ompey.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomer_Girl SUMMARY:🎵 Bloomer Girl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:broadway-play-1926 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19260916 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19280227 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on September 16\, 1926.\nRan 6 03 performances\, to about February 1928.\n\nBroadway is a 1926 Broadway p lay produced by Jed Harris and written and directed by George Abbott and P hilip Dunning. It was Abbott's first big hit on his way to becoming "the m ost famous play doctor of all time" after he "rejiggered" Dunning's play. The crime drama used "contemporary street slang and a hard-boiled\, realis tic atmosphere" to depict the New York City underworld during Prohibition. It opened on September 16\, 1926\, at the Broadhurst Theatre and was one of the venue's greatest hits\, running for 603 performances.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Broadway END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-man-from-home-play-1908 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19080801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19091107 DESCRIPTION:Opened in August 1908.\nClosed November 6\, 1909 after 500 perf ormances — 15 months.\n\nThe Man from Home is a 1907 play written by Boo th Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson. It is a comedy with four acts\, three settings\, and moderate pacing. The story concerns an Indiana lawyer who has travelled to Italy to save his ward from an ill-conceived marriage. Th e action of the play all takes place within 24 hours.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Home_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Man from Home END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:maytime-musical-1917 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19170816 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19181022 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on August 16\, 1917.\nRan 492 per formances\, to about October 1918.\n\nMaytime is a musical with music by S igmund Romberg and lyrics and book by Rida Johnson Young\, and with additi onal lyrics by Cyrus Wood. The story is based on the 1913 German operetta Wie einst im Mai\, composed by Walter Kollo\, with words by Rudolf Bernaue r and Rudolph Schanzer. The story\, set in New York\, is told in episodes covering a long period\, from 1840 to the early 20th century. Young Ottill ie\, the daughter of a prominent family is in love with Dick\, a poor musi cian\, but they are kept apart by family and circumstance. Years later\, t heir descendants marry. Maytime introduced songs such as "The Road to Para dise"\, "Will You Remember?" and "Jump Jim Crow".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Maytime_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Maytime END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:kid-boots-1923 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19231231 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19250304 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Earl Carroll Theatre on December 31\, 1923.\nRan 489 performances\, to about March 1925.\n\nKid Boots is a musical with a b ook by William Anthony McGuire and Otto Harbach\, music by Harry Tierney\, and lyrics by Joseph McCarthy. The show was staged by Edward Royce.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Boots SUMMARY:🎵 Kid Boots END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:lend-an-ear-1948 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19481216 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19500124 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Majestic Theatre on December 16\, 1948.\nRan 460 performances\, to about January 1950.\n\nLend an Ear is a musical revue wi th a book\, music\, and lyrics by Charles Gaynor and additional sketches b y Joseph Stein and Will Glickman.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend_an _Ear SUMMARY:🎵 Lend an Ear END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:five-guys-named-moe-1992 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19920408 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19930504 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on April 8\, 1992.\nRan 44 5 performances\, to about May 1993.\n\nFive Guys Named Moe is a musical wi th a book by Clarke Peters and lyrics and music by Louis Jordan and others . The musical is based on an earlier musical short of the same name by Lou is Jordan from 1943. It had its UK debut at the Cottesloe Theatre at the N ational Theatre followed by a short run at the Theatre Royal Stratford Eas t\, before moving to the West End for over four years in\, and finally pre miering on Broadway in 1992. It was revived in 2010 at Edinburgh Festival\ , starring Peters himself\, and returned later in 2010 to the theatre in w hich it originally premiered. The musical won the Laurence Olivier Award f or Best Entertainment.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Guys_Named_Mo e SUMMARY:🎵 Five Guys Named Moe END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:twin-beds-1914-play-1914 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19140814 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19150810 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Fulton Theatre on August 14\, 1914.\nRan 411 perf ormances\, to about August 1915.\n\nTwin Beds is a 1914 comedic play by Sa lisbury Field and Margaret Mayo\, based on Field's 1913 novel of the same name\, which played on Broadway and was also the basis for multiple film a daptations. The play debuted on August 14\, 1914\, at the Fulton Theatre\, and ran on Broadway for 411 performances.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Twin_Beds_%281914_play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Twin Beds END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:hold-everything-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19281010 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19291004 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 10\, 1928.\nRan 409 performances\, to about October 1929.\n\nHold Everything! is a musical co medy with lyrics by Lew Brown and B. G. de Sylva\, music by Ray Henderson\ , and has an accompanying book by John McGowan and B. G. de Sylva. A music al about professional boxing\, the work's central character is welterweigh t Sonny Jim Brooks. The musical takes place at "Pop" O'Keefe's Training Ca mp on Long Island\; at the Hotel Wood\; and at Madison Square Garden\, New York.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold_Everything%21 SUMMARY:🎵 Hold Everything! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:merton-of-the-movies-play-1922 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19221113 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19231023 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Cort Theatre on November 13\, 1922.\nRan 392 perf ormances\, to about October 1923.\n\nMerton of the Movies is a 1922 satiri cal comedy play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. It was adapted fro m the novel of the same name.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merton_of_t he_Movies_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Merton of the Movies END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-warrens-of-virginia-play-1907 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19071203 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19081101 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Belasco Theater on December 3\, 1907.\nRan 380 pe rformances\, to about October 1908.\n\nThe Warrens of Virginia is a dramat ic play set during the American Civil War by playwright William C. de Mill e. It was produced on Broadway by David Belasco in 1907 and was the basis for two films in 1915 and in 1924. The play was also the basis for a novel ization by author George Cary Eggleston in 1908.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/The_Warrens_of_Virginia_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Warrens of Virginia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:tangerine-musical-1921 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19210101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19220827 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Casino Theatre in 1921.\nClosed August 26\, 1922 after 361 performances — 20 months.\n\nTangerine is a musical with music by Monte Carlo and Alma M. Sanders\, lyrics by Howard Johnston\, about th ree men jailed for not paying alimony\, written by Philip Bartholomae and Guy Bolton.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Tangerine END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-blue-paradise-1915 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19150101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19151110 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1915.\nRan 356 performances\, to about November 1915. \n\nThe Blue Paradise is a musical in a prologue and two acts\, with music by Edmund Eysler\, Sigmund Romberg and Leo Edwards\, lyrics primarily by Herbert Reynolds\, and a book by Edgar Smith\, based on the operetta Ein T ag im Paradies by Eysler with original text by Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach. The story is set in a Viennese cafe\, where a man realizes that he cannot recapture his long lost love.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_P aradise SUMMARY:🎵 The Blue Paradise END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:going-up-musical-1917 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19171225 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19181030 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Liberty Theatre on December 25\, 1917.\nRan 351 p erformances\, to about October 1918.\n\nGoing Up is a musical comedy in th ree acts with music by Louis Hirsch and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach an d James Montgomery. Set in the US city of Lenox\, Massachusetts\, at the e nd of World War I\, the musical tells the story of a writer turned aviator who wins the hand of the high society girl that he loves by his daring ha ndling of the joystick of a biplane. Popular songs included "Hip Hooray"\, "If You Look in Her Eyes"\, "Kiss Me"\, "Going Up"\, "Do It for Me"\, "Th e Tickle Toe"\, and "Down! Up! Left! Right!".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Going_Up_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Going Up END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:top-banana-musical-1951 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19510101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19521005 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1951.\nClosed October 4\, 1952 after 350 performances — 21 months.\n\nTop Banana is a musical with music and lyrics by Johnny Mercer and book by Hy Kraft which premiered on Broadway in 1951. The show was written as a star vehicle for comedian Phil Silvers\, who played the host of a television variety show program. Silvers won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical in 1952.\n\nhttps://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/Top_Banana_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Top Banana END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-thirteenth-chair-play-1916 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19161101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19170821 DESCRIPTION:Opened in November 1916.\nClosed August 20\, 1917 after 350 per formances — 10 months.\n\nThe Thirteenth Chair is a 1916 play by the Ame rican writer Bayard Veiller. It has three acts and a single setting. The a ction takes place entirely in the drawing room of a large house in New Yor k City during one evening. One critic labelled it a melodrama using myster y fiction devices: a murder during a seance\, and a locked-room mystery. T here are no clues given to the audience to identify the murderer\, who is exposed only by supernatural agency in the last act.\n\nhttps://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Chair_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Thirteenth Chair END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:over-here-1974 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19740306 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19750105 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on March 6\, 1974.\nClosed Januar y 4\, 1975 after 341 performances — 10 months.\n\nOver Here! is a musica l with a score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman and book by Wil l Holt. The original Broadway production was directed by Tom Moore and cho reographed by Patricia Birch\, with scenic design by Douglas W. Schmidt an d costumes by Carrie F. Robbins.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_Her e%21 SUMMARY:🎵 Over Here! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:very-good-eddie-1915 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19151223 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19161018 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Princess Theatre on December 23\, 1915.\nRan 341 performances\, to about October 1916.\n\nVery Good Eddie is a musical with a book by Guy Bolton and Philip Bartholomae\, music by Jerome Kern\, and lyrics by Schuyler Greene\, with additional lyrics by Elsie Janis\, Herber t Reynolds\, Harry B. Smith\, John E. Hazzard\, Ring Lardner and Jerome Ke rn\, and additional music by Henry Kailimai. The story was based on the fa rce Over Night by Bartholomae. The farcical plot concerns three couples an d a sex-crazed voice teacher who board a Hudson River Day Line boat in Pou ghkeepsie\, New York. Chaos ensues when two of the couples cross paths and accidentally trade partners. The vaudeville-style adventure continues at a hotel\, where guests pop in and out of rooms while an inebriated desk cl erk tries to sort through the madness.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ve ry_Good_Eddie SUMMARY:🎵 Very Good Eddie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-little-show-1929 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19290430 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19300206 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Music Box Theatre on April 30\, 1929.\nRan 321 pe rformances\, to about February 1930.\n\nThe Little Show was a musical revu e with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz. It was the fir st of 11 musicals that featured the songs of Dietz and Schwartz. The revue opened at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway on April 30\, 1929 and ran fo r 321 performances until February 1930.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T he_Little_Show SUMMARY:🎵 The Little Show END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:lorelei-musical-1974 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19740127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19741104 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Palace Theatre on January 27\, 1974.\nClosed Nove mber 3\, 1974 after 321 performances — 9 months.\n\nLorelei is a musical with a book by Kenny Solms and Gail Parent\, lyrics by Betty Comden and A dolph Green\, and music by Jule Styne. It is a revision of the Joseph Fiel ds-Anita Loos book for the 1949 production Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and in cludes many of the Jule Styne-Leo Robin songs written for the original.\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorelei_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Lorelei END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:leave-it-to-jane-1917 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19170101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19171004 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Longacre Theatre in 1917.\nRan 314 performances\, to about October 1917.\n\nLeave It to Jane is a musical in two acts\, wit h music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehou se\, based on the 1904 play The College Widow\, by George Ade. The story c oncerns the football rivalry between Atwater College and Bingham College\, and satirizes college life in a Midwestern U.S. town. A star halfback\, B illy\, forsakes his father's alma mater\, Bingham\, to play at Atwater\, t o be near the seductive Jane\, the daughter of Atwater's president.\n\nhtt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_It_to_Jane SUMMARY:🎵 Leave It to Jane END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:battling-buttler-1923 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19231008 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19240421 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Selwyn Theater on October 8\, 1923.\nClosed April 20\, 1924 after 313 performances — 6 months.\n\nBattling Buttler is a m usical in three acts with music by Philip Braham and a book and lyrics by Stanley Brightman\, Austin Melford and Douglas Furber\, which opened in Lo ndon in 1922. It was then greatly revised by Walter L. Rosemont (music) an d Ballard MacDonald and produced on Broadway in 1923 after tryouts in Detr oit and Chicago.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battling_Buttler SUMMARY:🎵 Battling Buttler END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:baker-street-musical-1965 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19650216 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19651115 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway Theatre on February 16\, 1965.\nClosed N ovember 14\, 1965 after 311 performances — 9 months.\n\nBaker Street is a 1965 musical with a book by Jerome Coopersmith and music and lyrics by M arian Grudeff and Raymond Jessel\, based on the tales of Sherlock Holmes.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Street_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Baker Street END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:spanish-love-1920 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19200817 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19210508 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Maxine Elliott Theatre on August 17\, 1920.\nRan 300 performances\, to about May 1921.\n\nSpanish Love is a three-act play by Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rinehart\, who adapted an earlier Spanis h play\, María del Carmen by Josep Feliu i Codina. Producers Lincoln Wage nhals and Collin Kemper staged it at the Maxine Elliott Theatre on Broadwa y\, where it opened on August 17\, 1920. Although critics had reservations about the play\, the production was a success\, running for over 300 perf ormances. However\, the play's success was overshadowed by the tremendous popularity of The Bat\, another collaboration between Hopwood and Rinehart that opened on Broadway the following week.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/Spanish_Love SUMMARY:🎭 Spanish Love END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:dearest-enemy-1925 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19250918 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19260523 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 18\, 1925.\nCl osed May 22\, 1926 after 286 performances — 8 months.\n\nDearest Enemy i s a musical with a book by Herbert Fields\, lyrics by Lorenz Hart\, and mu sic by Richard Rodgers. This was the first of eight book musicals written by the songwriting team of Rodgers and Hart and writer Herbert Fields\, an d the first of more than two dozen Rodgers and Hart Broadway musicals. The musical takes place in 1776\, during the American Revolutionary War\, whe n Mary Lindley Murray detained British troops long enough in Manhattan to give George Washington time to move his vulnerable troops.\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/Dearest_Enemy SUMMARY:🎵 Dearest Enemy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:blackbirds-of-1926-1926 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19260528 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19270129 DESCRIPTION:Opened on May 28\, 1926.\nRan 279 performances\, to about Janua ry 1927.\n\nBlackbirds of 1926\, also known as Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1926\, was a musical revue with an all African American cast created and p roduced by impresario Lew Leslie that starred Florence Mills\, Edith Wilso n\, and Johnny Hudgins\, with music by George W. Meyer and Arthur Johnston \, and lyrics by Grant Clarke and Roy Turk. The Blackbirds were a continua tion of Leslie's Plantation Revue\, and the 1926 show was the first and or iginal of a series of revues that would continue for more than a decade. T he show ran for two years\, and was succeeded by a new show called Blackbi rds of 1928\, a Broadway hit. Leslie mounted a series of Blackbirds revues \, which ran in 1926\, 1928\, 1930\, 1933 and 1939. The series were named after Mills' theme song\, "I'm a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird\, " a thinly veiled protest against racial injustice\, which she first sang in 1924.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbirds_of_1926 SUMMARY:🎵 Blackbirds of 1926 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:little-nellie-kelly-musical-1922 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19220731 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19230331 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Tremont Theatre on July 31\, 1922.\nRan 276 perfo rmances\, to about March 1923.\n\nLittle Nellie Kelly was a two-act musica l comedy of the Jazz Age\, written\, produced and directed by George M. Co han. After opening in Boston in July 1922\, it had long runs on Broadway i n 1922–1923\, in the West End of London in 1923–1924\, and on tours.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nellie_Kelly_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Little Nellie Kelly END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:june-moon-1929 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19291009 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19300606 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 9\, 1929.\nRan 273 performances\, to about June 1930.\n\nJune Moon is a play by George S. Kau fman and Ring Lardner. Based on the Lardner short story "Some Like Them Co ld\," about a love affair that loses steam before it ever gets started\, i t includes songs with words and music by Lardner but is not considered a m usical.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Moon SUMMARY:🎭 June Moon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn-musical-1951 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19510419 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19511210 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Alvin Theatre on April 19\, 1951.\nRan 267 perfor mances\, to about December 1951.\n\nA Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a musical with a book by George Abbott and Betty Smith\, lyrics by Dorothy Fields\, and music by Arthur Schwartz.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tree_Grow s_in_Brooklyn_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-gazebo-play-1958 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19581212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19590803 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Lyceum Theatre on December 12\, 1958.\ nRan 266 performances\, to about August 1959.\n\nThe Gazebo is a play by A lec Coppel based on a story by Coppel and his wife Myra.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/The_Gazebo_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Gazebo END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:declassee-play-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19191006 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19200516 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Empire Theatre on October 6\, 1919.\nClosed May 1 5\, 1920 after 262 performances — 7 months.\n\nDéclassée more commonly known as Declassee\, is a 1919 play by Zoe Akins. A three-act drama with as many settings\, it has twenty-five speaking parts. The action of the pl ay takes place over three years time. The story concerns a English noblewo man who loses her place in society through pride\, caprice\, misplaced aff ection\, and adherence to her own code of honor.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/D%C3%A9class%C3%A9e_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Déclassée END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:buddies-musical-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19191017 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19200601 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Selwyn Theatre on October 17\, 1919.\nRan 259 per formances\, to about May 1920.\n\nBuddies is a 1919 musical by George V. H obart and with music by Bentley Collingwood Hilliam. After an initial run in Boston starting on August 12\, it opened at the Selwyn Theatre on Broad way on October 17\, 1919\, and played for 259 performances through June 12 \, 1920. The musical is set in Brittany\, France.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Buddies_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Buddies END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-midnight-sons-1909 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19090522 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19100103 DESCRIPTION:Opened on May 22\, 1909.\nRan 257 performances\, to about Janua ry 1910.\n\nThe Midnight Sons is a 1909 American musical comedy that was p opular upon its release.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Son s SUMMARY:🎵 The Midnight Sons END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:golden-boy-play-1937 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19371104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19380612 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Belasco Theatre on November 4\, 1937.\nRan 250 pe rformances\, to about June 1938.\n\nGolden Boy is a drama by Clifford Odet s. The play was initially produced on Broadway by The Group Theatre in 193 7. Odets' biggest hit was made into a 1939 film of the same name\, starrin g William Holden in his breakthrough role\, and also served as the basis f or a 1964 musical with Sammy Davis Jr.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go lden_Boy_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Golden Boy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-crucifer-of-blood-1978 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19780928 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19790424 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on September 28\, 1978.\nRan 236 performances\, to about April 1979.\n\nThe Crucifer of Blood is a play by Paul Giovanni that is adapted from the Arthur Conan Doyle novel The Si gn of the Four. It depicts the character Irene St. Claire hiring the detec tive Sherlock Holmes to investigate the travails that her father and his t hree compatriots suffered over a pact made over a cursed treasure chest in colonial India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.\n\nhttps://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/The_Crucifer_of_Blood SUMMARY:🎭 The Crucifer of Blood END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:sweet-adeline-musical-1929 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19290101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19300323 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1929.\nClosed March 22\, 1930 after 234 performances — 15 months.\n\nSweet Adeline is a musical with music by Jerome Kern\, b ook and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and original orchestration by Rober t Russell Bennett. It premiered on Broadway in 1929. The story\, set in th e Gay Nineties\, concerns a Hoboken\, New Jersey girl who\, unlucky in lov e\, becomes a Broadway star.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Adelin e_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Sweet Adeline END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:jumbo-musical-1935 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19351116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19360419 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Hippodrome Theatre on November 16\, 1935.\nClosed April 18\, 1936 after 233 performances — 5 months.\n\nJumbo is a musica l produced by Billy Rose\, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lo renz Hart and book by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.\n\nhttps://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/Jumbo_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Jumbo END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:rollo-s-wild-oat-1920 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19201123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19210612 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 23\, 1920.\nRan 228 performances\, to about June 1921.\n\nRollo's Wild Oat is a 1920 comedic play by Clare Kummer.\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo%27s_Wild_Oat SUMMARY:🎭 Rollo's Wild Oat END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:beggar-on-horseback-1924 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19240212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19240827 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on February 12\, 1924.\nRan 22 3 performances\, to about August 1924.\n\nBeggar on Horseback is a 1924 pl ay by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Beggar_on_Horseback SUMMARY:🎭 Beggar on Horseback END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-county-chairman-play-1903 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19031124 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19040605 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 24\, 1903.\nClosed June 4\, 1904 after 222 p erformances — 6 months.\n\nThe County Chairman is a 1903 comedy play by George Ade\, which was one of his greatest successes. Produced by Henry W. Savage\, it played for 222 performances on Broadway at Wallack's Theatre. It was also adapted to film in 1914 and 1935.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_County_Chairman_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The County Chairman END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:do-i-hear-a-waltz-1965 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19650318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19650926 DESCRIPTION:Opened on March 18\, 1965.\nClosed September 25\, 1965 after 22 0 performances — 6 months.\n\nDo I Hear a Waltz? is a musical with a boo k by Arthur Laurents\, music by Richard Rodgers\, and lyrics by Stephen So ndheim. It was adapted from Laurents' 1952 play The Time of the Cuckoo\, w hich was the basis for the 1955 film Summertime starring Katharine Hepburn .\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_I_Hear_a_Waltz%3F SUMMARY:🎵 Do I Hear a Waltz? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:of-mice-and-men-play-1937 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19371123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19380525 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Music Box Theatre on November 23\, 1937.\nRan 207 performances\, to about May 1938.\n\nOf Mice and Men is a play adapted fr om John Steinbeck's 1937 novel of the same name. The play\, which predates the Tony Awards and the Drama Desk Awards\, earned the 1938 New York Dram a Critics' Circle Best Play.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Mice_and_ Men_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Of Mice and Men END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:mlle-modiste-1905 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19051225 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19060621 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on December 25\, 1905.\nRan 202 performances\, to about June 1906.\n\nMlle. Modiste is an operetta in two acts composed by Victor Herbert with a libretto by Henry Blossom. It concerns hat shop girl Fifi\, who longs to be an opera singer\, but who is such a good hat seller that her employer\, Mme. Cecil\, discourages her i n her ambitions and exploits her commercial talents. Also\, Fifi loves Eti enne de Bouvray\, who returns her love\, but his uncle\, Count Henri\, opp oses their union. The operetta features the song "Kiss Me Again".\n\nhttps ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mlle._Modiste SUMMARY:🎵 Mlle. Modiste END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:miss-lulu-bett-play-1920 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19201227 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19210619 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Belmont Theatre on December 27\, 1920.\nClosed Ju ne 18\, 1921 after 198 performances — 6 months.\n\nMiss Lulu Bett is a 1 920 play adapted by American author Zona Gale from her novel of the same t itle.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Lulu_Bett_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Miss Lulu Bett END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:big-musical-1996 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19960428 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19961014 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on April 28\, 1996.\nClosed Octob er 13\, 1996 after 193 performances — 6 months.\n\nBig The Musical is a 1996 musical adaptation of the 1988 film starring Tom Hanks. It was direct ed by Mike Ockrent and featured music by David Shire and lyrics by Richard Maltby\, Jr.\, with choreography by Susan Stroman. It involves Josh Baski n\, a 12-year-old boy who grows up overnight after being granted a wish by a Zoltar Speaks machine at a carnival. With the aid of his best friend\, Billy\, he must cope with his new adulthood while finding the machine so t hat he can wish himself back and more.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi g_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Big END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-petrified-forest-play-1935 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19350107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19350630 DESCRIPTION:Opened on January 7\, 1935.\nClosed June 29\, 1935 after 193 pe rformances — 6 months.\n\nThe Petrified Forest is a 1934 two-act play by American playwright Robert E. Sherwood. It is a melodrama\, with a large cast and one setting. The story takes place inside a cafe called the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q and Filling Station\, on a lonely crossroads in eastern Ariz ona. The family who runs it\, their employees\, and some customers are tak en hostage by a criminal gang which has just pulled off a bloody jail brea k in Oklahoma City. The entirety of the action occurs in the course of one afternoon and evening in 1934. The title comes from the nearby petrified forest\, where the drifting protagonist feels he belongs.\n\nhttps://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/The_Petrified_Forest_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Petrified Forest END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:lawful-larceny-play-1922 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19220102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19220619 DESCRIPTION:Opened on January 2\, 1922.\nRan 190 performances\, to about Ju ne 1922.\n\nLawful Larceny is a play by Samuel Shipman. It was adapted int o the 1923 silent film and 1930 sound film of the same name.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_Larceny_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Lawful Larceny END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:oh-my-dear-1918 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19181127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19190513 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Princess Theatre on November 27\, 1918.\nRan 189 performances\, to about May 1919.\n\nOh\, My Dear! was a musical comedy in two acts with book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse\, and mus ic by Louis A. Hirsch. It premiered under the direction of Robert Milton a nd Edward Royce at the Princess Theatre on Broadway on November 27\, 1918\ , produced by William Elliott and F. Ray Comstock and ran for 189 performa nces\, closing on May 10\, 1919. The story takes place at Dr. Rockett's He alth Farm in the State of New York.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh%2C _My_Dear%21 SUMMARY:🎵 Oh\, My Dear! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-rope-dancers-1957 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19570101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19580504 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Cort Theatre in 1957.\nClosed May 3\, 1958 after 189 performances — 16 months.\n\nThe Rope Dancers is a dramatic stage pl ay written by American playwright Morton Wishengrad (1913–1963). The pla y premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 1957. The play was a critic al and commercial success\, and transferred to the Henry Miller Theatre be ginning January 27\, 1958 for an extended run. The play was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. The plays tells the story of Margaret and Ja mes Hyland\, who have a daughter born with six fingers and suffers from Sa int Vitus' dance.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rope_Dancers SUMMARY:🎭 The Rope Dancers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-girl-from-rector-s-1909 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19090201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19090713 DESCRIPTION:Opened on February 1\, 1909.\nRan 184 performances\, to about J uly 1909.\n\nThe Girl from Rector's is a play written by Paul M. Potter. T he play is a sex farce involving several couples in a tangle of adulterous affairs\, and was considered indecent by many critics\, as well as some g overnment officials who censored performances. It is an adaptation of Lout e\, a French farce by Pierre Veber. In 1909\, producer A. H. Woods staged it on Broadway\, where it was a hit.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ Girl_from_Rector%27s SUMMARY:🎭 The Girl from Rector's END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:red-hot-and-blue-1936 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19360101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19370411 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1936.\nClosed April 10\, 1937 after 183 performances — 15 months.\n\nRed\, Hot and Blue is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It premiered on Broadway in 1936 and introduced the popular song "It's De-Lovely\," sun g by Ethel Merman and Bob Hope.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%2C_Ho t_and_Blue SUMMARY:🎵 Red\, Hot and Blue END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:seventeen-musical-1951 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19510621 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19511129 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on June 21\, 1951.\nRan 182 pe rformances\, to about November 1951.\n\nSeventeen is a 1951 American music al that debuted in the United States starring Kenneth Nelson.\n\nhttps://e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Seventeen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:a-parisian-model-1906 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19060101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19060608 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1906.\nRan 179 performances\, to about June 1906.\n\n A Parisian Model is a 1906 Edwardian musical comedy with music by Max Hoff man\, Sr. to a book and lyrics by Harry B. Smith. The story concerns a dre ssmaker's model who comes into a fortune. It opened on Broadway in 1906\, ran with success and toured. It was produced by Frank McKee and Florenz Zi egfeld Jr.\, and starred Anna Held\, Ziegfeld's common law wife. Soon afte r the success of this piece\, Ziegfeld would launch his famous series of Z iegfeld Follies revues.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Parisian_Model SUMMARY:🎵 A Parisian Model END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:wedding-bells-play-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19191112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19200408 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Harris Theatre on November 12\, 1919.\nRan 168 pe rformances\, to about April 1920.\n\nWedding Bells is a 1919 comedic play which played on Broadway.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_Bells_% 28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Wedding Bells END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:sail-away-musical-1961 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19611003 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19620225 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 3\, 1961.\nClosed F ebruary 24\, 1962 after 167 performances — 5 months.\n\nSail Away is a m usical with a book\, music and lyrics by Noël Coward. The show was the la st musical for which Coward wrote both the book and music\, although he wr ote the music for one last book musical in 1963.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/Sail_Away_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Sail Away END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:when-we-are-married-1940 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19400101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19400518 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1940.\nRan 156 performances\, to about May 1940.\n\nW hen We Are Married is a three-act play by the English dramatist J. B. Prie stley\, described as "A Yorkshire Farcical Comedy". Written in 1934\, it i s set about thirty years earlier\, and depicts the consequences when three middle-aged couples jointly celebrating their silver weddings are informe d that they were not legally married.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whe n_We_Are_Married SUMMARY:🎭 When We Are Married END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:merrily-we-roll-along-play-1934 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19340929 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19350213 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Music Box Theatre on September 29\, 1934.\nRan 15 5 performances\, to about February 1935.\n\nMerrily We Roll Along is a pla y by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. It concerns a man who has lost the i dealistic values of his youth. Its innovative structure presents the story in reverse order\, with the character regressing from a mournful adult to a young man whose future is filled with promise.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Merrily_We_Roll_Along_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Merrily We Roll Along END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:twentieth-century-play-1932 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19321229 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19330512 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on December 29\, 1932.\nRan 15 2 performances\, to about May 1933.\n\nTwentieth Century is a 1932 play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur based on the unproduced play Napoleon of Broadway by Charles B. Millholland\, inspired by his experience working fo r the eccentric Broadway impresario David Belasco.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Twentieth_Century_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Twentieth Century END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:mrs-wiggs-of-the-cabbage-patch-play-1903 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19031001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19050108 DESCRIPTION:Opened in October 1903.\nClosed January 7\, 1905 after 150 perf ormances — 15 months.\n\nMrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch\, is a 1903 com edy by American author Anne Crawford Flexner. It was based on two books by Alice Hegan Rice\, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1901) and Lovey Mary (1903). It has three acts and two settings\, all within the "Cabbage Patch "\, an impoverished neighborhood on the fringes of Louisville\, Kentucky. The character-driven play covers three weeks time and has multiple storyli nes\, including an ill-starred mail-order marriage\, two refugees from an orphanage\, the return of a long-lost husband\, and a handful of young rom ances.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Wiggs_of_the_Cabbage_Patch_%2 8play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:pomander-walk-play-1911 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19110401 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19110423 DESCRIPTION:Opened in April 1911.\nClosed April 22\, 1911 after 143 perform ances — 21 days.\n\nPomander Walk is a 1910 historical comedy by the Bri tish writer Louis N. Parker. Sub-titled "A Comedy of Happiness"\, it has t hree acts\, a single setting\, and according to its author\, neither plot nor villain. The place is a semi-circular row of houses facing the river T hames in Chiswick\, West London. The story concerns the bumpy road to blis s for two young lovers and the romantic awakening of three other couples. The play's action spans nine days during late May and early June 1805.\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomander_Walk_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Pomander Walk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:why-men-leave-home-1922 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19220912 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19230110 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Belasco Theatre on September 12\, 1922.\nRan 135 performances\, to about January 1923.\n\nWhy Men Leave Home is a play in t hree acts by Avery Hopwood. It was adapted into the 1924 silent film Why M en Leave Home.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Men_Leave_Home SUMMARY:🎭 Why Men Leave Home END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:mother-play-1910 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19100907 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19110103 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Hackett Theatre on September 7\, 1910.\nRan 133 p erformances\, to about January 1911.\n\nMother is a 1910 play which was th e first successful play by Jules Eckert Goodman.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/Mother_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Mother END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-golden-apple-musical-1954 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19540311 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19540630 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Phoenix Theatre on March 11\, 1954.\nRan 125 perf ormances\, to about June 1954.\n\nThe Golden Apple is a musical in two act s with music by Jerome Moross and both book and lyrics by John Treville La touche. The musical's story is based on parts of the Iliad and Odyssey. Th e musical premiered Off-Broadway in 1954 and then transferred to Broadway. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Apple_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Golden Apple END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-whirl-of-new-york-1921 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19210613 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19211001 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on June 13\, 1921.\nRan 124 performances\, to about September 1921.\n\nThe Whirl of New York is a Bro adway musical that premiered at Winter Garden Theatre on June 13\, 1921. I t was an expanded and substantially re-worked version of The Belle of New York. The show was billed not as a revival but as "founded on The Belle of New York.". The new version had music by Gustave Kerker\, Al Goodman and Lew Pollack\; book and lyrics by Hugh Morton and Edgar Smith\; additional music by Leo Edwards\; and additional lyrics by Sidney D Mitchell\, Cyrus Wood and Cliff Friend. It opened to favourable reviews and ran for 124 per formances.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whirl_of_New_York SUMMARY:🎵 The Whirl of New York END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-firefly-operetta-1912 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19121202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19130318 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Empire Theatre on December 2\, 1912.\nRan 120 per formances\, to about March 1913.\n\nThe Firefly was the first operetta wri tten by composer Rudolf Friml\, with a libretto by Otto Harbach. The story concerns a young Italian girl\, who is a street singer in New York. She d isguises herself and serves as a cabin boy on a ship to Bermuda\, where sh e falls in love. Complications arise\, and eventually\, she becomes a gran d opera diva.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firefly_%28operetta%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Firefly END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:getting-gertie-s-garter-play-1921 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19210801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19211115 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Republic Theatre on August 1\, 1921.\nRan 120 per formances\, to about November 1921.\n\nGetting Gertie's Garter is a play w ritten by Wilson Collison and Avery Hopwood. Producer A. H. Woods staged i t on Broadway\, where it opened at the Republic Theatre on August 1\, 1921 . Hazel Dawn played the role of Gertie. The play was a sex farce\, but unl ike most productions of its type\, the setting was a hayloft instead of a bedroom. It was a success at the box office\, running for 15 weeks with 12 0 performances on Broadway\, then moving to touring companies.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Gertie%27s_Garter_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Getting Gertie's Garter END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:god-s-favorite-1974 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19741211 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19750324 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on December 11\, 1974.\nCl osed March 23\, 1975 after 119 performances — 3 months.\n\nGod's Favorit e is a play by Neil Simon\, loosely based on the Biblical Book of Job. It was produced on Broadway in 1974.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%27s _Favorite SUMMARY:🎭 God's Favorite END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-misleading-lady-play-1913 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19131101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19140503 DESCRIPTION:Opened in November 1913.\nClosed May 2\, 1914 after 118 perform ances — 6 months.\n\nThe Misleading Lady is a 1913 play by Charles W. Go ddard and Paul Dickey. It is a farcical comedy in three acts\, with two se ttings and sixteen characters. The story concerns an already engaged young woman\, who for a wager convinces a man to propose in front of a secret a udience\, but who is then kidnapped by her victim after his public humilia tion. The action of the play takes place during one night. The play popula rized the trope of a mentally disturbed person identifying as Napoleon.\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Misleading_Lady_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Misleading Lady END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:ziegfeld-follies-of-1936-1936 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19360130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19360510 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 30\, 1936.\nClos ed May 9\, 1936 after 115 performances — 3 months.\n\nThe Ziegfeld Folli es of 1936 is a musical revue with lyrics by Ira Gershwin\, music by Verno n Duke and sketches by Gershwin and David Freedman. The Ziegfeld Follies w ere a series of revues presented from 1907 through 1931\, 1934\, 1936\, 19 43\, and 1957.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziegfeld_Follies_of_1936 SUMMARY:🎵 Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-pride-of-jennico-1900 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19000306 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19000613 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Criterion Theatre on March 6\, 1900.\nRan 111 per formances\, to about June 1900.\n\nThe Pride of Jennico is a four-act play by Abby Sage Richardson and Grace Livingston Furniss based on the book by the same name from Agnes Castle and Egerton Castle published in 1897 by t he Macmillan Company.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pride_of_Jennic o SUMMARY:🎭 The Pride of Jennico END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:new-york-new-york-musical-2023 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230426 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230731 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 26\, 2023.\nClosed July 30\, 2023 after 110 per formances — 3 months.\n\nNew York\, New York is a musical with music by John Kander\, lyrics by Fred Ebb and Lin-Manuel Miranda\, and a book by Da vid Thompson and Sharon Washington. Inspired by and loosely based on the 1 977 film of the same name by Martin Scorsese\, the musical premiered on Br oadway on April 26\, 2023.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%2C_Ne w_York_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 New York\, New York END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-big-knife-play-1949 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19490224 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19490601 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's National Theatre on February 24\, 1949 .\nRan 109 performances\, to about May 1949.\n\nThe Big Knife is an Americ an play by Clifford Odets. The original production was directed by Lee Str asberg\, who had worked with Odets at the Group Theatre\, and starring fel low Group Theatre alumnus John Garfield. The play debuted at Broadway's Na tional Theatre on 24 February 1949 before closing on May 28 after 109 perf ormances. The Big Knife marked the return of Odets to Broadway after a six -year hiatus in which he toiled in Hollywood as a screenwriter and motion picture director. The play concerns the disillusionment of a movie star wi th the Hollywood's studio system and disgust with himself\, as he has lost his idealism in the pursuit of success.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The_Big_Knife_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Big Knife END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-slim-princess-musical-1911 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19110102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19110402 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Globe Theatre on January 2\, 1911.\nClosed April 1\, 1911 after 104 performances — 3 months.\n\nThe Slim Princess is a mu sical in three acts with music by Leslie Stuart and a book and lyrics by H enry Blossom. The musical is an adaptation of George Ade's 1907 novel The Slim Princess. Blossom and Stuart's version of this story was adapted into a silent film first in 1915\, and a second time in 1920.\n\nhttps://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/The_Slim_Princess_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Slim Princess END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-chocolate-dandies-1924 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19240901 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19241125 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the New Colonial Theatre on September 1\, 1924.\nRan 96 performances\, to about November 1924.\n\nThe Chocolate Dandies is a Br oadway musical in two acts that opened September 1\, 1924\, at the New Col onial Theatre and ran for 96 performances – finishing November 22\, 1924 .\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chocolate_Dandies SUMMARY:🎵 The Chocolate Dandies END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:romance-sheldon-play-1948 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19481019 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19490112 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 19\, 1948.\nRan 95 per formances\, to about January 1949.\n\nRomance is a play by the American dr amatist Edward Sheldon. It was first produced in New York in 1913\, and a London production followed in 1915\, which ran for 1\,049 performances. Bo th productions featured Doris Keane as an opera star who has an intense af fair with a young clergyman.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_%28S heldon_play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Romance END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-ham-tree-1905 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19050828 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19051116 DESCRIPTION:Opened on August 28\, 1905.\nRan 90 performances\, to about Nov ember 1905.\n\nThe Ham Tree is a "musical vaudeville" in three acts with m usic by Jean Schwartz\, lyrics by William Jerome\, and a book by George V. Hobart. A popular success from its debut in 1905\, the work toured for se veral years\; including three separate runs on Broadway. The work was crea ted as a starring vehicle for vaudeville and minstrel show stars James McI ntyre and Thomas Heath who were known for their work as blackface performe rs. The work incorporated several of their prior popular routines and sket ches from their work on the vaudeville stage in order to appeal to their f an base. The concept of a "ham tree"\, along with other humorous trees lik e an "egg tree"\, was a repeating gag in their works dating back to their performances in The Georgia Minstrels in the 1890s and early 1900s. Follow ing its initial tour\, the work was revived by McIntyre and Heath several times\, and was later heavily revised and retitled Hello\, Alexander for a Broadway staging in 1919.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ham_Tree SUMMARY:🎵 The Ham Tree END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:dew-drop-inn-musical-1923 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19230517 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19230803 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Astor Theatre on May 17\, 1923.\nRan 88 performan ces\, to about August 1923.\n\nDew Drop Inn is a musical with music by Alf red Goodman and Rudolf Friml\, lyrics by Cyrus Wood\, and a book by Walter DeLeon and Edward Delaney Dunn. While Goodman was the principal composer for the work\, composers Rudolf Friml\, John Frederick Coots\, and Jean Sc hwartz also contributed songs to the show in collaboration with lyricist M cElbert Moore.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dew_Drop_Inn_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Dew Drop Inn END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-hotel-mouse-musical-1922 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19220313 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19220528 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on March 13\, 1922.\nClosed May 2 7\, 1922 after 88 performances — 2 months.\n\n The Hotel Mouse is a mus ical comedy with music by Armand Vecsey and Ivan Caryll\, lyrics by Cliffo rd Grey\, and book by Guy Bolton\, with additional music by Bert Hanlon\, and additional lyrics by Alfred Bryan. The book is based on the French com edy Le souris d'hôtel by Marcel Gerbidon and Paul Armont and concerns a f emale cat burglar in Monte Carlo given the nickname "the hotel mouse" by t he local police\; one of her marks falls in love with her.\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hotel_Mouse_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Hotel Mouse END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:a-stubborn-cinderella-1909 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19090125 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19090413 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway Theatre on January 25\, 1909.\nRan 88 pe rformances\, to about April 1909.\n\nA Stubborn Cinderella is a musical in three acts with music by Joseph E. Howard\, and book and lyrics co-writte n by William M. Hough and Frank R. Adams. A reinvention of the classic Cin derella folk tale\, the plot is a spoof on American college life during th e early 20th century. The musical is set at a fictional Columbus Universit y in the United States\, a Mountain Wilderness near the Mexican Border\, a nd at a beach in Coronado\, California.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A _Stubborn_Cinderella SUMMARY:🎵 A Stubborn Cinderella END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:we-bombed-in-new-haven-1968 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19681016 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19681230 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ambassador Theatre on October 16\, 1968.\nClosed December 29\, 1968 after 85 performances — 2 months.\n\nWe Bombed in New Haven is a 1967 play by Joseph Heller. An anti-war black comedy\, it is t hematically linked in part to Heller's famous novel Catch-22.\n\nhttps://e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Bombed_in_New_Haven SUMMARY:🎭 We Bombed in New Haven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:sadie-love-play-1915 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19151101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19160111 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Gaiety Theatre in November 1915.\nRan 80 performa nces\, to about January 1916.\n\nSadie Love is a three-act play written by Avery Hopwood. Producer Oliver Morosco staged it on Broadway\, where it o pened at the Gaiety Theatre in November 1915. The play is a farce about a widow named Sadie Love\, who marries a prince but discovers he still has f eelings for a previous girlfriend. The play was adapted as a movie of the same name in 1919.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Love_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Sadie Love END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-follies-of-1907-1907 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19070703 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19070912 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Savoy Theatre on July 3\, 1907.\nRan 79 performan ces\, to about September 1907.\n\nThe Follies of 1907 is a 1907 musical re vue which was conceived and produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. The first of two dozen theatrical revues that are collectively known as the Ziegfeld Fo llies\, the work featured material written by a variety of individuals\, i ncluding music by Seymour Furth\, E. Ray Goetz\, Gus Edwards\, Billy Gasto n\, Jean Schwartz\, Silvio Hein\, Matt Woodward and Gertrude Hoffman\; lyr ics by Vincent Bryan\, Edgar Selden\, Will D. Cobb\, Billy Gaston\, Willia m Jerome\, Matt Woodward\, Martin Brown and Paul West\; and comic and dram atic sketches by Harry B. Smith used in-between and around the musical num bers\; Smith also served as head lyricist. Herbert Gresham staged the prod uction\, and Max Hoffman\, Sr. served as the musical director.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Follies_of_1907 SUMMARY:🎵 The Follies of 1907 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-serenade-1897 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18970316 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18970526 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on March 16\, 1897.\nRan 79 performances\, to about May 1897.\n\nThe Serenade is an operetta with mus ic and lyrics by Victor Herbert\, and book by Harry B. Smith. Produced by a troupe called "The Bostonians"\, it premiered on Broadway on March 16\, 1897\, at the Knickerbocker Theatre and ran initially for 79 performances. It remained very popular into the new century\, running almost continuous ly for the next seven years.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Serenade SUMMARY:🎵 The Serenade END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:you-never-know-musical-1938 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19380101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19380312 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1938.\nRan 78 performances\, to about March 1938.\n\n You Never Know is a musical with a book by Rowland Leigh\, adapted from th e original European play By Candlelight\, by Siegfried Geyer and Karl Fark as\, with music by Cole Porter and Robert Katscher\, lyrics by Cole Porter \, additional lyrics by Leigh and Edwin Gilbert\, directed by Leigh\, and songs by others.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Never_Know_%28musica l%29 SUMMARY:🎵 You Never Know END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:almost-famous-musical-2022 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221103 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230111 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 3\, 2022.\nRan 77 performances\, to about Ja nuary 2023.\n\nAlmost Famous is a 2019 stage musical with music by Tom Kit t\, lyrics by Cameron Crowe and Kitt\, and a book by Crowe. It is based on the 2000 film of the same name written and directed by Crowe.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Famous_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Almost Famous END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:teddy-alice-1987 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19871112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19880120 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Minskoff Theatre on November 12\, 1987.\nRan 77 p erformances\, to about January 1988.\n\nTeddy & Alice is a musical with a book by Jerome Alden\, lyrics by Hal Hackady\, and music adapted from the work of John Philip Sousa\, with some new songs by Richard Kapp. In its ve ry early stages\, Alan Jay Lerner contributed material before he died.\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_%26_Alice SUMMARY:🎵 Teddy & Alice END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:bravo-giovanni-1962 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19620519 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19620726 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on May 19\, 1962.\nRan 76 perf ormances\, to about July 1962.\n\nBravo Giovanni is a musical with a book by A. J. Russell\, lyrics by Ronny Graham\, and music by Milton Schafer. I t is based upon Howard Shaw's 1959 novel\, The Crime of Giovanni Venturi. The musical was conceived as a vehicle for opera star Cesare Siepi\, and t he story concerned a family-owned Italian restaurant's efforts to compete with a restaurant chain.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo_Giovanni SUMMARY:🎵 Bravo Giovanni END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-belle-of-brittany-1909 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19091101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19100104 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Daly's Theatre in November 1909.\nRan 72 performa nces\, to about January 1910.\n\nThe Belle of Brittany is an Edwardian mus ical comedy in two acts set in 'Daffodil Time' in rustic 18th-century Brit tany. It premiered at the Queen's Theatre in London on 24 October 1908. Th e music is by Howard Talbot and Marie Horne\, to a book by Leedham Bantock and P. J. Barrow\, with lyrics by Percy Greenbank. A Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre in New York in November 1909 and ran for 72 perfo rmances. It was directed by Frank Smithson and featured Josephine Brandell and Margaret Dumont in early roles.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ Belle_of_Brittany SUMMARY:🎵 The Belle of Brittany END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:jackpot-musical-1944 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19440113 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19440312 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Alvin Theatre on January 13\, 1944.\nClosed March 11\, 1944 after 69 performances — 58 days.\n\nJackpot is an American mu sical with music by Vernon Duke\, lyrics by Howard Dietz\, and a musical b ook by Guy Bolton\, Sidney Sheldon\, and Ben Roberts. The musical premiere d on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on January 13\, 1944. It closed on Marc h 11\, 1944 after a total of 69 performances. Directed by Roy Hargrave\, t he production starred Nanette Fabray as Sally Madison\, Betty Garrett as S gt. Maguire\, Allan Jones as Hank Trimble\, and\, in the small role of Edn a\, future novelist Jacqueline Susann. Choreographer Flower Hujer danced i n the production. A wartime musical designed to boost morale in the U.S. d uring World War II\, Jackpot failed to garner a following among critics an d audiences. A few songs from the show were published: I've Got A One Trac k Mind\, Sugarfoot\, There Are Yanks \, and What Happened?.\n\nhttps://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackpot_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Jackpot END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:ulysses-in-nighttown-1958 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19580101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19580304 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1958.\nRan 69 performances\, to about March 1958.\n\n Ulysses in Nighttown is a play based on the fifteenth episode of James Joy ce's 1922 novel Ulysses. It was adapted by Marjorie Barkentin and contains incidental music by Peter Link. The episode it is based on\, "Circe"\, is unique in that it is written as a play script.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Ulysses_in_Nighttown SUMMARY:🎭 Ulysses in Nighttown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:johnny-johnson-musical-1936 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19360101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19360302 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1936.\nRan 68 performances\, to about March 1936.\n\n Johnny Johnson is a musical with a book and lyrics by Paul Green and music by Kurt Weill. It premiered in 1936 on Broadway.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Johnny_Johnson_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Johnny Johnson END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:marcelle-musical-1908 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19081001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19081201 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Casino Theatre on October 1\, 1908.\nRan 68 perfo rmances\, to about November 1908.\n\nMarcelle is a musical in two acts wit h music by Gustav Luders and both book and lyrics by Frank Pixley. While b illed by its creators as a musical\, it was in reality more of an operetta . It was created as a starring vehicle for Louise Gunning who portrayed th e title role in the original Broadway production. The role of the Parisian barmaid Marcelle required Gunning to masquerade as her character's brothe r\, a young male soldier\; making the part a partial trouser role.\n\nhttp s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelle_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Marcelle END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:arrah-na-pogue-1865 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18650721 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18650920 DESCRIPTION:Opened on July 21\, 1865.\nRan 68 performances\, to about Septe mber 1865.\n\nArrah-na-Pogue\, also known as Arrah-na-Pogue\; or the Wickl ow Wedding\, is a play in 3 acts by Dion Boucicault. Along with The Collee n Bawn (1860) and The Shaughraun (1874)\, it is considered one of the thre e major Irish plays penned by Boucicault. Set during the Irish Rebellion o f 1798\, the play popularized the street ballad The Wearing of the Green\; a rendition of which was included in the play with lyrics by Boucicault. It has had an enduring place in the canon of dramatic literature on the st age internationally\, and has been adapted into other media.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrah-na-Pogue SUMMARY:🎭 Arrah-na-Pogue END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:mule-bone-1991 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19910214 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19910415 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on February 14\, 1991.\nC losed April 14\, 1991 after 68 performances — 59 days.\n\nMule Bone: A C omedy of Negro Life is a 1930 play by American authors Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. The process of writing the play led Hughes and Hursto n\, who had been close friends\, to sever their relationship. Mule Bone wa s not staged until 1991\, when it was produced in New York City by the Lin coln Center Theater.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_Bone SUMMARY:🎭 Mule Bone END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:waterloo-bridge-play-1930 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19300106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19300304 DESCRIPTION:Opened on January 6\, 1930.\nRan 64 performances\, to about Mar ch 1930.\n\nWaterloo Bridge: A play in two acts is a 1930 play by Robert E . Sherwood. It premiered on Broadway January 6\, 1930 and ran until March 1930. It was the basis for three separate films: Waterloo Bridge (1931)\, Waterloo Bridge (1940)\, and Gaby (1956). It is based on the author's expe riences during World War I.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Brid ge_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Waterloo Bridge END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:flying-over-sunset-2021 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211111 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220117 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on November 11\, 2021.\nC losed January 16\, 2022 after 63 performances — 2 months.\n\nFlying Over Sunset is a musical with music by Tom Kitt\, lyrics by Michael Korie\, an d a book by James Lapine. The musical is a fictional account of a meeting between Aldous Huxley\, Clare Boothe Luce and Cary Grant\, who all used th e drug LSD.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Over_Sunset SUMMARY:🎵 Flying Over Sunset END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:st-helena-play-1936 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19360928 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19361124 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the National Theatre on September 28\, 1936.\nRan 63 performances\, to about November 1936.\n\nSt Helena: a play in twelve scen es is a play by the English author R. C. Sherriff and Jeanne de Casalis. I t deals with the exile of Napoleon I on Saint Helena. In a production by H enry Cass\, it premiered at the Old Vic on 4 February 1936 to poor reviews \, but was rescued by a letter to The Times by Winston Churchill\, calling it "a remarkable play" and "a work of art of a very high order"\; though a West End transfer also proved unsuccessful.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/St_Helena_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 St Helena END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:something-s-afoot-1976 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19760527 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19760721 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lyceum Theatre on May 27\, 1976.\nRan 61 performa nces\, to about July 1976.\n\nSomething's Afoot is a musical that spoofs d etective stories\, mainly the works of Agatha Christie\, and especially he r 1939 detective novel And Then There Were None. The book\, music\, and ly rics were written by James McDonald\, David Vos\, and Robert Gerlach\, wit h additional music by Ed Linderman. The musical involves a group of people who are invited to the lake estate of Lord Dudley Rancour. When the wealt hy lord is found dead\, it is a race against the clock to find out who is the murderer.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something%27s_Afoot SUMMARY:🎵 Something's Afoot END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:pickwick-musical-1965 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19651004 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19651123 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 4\, 1965.\nRan 56 performances\, to about Nov ember 1965.\n\nPickwick is a musical with a book by Wolf Mankowitz\, music by Cyril Ornadel\, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. Based on the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens\, it is set in and around London a nd Rochester in 1828.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickwick_%28musical %29 SUMMARY:🎵 Pickwick END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-belle-of-bohemia-1900 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19000101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19001111 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1900.\nClosed November 10\, 1900 after 55 performance s — 10 months.\n\nThe Belle of Bohemia is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts with music by Ludwig Engländer and Harry Truman MacConnell and lyrics and musical book by Harry B. Smith. The musical opened on Broadway in 1900 before having a run on the West End of London in 1901. It was one of a series of musicals with Belle in the title that were popular on both sides of the Atlantic in the Edwardian era.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/The_Belle_of_Bohemia SUMMARY:🎵 The Belle of Bohemia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-island-play-1974 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19741124 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19750110 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Edison Theatre on November 24\, 1974.\nRan 52 per formances\, to about January 1975.\n\nThe Island is a play written by Atho l Fugard\, John Kani\, and Winston Ntshona.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/The_Island_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Island END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-casino-girl-1900 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19000101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19000216 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Casino Theatre in 1900.\nRan 51 performances\, to about February 1900.\n\nThe Casino Girl is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts with music by Ludwig Engländer\, Will Marion Cook\, Will Accooe \, Harry Truman MacConnell and Arthur Nevin\, lyrics by Engländer\, Cook and MacConnell\, and a book by Harry B. Smith and Arthur Nevin. The story concerns a former chorus girl at the Casino Theatre in New York\, who flee s to Cairo under an assumed name to escape amorous advances of an admirer. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Casino_Girl SUMMARY:🎵 The Casino Girl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:shinbone-alley-1957 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19570413 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19570526 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the The Broadway Theatre on April 13\, 1957.\nClosed May 25\, 1957 after 49 performances — 42 days.\n\nShinbone Alley is a mu sical with a book by Joe Darion and Mel Brooks\, lyrics by Darion\, and mu sic by George Kleinsinger. Based on the album Archy and Mehitabel: A Back- Alley Opera\, which in turn was based on archy and mehitabel\, a series of New York Tribune columns by Don Marquis\, it focuses on poetic cockroach Archy\, alley cat Mehitabel\, and her relationships with theatrical cat Ty rone T. Tattersall and tomcat Big Bill\, under the watchful eye of the new spaperman\, the voice-over narrator and only human being in the show.\n\nh ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinbone_Alley SUMMARY:🎵 Shinbone Alley END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:our-country-s-good-1991 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19910429 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19910609 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Nederlander Theatre on April 29\, 1991.\nClosed J une 8\, 1991 after 48 performances — 40 days.\n\nOur Country's Good is a 1988 play written by British playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker\, adapted from the Thomas Keneally novel The Playmaker. The story concerns a group o f Royal Marines and convicts in a penal colony in New South Wales\, in the 1780s\, who put on a production of The Recruiting Officer.\n\nhttps://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Country%27s_Good SUMMARY:🎭 Our Country's Good END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:baron-trenck-1912 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19120413 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19120519 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Casino Theatre on April 13\, 1912.\nRan 40 perfor mances\, to about May 1912.\n\nBaron Trenck is a comic opera in three acts loosely based on the life of Baron Franz von der Trenck. The original Ger man-language work was composed by Felix Albini to a libretto by Alfred Mar ia Willner and Robert Bodanzky and premiered at the Stadttheater in Leipzi g in 1908. The English version\, adapted by Frederick Franklin Schrader an d Henry Blossom\, ran for just 43 performances at the Strand Theatre in Lo ndon in 1911. It starred Walter Passmore\, Walter Hyde and Caroline Hatcha rd.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Trenck SUMMARY:🎵 Baron Trenck END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-fortune-teller-operetta-1898 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18980926 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18981101 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Wallack's Theatre on September 26\, 1898.\nRan 40 performances\, to about October 1898.\n\nThe Fortune Teller is an operett a in three acts composed by Victor Herbert\, with a libretto by Harry B. S mith. After a brief tryout in Toronto\, it premiered on Broadway on Septem ber 26\, 1898\, at Wallack's Theatre and ran for 40 performances. Star Ali ce Nielsen and many of the original company traveled to London\, where the piece opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on April 9\, 1901\, running for 8 8 performances. It was revived in New York on November 4\, 1929\, at Jolso n's 59th Street Theatre\, starring Tessa Kosta\, and ran for 16 performanc es. The piece continued to be revived\, including by the Light Opera of Ma nhattan in the late 20th century and the Comic Opera Guild in the early 21 st century.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fortune_Teller_%28operett a%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Fortune Teller END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:all-over-1971 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19710328 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19710502 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on March 28\, 1971.\nClosed M ay 1\, 1971 after 40 performances — 34 days.\n\nAll Over is a two-act pl ay written in 1970 by Edward Albee. He had originally developed it in 1967 as a short play entitled Death\, the second half of a projected double bi ll with another play called Life.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Ove r SUMMARY:🎭 All Over END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-merchant-of-yonkers-1938 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19381228 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19390202 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Guild Theatre on December 28\, 1938.\nRan 39 perf ormances\, to about February 1939.\n\nThe Merchant of Yonkers is a 1938 pl ay by Thornton Wilder.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Yo nkers SUMMARY:🎭 The Merchant of Yonkers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-wedding-day-opera-1896 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18960915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18961018 DESCRIPTION:Opened on September 15\, 1896.\nRan 36 performances\, to about October 1896.\n\nThe Wedding Day is a comic opera in three acts with music by Julian Edwards and a libretto by Stanislaus Stange. Prior to a product ion on Broadway\, the work premiered for the grand opening of the newly re novated Wieting Opera House in Syracuse\, New York\, on September 15\, 189 6. It was staged at The Boston Theatre where it began a two-week run on Fe bruary 7\, 1897. Critic Roland Burke Hennessy of The Illustrated American wrote\, "I consider The Wedding Day to be by far the best native comic ope ra we have had in many a year."\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weddi ng_Day_%28opera%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Wedding Day END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-naked-genius-1943 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19431021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19431123 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Plymouth Theatre on October 21\, 1943.\nRan 36 pe rformances\, to about November 1943.\n\nThe Naked Genius is a 1943 America n play written by Gypsy Rose Lee. The work premiered on Broadway on Octobe r 21\, 1943\, at the Plymouth Theatre where it ran until November 20\, 194 3\, for a total of 36 performances. The work was produced by Mike Todd\, u sed sets designed by Frederick Fox\, and costumes designed by Billy Living ston. The play was staged by George S. Kaufman\, and starred Joan Blondell as Honey Bee Carroll\, Pauline Myers as Angela\, Millard Mitchell as Stua rt Tracy\, Rex O'Malley as Fred-Eric\, Byron Russell as Williams\, Bertha Belmore as Lollie Adams\, Doro Merande as Myrtle McGuire\, Donald Randolph as Charles Goodwin\, Lewis Charles as Sam Hinkle\, Rosemary Rice as Emily \, Georgia Sothern as Alibassi\, Phyllis Povah as Pansy\, John Souther as Judge Taylor\, Bernice Maison as Sally Martin\, and Gil Maison as Teddy Ma rtin.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Genius SUMMARY:🎭 The Naked Genius END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:lola-from-berlin-1907 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19070916 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19071020 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Liberty Theatre on September 16\, 1907 .\nClosed October 19\, 1907 after 35 performances — 33 days.\n\nLola fro m Berlin is a musical in three acts with music by Jean Schwartz\, lyrics b y William Jerome\, and a book by John J. McNally. The musical was created as a starring vehicle for actress Lulu Glaser who portrayed the title role in the original production. The work is about the German girl Lotchen von Breckenhaussett\, aka "Lola"\, who travels from Berlin to New York City t o collect an unexpected inheritance from a distant American relation.\n\nh ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_from_Berlin SUMMARY:🎵 Lola from Berlin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:wonderland-musical-2011 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110417 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110517 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 17\, 2011.\nRan 33 performances\, to about May 2011.\n\nWonderland\, formerly called Wonderland: Alice's New Musical Adve nture or Wonderland: A New Alice\, is a musical play with a book by Jack M urphy and Gregory Boyd\, lyrics by Murphy\, and music by Frank Wildhorn. T he story\, a contemporary version of the novels Alice's Adventures in Wond erland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll\, is s et in New York City and focuses on writer Alice Cornwinkle and her 10-year -old daughter Chloe.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderland_%28musica l%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Wonderland END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:looped-2008 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080131 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 2008.\nRan 33 performances\, to about January 2008.\n \nLooped is a play by Matthew Lombardo about an event surrounding actress Tallulah Bankhead. It had a Broadway run in 2010\, after two previous prod uctions in 2008 and 2009\, all three of them featuring Valerie Harper.\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looped SUMMARY:🎭 Looped END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:carry-nation-play-1932 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19321029 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19321126 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Biltmore Theatre on October 29\, 1932.\nRan 30 pe rformances\, to about November 1932.\n\nCarry Nation is an historical play by Frank McGrath about the temperance leader Carrie Nation. It ran on Bro adway and starred American film actress Esther Dale in the title role.\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_Nation_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Carry Nation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-twilight-of-the-golds-1993 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19931021 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19931117 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Booth Theatre on October 21\, 1993.\nRan 29 perfo rmances\, to about November 1993.\n\nThe Twilight of the Golds is a play b y Jonathan Tolins and produced by Charles H. Duggan that premiered at the Pasadena Playhouse on January 17\, 1993. Strong reviews propelled it to th eatres across the country including a stop at The Kennedy Center. After fi fteen previews\, the Broadway theatre production\, directed by Arvin Brown \, opened on October 21\, 1993 at the Booth Theatre\, where it ran for 29 performances. The cast included Jennifer Grey as Suzanne\, Raphael Sbarge as David\, David Groh as Walter\, Judith Scarpone as Phyllis and Michael S pound as Rob. The play had received strong reviews across the country but was "largely clobbered" when it reached Broadway.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Twilight_of_the_Golds SUMMARY:🎭 The Twilight of the Golds END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:aunt-hannah-1900 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19000222 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19000314 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Bijou Theatre on February 22\, 1900.\nRan 21 perf ormances\, to about March 1900.\n\nAunt Hannah is a musical in three acts with music by A. Baldwin Sloane\, lyrics by Clay M. Greene\, and a book by Matthew J. Royal. The musical premiered on Broadway at the Bijou Theatre where it opened on February 22\, 1900. It ran there for 21 performances\, closing on March 10\, 1900. Actress Agnes Findlay led the cast as Aunt Han nah with Frederick Hallen as Jack Hammersley\, Bobby Gaylor as Mike McCart y\, Charles W. Butler as Grimes\, Bud Ross as Jim Madden\, Belle Bucklin a s Martha\, Louise Lehman as Nora\, Louise Hilton as Mary\, Molly Fuller as Polly Madden\, John Bunny as Grosvenor Montmorenci\, and Caro Gordon Leig h as Evelyn.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Hannah SUMMARY:🎵 Aunt Hannah END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:from-a-to-z-1960 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19600420 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19600508 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Plymouth Theatre on April 20\, 1960.\nClosed May 7\, 1960 after 21 performances — 17 days.\n\nFrom A to Z is a musical re vue with a book by Woody Allen\, Herbert Farjeon\, and Nina Warner Hook an d songs by Jerry Herman\, Fred Ebb\, Mary Rodgers\, Everett Sloane\, Jay T hompson\, Dickson Hughes\, Jack Holmes\, Paul Klein\, Norman Martin\, Will iam Dyer\, and Charles Zwar.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_A_to_Z SUMMARY:🎵 From A to Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:lovely-ladies-kind-gentlemen-1970 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19701228 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19710110 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Majestic Theatre on December 28\, 1970.\nClosed J anuary 9\, 1971 after 19 performances — 12 days.\n\nLovely Ladies\, Kind Gentlemen is a musical with a book by John Patrick and music and lyrics b y Stan Freeman and Franklin Underwood.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo vely_Ladies%2C_Kind_Gentlemen SUMMARY:🎵 Lovely Ladies\, Kind Gentlemen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:p-s-your-cat-is-dead-1975 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19750407 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19750422 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the John Golden Theatre on April 7\, 1975.\nRan 16 pe rformances\, to about April 1975.\n\nP.S. Your Cat Is Dead is a novel by J ames Kirkwood Jr.\, originally published in 1972\, adapted from his play. The book and play later were adapted to film in 2002.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/P.S._Your_Cat_Is_Dead SUMMARY:🎭 P.S. Your Cat Is Dead END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:see-america-first-1916 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19160328 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19160412 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Maxine Elliott Theatre on March 28\, 1916.\nRan 1 5 performances\, to about April 1916.\n\nSee America First is a comic oper a with a book by T. Lawrason Riggs and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. Th e first work by Porter to be produced on Broadway\, it was a critical and commercial flop.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_America_First SUMMARY:🎵 See America First END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-american-clock-1980 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19801111 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19801201 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Biltmore Theatre on November 11\, 1980.\nClosed N ovember 30\, 1980 after 12 performances — 19 days.\n\nThe American Clock is a play by Arthur Miller. The play is about 1930s America during The Gr eat Depression. It is based in part on Studs Terkel's Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amer ican_Clock SUMMARY:🎭 The American Clock END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:ziegfeld-follies-of-1919-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19190616 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19191207 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Nixon's Apollo Theatre on June 16\, 1919.\nClosed December 6\, 1919 — 6 months.\n\nThe Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 was a rev ue produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Billed as the thirteenth edition of th e Ziegfeld Follies series\, it had a tryout at Nixon's Apollo Theatre in A tlantic City\, New Jersey\, on June 10\, 1919 and opened at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre on June 16\, 1919 and closed on December 6\, 1919. It i s often considered to be the best and most successful of the Follies serie s produced by Ziegfeld.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziegfeld_Follies_ of_1919 SUMMARY:🎵 Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:golden-days-play-1921 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19211101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19211204 DESCRIPTION:Opened in November 1921.\nClosed December 3\, 1921 — 32 days. \n\nGolden Days is a 1919 play by Sidney Toler and Marion Short\, original ly titled The Golden Age. It is a comedy in four-acts\, each having a sub- title\, with three settings and fourteen characters. The action of the pla y takes place during Spring and Summer of 1917\, and Spring 1919. The stor y concerns the blossoming of a small-town Connecticut girl and her awakeni ng to a true romance. At the time\, the play was considered unusual since all but three characters were between 16 and 21 years of age.\n\nhttps://e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Days_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Golden Days END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:hell-s-bells-play-1925 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19250126 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19250531 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Wallack's Theatre on January 26\, 1925.\nClosed M ay 30\, 1925 — 4 months.\n\nHell's Bells is a 1924 play in three acts wr itten by Barry Conners. It is a farce with a large cast and one setting. T he story concerns two middle-aged Arizona-based prospecters\, sent back Ea st by a speculator to sell shares in his mine. To expedite sales\, they po se as millionaires\, which leads the Connecticut sisters of one prospector to have him committed so they can obtain control of his supposed wealth.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Bells_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Hell's Bells END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:herzl-play-1976 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19761130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19761206 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Palace Theatre on November 30\, 1976.\nClosed Dec ember 5\, 1976 — 5 days.\n\nHerzl is a 1976 play written by Dore Schary and Amos Elon based on the biography written by Elon. The show opened at t he Palace Theatre\, Broadway on November 30\, 1976\, and closed on Decembe r 5\, 1976\, after eight performances.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He rzl_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Herzl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:the-better-ole-1917 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19170804 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19190716 DESCRIPTION:Opened on August 4\, 1917.\nRan 811 performances\, to about Jul y 1919.\n\nThe Better 'Ole\, also called The Romance of Old Bill\, is an E dwardian musical comedy with a book by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Ellio t\, music by Herman Darewski\, and lyrics by Percival Knight and James Hea rd\, based on the cartoon character Old Bill\, an infantryman\, drawn by B airnsfather. In the musical\, Old Bill intercepts a spy's plan to destroy a bridge\, trapping a French regiment after they cross it. Bill saves them by blowing up the bridge before they pass\; his actions are misunderstood \, however\, and he is arrested for disobeying orders and holding an enemy document. After Victoire explains the situation\, Bill is released and gi ven a medal.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_%27Ole SUMMARY:🎵 The Better 'Ole END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003410Z UID:dead-end-play-1935 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19351001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19370526 DESCRIPTION:Opened in October 1935.\nRan 687 performances\, to about May 19 37.\n\nDead End is a stage play written by playwright Sidney Kingsley. It premiered on Broadway in October 1935 and ran for two years. It is notable for being the first project to feature the Dead End Kids\, who would go o n to star\, under various names\, in 89 films and three serials. These nam es include Dead End Kids\, Little Tough Guys\, the East Side Kids and the Bowery Boys. The original play and the 1937 film adaptation were grim dram as set in a poverty-stricken riverside neighborhood in New York City\, whe re the boys look on reform school as a learning opportunity. They played s imilar characters in several films\; their later pictures are comedies.\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_End_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Dead End END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-most-happy-fella-1956 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19560503 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19571215 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on May 3\, 1956.\nClosed December 14\, 1957 after 676 performances — 19 months.\n\nThe Most Happy Fella i s a 1956 musical with a book\, music\, and lyrics by Frank Loesser. The st ory\, about a romance between an older man and younger woman\, is based on the 1924 play They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard. The show is de scribed by some theatre historians and critics as operatic. The original B roadway production ran for 14 months and it has enjoyed several revivals\, including one staged by the New York City Opera.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Most_Happy_Fella SUMMARY:🎵 The Most Happy Fella END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-doughgirls-play-1942 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19421230 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19440730 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lyceum Theatre on December 30\, 1942.\nClosed Jul y 29\, 1944 after 671 performances — 19 months.\n\nThe Doughgirls is a t hree-act play written by Joseph Fields. Producer Max Gordon staged it on B roadway\, where it debuted at the Lyceum Theatre on December 30\, 1942. Th e play is a comedy about three unmarried women sharing a room in an overcr owded hotel in Washington\, D.C. during World War II. The Broadway product ion was a hit that ran for 671 performances and closed on July 29\, 1944. It was adapted as a film of the same name in 1944.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/The_Doughgirls_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Doughgirls END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:star-and-garter-musical-1942 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19420624 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19431210 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Music Box Theatre on June 24\, 1942.\n Ran 609 performances\, to about December 1943.\n\nStar and Garter is a 194 2 American musical revue starring comedian Bobby Clark and produced by Mik e Todd. The show\, which opened at Broadway's Music Box Theatre on 24 June 1942\, was a smash hit\, closing on 4 December 1943 after 609 performance s.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_and_Garter_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Star and Garter END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:milk-and-honey-musical-1961 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19611010 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19630130 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 10\, 1961.\nRan 543 performances\, to about J anuary 1963.\n\nMilk and Honey is a musical with a book by Don Appell and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. The story centers on a busload of lonely American widows hoping to catch husbands while touring Israel and is set against the backdrop of the country's struggle for recognition as an indep endent nation. It was Herman's first Broadway book musical following a suc cession of off-Broadway revues.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_and_ Honey_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Milk and Honey END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:what-a-life-play-1938 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19380413 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19390729 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Biltmore Theatre on April 13\, 1938.\nRan 538 per formances\, to about July 1939.\n\nWhat a Life is a 1938 Broadway play by Clifford Goldsmith.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_Life_%28play%2 9 SUMMARY:🎭 What a Life END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:up-in-central-park-1945 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19450127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19460414 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the New Century Theatre on January 27\, 1945.\nRan 50 4 performances\, to about April 1946.\n\nUp in Central Park is a Broadway musical with a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields\, lyrics by Dorot hy Fields\, and music by Sigmund Romberg. The musical\, originally called "Central Park" before Broadway\, was Romberg's last stage work produced du ring his lifetime.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_in_Central_Park SUMMARY:🎵 Up in Central Park END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-squall-play-1926 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19261101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19271120 DESCRIPTION:Opened in November 1926.\nClosed November 19\, 1927 after 443 p erformances — 13 months.\n\nThe Squall is a 1926 play by Jean Bart. It h as three acts\, one setting\, and twelve characters. The story concerns th e impact a conniving young girl seeking refuge has on a previously content family. The title refers both to a natural storm and the girl's effect. T his was the first play by Jean Bart to be produced.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/The_Squall_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Squall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:turn-to-the-right-play-1917 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19170801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19170830 DESCRIPTION:Opened in August 1917.\nClosed August 29\, 1917 after 443 perfo rmances — 28 days.\n\nTurn to the Right is a 1916 play by Winchell Smith and John E. Hazzard\, originally titled Like Mother Made. It is a comedy in a prologue and three acts\, with three settings and fourteen speaking c haracters. The action of the play takes place over ten months time. The st ory concerns an unjustly convicted man who returns home to save his mother 's farm and win back his old sweetheart.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Turn_to_the_Right_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Turn to the Right END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:something-for-the-boys-1942 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19421218 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19440109 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on December 18\, 1942.\nClosed Ja nuary 8\, 1944 after 422 performances — 13 months.\n\nSomething for the Boys is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and a book by Herbe rt Fields and Dorothy Fields. Produced by Mike Todd\, the show opened on B roadway in 1943 and starred Ethel Merman in her fifth Cole Porter musical. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_for_the_Boys SUMMARY:🎵 Something for the Boys END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:follow-thru-musical-1929 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19290109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19291227 DESCRIPTION:Opened on January 9\, 1929.\nRan 401 performances\, to about De cember 1929.\n\nFollow Thru is a musical comedy with book by B. G. DeSylva and Laurence Schwab\, lyrics by B. G. DeSylva and Lew Brown\, and music b y Ray Henderson.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follow_Thru_%28musical%2 9 SUMMARY:🎵 Follow Thru END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:as-thousands-cheer-1933 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19330930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19340916 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Music Box Theatre on September 30\, 1933.\nRan 40 0 performances\, to about September 1934.\n\nAs Thousands Cheer is a revue with a book by Moss Hart and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin\, first pe rformed in 1933. The revue contained satirical sketches and witty or poign ant musical numbers\, several of which became standards\, including "Heat Wave"\, "Easter Parade" and "Harlem on my Mind". The sketches were loosely based on the news and the lives and affairs of the rich and famous\, as w ell as other prominent personalities of the day\, such as Joan Crawford\, John D. Rockefeller Jr.\, Noël Coward\, Josephine Baker\, and Aimee Sempl e McPherson.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Thousands_Cheer SUMMARY:🎵 As Thousands Cheer END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:seven-days-play-1909 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19091110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19101025 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Astor Theatre on November 10\, 1909.\nRan 397 per formances\, to about October 1910.\n\nSeven Days is a three-act play writt en in 1909 by Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rinehart. It is a farce based on Rinehart's 1908 novella of the same name\, which had been expanded int o a bestselling 1909 novel titled When a Man Marries. Producers Lincoln Wa genhals and Collin Kemper asked Rinehart to adapt the novella for the stag e. Since she had not written a play before\, she agreed to work with Avery Hopwood\, a young playwright with just one produced play\, to create the script. Wagenhals and Kemper staged the play at the Astor Theatre on Broad way\, where it premiered on November 10\, 1909. The production was a hit t hat played for 397 performances. The play's success led Hopwood to a highl y successful career as an author of comedies and enabled Wagenhals and Kem per to retire.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Days_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Seven Days END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-cat-and-the-fiddle-musical-1931 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19311015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19320926 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 15\, 1931.\nRan 395 performances\, to about S eptember 1932.\n\nThe Cat and the Fiddle is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach. The story is about love and con flict between an American popular music composer and a European classical composer. Hit numbers from the show included "Try to Forget"\, "She Didn't Say Yes"\, "The Breeze Kissed Your Hair" and "The Night Was Made for Love ."\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_and_the_Fiddle_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Cat and the Fiddle END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:new-faces-of-1952-1952 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19520516 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19530402 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Equity Library Theatre on May 16\, 1952.\nRan 365 performances\, to about April 1953.\n\nNew Faces of 1952\, also known as Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952\, is a 1952 musical revue with songs a nd comedy skits\, produced and conceived by Leonard Sillman. It was the fo urth of Sillman's seven New Faces revues\, each intended to showcase the r ising stars of that time\; the other years for which "New Faces of ..." re vues were produced were 1934\, 1936\, 1943\, 1956\, 1962\, and 1968. New F aces of 1952 was the most successful of the series\, and is generally cons idered the best\, for both the talent of the performers and the quality of the writing. The show ran on Broadway for nearly a year in 1952\, and hel ped launch the careers of Paul Lynde\, Alice Ghostley\, Eartha Kitt\, Robe rt Clary\, Carol Lawrence\, Ronny Graham\, performer/writer Mel Brooks\, a nd lyricist Sheldon Harnick.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Faces_of _1952 SUMMARY:🎵 New Faces of 1952 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:flying-high-musical-1930 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19300303 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19310109 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Apollo Theatre on March 3\, 1930.\nRan 355 perfor mances\, to about January 1931.\n\nFlying High is a musical comedy with bo ok by B. G. DeSylva\, Lew Brown\, and Jack McGowan\, lyrics by B. G. DeSyl va and Lew Brown\, music by Ray Henderson. Set in Manhattan and Newark\, N ew Jersey\, the musical is about an inventor\, Rusty Krouse\, who is attem pting to enter his "Aerocopter"\, in the upcoming 10th Annual Air Show at an airport.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_High_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Flying High END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:music-in-the-air-1932 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19321108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19330917 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 8\, 1932.\nClosed Septe mber 16\, 1933 after 342 performances — 10 months.\n\nMusic in the Air i s a musical written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern (music). It in troduced songs such as "The Song Is You"\, "In Egern on the Tegern See" an d "I've Told Ev'ry Little Star". The musical premiered on Broadway in 1932 \, and followed the team's success with the musical Show Boat from 1927.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_in_the_Air SUMMARY:🎵 Music in the Air END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-famous-mrs-fair-play-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19191222 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19201017 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Henry Miller's Theatre on December 22\, 1919.\nCl osed October 16\, 1920 after 341 performances — 10 months.\n\nThe Famous Mrs. Fair is a 1919 play by James Forbes. It is a four-act hybrid genre w ork\, starting as light comedy than progressing to drama. It has two setti ngs and thirteen speaking parts. The action of the play takes place over s ix months time. The story concerns an American woman\, returned home from four years with a volunteer ambulance unit in France\, who abandons her ne glected family again for a speaking tour.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /The_Famous_Mrs._Fair_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Famous Mrs. Fair END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:peggy-ann-1926 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19261227 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19271030 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Vanderbilt Theatre on December 27\, 1926.\nClosed October 29\, 1927 after 333 performances — 10 months.\n\nPeggy-Ann is a musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers\, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Herbert Fields\, based on the 1910 musical Tillie’s Nightmare by Edgar Smith. The plot of the musical takes place in Glens Falls\, New Yor k\; New York City\, and Havana\, Cuba.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe ggy-Ann SUMMARY:🎵 Peggy-Ann END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:two-girls-wanted-play-1926 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19260901 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19261031 DESCRIPTION:Opened in September 1926.\nClosed October 30\, 1926 after 328 p erformances — 59 days.\n\nTwo Girls Wanted\, AKA Help Wanted-- Female\, is a 1926 play written by Gladys Unger. It is a three-act comedy with six scenes\, three settings\, and twelve speaking characters. The action of th e play spans five days time. The story concerns two sisters doing office w ork in Manhattan who find they can make more money as housemaids on a West chester County estate.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Girls_Wanted_% 28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Two Girls Wanted END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:three-wise-fools-play-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19190801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19190803 DESCRIPTION:Opened in August 1919.\nClosed August 2\, 1919 after 316 perfor mances — 1 days.\n\nThree Wise Fools is a 1917 play by Austin Strong. Or iginally titled Three Wise Men\, it is a three-act comedy\, with a single setting and thirteen speaking characters. The action of the play takes pla ce over four weeks time. The story concerns a household of three eminent o ld bachelors shaken up by the arrival of a young woman.\n\nhttps://en.wiki pedia.org/wiki/Three_Wise_Fools_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Three Wise Fools END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:saturday-s-children-play-1927 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19270126 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19271023 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Booth Theatre on January 26\, 1927.\nClosed Octob er 22\, 1927 after 315 performances — 9 months.\n\nSaturday's Children i s a 1926 play by Maxwell Anderson. It is a three-act comedy with as many s ettings\, and seven characters. The action of the play takes place over si x months time in New York City. The story concerns a young woman who follo ws her older sister's advice on how to trap a young man\, but finds marria ge difficult on $40 a week. The title comes from a line in an English folk song suggesting Saturday's Children must work hard for a living.\n\nhttps ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday%27s_Children_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Saturday's Children END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:sons-o-guns-1929 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19291126 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19300813 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Imperial Theatre on November 26\, 1929.\nRan 295 performances\, to about August 1930.\n\nSons O' Guns is a musical in two a cts with music by J. Fred Coots\; lyrics co-authored by Arthur Swanstrom a nd Benny Davis\; and a book co-written by Frederick A. Thompson and Jack D onahue. Donahue also starred in the original production as the central cha racter of Jimmy Canfield\, an American playboy who is forced to enlist in the United States Army during World War I and has a series of comic advent ures and a romance in France.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_O%27_G uns SUMMARY:🎵 Sons O' Guns END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:i-d-rather-be-right-1937 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19371102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19380710 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 2\, 1937.\nClosed July 9\, 1938 after 290 performances — 8 months.\n\nI'd Rather Be Right is a 1937 musical with a book by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman\, lyrics by Lo renz Hart\, and music by Richard Rodgers. The story is a Depression-era po litical satire set in New York City about Washington politics and politica l figures such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The plot centers on Peg gy Jones and her boyfriend Phil\, who needs a raise in order for them to g et married. The President steps in and solves their dilemma.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27d_Rather_Be_Right SUMMARY:🎵 I'd Rather Be Right END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-great-waltz-musical-1934 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19340922 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19350603 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Center Theatre on September 22\, 1934.\nRan 289 p erformances\, to about June 1935.\n\nThe Great Waltz is a musical conceive d by Hassard Short with a book by Moss Hart and lyrics by Desmond Carter\, using themes by Johann Strauss I and Johann Strauss II. It is based on a pasticcio by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Julius Bittner called Walzer aus Wien\, first performed in Vienna in 1930. The story of the musical is loos ely based on the real-life feud between the older and younger Strauss\, al legedly because of the father's jealousy of his son's greater talent.\n\nh ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Waltz_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Great Waltz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:cheating-cheaters-play-1916 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19160809 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19170415 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre on August 9\, 1916.\n Closed April 14\, 1917 after 286 performances — 8 months.\n\nCheating Ch eaters is a 1916 play written by Max Marcin. Producer A. H. Woods staged i t on Broadway. The play is a melodramatic farce about two groups of jewel thieves who are each posing as a wealthy family in order to rob the other. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_Cheaters_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Cheating Cheaters END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:sometime-musical-1918 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19181004 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19190610 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Schubert Theatre on October 4\, 1918.\nRan 283 pe rformances\, to about June 1919.\n\nSometime is a musical in two acts\, wi th a book and lyrics by Rida Johnson Young and music by Rudolf Friml. Addi tional lyrics are by Ed Wynn. The romantic story concerns a couple kept ap art for five years after the man is seen in a compromising position with a nother woman\, but it turns out that this was a ruse planned by the other woman\, and the man is innocent. The story enfolds in flashbacks set in Ne w York and Buenos Aires\; with periodic shifts in time to the present in a n unknown location.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sometime_%28musical%2 9 SUMMARY:🎵 Sometime END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:three-s-a-crowd-musical-1930 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19301015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19310607 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Selwyn Theatre on October 15\, 1930.\nClosed June 6\, 1931 after 271 performances — 8 months.\n\nThree's A Crowd is a 193 0 Broadway revue with songs primarily by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz. It included the first performance in the United States of the Johnny Gree n-composed jazz standard "Body and Soul".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Three%27s_a_Crowd_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Three's a Crowd END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:a-far-country-play-1961 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19610404 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19611126 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Music Box Theatre on April 4\, 1961.\nClosed Nove mber 25\, 1961 after 271 performances — 8 months.\n\nA Far Country is a play by Henry Denker. The work premiered on Broadway at the Music Box Thea tre on April 4\, 1961\, where it closed on November 25\, 1961\, after 271 performances. Produced by Roger L. Stevens and Joel Schenker\, the product ion was directed by Alfred Ryder and used sets by Donald Oenslager and cos tumes by Ann Roth. Lead actress Kim Stanley was nominated for a Tony Award for her portrayal of Elizabeth von Ritter.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/A_Far_Country_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 A Far Country END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:by-the-beautiful-sea-musical-1954 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19540408 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19541128 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Majestic Theatre on April 8\, 1954.\nClosed Novem ber 27\, 1954 after 270 performances — 8 months.\n\nBy the Beautiful Sea is a musical with a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields\, lyrics by Dorothy Fields\, and music by Arthur Schwartz. Like Schwartz's previous m usical\, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\, also starring Shirley Booth\, the musi cal is set in Brooklyn just after the start of the 20th century (1907). By the Beautiful Sea played on Broadway in 1954.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/By_the_Beautiful_Sea_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 By the Beautiful Sea END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:jack-o-lantern-musical-1917 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19171016 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19180606 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Globe Theatre on October 16\, 1917.\nRan 265 perf ormances\, to about June 1918.\n\nJack O'Lantern is a musical in two acts and 8 scenes with music by Ivan Caryll and both lyrics and book co-authore d by Anne Caldwell and R. H. Burnside. The work also included some additio nal songs with music by Irving Berlin\, Shelton Brooks and Gus King\; and lyrics by Louis Harrison and Benjamin Hapgood Burt.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Jack_O%27Lantern_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Jack O'Lantern END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:piff-paff-pouf-1904 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19040402 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19041120 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Casino Theatre on April 2\, 1904.\nRan 264 performances\, to about November 1904.\n\nPiff! Paff!! Pouf!!! is a m usical in two acts with music by Jean Schwartz\, lyrics by William Jerome\ , and a book by Stanislaus Stange. It is considered the best musical creat ed by the writing team of Schwartz and Jerome. A hit with audiences\, it w as the longest running musical of the 1903-1904 Broadway season. Set on th e Atlantic City Boardwalk and at a mansion along the banks of the Hudson R iver in the Hudson River Valley in the state of New York\, the musical fol lows a recently widowed man whose deceased wife\, an heiress\, left him he r fortune in her will on the condition that he marry off all four of their daughters in the order of their birth prior to receiving any of her money .\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piff%21_Paff%21%21_Pouf%21%21%21 SUMMARY:🎵 Piff! Paff!! Pouf!!! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:oh-oh-delphine-1912 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19120930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19130515 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 30\, 1912.\nRa n 258 performances\, to about May 1913.\n\nOh! Oh! Delphine is a musical c omedy with book and lyrics by C. M. S. McLellan and music by Ivan Caryll. It is based on the French farce Villa Primrose by Marcel Guillemaud and Ge orges Berr.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh%21_Oh%21_Delphine SUMMARY:🎵 Oh! Oh! Delphine END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-gorilla-play-1925 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19250428 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19251210 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Selwyn Theatre on April 28\, 1925.\nRan 257 perfo rmances\, to about December 1925.\n\nThe Gorilla is a three-act play writt en by Ralph Spence. Donald Gallaher produced it on Broadway\, where it ope ned at the Selwyn Theatre on April 28\, 1925. The play was a success and r an on Broadway for 257 performances. A production opened in London at the New Oxford Theatre on June 30\, 1925\, and ran for 134 performances. The p lay was a parody of popular theatrical mysteries such as The Bat and The C at and the Canary. Its advertisements claimed it "outbats The Bat".\n\nhtt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gorilla_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Gorilla END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:fine-and-dandy-musical-1930 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19300923 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19310503 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Colonial Theatre on September 23\, 1930.\nClosed May 2\, 1931 after 255 performances — 7 months.\n\nFine and Dandy is a m usical comedy in two acts with a book by Donald Ogden Stewart\, music by K ay Swift and lyrics by Paul James. It was produced on Broadway in 1930.\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_and_Dandy_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Fine and Dandy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:fata-morgana-play-1924 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19240301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19241012 DESCRIPTION:Opened in March 1924.\nClosed October 11\, 1924 after 255 perfo rmances — 7 months.\n\nFata Morgana is an American adaptation of the 191 5 Hungarian play A délibáb by Ernest Vajda. The English translation was done by James L. A. Burrell and Philip Moeller during 1923-1924. It is a c omedy in three acts with a single setting\, and fifteen speaking parts. Th e action of the play takes place over three days time in late July 1906. T he story concerns an idealistic young man\, led on by a sophisticated marr ied woman. The adapted title is Italian idiom for a mirage\, which sometim es occur on the Puszta where the story takes place\, and an allusion to th e nature of the romantic encounter.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_ Morgana_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Fata Morgana END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-broken-wing-play-1920 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19201101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19210612 DESCRIPTION:Opened in November 1920.\nRan 253 performances\, to about June 1921.\n\nThe Broken Wing is a 1920 play by Charles W. Goddard and Paul Dic key. It is a melodrama in four acts\, with three settings and eleven chara cters. The story concerns a young Mexican woman who loves an injured Ameri can aviator while herself pursued by an ambivalent Mexican army officer. T he action of the play takes place on three days over the course of a month . The production was widely known for showing an airplane crashing into th e first act setting\, an effect that used forty stagehands and required co nstant repairs and rebuilding.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broken _Wing_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Broken Wing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:dulcy-play-1921 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19210801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19220312 DESCRIPTION:Opened in August 1921.\nClosed March 11\, 1922 after 246 perfor mances — 7 months.\n\nDulcy is a 1920 play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. It is a fast-paced three-act comedy with one setting and eleven characters. The story concerns a warm-hearted and wrong-headed woman who is a compulsive meddler and bromide\; she cheerfully arranges other people 's lives to their dismay. The action takes place within the living room of a house in Westchester County\, New York\, from Friday afternoon to Satur day morning. The authors based the play on the character Dulcinea\, create d by Franklin P. Adams for his newspaper column The Conning Tower.\n\nhttp s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulcy_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Dulcy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:take-a-chance-musical-1932 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19321126 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19330702 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Apollo Theatre on November 26\, 1932.\nClosed Jul y 1\, 1933 after 243 performances — 7 months.\n\nTake a Chance (1932) is a musical with lyrics by B. G. De Sylva and music by Nacio Herb Brown and Richard A. Whiting\, with additional songs by Vincent Youmans\, and book by De Sylva and Laurence Schwab.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_a_C hance_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Take a Chance END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-swan-play-1923 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19231001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19240601 DESCRIPTION:Opened in October 1923.\nClosed May 31\, 1924 after 243 perform ances — 8 months.\n\nThe Swan is a 1920 play by Ferenc Molnár\, adapted from the Hungarian language A hattyú by Melville Baker. It is a three-ac t comedy with three settings and fifteen characters. The action of the pla y takes place within 24 hours. The story concerns a dethroned family of mi nor Germanic royalty\, whose head hopes to marry her daughter to a crown p rince\, but runs into trouble by ill-using her sons' tutor. Though a comed y\, the story contains tragic undercurrents\, in the emotional suffering o f the tutor and the futile dynastic scheming in the face of the coming Gre at War.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swan_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Swan END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-sleeping-beauty-and-the-beast-1901 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19011104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19020604 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway Theatre on November 4\, 1901.\nRan 241 p erformances\, to about June 1902.\n\nThe Sleeping Beauty and the Beast is a musical in three acts with music by J. M. Glover and Frederick Solomon a nd lyrics by J. Cheever Goodwin. Its book by John J. McNally and Goodwin w as adapted from the Theatre Royal\, Drury Lane's 1900 pantomime of the sam e name by J. Hickory Wood and Arthur Collins. The musical also included ad ditional music and lyrics by the songwriting team of Jean Schwartz and Wil liam Jerome\, and by the African-American creative team of Bob Cole\, Jame s Weldon Johnson\, and J. Rosamond Johnson.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/The_Sleeping_Beauty_and_the_Beast SUMMARY:🎵 The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-only-girl-musical-1914 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19141102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19150606 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 2\, 1914.\nClosed June 5\, 1915 after 240 pe rformances — 7 months.\n\nThe Only Girl is a "musical farce in three act s" with music by Victor Herbert and a book and lyrics by Henry Blossom. Th e musical is based on the 1912 play Our Wives by Frank Mandel and Helen Kr aft. It opened on Broadway at the 39th Street Theatre on November 2\, 1914 . During its Broadway run it transferred to the Lyric Theatre where it clo sed on June 5\, 1915\, after 240 performances. The Broadway production sta rred Wilda Bennett as the composer Ruth Wilson\; Thurston Hall as her libr ettist Alan Kimbrough\; Adele Rowland as the soubrette Patricia La Montros e\, a.k.a. "Patsy"\; Ernest Torrence as the painter Andrew McMurray\, a.k. a. "Bunkie"\; Vivian Wessell as Bunkie's wife\; and Jed Prouty as the lawy er Fresh\; Josephine Whittell as Margaret Ayer\, Fresh's wife.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Only_Girl_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Only Girl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:life-begins-at-8-40-1934 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19340827 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19350317 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on August 27\, 1934.\nClose d March 16\, 1935 after 237 performances — 7 months.\n\nLife Begins at 8 :40 is a musical revue with music by Harold Arlen\, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and E.Y. Harburg\, and sketches by Gershwin\, Harburg\, David Freedman\, H.I. Phillips\, Alan Baxter\, Henry Clapp Smith\, and Frank Gabrielson.\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Begins_at_8%3A40 SUMMARY:🎵 Life Begins at 8:40 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:john-murray-anderson-s-almanac-1953 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19531210 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19540627 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Imperial Theatre on December 10\, 1953.\nClosed J une 26\, 1954 after 229 performances — 7 months.\n\nJohn Murray Anderson 's Almanac is a musical revue\, featuring the music of the songwriting tea m of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross\, as well as other composers. It was con ceived by John Murray Anderson. An earlier version of the show had been pr oduced in 1929 with the title Murray Anderson's Almanac. The earlier produ ction included Henry Sullivan for composing the music and Noël Coward as part of the script writing team. Sullivan would go on to write music for t he 1953 production mentioned here. The full title for the show was John Mu rray Anderson's Almanac: A Musical Harlequinade.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/John_Murray_Anderson%27s_Almanac SUMMARY:🎵 John Murray Anderson's Almanac END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:accent-on-youth-play-1934 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19340101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19350707 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1934.\nClosed July 6\, 1935 after 229 performances — 18 months.\n\nAccent on Youth is a Broadway play written by Samson Rap haelson which debuted in 1934. It had three film adaptations and had a 200 9 Broadway revival.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accent_on_Youth_%28pl ay%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Accent on Youth END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:white-horse-inn-broadway-version-1936 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19361001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19370411 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Center Theatre on October 1\, 1936.\nClosed April 10\, 1937 after 221 performances — 6 months.\n\nWhite Horse Inn is the title of the Broadway version of the operetta Im weißen Rößl. The origi nal operetta by Erik Charell and composers Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz was based on the popular farce of the same name by Oscar Blumenthal and G ustav Kadelburg. It was premiered at Berlin's Großes Schauspielhaus on 8 November 1930 and ran for 416 performances. The Broadway version was premi ered on 1 October 1936 at the Center Theatre in New York City. It had a li bretto by David Freedman and lyrics by Irving Caesar. The original score w as re-orchestrated by Hans Spialek.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White _Horse_Inn_%28Broadway_version%29 SUMMARY:🎵 White Horse Inn (Broadway version) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-law-of-the-land-1914 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19140930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19150413 DESCRIPTION:Opened on September 30\, 1914.\nRan 221 performances\, to about April 1915.\n\nThe Law of the Land is a play in four acts by George Broad hurst. It premiered on Broadway at the 48th Street Theatre on September 30 \, 1914 with Broadhurst also serving as the producer and director of the p roduction. Successful\, it ran there for 221 performances before closing i n April 1915. The cast was led by Julia Dean as Margaret Harding\, Charles Lane as Robert Harding\, Milton Sills as Geoffrey Morton\, and George Faw cett as Inspector Cochrane. Others in the cast included George Graham as A rthur Brockland\, Harry Lillford as Chetwood\, James Seeley as Doctor Whit tridge\, Walter Craven as Police Captain Prichard\, Harry Oldridge as Poli ceman Taylor\, Thomas Gunn as Policeman Burns\, Ethel Wright as Hurlburt\, and Master Macomber as Bennie.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Law_o f_the_Land SUMMARY:🎭 The Law of the Land END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:katinka-operetta-1915 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19151223 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19160704 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Park Theatre on December 23\, 1915.\nRan 220 perf ormances\, to about July 1916.\n\nKatinka is an operetta in three acts com posed by Rudolf Friml to a libretto by Otto Harbach. It was first performe d at the Park Theatre in Morristown\, New Jersey\, on December 2\, 1915\, with May Naudain in the title role and subsequently received its Broadway premiere on December 23\, 1915 at the 44th Street Theatre.\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/Katinka_%28operetta%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Katinka END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:monte-cristo-jr-musical-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19190212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19190821 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 12\, 1919.\nRan 215 performances\, to about August 1919.\n\nMonte Cristo Jr. is a musical in two acts with music by Sigmund Romberg and Jean Schwartz and both book and lyrics by Harold Atteridge. Additional music was by Maurice Abrahams\ , Fred E. Alhert and Earl Carroll\, with lyrics by Earl Carroll\, Sam M. L ewis and Joe Young. It should not be confused with the similarly named Mon te Cristo Jr. by Richard Henry.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Cri sto_Jr._%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Monte Cristo Jr. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:high-jinks-musical-1913 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19131210 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19140616 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Casino Theatre on December 10\, 1913.\nRan 213 pe rformances\, to about June 1914.\n\nHigh Jinks is a musical farce with mus ic by Rudolf Friml and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Leo Ditrichstei n\, based on the farce Before and After by Leo Ditrichstein which was adap ted from a French farce\, Les Dragees d'Hercule\, by Maurice Hennequin and Paul Bilhaud.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Jinks_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 High Jinks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-age-of-innocence-play-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19281127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19290529 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 27\, 1928.\nRan 207 performances\, to about May 1929.\n\nThe Age of Innocence is play in five scenes by Margaret Ayer Barnes that was adapted from Edith Wharton's 1920 novel of the same name.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Innocence_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Age of Innocence END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:subways-are-for-sleeping-1961 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19611227 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19620626 DESCRIPTION:Opened on December 27\, 1961.\nRan 205 performances\, to about June 1962.\n\nSubways Are for Sleeping is a musical produced by David Merr ick with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jul e Styne. The original Broadway production played in 1961–62.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subways_Are_for_Sleeping SUMMARY:🎵 Subways Are for Sleeping END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-noose-play-1926 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19261020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19270410 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Hudson Theatre on October 20\, 1926.\nClosed Apri l 9\, 1927 after 202 performances — 6 months.\n\nThe Noose is a 1926 pla y in three acts written by Willard Mack. It is a melodrama\, with a large cast\, fast pacing\, and two settings. The story tells of a young man cond emned for the murder of a fellow bootlegger\, and his refusal to explain w hy he did it.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Noose_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Noose END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:hooray-for-what-1937 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19371201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19380526 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on December 1\, 1937.\nRan 200 performances\, to about May 1938.\n\nHooray for What! is an anti-war m usical with music by Harold Arlen\, lyrics by E. Y. Harburg and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It introduced the song "Down With Love". \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooray_for_What%21 SUMMARY:🎵 Hooray for What! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:i-had-a-ball-1964 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19641215 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19650609 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 15\, 1964.\nRan 1 99 performances\, to about June 1965.\n\nI Had a Ball is a musical with a book by Jerome Chodorov and music and lyrics by Jack Lawrence and Stan Fre eman. It starred Buddy Hackett\, and featured Richard Kiley and Karen Morr ow.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Had_a_Ball SUMMARY:🎵 I Had a Ball END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:remains-to-be-seen-play-1951 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19511003 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19520327 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Morosco Theatre on October 3\, 1951.\nRan 199 per formances\, to about March 1952.\n\nRemains to Be Seen is a play written b y Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Producer Leland Hayward opened it on B roadway at the Morosco Theatre on October 3\, 1951. Bretaigne Windust dire cted the production\, which ran for 199 performances.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/Remains_to_Be_Seen_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Remains to Be Seen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-man-in-the-moon-musical-1899 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18990424 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18991105 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the New York Theatre on April 24\, 1899.\nClosed Nove mber 4\, 1899 after 192 performances — 6 months.\n\nThe Man in the Moon is a musical in three acts with music by composers Ludwig Engländer\, Gus tav Kerker and Reginald De Koven\, and both book and lyrics by Louis Harri son and Stanislaus Stange. The work premiered on Broadway at the New York Theatre on April 24\, 1899. The production closed after 192 performances o n November 4\, 1899. Produced and directed by George W. Lederer\, the show used choreography by Carl Marwig\, costumes by Caroline Siedle\, and sets created by D. Frank Dodge\, Henry E. Hoyt\, St. John Lewis and Ernest Alb ert. The cast included Sam Bernard as Conan Doyle\, Marie Dressler as Viol a Alum\, and Christie MacDonald as Diana.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /The_Man_in_the_Moon_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Man in the Moon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:hazel-flagg-1953 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19530919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19530920 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on September 19\, 1953.\nC losed September 19\, 1953 after 190 performances — 0 days.\n\nHazel Flag g is a 1953 musical\, book by Ben Hecht\, based on a story by James H. Str eet. The lyrics are by Bob Hilliard\, and music by Jule Styne. The musical is based on the 1937 screwball comedy film Nothing Sacred\, the primary s creenwriter of which was Ben Hecht.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel _Flagg SUMMARY:🎵 Hazel Flagg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:flying-colors-musical-1932 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19320915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19330228 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Imperial Theatre on September 15\, 1932.\nRan 188 performances\, to about February 1933.\n\nFlying Colors is a musical revu e with a book\, lyrics\, and music by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz and sketch contributions by George S. Kaufman\, Corey Ford\, and Charles Sher man.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Colors_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Flying Colors END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:look-ma-i-m-dancin-1948 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19480129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19480711 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on January 29\, 1948.\nClosed Jul y 10\, 1948 after 188 performances — 5 months.\n\nLook\, Ma\, I'm Dancin ’! is a musical comedy in two acts with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Ro bert E. Lee\, and music and lyrics by Hugh Martin. It was produced on Broa dway in 1948.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look%2C_Ma%2C_I%27m_Dancin% 27%21 SUMMARY:🎵 Look\, Ma\, I'm Dancin'! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:higgledy-piggledy-1904 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19041010 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19050322 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lyceum Theatre on October 10\, 1904.\nRan 185 per formances\, to about March 1905.\n\nHiggledy-Piggledy is a musical in two acts with music by Maurice Levi and both book and lyrics by Edgar Smith. I t was produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and Joseph M. Weber\, and written a s a starring vehicle for Ziegfeld's longtime romantic companion\, the actr ess Anna Held\, and for vaudevillian comedian Joe Weber who had recently s plit from his comedic partnership with Lew Fields. While critical response s to the production overwhelmingly cited the felt absence of Lew Fields an d the difficulty of Weber's persona coping with that loss\, the work was s till a popular success and well received largely due to the actress Marie Dressler who gave a highly lauded star making performance in the role of P hilopena Schnitz that propelled the show through a relatively long run on Broadway and on tour.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgledy-Piggledy SUMMARY:🎵 Higgledy-Piggledy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:little-women-play-1912 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19121014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19130325 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Playhouse Theatre on October 14\, 1912.\nRan 184 performances\, to about March 1913.\n\nLittle Women is a play in four acts by Marian de Forest which was adapted from the novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott. The only full-length stage adaptation of the work autho rized by the Alcott family\, the work was first staged on Broadway at the Playhouse Theatre in 1912. It was subsequently revived on Broadway in 1917 \, 1931\, 1944\, and 1946. The play was frequently performed in regional t heatre in the United States during the early to mid 20th century.\n\nhttps ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Little Women END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:little-boy-blue-operetta-1911 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19111127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19120430 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Lyric Theatre on November 27\, 1911.\n Ran 176 performances\, to about April 1912.\n\nLord Piccolo is an operetta in two acts with music by Henri Berény and a German-language libretto by Rudolph Schanzer & Carl Lindau. It premiered at the Johann Strauss Theate r in Vienna on 9 January 1910. When the work was later adapted into the En glish language for Broadway by A. E. Thomas and Edward A. Paulton\, their modified version retitled the work Little Boy Blue. The operetta is about a Scottish Earl's niece who impersonates her missing brother in order to o btain his inheritance from their uncle.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L ittle_Boy_Blue_%28operetta%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Little Boy Blue END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:lord-piccolo-1911 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19111127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19120430 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Lyric Theatre on November 27\, 1911.\n Ran 176 performances\, to about April 1912.\n\nLord Piccolo is an operetta in two acts with music by Henri Berény and a German-language libretto by Rudolph Schanzer & Carl Lindau. It premiered at the Johann Strauss Theate r in Vienna on 9 January 1910. When the work was later adapted into the En glish language for Broadway by A. E. Thomas and Edward A. Paulton\, their modified version retitled the work Little Boy Blue. The operetta is about a Scottish Earl's niece who impersonates her missing brother in order to o btain his inheritance from their uncle.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L ord_Piccolo SUMMARY:🎵 Lord Piccolo END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:when-knighthood-was-in-flower-play-1901 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19010114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19010618 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Criterion Theatre on January 14\, 1901.\nRan 176 performances\, to about June 1901.\n\nWhen Knighthood Was in Flower is a p lay in four acts by Paul Kester. It is based on the 1898 novel of the same name by Charles Major. The work premiered on Broadway at the Criterion Th eatre on January 14\, 1901. It ran for a total of 176 performances\; closi ng in June 1901. The original production was produced by Charles Frohman a nd used sets by Ernest Albert\, Frank E. Gates and Edward A. Morange. The costumes were designed by Mrs. Charles Hone and Harper Pennington. The cas t was led by Bruce McRae as Charles Brandon and Julia Marlowe as Mary Tudo r among others.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Knighthood_Was_in_Fl ower_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 When Knighthood Was in Flower END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:houseparty-play-1929 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19290909 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19290922 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 9\, 1929.\nClo sed September 21\, 1929 after 173 performances — 12 days.\n\nHouseparty is a 1928 American play by Kenneth Phillips Britton and Roy Hargrave. It i s a drama in three acts\, with a single setting\, and eighteen speaking ch aracters. The story concerns a feckless college sophomore who accidentally kills a would-be blackmailer then is tried for her murder. The action of the first two acts takes place on a single evening in September\, while th e third act occurs six months later.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hous eparty_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Houseparty END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:face-the-music-musical-1932 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19320101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19320710 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1932.\nClosed July 9\, 1932 after 165 performances — 6 months.\n\nFace the Music is a musical\, the first collaboration bet ween Moss Hart (book) and Irving Berlin. Face the Music opened on Broadway in 1932\, and has had several subsequent regional and New York stagings. The popular song "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee" was introduced in the musical by J. Harold Murray.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_the_Mus ic_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Face the Music END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:ladies-first-musical-1918 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19181024 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19190316 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre on October 24\, 191 8.\nClosed March 15\, 1919 after 164 performances — 5 months.\n\nLadies First is a musical in three acts with music by A. Baldwin Sloane and both book and lyrics by Harry B. Smith. It was based on Charles H. Hoyt's 1897 play A Contented Woman. Directed by Frank Smithson and produced by Harry F razee\, it premiered at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre on October 24\, 1918 . In the middle of its New York run it transferred to the Nora Bayes Theat re where it closed on March 15\, 1919\, after 164 performances.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_First_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Ladies First END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-climbers-play-1901 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19010121 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19010614 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Bijou Theatre on January 21\, 1901.\nRan 163 perf ormances\, to about June 1901.\n\nThe Climbers is an American play in four acts by Clyde Fitch. The play premiered on Broadway at the Bijou Theatre on January 21\, 1901. It ran for 163 performances\, closing on June 1\, 19 01. Produced by Amelia Bingham\, the production was directed by the playwr ight. It used scenic designs by Ernest Albert and Joseph A. Physioc. The p roduction starred Bingham as Mrs. Sterling\, Frank Worthing as Richard Ste rling\, Harry Wright as Richard Sterling\, Jr.\, Clara Bloodgood as Miss G odesby\, George C. Boniface as Dr. Steinart\, Madge Carr Cook as Mrs. Hunt er\, Minnie Dupree as Clara Hunter\, Maude Monroe as Jessica Hunter\, Robe rt Edeson as Edward Warden\, Ferdinand Gottschalk as Johnny Trotter\, Henr y Woodruff as Edward Warden\, Thomas F. Fallon as Godesby\, and John Flood as Frederick Mason.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Climbers_%28play %29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Climbers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-whirl-of-the-world-1914 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19140110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19140531 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 10\, 1914.\nClos ed May 30\, 1914 after 161 performances — 5 months.\n\nThe Whirl of the World is a musical revue in two acts with music by Sigmund Romberg and bot h book and lyrics by Harold Atteridge. The work also contained some additi onal songs by Harry Gifford and Fred Godfrey. The musical premiered on Bro adway at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 10\, 1914. It closed on May 30\, 1914\, after 161 performances. Produced by brothers Lee and Jacob J. Shubert\, the production was staged by William J. Wilson and used costumes designed by Melville Ellis.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whirl_of _the_World SUMMARY:🎵 The Whirl of the World END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:dr-syntax-musical-1894 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18940623 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18941111 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway Theatre on June 23\, 1894.\nRan 159 perf ormances\, to about November 1894.\n\nDr. Syntax is a musical in two acts with music by Woolson Morse and a libretto by J. Cheever Goodwin that was adapted from Thomas William Robertson's 1869 play School. The work was a r evised version of Morse's earlier work Cinderella at School.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Syntax_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Dr. Syntax END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-goose-hangs-high-play-1924 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19240129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19240706 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Bijou Theatre on January 29\, 1924.\nClosed July 5\, 1924 after 159 performances — 5 months.\n\nThe Goose Hangs High is a 1923 play by Lewis Beach. It is a three-act comedy with a single setting\ , and thirteen principal characters. The action of the play takes place ov er a weeks time in a Midwestern city. The story concerns generous parents whose three adult children do not realize their precarious financial posit ion but then come to their rescue. The title comes from an old American ex pression meaning "everything's going good and likely to continue well".\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_Hangs_High_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Goose Hangs High END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:revenge-with-music-1934 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19340101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19340521 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1934.\nRan 158 performances\, to about May 1934.\n\nR evenge with Music is a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz\, that opened on Broadway in 1934. This was the first "book" musical by Dietz and Schwartz.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.or g/wiki/Revenge_with_Music SUMMARY:🎵 Revenge with Music END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-honeymoon-express-musical-1913 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19130206 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19130624 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre on February 6\, 1913.\nRan 156 performances\, to about June 1913.\n\nThe Honeymoon Express is a musical in two acts and six scenes with music by Jean Schwartz\, lyr ics by Harold Atteridge\, and a book by Joseph W. Herbert. Frank Saddler o rchestrated the score. Essentially a musical revue\, the work had a loose plot which was crafted around the talents of its star-studded cast\, among them Al Jolson\, Fanny Brice\, Gaby Deslys\, and Jenny Dolly. The show wa s notable for its elaborate costumes and sets and for its groundbreaking s pecial effects for that time period\; including possibly the first use of film footage on the stage of a Broadway musical.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/The_Honeymoon_Express_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Honeymoon Express END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:present-arms-musical-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19280426 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19280910 DESCRIPTION:Opened on April 26\, 1928.\nRan 155 performances\, to about Sep tember 1928.\n\nPresent Arms is a Broadway musical comedy that opened Apri l 26\, 1928\, with music by Richard Rodgers\, lyrics by Lorenz Hart\, and the book by Herbert Fields. It was produced by Lew Fields\, with musical n umbers staged by Busby Berkeley. It ran for 155 performances at the Lew Fi elds' Mansfield Theatre\, which is known as the Lena Horne Theatre today. Present Arms was filmed in 1930 with Irene Dunne\, with its title changed to Leathernecking. The film is presumed lost.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Present_Arms_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Present Arms END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:nightie-night-play-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19190901 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19200118 DESCRIPTION:Opened in September 1919.\nClosed January 17\, 1920 after 154 p erformances — 5 months.\n\nNightie Night is a play by Martha M. Stanley and Adelaide Matthews\, originally titled Oh How Could You. A farce in thr ee acts and a prologue with three settings\, it has eight principal charac ters. The action of the play takes place over 24 hours. The story concerns a newlywed theatrical type caught up in a series of misunderstandings and mistaken intentions. According to reviewer Alexander Woollcott\, the titl e had nothing to do with the play's storyline.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nightie_Night_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Nightie Night END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-wisdom-tooth-1926 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19260601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19260627 DESCRIPTION:Opened in June 1926.\nClosed June 26\, 1926 after 153 performan ces — 25 days.\n\nThe Wisdom Tooth is a 1924 play by Marc Connelly. It i s a comedy in three acts and eight scenes\, with five settings and a large cast. The action of the play takes place during a single day in the prese nt\, with some fantasy scenes of temporal uncertainty. The story concerns an Indiana farm boy who has lost his gumption in becoming a New York City senior accounts clerk\, and how he found himself again. This was Connelly' s first solo play after the breakup of his partnership with George S. Kauf man.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_Tooth SUMMARY:🎭 The Wisdom Tooth END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-century-revue-1920 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19200712 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19201122 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Century Grove Theatre on July 12\, 1920.\nRan 150 performances\, to about November 1920.\n\nThe Century Revue is a musical revue in two acts with music by Jean Schwartz\, lyrics by Alfred Bryan\, a nd a book by Howard Emmett Rogers. The revue was directed by J. J. Shubert and produced on Broadway by the Shubert brothers. It premiered at the Cen tury Grove Theatre on July 12\, 1920\; closing after 150 performances on J anuary 1\, 1921.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_Revue SUMMARY:🎵 The Century Revue END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-major-play-1881 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18810829 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18820109 DESCRIPTION:Opened on August 29\, 1881.\nRan 150 performances\, to about Ja nuary 1882.\n\nThe Major is an 1881 comedic play produced by Edward Harrig an and Tony Hart.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Major END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-sisters-rosensweig-1992 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19921022 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19930301 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater on October 22\, 1992.\nClo sed February 28\, 1993 after 149 performances — 4 months.\n\nThe Sisters Rosensweig is a play by Wendy Wasserstein. The play focuses on three Jewi sh-American sisters and their lives. It "broke theatrical ground by concen trating on a non-traditional cast of three middle-aged women." Wasserstein received the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in American Theatre for this play.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sisters_Rosen sweig SUMMARY:🎭 The Sisters Rosensweig END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:excelsior-jr-1895 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18951125 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18960331 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 25\, 1895.\nRan 144 performances\, to about March 1896.\n\nExcelsior\, Jr. is an 1895 musical comedy with music by Geo rge Lowell Tracy\, A. Baldwin Sloane\, and Edward E. Rice\, and also with lyrics by Robert Ayres Barnet.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excelsior% 2C_Jr. SUMMARY:🎵 Excelsior\, Jr. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-little-duchess-musical-1901 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19011014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19020218 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Casino Theatre on October 14\, 1901.\nRan 144 per formances\, to about February 1902.\n\nThe Little Duchess is a musical in three acts with music by Reginald De Koven and both book and lyrics by Har ry B. Smith. Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.\, the work was an adaptation of Alfred Hennequin's 1878 play Niniche. The musical was created as a sta rring vehicle for Ziegfeld's longtime life partner\, the actress Anna Held \, who portrayed Clare de Brion\, a.k.a. "The Little Duchess".\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Duchess_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Little Duchess END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:jerry-s-girls-1985 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19851218 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19860422 DESCRIPTION:Opened on December 18\, 1985.\nRan 141 performances\, to about April 1986.\n\nJerry's Girls is a musical revue based on the songs of comp oser/lyricist Jerry Herman.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%27s_Gir ls SUMMARY:🎵 Jerry's Girls END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:cafe-crown-1942 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19420123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19420527 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Cort Theatre on January 23\, 1942.\nRan 140 perfo rmances\, to about May 1942.\n\nCafe Crown is a three-act play by Hy Kraft that premiered on Broadway on January 23\, 1942\, at the Cort Theatre. Th e cast included Sam Jaffe and Morris Carnovsky. Its action presented "a mo tley group of amiable squatters found in a Second Avenue restaurant ... me mbers of the Yiddish theatre"\, 21 characters in all. Elia Kazan directed and Boris Aronson designed the set. Brooks Atkinson\, writing in The New Y ork Times\, called it a "hospitable comedy"\, "simple but warm-hearted"\, set in the cafe where:Every one knows every one else. Business is conducte d with tremendous outbursts of temperament. No one has any secrets and no one stands on ceremony. They are not exactly one happy family\, but they a re clannish\, emotional\, self-contained\, cultivated\, and loyal to Secon d Avenue.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafe_Crown SUMMARY:🎵 Cafe Crown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:tintypes-1980 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19800417 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19800816 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the York Theatre on April 17\, 1980.\nRan 137 perform ances\, to about August 1980.\n\nTintypes is a musical revue conceived by Mary Kyte with Mel Marvin and Gary Pearle. The score\, featuring works by George M. Cohan\, John Philip Sousa\, Joseph E. Howard\, Scott Joplin\, an d Victor Herbert\, among others\, is a blend of the patriotic songs\, roma ntic tunes\, and ragtime popular during the era between 1897 and 1914. The show features five actors representing various historical characters of t he period\, including Emma Goldman\, Theodore Roosevelt\, and Anna Held.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintypes SUMMARY:🎵 Tintypes END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-velvet-lady-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19190203 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19190603 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre on February 3\, 1919.\nRan 136 performances\, to about June 1919.\n\nThe Velvet Lady is a "musical comedy in three acts" with music by Victor Herbert and a book and lyrics by Henry Blossom. Blossom's book is an adaptation of Fred Jackson' s 1915 play A Full House. It was the final collaboration between Herbert a nd Blossom\; premiering on Broadway just a month before Blossom's death. T he musical opened at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre on February 3\, 1919 . It closed at that theatre in June 1919 after 136 performances. The produ ction starred Fay Marbe as Vera Venon\, a.k.a. "The Velvet Lady"\, Ernest Torrence as Parks\, Marie Flynn as Ottilie Howell\, Ray Raymond as George Howell\, Georgia O'Ramey as Susie\, Minerva Coverdale as Bubbles\, Alfred Gerrard as Ned Pembroke\, and Jed Prouty as Nicholas King.\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Lady SUMMARY:🎵 The Velvet Lady END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:wake-up-and-dream-musical-1929 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19291230 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19291231 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Selwyn Theatre on December 30\, 1929.\nClosed Dec ember 30\, 1929 after 136 performances — 0 days.\n\nWake Up and Dream is a musical revue with a book by John Hastings Turner and music and lyrics by Cole Porter and others. The most famous song from the revue is the Port er standard "What Is This Thing Called Love?"\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Wake_Up_and_Dream_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Wake Up and Dream END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-wild-rose-1902-musical-1902 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19020101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19020501 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1902.\nRan 136 performances\, to about April 1902.\n\ n The Wild Rose is a musical in two acts with music by Ludwig Engländer a nd both book and lyrics by Harry B. Smith and George V. Hobart. The musica l contained the hit song "A Most Unlucky Man" by the songwriting team of J ean Schwartz and William Jerome.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild _Rose_%281902_musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Wild Rose END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:america-s-sweetheart-musical-1931 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19310210 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19310607 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on February 10\, 1931.\nClosed June 6\, 1931 after 135 performances — 4 months.\n\nAmerica's Sweethear t is a musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers\, lyrics by Lorenz Har t and book by Herbert Fields.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s _Sweetheart_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 America's Sweetheart END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:under-two-flags-play-1901 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19010205 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19010605 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Garden Theatre on February 5\, 1901.\n Ran 135 performances\, to about June 1901.\n\nUnder Two Flags is a play in five acts by Paul M. Potter. It is based on the 1867 English novel of the same name by Ouida. It premiered at Broadway's Garden Theatre on February 5\, 1901. It closed in June 1901 after 135 performances. The original pro duction was produced by Charles Frohman and David Belasco. Belasco also di rected the play which starred Campbell Gollan as the Marquis of Chateauroy \, Francis Carlyle as Bertie Cecil\, and Blanche Bates as Cigarette.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Two_Flags_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Under Two Flags END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:believe-me-xantippe-play-1913 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19130801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19131126 DESCRIPTION:Opened in August 1913.\nRan 132 performances\, to about Novembe r 1913.\n\nBelieve Me\, Xantippe is a play written in 1912 by John Frederi ck Ballard\, while a postgraduate student at Harvard University. Its autho r labelled it a comedy\, but reviewers judged it a melodramatic farce. It has four acts\, with three settings and ten characters. The story concerns a bet that an intelligent man can avoid being apprehended for a minor cri me. The action of the play spans one years time.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/Believe_Me%2C_Xantippe_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Believe Me\, Xantippe END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-country-cousin-play-1917 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19170901 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19171223 DESCRIPTION:Opened in September 1917.\nClosed December 22\, 1917 after 129 performances — 4 months.\n\nThe Country Cousin is a 1917 play by Booth T arkington and Julian Street\, a revised version of their failed 1915 play The Ohio Lady. It is a four-act comedy that skirts melodrama\, with three settings and thirteen characters. The action of the play takes place on a June 1916 morning\, and during 24 hours in August 1916. The story concerns an intelligent young farmer\, who saves her little cousin from being chea ted while also causing a young man to realize there is a larger world that demands his participation.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Country_C ousin_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Country Cousin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:gentlemen-of-the-press-play-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19280827 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19281218 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Henry Miller's Theatre on August 27\, 1928.\nRan 128 performances\, to about December 1928.\n\nGentlemen of the Press is a three-act play written by Ward Morehouse. Producers Thomas E. Jackson and H. S. Kraft opened it on Broadway at Henry Miller's Theatre on August 27\, 1928. George Abbott directed the production\, which ran for 128 performan ces.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen_of_the_Press_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Gentlemen of the Press END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:run-little-chillun-1933 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19330101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19330423 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1933.\nRan 126 performances\, to about April 1933.\n\ nRun\, Little Chillun or Run Little Chillun is a folk opera written by Hal l Johnson. According to James Vernon Hatch and Leo Hamalian\, it is one of the most successful musical dramas of the Harlem Renaissance. It was the first Broadway show directed by an African-American.\n\nhttps://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Run%2C_Little_Chillun SUMMARY:🎵 Run\, Little Chillun END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:to-the-ladies-play-1922 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19220201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19220611 DESCRIPTION:Opened in February 1922.\nClosed June 10\, 1922 after 125 perfo rmances — 4 months.\n\nTo the Ladies is a 1922 play by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. The play's title occasionally appears with an exclamat ion point at the end. It is a fast-paced three-act comedy with four scenes \, three settings\, and fourteen characters. The story concerns the effort s of a newly married wife to help her scatter-brained husband rise in his career. It was written to order as a vehicle for Helen Hayes\, to give her a domestic role rather than the flappers she had been playing.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Ladies_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 To the Ladies END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:two-for-the-show-musical-1940 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19400208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19400526 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Booth Theatre on February 8\, 1940.\nClosed May 2 5\, 1940 after 124 performances — 4 months.\n\nTwo for the Show is a mus ical revue with sketches and lyrics by Nancy Hamilton and music by Morgan Lewis. The production was conceived by John Murray Anderson.\n\nhttps://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_for_the_Show_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Two for the Show END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-temperamental-journey-1913 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19130901 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19131221 DESCRIPTION:Opened in September 1913.\nClosed December 20\, 1913 after 123 performances — 4 months.\n\nThe Temperamental Journey\, originally title d Such Is Life\, is a 1913 play by Leo Ditrichstein\, adapted from Pour Vi vre Heureux by André Rivoire and Yves Mirande. It is a three-act comedy w ith three settings and twenty characters. The story concerns an unhappy ar tist who survives a suicide attempt but is assumed to have died\, and find s the commercial success in "death" that escaped him in life.\n\nhttps://e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temperamental_Journey SUMMARY:🎭 The Temperamental Journey END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:rang-tang-1927 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19270712 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19271026 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Royale Theater on July 12\, 1927.\nRan 119 perfor mances\, to about October 1927.\n\nRang Tang is a musical that premiered J uly 12\, 1927\, on Broadway at the Royale Theater and ran for 119 performa nces\, including a 14-week overrun\, during which\, the production moved S eptember 12\, 1927\, to the Majestic – finishing October 24\, 1927. It w as acclaimed as one of the most successful black musical revues of the lat ter 1920s\, and owed much to a star-laden cast headlined by Flournoy Mille r and Aubrey Lyles. The book — in 2 acts and 12 scenes — is by Kaj Gyn t\; the lyrics are by Joseph H. Trent\; the music is composed by Ford Dabn ey\, who tailored some of the songs for Mae Barnes and Evelyn Preer\; the score and post-production music was published by Leo Feist\; all copyright ed in 1927 and copyrights renewed in 1954.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Rang_Tang SUMMARY:🎵 Rang Tang END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-senator-play-1890 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18900113 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18900429 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Star Theatre on January 13\, 1890.\nRan 119 perfo rmances\, to about April 1890.\n\nThe Senator was a popular 1890 comedic p lay by David D. Lloyd and Sydney Rosenfeld\, also made into a 1915 silent film.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Senator_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Senator END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-right-honourable-gentleman-1965 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19651019 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19660130 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Billy Rose Theatre on October 19\, 1965.\nClosed January 29\, 1966 after 118 performances — 3 months.\n\nThe Right Honour able Gentleman is a 1962 play by Michael Dyne\, first staged in 1964.\n\nh ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Honourable_Gentleman SUMMARY:🎭 The Right Honourable Gentleman END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-dream-girl-operetta-1924 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19240820 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19241202 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ambassador Theatre on August 20\, 1924.\nRan 117 performances\, to about December 1924.\n\nThe Dream Girl is an operetta in three acts with music by Victor Herbert and book by Rida Johnson Young an d Harold Atteridge. Based on the 1906 play The Road to Yesterday\, by Beul ah Marie Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland\, its satiric story concerns reincarnation. Additional music was written by Sigmund Romberg. The piece was Victor Herbert's last musical composition\, and the work was produced posthumously on Broadway in 1924.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dre am_Girl_%28operetta%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Dream Girl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:becky-sharp-play-1899 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18990912 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18991224 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on September 12\, 1899.\nRan 116 performances\, to about December 1899.\n\nBecky Sharp is a play in fo ur acts by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell. The work is based on William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair (1847–1848) and is named for the novel's m ain character\, Becky Sharp. It was first staged on Broadway at the Fifth Avenue Theatre where it opened on September 12\, 1899\, in a production st arring Minnie Maddern Fiske in the title part. It ran for 116 performances . Fiske also co-directed this production with Fred Williams\, and Gates an d Morange designed the sets for this show. The play was subsequently reviv ed on Broadway three times with stagings at the Manhattan Theatre (1904)\, Lyceum Theatre (1911)\, and the Knickerbocker Theatre (1929). It was the basis for the 1935 film Becky Sharp.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck y_Sharp_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Becky Sharp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:all-for-the-ladies-1912 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19121230 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19130406 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 30\, 1912.\nClosed Apri l 5\, 1913 after 112 performances — 3 months.\n\nAll for the Ladies is a musical with music by Alfred G. Robyn and both lyrics and book by Henry B lossom. The musical premiered on Broadway at the Lyric Theatre on December 30\, 1912. It closed on April 5\, 1913\, after 112 performances. The musi cal was created as a starring vehicle for comedian Sam Bernard who portray ed the central character of Leon von Laubenheim of Pantural\, Clemente & C o. The production also starred Adele Ritchie as Nancy Panturel\, Alice Gen tle as Georgette Clemente\, and Jerome Uhl as General Villefranche. The mu sical is set in France.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_for_the_Ladie s SUMMARY:🎵 All for the Ladies END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:vera-violetta-1911 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19111120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19120227 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 20\, 1911.\nRan 112 performances\, to about February 1912.\n\nVera Violetta is an operetta including a libretto by Lou is Stein and music by Edmund Eysler\, additional music by George M. Cohan\ , Jean Schwartz and Louis A. Hirsch. Set in Paris\, the work is about the flirtatious wife of a professor. Vera Violetta was the name both of her Ro ger & Gallet perfume and a waltz which celebrated it.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/Vera_Violetta SUMMARY:🎵 Vera Violetta END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:a-full-house-1915 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19150510 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19150817 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Longacre Theatre on May 10\, 1915.\nRan 112 perfo rmances\, to about August 1915.\n\nA Full House is a farce in three acts b y Frederick J. Jackson. A comedy of errors\, the play centers around the t heft of a ruby necklace and relies heavily upon slapstick and physical com edy. It premiered on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre on May 10\, 1915. It closed at that theatre in August 1915 after 112 performances.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Full_House SUMMARY:🎭 A Full House END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:all-aboard-musical-1913 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19130605 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19130907 DESCRIPTION:Opened on June 5\, 1913.\nClosed September 6\, 1913 after 108 p erformances — 3 months.\n\nAll Aboard is a musical in two acts and ten s cenes with lyrics by E. Ray Goetz\, music by composers E. Ray Goetz and Ma lvin M. Franklin\, and a book by Mark Swan. The work also features additio nal songs written by composers Irving Berlin\, Jack Glogau and Joaquin Val verde\; and lyricists Irving Berlin and Earl Carroll.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/All_Aboard_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 All Aboard END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:i-remember-mama-musical-1979 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19790531 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19790904 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Majestic Theatre on May 31\, 1979.\nRan 108 perfo rmances\, to about September 1979.\n\nI Remember Mama is a musical with a book by Thomas Meehan\, lyrics by Martin Charnin and Raymond Jessel\, and music by Richard Rodgers. The musical ran on Broadway in 1979.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Remember_Mama_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 I Remember Mama END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:molly-musical-1973 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19730927 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19740101 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Alvin Theatre on September 27\, 1973.\nRan 108 pe rformances\, to about December 1973.\n\nMolly is a musical with lyrics by Leonard Adelson and Mack David and music by Jerry Livingston. The musical book by Louis A. Garfinkle and Adelson is based on characters from Gertrud e Berg's The Goldbergs. The musical premiered on Broadway on September 27\ , 1973 at the Alvin Theatre where it ran for a total of 108 performances\, closing on December 29\, 1973. The cast included Kaye Ballard as Molly\, Lee Wallace as Jake\, Eli Mintz as Uncle David\, and Swen Swenson as Micha el Stone.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Molly END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:mother-goose-musical-1903 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19031203 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19040305 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre on December 3\, 1903.\nRan 105 performances\, to about March 1904.\n\nMother Goose is a mu sical in three acts with music by Frederick Solomon\, lyrics by George V. Hobart\, and a book by John J. McNally that was adapted from Arthur Collin s and J. Hickory Wood's libretto for the 1902 pantomime of the same name. The work's plot pulled loosely from several fairy tales and nursery rhymes \, including Mother Goose and Jack and Jill. The work also contained many songs interpolated into the production by other writers\, including two so ngs by George M. Cohan: "Rube" and "Always Leave Them Laughing When You Sa y Goodbye".\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Goose_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Mother Goose END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:la-belle-paree-1911 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19110101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19110403 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1911.\nRan 104 performances\, to about April 1911.\n\ nLa Belle Paree was a musical revue that launched the legitimate theatre c areer of Al Jolson. The book was by Edgar Smith\, music by Jerome Kern and Frank Tours and lyrics by Edward Madden. Billee Taylor provided additiona l music and lyrics\, and M. E. Rourke and Frederick Day provided additiona l lyrics. It premiered on Broadway in 1911. The musical is set in Paris\, France.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Belle_Paree SUMMARY:🎵 La Belle Paree END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-billionaire-musical-1902 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19021229 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19030331 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Daly's Theatre on December 29\, 1902.\nRan 104 pe rformances\, to about March 1903.\n\nThe Billionaire is a musical in three acts with music by Gustave Kerker\, and both book and lyrics by Harry B. Smith. The show was written with the backing of producers Klaw and Erlange r and was made specifically for the talents of Jerome Sykes who portrayed "The Billionaire"\, John Doe. The action of the musical begins in Nice\, F rance during Carnival where the billionaire Sykes meets a young American g irl\, Pansy Good\, studying to be an actress. Impressed with her talents\, he buys her Doe's Theatre in New York City and establishes her as a star. Later\, Doe attempts to ride a horse in a race at the Longchamp Racecours e in Paris\, but is too fat to succeed. Pansy rides the horse instead and wins the race.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Billionaire_%28musical %29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Billionaire END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-enchantress-operetta-1911 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19111001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19120101 DESCRIPTION:Opened in October 1911.\nRan 104 performances\, to about Decemb er 1911.\n\nThe Enchantress is an operetta in two acts with music by Victo r Herbert\, lyrics by Harry B. Smith and a book by Fred de Gresac. To prev ent spoiled Prince Ivan from ascending to his rightful throne\, Zergovia's regent and war minister scheme to have him "enchanted" by an alluring ope ra singer\, Vivien Savary\, as marriage to a commoner would require him to abdicate. The head of the secret service helps to thwart the plan\, as do es Vivien\, who falls for the prince\; meanwhile\, several princesses and an American heiress also vie for the prince's hand.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/The_Enchantress_%28operetta%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Enchantress END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:nancy-brown-musical-1903 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19030216 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19030519 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Bijou Theatre on February 16\, 1903.\nRan 104 per formances\, to about May 1903.\n\n Nancy Brown is a musical in two acts wi th music by Henry Kimball Hadley and both book and lyrics by George Broadh urst and Frederic Ranken. The musical also used several songs written by t he African-American songwriting team of Robert Cole\, J. Rosamond Johnson\ , and James Weldon Johnson. Set in the royal palace of the fictional kingd om of Ballyhoo\, the show was about the matchmaker Nancy Brown's attempt t o wed the Ballyhooian royalty and nobility to eight wealthy American heire sses in order to save the financially bankrupt kingdom.\n\nhttps://en.wiki pedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brown_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Nancy Brown END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:for-goodness-sake-musical-1922 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19220221 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19220524 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lyric Theatre on February 21\, 1922.\nRan 103 per formances\, to about May 1922.\n\nFor Goodness Sake is a musical in two ac ts with a book by Fred Jackson\, lyric by Arthur Jackson\, and music by Wi lliam Daly and Paul Lannin. Two songs were also provided by George Gershwi n (music) and his brother Ira Gershwin \; including "Tra-la-la". The show opened on Broadway at the Lyric Theatre on February 21\, 1922. Produced by Alex A. Aarons\, it ran for 103 performances\; closing on May 20\, 1922. The cast was led by Fred Astaire as Teddy Lawrence and Adele Astaire as Su zanne Hayden. The film Stop Flirting was based on a play of the same name that was in turn based on the musical For Goodness Sake.\n\nhttps://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/For_Goodness_Sake_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 For Goodness Sake END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:love-birds-romberg-and-macdonald-1921 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19210315 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19210615 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Apollo Theatre on March 15\, 1921.\nRa n 103 performances\, to about June 1921.\n\nLove Birds is a musical in two acts with music by Sigmund Romberg\, lyrics by Ballard MacDonald\, and a book by Edgar Allan Woolf. The work premiered at Broadway's Apollo Theatre on March 15\, 1921. In ran there for 103 performances\, closing on June 1 1\, 1921. It was produced by Alfred Maria Willner and Romberg and co-direc ted by Edgar MacGregor\, Julian Alfred and Frank Smithson. The musical sta rred Pat Rooney as Pat\, Marion Bent as Mamie O'Grady\, Elizabeth Hines as Allene Charteris\, Barrett Greenwood as Hal Sterling\, and Evelyn Cavanau gh as Violet Morely among others.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Bi rds_%28Romberg_and_MacDonald%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Love Birds (Romberg and MacDonald) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:sunny-days-musical-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19280208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19280508 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Imperial Theatre on February 8\, 1928. \nRan 101 performances\, to about May 1928.\n\nSunny Days is a musical in three acts with music by Jean Schwartz and both book and lyrics by Cliffor d Grey and William Carey Duncan. The musical was an adaptation of Grey's e arlier stage play A Kiss in a Taxi which was in turn adapted from Maurice Hennequin and Pierre Veber's Le Monsieur de cinq heures. The work premiere d at Broadway's Imperial Theatre on February 8\, 1928. It ran there for a total of 101 performances\; closing on May 5\, 1928. The cast included Jea nette MacDonald as Ginette Bertin\, Frank McIntyre as Leon Dorsay\, Billy B. Van as Rudolph Max\, Lynne Overman as Maurice Vane\, Rosalie Claire as Angele Larue\, and Audrey Maple as Madame Dorsay.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Sunny_Days_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Sunny Days END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-autumn-garden-1951 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19510307 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19510605 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Coronet Theatre on March 7\, 1951.\nRan 101 perfo rmances\, to about June 1951.\n\nThe Autumn Garden is a 1951 play by Lilli an Hellman. The play is set in September\, 1949 in a summer home in a reso rt on the Gulf of Mexico\, about 100 miles from New Orleans. The play is a study of the defeats\, disappointments and diminished expectations of peo ple reaching middle age. For inspiration\, Hellman drew on her memories of her time in her aunts' boardinghouse. Dashiell Hammett\, who had been Hel lman's lover for 20 years\, helped her write the play and received 15 perc ent of the royalties. Of all Hellman's plays it was her favorite.\n\nhttps ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autumn_Garden SUMMARY:🎭 The Autumn Garden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-greyhound-play-1912 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19120201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19120430 DESCRIPTION:Opened in February 1912.\nRan 100 performances\, to about April 1912.\n\nThe Greyhound is a 1911 play written by Paul Armstrong and Wilso n Mizner. It is a melodrama with four acts\, six settings\, a large cast a nd fast pacing. The story is episodic\, following four criminals working l ikely victims on an ocean liner\, and showing how they are thwarted. Altho ugh containing elements of a thriller\, comedy dominates\, as a glance at names of featured characters suggests. The title comes from the contempora ry description of fast transatlantic passenger ships as "ocean greyhounds" .\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greyhound_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Greyhound END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:swinging-on-a-star-musical-1995 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19951022 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19960114 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Music Box Theatre on October 22\, 1995.\nClosed J anuary 13\, 1996 after 96 performances — 3 months.\n\n Swinging on a Sta r is a musical revue\, featuring the music of Johnny Burke\, with the lyr ics by Burke and the music by Burke and several of his partners\, such as Erroll Garner and Jimmy Van Heusen. The name of the revue is from the Osca r-winning song that Burke wrote with Jimmy Van Heusen for the 1944 film Go ing My Way.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swinging_on_a_Star_%28musical %29 SUMMARY:🎵 Swinging on a Star END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:tweedles-play-1923 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19230801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19231104 DESCRIPTION:Opened in August 1923.\nClosed November 3\, 1923 after 96 perfo rmances — 3 months.\n\nTweedles is a 1921 play by Booth Tarkington and H arry Leon Wilson. It is a comedy in three acts with a single setting\, and nine speaking parts. The action of the play takes place over several days at a seaside village in Maine. The story concerns a wealthy young summer visitor who develops an sudden interest in an antique shop's collection of Bristol glass.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweedles_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Tweedles END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-white-hen-musical-1907 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19070216 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19070511 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Casino Theatre on February 16\, 1907.\ nRan 94 performances\, to about May 1907.\n\nThe White Hen is a musical in two acts with music by composer Gustav Kerker\, a book by Roderic C. Penf ield\, and lyrics co-authored by Penfield and Paul West. Set in Tyrol\, Au stria\, the story takes place at an inn\, 'The White Hen'\, owned by Hensi e Blinder. The musical begins after Blinder returns from a trip to Vienna in which he engaged a matrimonial agency to help him find a wife. Upon his return to the inn\, several women arrive in response to the advertisement placed by the agency and a comedy of errors ensues\; including Blinder mi stakenly believing he has committed the crime of bigamy.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Hen_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The White Hen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:between-the-devil-1937 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19371001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19380313 DESCRIPTION:Opened in October 1937.\nClosed March 12\, 1938 after 93 perfor mances — 5 months.\n\nBetween the Devil is a musical comedy with book an d lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz.\n\nhttps://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/Between_the_Devil SUMMARY:🎵 Between the Devil END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:epic-proportions-1986 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19861201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19870222 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Judith Anderson Theatre on December 1\, 1986.\nRa n 93 performances\, to about February 1987.\n\nEpic Proportions is a play by Larry Coen and David Crane.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Propo rtions SUMMARY:🎭 Epic Proportions END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:three-wishes-for-jamie-1952 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19520321 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19520610 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 21\, 1952.\nRan 9 1 performances\, to about June 1952.\n\nThree Wishes for Jamie is a musica l with a book by Charles O'Neal and Abe Burrows and music and lyrics by Ra lph Blane.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Wishes_for_Jamie SUMMARY:🎵 Three Wishes for Jamie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-intimate-strangers-play-1921 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19211101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19220122 DESCRIPTION:Opened in November 1921.\nClosed January 21\, 1922 after 91 per formances — 3 months.\n\nThe Intimate Strangers is a 1921 play by Booth Tarkington. It is a three-act comedy with two settings and eight character s. The action of the play takes place within 24 hours. The story concerns a naive old-fashioned bachelor\, teased by a pretend spinster\, with a you nger couple serving as competition. Tarkington wrote the play with Maude A dams in mind\, but when she was unavailable\, it became a vehicle for Bill ie Burke.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intimate_Strangers_%28play% 29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Intimate Strangers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:bandanna-land-1908 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19080203 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19080422 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Majestic Theatre on February 3\, 1908.\nRan 89 pe rformances\, to about April 1908.\n\nBandanna Land is a musical from 1908. The book was written by Jesse A. Shipp\, lyrics by Alex Rogers and music composed primarily by Will Marion Cook. Created by and featuring African A mericans\, it was the third musical written by the team whose previous wor ks included In Dahomey (1902) and Abyssinia (1906). It was the last show f eaturing the duo of Bert Williams and George Walker\, comedians who starre d in these musicals. Walker became ill during the post-Broadway tour and d ied in 1911.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandanna_Land SUMMARY:🎵 Bandanna Land END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:my-darlin-aida-1952 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19521027 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19530111 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 27\, 1952.\nClos ed January 10\, 1953 after 89 performances — 2 months.\n\n My Darlin’ Aida is a 1952 Broadway musical play with music by Giuseppe Verdi\, lyric s by Charles Friedman\, based on Verdi's opera\, Aida. It was produced by Robert L. Joseph.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Darlin%27_Aida SUMMARY:🎵 My Darlin' Aida END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:broadway-to-tokio-1900 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19000123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19000411 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the New York Theatre on January 23\, 1900.\nRan 88 pe rformances\, to about April 1900.\n\nBroadway to Tokio is a musical in thr ee acts with music by Alfred Baldwin Sloane and lyrics and book co-authore d by George V. Hobart and Louis Harrison. While the song material was comp osed entirely by Sloane\, composer Reginald De Koven also contributed some dance music to the work. Karl Hoschna and Frank Sadler orchestrated the m usic. Essentially a revue\, the musical incorporates elements of operetta\ , burlesque\, ballet\, and vaudeville.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br oadway_to_Tokio SUMMARY:🎵 Broadway to Tokio END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:poor-murderer-1976 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19761020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19770103 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 20\, 1976.\nCl osed January 2\, 1977 after 87 performances — 2 months.\n\nPoor Murderer is a play written by Pavel Kohout that premiered at the Ethel Barrymore T heatre on Broadway on 20 October 1976 and closed on 2 January 1977 after 8 7 performances.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Murderer SUMMARY:🎭 Poor Murderer END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:red-light-annie-1923 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19230821 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19231107 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Morosco Theatre on August 21\, 1923.\nRan 87 perf ormances\, to about November 1923.\n\nRed Light Annie is a 1923 play writt en by Norman Houston and Sam Forrest. Producers Sam H. Harris and Albert H . Woods staged it on Broadway. It is a melodrama about a young couple who move to New York City and are pulled into a world of drugs and crime.\n\nh ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Light_Annie SUMMARY:🎭 Red Light Annie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:via-wireless-play-1908 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19081101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19090116 DESCRIPTION:Opened in November 1908.\nRan 85 performances\, to about Januar y 1909.\n\nVia Wireless is a 1908 play dramatized by Paul Armstrong and Wi nchell Smith from an original story idea by Frederic Thompson\, and incorp orating one scene devised by Edwin Balmer and Irving W. Edwards. It is a m elodrama with four acts\, five settings\, six scenes\, a large cast and fa st pacing. The story concerns a Navy lieutenant who has designed a new mar ine artillery piece\, the royalty owner of a rival gun who wants to sabota ge it\, and the girl who both men want. The story depends for its climax o n the use of ship-to-ship wireless telegraphy.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Via_Wireless_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Via Wireless END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:higher-and-higher-musical-1940 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19400404 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19400825 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on April 4\, 1940.\nClosed August 24\, 1940 after 84 performances — 5 months.\n\nHigher and Higher is a m usical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers\, lyrics by Lorenz Hart\, and book by Gladys Hurlbut and Joshua Logan and produced by Dwight Deere Wiman . It ran on Broadway for 84 performances in 1940.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Higher_and_Higher_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Higher and Higher END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:happyland-opera-1905 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19051002 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19051214 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lyric Theatre on October 2\, 1905.\nRan 82 perfor mances\, to about December 1905.\n\nHappyland\, Or\, The King of Elysia is a comic opera in two acts with music by Reginald De Koven and a libretto by Frederic Ranken.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happyland_%28opera%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Happyland END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:jennie-musical-1963 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19631017 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19631229 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Majestic Theatre on October 17\, 1963.\nClosed De cember 28\, 1963 after 82 performances — 2 months.\n\nJennie is a musica l with a book by Arnold Schulman\, music by Arthur Schwartz\, and lyrics b y Howard Dietz\, and starred Mary Martin.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Jennie_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Jennie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:gallops-play-1906 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19060212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19060425 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Garrick Theatre on February 12\, 1906.\nRan 81 pe rformances\, to about April 1906.\n\nGallops is a play in four acts by Dav id Gray. Written as a starring vehicle for the actor Charles Richman\, the work's plot was loosely adapted from several short stories written by Gra y about fox hunts and horses which were published in the short story colle ctions Gallops (1898) and Gallops II (1903)\; both by the publisher The Ce ntury Company.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallops_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Gallops END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:henry-sweet-henry-1967 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19671023 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19680101 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Palace Theatre on October 23\, 1967.\nClosed Dece mber 31\, 1967 after 80 performances — 2 months.\n\nHenry\, Sweet Henry is a musical with a book by Nunnally Johnson and music and lyrics by Bob M errill.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%2C_Sweet_Henry SUMMARY:🎵 Henry\, Sweet Henry END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-king-s-carnival-1901 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19010513 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19011013 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the New York Theatre on May 13\, 1901.\nClosed Octobe r 12\, 1901 after 80 performances — 5 months.\n\nThe King's Carnival is a musical burlesque in two acts with music by A. Baldwin Sloane and both b ook and lyrics by Sydney Rosenfeld. The musical also included one hit song by the songwriting team of Jean Schwartz and William Jerome\, "When Mr. S hakespeare Comes to Town". The musical was a parody of several Broadway sh ows that dealt with royalty and courtly drama\, including targeted spoofs of Paul Kester's When Knighthood Was in Flower\, Clyde Fitch's The Climber s\, Paul M. Potter's Under Two Flags\, and Lorimer Stoddard's In the Palac e of the King.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King%27s_Carnival SUMMARY:🎵 The King's Carnival END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-silver-star-musical-1909 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19091101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19100111 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre on November 1\, 1909.\nRan 80 performances\, to about January 1910.\n\nThe Silver Star is a musical in three acts with both book and lyrics by Harry B. Smith and mu sic by many composers. A Christmas musical\, the work was created for the Danish dancer Adeline Genée who portrays the central character of Viola.\ n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Star_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Silver Star END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:doctor-x-play-1931 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19310209 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19310421 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Hudson Theatre on February 9\, 1931.\nRan 80 perf ormances\, to about April 1931.\n\nDoctor X is a play in three acts by How ard Warren Comstock and Allen C. Miller. It was written in 1928 under the title of Terror but retitled Doctor X when it finally reached the stage in 1931. It premiered on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on February 9\, 1931 . It ran there for 80 performances\; closing on April 18\, 1931. It was di rected by Josephine Victor and produced by William Brandt and Harry Brandt . The cast was led by Howard Lang in the title role. Some of the other cas t members included J. W. Austin as Leyden Duke\, Eden Gray as Mavis\, Bori s Marshalov as Prof. Haines\, May Vokes as Jessie\, Barry Macollum as Ben\ , George Blackwood as Neil Merlin\, and Florence Shirley as Eleanor Steven s. The play was the basis for the 1932 film Doctor X.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/Doctor_X_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Doctor X END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:billeted-play-1918 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19180301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19180324 DESCRIPTION:Opened in March 1918.\nClosed March 23\, 1918 after 79 performa nces — 22 days.\n\nBilleted is a 1917 English play by F. Tennyson Jesse and H. M. Harwood. It is a comedy in three acts and one setting\, with nin e characters. The action of the play takes place over five days time. The story concerns a grass widow who fakes her husband's death only to have hi m reappear under another name. The title refers to the placement of milita ry personnel in civilian homes when government housing is not available.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billeted_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Billeted END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:fine-feathers-play-1913 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19130107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19130319 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Astor Theatre on January 7\, 1913.\nRan 79 perfor mances\, to about March 1913.\n\nFine Feathers is a 1912 American drama in four acts by Eugene Walter. It concerns an engineer who accepts a bribe t o approve inferior cement for a dam\, with disastrous consequences. The pl ay premiered at the Cort Theatre in Chicago on August 12\, 1912\, in a pro duction by H. H. Frazee\, and opened on Broadway at the Astor Theatre on J anuary 7\, 1913. The Broadway production\, directed by Walter\, starred Ro bert Edeson\, Wilton Lackaye and Lolita Robertson.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Fine_Feathers_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Fine Feathers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:a-matter-of-gravity-1976 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19760203 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19760414 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on February 3\, 1976.\nRan 79 performances\, to about April 1976.\n\nA Matter of Gravity is a play by En id Bagnold.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Matter_of_Gravity SUMMARY:🎭 A Matter of Gravity END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-naughty-wife-1917 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19171117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19180126 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Harris Theatre on November 17\, 1917.\nRan 78 per formances\, to about January 1918.\n\nThe Naughty Wife\, originally titled Losing Eloise\, is a farce in 3 acts by Fred Jackson. It was adapted into the 1919 silent film Let's Elope.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Na ughty_Wife SUMMARY:🎭 The Naughty Wife END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:say-when-musical-1934 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19341108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19350115 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Imperial Theatre on November 8\, 1934.\nRan 76 pe rformances\, to about January 1935.\n\nSay When is an American musical wit h music by Ray Henderson\, lyrics by Ted Koehler\, and a musical book by J ack McGowan. Directed by Bertram Harrison\, the production opened on Broad way at the Imperial Theatre where it ran from November 8\, 1934\, through January 12\, 1935 for a total of 76 performances.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Say_When_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Say When END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-straw-hat-revue-1939 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19390929 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19391203 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ambassador Theatre on September 29\, 1939.\nClose d December 2\, 1939 after 75 performances — 2 months.\n\nThe Straw Hat R evue is a musical comedy revue with sketches mostly by Max Liebman and Sam uel Locke\, and music and lyrics by Sylvia Fine and James Shelton. It was produced on Broadway in 1939.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Straw_H at_Revue SUMMARY:🎵 The Straw Hat Revue END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:everyman-1901-play-1902 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19020101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19020309 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1902.\nRan 75 performances\, to about March 1902.\n\n Everyman is a modern play produced by Charles Frohman and directed by Ben Greet that is based on the medieval morality play of the same name. The mo dern play was first performed in 1901 on tour in Britain. It opened in the United States in 1902 on Broadway\, where it ran for 75 performances\, fo llowed by tours over the next several years that included four Broadway re vivals.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyman_%281901_play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Everyman END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-little-blue-devil-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19191103 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19200108 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Central Theater on November 3\, 1919.\nRan 74 per formances\, to about January 1920.\n\nThe Little Blue Devil was a musical comedy by Harold Atteridge and Harry Carroll that premiered on November 3\ , 1919 at the Central Theater on Broadway. It ran for 74 performances.\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Blue_Devil SUMMARY:🎵 The Little Blue Devil END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-city-chap-musical-1925 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19251026 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19251227 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Liberty Theatre on October 26\, 1925.\nClosed Dec ember 26\, 1925 after 72 performances — 2 months.\n\nThe City Chap is a musical comedy with music by Jerome Kern\, lyrics by Anne Caldwell and boo k by James Montgomery adapted from the play The Fortune Hunter by Winchell Smith.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_Chap_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The City Chap END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:lifting-the-lid-1905 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19050605 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19050827 DESCRIPTION:Opened on June 5\, 1905.\nClosed August 26\, 1905 after 72 perf ormances — 3 months.\n\nLifting the Lid is a musical in four scenes with music by Jean Schwartz\, lyrics by William Jerome\, and a book by John J. McNally. The musical was a spoof of New York City politics of the early 2 0th century\, and included impersonations of both political figures and ot her personalities of the period. The Manhattan district attorney William T ravers Jerome was particularly lampooned as the musical's central characte r\, district attorney William T. G. Rome\, was a send up of Jerome and per formed in an uncanny impersonation by the actor Julius Tannen.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting_the_Lid SUMMARY:🎵 Lifting the Lid END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:up-and-down-broadway-1910 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19100718 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19100920 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Casino Theatre on July 18\, 1910.\nRan 72 perform ances\, to about September 1910.\n\nUp and Down Broadway is a musical revu e in two acts with music by Jean Schwartz\, lyrics by William Jerome\, and a book Edgar Smith. The musical's loose plot concerns the god Apollo who arrives in New York City in the accompany of other Greek deities vowing to improve the theatrical tastes of the American public. In the end they dec ide Broadway knows more about great entertainment than the Greek gods do. The musical was written as a starring vehicle for Eddie Foy who portrayed the main servant of Apollo\, Momus\, and provided much of the work's comed ic thrust.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_and_Down_Broadway SUMMARY:🎵 Up and Down Broadway END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:his-majesty-bunker-bean-play-1915 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19150101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19150306 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1915.\nRan 72 performances\, to about March 1915.\n\n His Majesty Bunker Bean is a play in four acts by Lee Wilson Dodd based on the 1912 novel Bunker Bean by Harry Leon Wilson. Led by actor Taylor Holm es in the title role\, the farce premiered in Detroit in 1915 prior to tou ring the Midwestern United States during the 1915–1916 season. This incl uded a six month long stop in Chicago at the Cort Theatre where the play w as a popular hit. After a hiatus in the summer 1916\, the play resumed per formances in Atlantic City in September before transferring to Broadway in October 1916\, where it ran for three months at the Astor Theatre. The or iginal production continued to tour until ending in May 1917\, after which it was staged by regional theaters in the United States. The play and the novel it was based on were both the source material for multiple film ada ptations made between 1918 and 1936.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_ Majesty_Bunker_Bean_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 His Majesty Bunker Bean END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:here-s-howe-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19280501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19280701 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on May 1\, 1928.\nClosed June 30\, 1928 after 71 performances — 2 months.\n\nHere's Howe! is a musical in two acts with music by Roger Wolfe Kahn and Joseph Meyer and lyrics by Irving Caesar. The swing music standard "Crazy Rhythm" was written for th is show. The work's musical book was written by Fred Thompson and Paul Ger ard Smith. The musical is set mainly in Boston\, Massachusetts at the Tred well Motor Company where the play's central characters work\; but with add itional scenes in Havana\, Cuba when the characters take a trip abroad.\n\ nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%27s_Howe SUMMARY:🎵 Here's Howe END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:blood-and-sand-play-1921 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19210920 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19211123 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Empire Theatre on September 20\, 1921.\nRan 71 pe rformances\, to about November 1921.\n\nBlood and Sand is a play in four a cts by Tom Cushing. It is based on Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's 1908 Spanish- language novel Blood and Sand. Both the novel and Cushing's play were the basis for the 1922 silent film Blood and Sand starring Rudolph Valentino. Set in Madrid\, the play tells the story of a Spanish bullfighter who is b etrayed by both the woman he loves and his ardent and bloodthirsty fans.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_and_Sand_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Blood and Sand END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-strollers-1901 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19010624 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19010901 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on June 24\, 1901.\nClosed August 31\, 1901 after 70 performances — 2 months.\n\nThe Strollers is a musical in two acts and a prologue with music by Ludwig Engländer and a book and lyrics by Harry B. Smith. Set in Austria\, the work is based on L eopold Krenn and Karl Lindau's libretto for the 1899 operetta Die Landstre icher by the composer Carl Michael Ziehrer. The work premiered on Broadway at the Knickerbocker Theatre on June 24\, 1901. It closed at that theatre on August 31\, 1901 after 70 performances. The Broadway production was di rected by A. M. Holbrook and produced by George W. Lederer\, Sam Nixon and J. Fred Zimmerman. The sets were designed by D. Frank Dodge and Ernest Al bert\, and the costumes were designed by Caroline Siedle. The production s tarred Francis Wilson as August Lump\, Irene Bentley as Bertha\, Eddie Foy as Kamfer\, Marie George as Mimi\, Harry Gilfoil as the Prince de Bomsky\ , Wilmer Bentley as Rudi von Rodenstein\, and Louise Lawton as Anna.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strollers SUMMARY:🎵 The Strollers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:donnybrook-1961 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19610518 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19610716 DESCRIPTION:Opened on May 18\, 1961.\nClosed July 15\, 1961 after 68 perfor mances — 58 days.\n\nDonnybrook! is a musical\, with music and lyrics by Johnny Burke and book by Robert E. McEnroe. It is based on the 1952 film The Quiet Man.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnybrook%21 SUMMARY:🎵 Donnybrook! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:oh-what-a-girl-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19190728 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19190927 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on July 28\, 1919.\nRan 68 perfor mances\, to about September 1919.\n\nOh\, What A Girl!\, also known as Oh\ , Uncle\, is a musical in two acts with music by Jacques Presburg and Char lies Jules\; a book and lyrics by Edgar Smith\, Edward Clark\, and Gus Kah n\; The story concerns rich New York college boy Jack Rushton\, whose roma ntic attachment to cabaret singer Margot Merrivale is opposed by his conse rvative uncle\, Deacon Amos Titmouse\, but the deacon finds himself tempte d by the city and Margot herself. Jack's old girlfriend and the deacon's t eetotaling wife arrive.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh%2C_What_A_Girl %21 SUMMARY:🎵 Oh\, What A Girl! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:a-family-affair-musical-1962 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19620127 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19620326 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Billy Rose Theatre on January 27\, 1962.\nRan 65 performances\, to about March 1962.\n\nA Family Affair is a musical with a book by James Goldman and William Goldman\, lyrics by James Goldman and J ohn Kander\, and music by Kander. This was Kander's first show and his onl y one written without Fred Ebb in Ebb's lifetime.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/A_Family_Affair_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 A Family Affair END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-fabulous-invalid-1938 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19381008 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19381204 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 8\, 1938.\nClosed D ecember 3\, 1938 after 65 performances — 56 days.\n\nThe Fabulous Invali d is a 1938 stage play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart following the os cillating fortunes of a fictitious Broadway theater\, the Alexandria\, in the period between 1900 and 1930. The play's title has since entered the v ernacular as a synonym for the theater.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T he_Fabulous_Invalid SUMMARY:🎭 The Fabulous Invalid END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-new-yorkers-englander-musical-1901 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19011007 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19011203 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Herald Square Theatre on October 7\, 1901.\nRan 6 4 performances\, to about December 1901.\n\nThe New Yorkers is a musical i n two acts with music by Ludwig Engländer\, a book by Glen MacDonough\, a nd lyrics by George V. Hobart. The musical also contains some additional s ong material by composer Jackson Gouraud and lyricist George Sidney\, and contained "coon songs" by Will Marion Cook and Sidney L. Perrin.\n\nhttps: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorkers_%28Engl%C3%A4nder_musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The New Yorkers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-second-little-show-1930 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19300902 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19301029 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Royale Theatre on September 2\, 1930.\nRan 63 per formances\, to about October 1930.\n\nThe Second Little Show is a musical revue with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music mostly by Arthur Schwartz.\n\n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Little_Show SUMMARY:🎵 The Second Little Show END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-wild-rose-1926-musical-1926 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19261020 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19261212 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 20\, 1926.\nClosed December 11\, 1926 after 61 performances — 52 days.\n\nThe Wild Rose is a musical in two acts with both book and lyrics co-authored by Otto Harba ch and Oscar Hammerstein II\, and music by Rudolf Friml. It should not be confused with the earlier 1902 musical\, The Wild Rose\, by Ludwig Englän der\, Harry B. Smith and George V. Hobart.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/The_Wild_Rose_%281926_musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Wild Rose END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:staircase-play-1968 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19680110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19680305 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Biltmore Theatre on January 10\, 1968.\nRan 61 pe rformances\, to about March 1968.\n\nStaircase is a two-character play by Charles Dyer about an ageing gay couple who own a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for p ropositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together an d possible future without each other.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sta ircase_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Staircase END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:red-feather-opera-1903 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19031109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19040103 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lyric Theatre on November 9\, 1903.\nClosed Janua ry 2\, 1904 after 60 performances — 54 days.\n\nRed Feather is a comic o pera in two acts with music by Reginald De Koven\, a libretto by Charles K lein\, and lyrics by Charles Emerson Cook.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Red_Feather_%28opera%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Red Feather END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-vamp-1955 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19551110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19560101 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on November 10\, 1955.\nClo sed December 31\, 1955 after 60 performances — 51 days.\n\nThe Vamp is a stage musical with a book by Sam Locke and John La Touche with lyrics by La Touche and music by James Mundy.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_V amp SUMMARY:🎵 The Vamp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:virginia-operetta-1937 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19370902 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19371024 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Center Theatre on September 2\, 1937.\nClosed Oct ober 23\, 1937 after 60 performances — 51 days.\n\nVirginia is a 1937 op eretta with music by Arthur Schwartz\, lyrics by Albert Stillman\, and a b ook by Laurence Stallings and Owen Davis.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Virginia_%28operetta%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Virginia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:babette-musical-1903 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19031116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19040110 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway Theatre on November 16\, 1903.\nClosed J anuary 9\, 1904 after 59 performances — 54 days.\n\nBabette is an operet ta with music by Victor Herbert and a libretto by Harry B. Smith\, which p remiered on Broadway in 1903.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babette_%28 musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Babette END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:aren-t-we-all-1923 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19230410 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19230601 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Globe Theatre on April 10\, 1923.\nRan 58 perform ances\, to about May 1923.\n\nAren't We All? is a stage play in three acts by Frederick Lonsdale. The plot of this drawing room comedy concerns the Hon William Tatham\, whose wife catches him kissing another woman at a par ty\, but she had an extramarital kiss of her own\; meanwhile a society lad y works to secure the hand of William's father\, Lord Grenham.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aren%27t_We_All%3F SUMMARY:🎭 Aren't We All? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:in-hayti-1909 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19090830 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19091017 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Circle Theatre on August 30\, 1909.\nC losed October 16\, 1909 after 56 performances — 47 days.\n\nIn Hayti is a musical in three acts with music by Jean Schwartz\, lyrics by William Je rome\, and a book by John J. McNally. It premiered at Broadway's Circle Th eatre on August 30\, 1909. It closed after 56 performances on October 16\, 1909. Produced by Klaw and Erlanger\, the show was directed by A. H. Holb rook and choreographed by Julian Alfred. The work was created as a starrin g vehicle for vaudeville and minstrel show stars James McIntyre and Thomas Heath who were known for their work as blackface performers. It was the s econd musical created by the songwriting team of Schwartz and Jerome for M cIntyre and Heatth\; the first being the tremendously popular 1905 musical The Ham Tree.The plot of the show revolves around Colonel Scott's attempt to control the chicken market in Haiti in the midst of a revolution.\n\nh ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Hayti SUMMARY:🎵 In Hayti END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-national-health-play-1974 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19741010 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19741127 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre on October 10\, 1974 .\nRan 53 performances\, to about November 1974.\n\nThe National Health is a 1969 British play by Peter Nichols. Reminiscent of the Carry On film se ries\, this black comedy with tragic overtones focuses on the appalling co nditions in an under-funded National Health Service hospital\, which are c ontrasted comically with a Dr. Kildare-style soap opera airing on the ward television.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Health_%28play% 29 SUMMARY:🎭 The National Health END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:jig-saw-play-1934 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19340401 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19340610 DESCRIPTION:Opened in April 1934.\nClosed June 9\, 1934 after 49 performanc es — 2 months.\n\nJig Saw is a 1933 play by Dawn Powell. It is a three-a ct comedy with two settings and twelve characters. The story concerns a di vorcée\, kept by a married man\, who loses a young man she picked up in a hotel to her daughter.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jig_Saw_%28play%2 9 SUMMARY:🎭 Jig Saw END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:abyssinia-1906-musical-1906 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19060220 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19060404 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Majestic Theatre on February 20\, 1906.\nRan 48 p erformances\, to about April 1906.\n\nAbyssinia is a musical in one act wi th music by Will Marion Cook and Bert Williams\, and both book and lyrics by Jesse A. Shipp and Alex Rogers. Created by African Americans and featur ing African-American entertainers\, the work is set in Abyssinia and was i nspired by the events of the First Italo-Ethiopian War in 1896-1897 and th e sustained sovereignty Ethiopia maintained through the leadership of Mene lik II at that point in history. The plot of the musical follows two Afric an-American from Kansas who win the lottery and then use their winnings to travel to Europe and Abyssinia. Misadventures ensue when one of them fals ely accused of being a thief\, and they are brought before King Menelik.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyssinia_%281906_musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Abyssinia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-lady-in-red-musical-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19190312 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19190424 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Lyric Theatre on March 12\, 1919.\nRan 48 performances\, to about April 1919.\n\nThe Lady in Red is a musical in three acts with music by Robert Winterberg and both book and lyrics by An ne Caldwell. It was an Americanized version of Winterberg's earlier German -language operetta Die Dame in Rot (1911) with entirely new lyrics and dia logue by Caldwell and some new music by Winterberg in addition to some of the music from the earlier 1911 work. However\, most of Winterberg's origi nal score had been replaced by songs by a variety of American songwriters\ , many of them uncredited. Composer George Gershwin had two songs in the s how\, "Some Wonderful Sort of Someone\," with lyrics by Schuyler Greene\, and "Something About Love"\, with lyrics by Lou Paley.\n\nhttps://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/The_Lady_in_Red_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Lady in Red END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-fall-of-eve-play-1925 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19250831 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19251013 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Booth Theatre on August 31\, 1925.\nRan 48 perfor mances\, to about October 1925.\n\nThe Fall of Eve is a play written in 19 25 by Anita Loos and John Emerson. It was originally titled Aren't Men Bru tes\, but the title was changed in April 1925. It began an out-of-town try out run in Stamford Connecticut on May 8. The original cast included Ruth Gordon\, Reginald Mason\, Claude King\, Cora Witherspoon\, and Diantha Pat tison. It followed that with performances at the Belasco Theatre in Washin gton D. C.\, After the D.C. show\, the show went on hiatus\, expecting to resume in the fall.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_Eve_%28pl ay%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Fall of Eve END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-white-sister-play-1909 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19090927 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19091109 DESCRIPTION:Opened on September 27\, 1909.\nRan 48 performances\, to about November 1909.\n\nThe White Sister is a play in four acts by Francis Mario n Crawford and Walter Hackett. The play was originally written by Crawford in 1907 and he later adapted the play into a serialized novel which was f irst published over a six-month period in Munsey's Magazine beginning in J anuary 1909. The play was given its world premiere at the Stone Opera Hous e in Binghamton\, New York on February 8\, 1909\, with a cast led by Viola Allen as Sister Giovanna and Frank Gillmore as Captain Giovanni Severi. W hile the novel began its serialized publication in Munsey's Magazine prior to the premiere of the play\, the play was written first and the novel wa s adapted by Crawford from the earlier play.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/The_White_Sister_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The White Sister END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:alive-and-kicking-musical-1950 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19500117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19500226 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 17\, 1950.\nClos ed February 25\, 1950 after 46 performances — 39 days.\n\nAlive and Kick ing is a musical revue with sketches by Ray Golden\, I.A.L. Diamond\, Henr y Morgan\, Jerome Chodorov\, Joseph Stein\, Will Glickman\, John Murray\, and Michael Stewart\; music by Hal Borne\, Irma Jurist\, Sammy Fain\, Hoag y Carmichael\, Harold Rome\, Sonny Burke\, Leo Schumer\, and Ray Golden\; and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster\, Ray Golden\, Harold J. Rome\, Leonard Gershe\, Sid Kuller\, and Michael Stewart.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/Alive_and_Kicking_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Alive and Kicking END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:rumple-musical-1957 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19571106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19571215 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on November 6\, 1957.\nClosed Dec ember 14\, 1957 after 45 performances — 38 days.\n\nRumple is a comedy-m usical with a book by Irving Phillips\, music by Ernest G. Schweikert\, an d lyrics by Frank Reardon. The story\, based on Phillips' 1955 play The Fu nnyman\, concerns a comic strip creator and his character\, Rumple\, who r esists the discontinuation of the strip.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Rumple_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Rumple END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:keep-off-the-grass-1940 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19400523 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19400702 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on May 23\, 1940.\nRan 44 perf ormances\, to about July 1940.\n\nKeep Off the Grass is a musical revue wi th sketches by Mort Lewis\, Parke Levy\, Alan Lipscott\, S. Jay Kaufman\, and Panama & Frank\, lyrics by Al Dubin and Howard Dietz\, and music by Ji mmy McHugh. The choreography was by George Balanchine.\n\nhttps://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/Keep_Off_the_Grass SUMMARY:🎵 Keep Off the Grass END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:morning-s-at-seven-1939 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19391130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19400109 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Longacre Theatre on November 30\, 1939.\nRan 44 p erformances\, to about January 1940.\n\nMorning's at Seven is a play by Pa ul Osborn. Its plot focuses on four aging sisters living in a small Midwes tern town in 1928\, and it deals with ramifications within the family when two of them begin to question their lives and decide to make some changes before it’s too late.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning%27s_at_S even SUMMARY:🎭 Morning's at Seven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:poldekin-1920 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19200901 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19201017 DESCRIPTION:Opened in September 1920.\nClosed October 16\, 1920 after 44 pe rformances — 45 days.\n\nPoldekin is a 1920 play by Booth Tarkington. It is a four-act political satire with three settings and ten characters. Th e story concerns a Russian soldier brought to New York City to produce Bol shevik propaganda\, who strays from his mission. Adverse audience reaction to the original ending resulted in Tarkington rewriting parts of the play during its opening tour.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poldekin SUMMARY:🎭 Poldekin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:fritz-in-tammany-hall-1905 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19050605 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19050714 DESCRIPTION:Opened on June 5\, 1905.\nRan 43 performances\, to about July 1 905.\n\nFritz in Tammany Hall is a musical in three acts with music by Jea n Schwartz\, lyrics by William Jerome\, and a book by John J. McNally. The musical takes place in 1905 in New York City and on Long Island. It was a political spoof of New York City politics of that period.\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_in_Tammany_Hall SUMMARY:🎵 Fritz in Tammany Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:seven-brides-for-seven-brothers-musical-1982 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19820701 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19820807 DESCRIPTION:Opened in July 1982.\nRan 41 performances\, to about August 198 2.\n\nSeven Brides for Seven Brothers is a musical with a book by Lawrence Kasha and David Landay\, music by Gene de Paul\, Al Kasha and Joel Hirsch horn\, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer\, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn. It is b ased on the 1954 Stanley Donen film of the same name which is\, itself\, a n adaption of the short story "The Sobbin' Women\," by Stephen Vincent Ben ét\, based on the Ancient Roman legend of The Rape of the Sabine Women.\n \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Brides_for_Seven_Brothers_%28musical %29 SUMMARY:🎵 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:a-time-for-singing-1966 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19660521 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19660626 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the The Broadway Theatre on May 21\, 1966.\nClosed Ju ne 25\, 1966 after 41 performances — 35 days.\n\nA Time for Singing is a musical with music by John Morris\, lyrics by Gerald Freedman and John Mo rris\, and a book by Freedman and Morris. The work was based on Richard Ll ewellyn's novel of a Welsh mining village\, How Green Was My Valley. The s how takes place in the memory of Protestant minister David Griffith\, reca lling conflict within the Morgan family over the possible formation of a m iners' union within the village\, and the romance between Griffith himself and Angharad of the Morgans\, who ultimately marries the mine owner inste ad.\nThe show starred Ivor Emmanuel\, Tessie O'Shea\, Shani Wallis and Lau rence Naismith.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_for_Singing SUMMARY:🎵 A Time for Singing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:daphne-in-cottage-d-1967 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19671015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19671119 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 15\, 1967.\nClosed November 18\, 1967 after 4 1 performances — 34 days.\n\nDaphne in Cottage D is a 1967 play written by Stephen Levi. The play premiered on Broadway on October 15\, 1967 after previews from October 9\, 1967\, and closed on November 18\, 1967 after 4 1 performances\, losing over $100\,000. The play starred Sandy Dennis and William Daniels\, and was directed by Martin Fried.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Daphne_in_Cottage_D SUMMARY:🎭 Daphne in Cottage D END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:a-christmas-story-the-musical-2012 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121207 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre in November 2012.\nRan 40 p erformances\, to about December 2012.\n\nA Christmas Story: The Musical is a stage musical with music and lyrics written by Benj Pasek and Justin Pa ul\, and a book by Joseph Robinette. It is based on the 1983 film A Christ mas Story\, itself based on the 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd. The musical takes place in the 1940s in Indiana and focuses on a child named Ralphie\, who wants a Red Ryder BB Gun for Chris tmas.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Story%3A_The_Musical SUMMARY:🎵 A Christmas Story: The Musical END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-girl-of-my-dreams-1911 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19110807 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19110912 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Criterion Theatre on August 7\, 1911.\ nRan 40 performances\, to about September 1911.\n\nThe Girl of My Dreams i s a musical in two acts with music by Karl Hoschna\, lyrics by Otto Harbac h\, and a book by Harbach and Wilbur Nesbit. It premiered at Broadway's Cr iterion Theatre on \nAugust 7\, 1911. It ran for 40 performances\, closing on September 9\, 1911. Produced by Joseph M. Gaites and directed by Frank Smithson\, the production starred the married vaudevillian entertainers L eila McIntyre and John Hyams. The New York Times critique of the productio n stated that McIntyre had "a pretty saucer-eyed innocent stare and quaver ing treble" suited to her ingenue role. The musical was adapted into a sil ent film of the same name.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_of_My _Dreams SUMMARY:🎵 The Girl of My Dreams END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:our-wives-play-1912 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19121104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19121210 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Wallack's Theatre on November 4\, 1912.\nRan 40 p erformances\, to about December 1912.\n\nOur Wives is a play in three acts by Helen Kraft and Frank Mandel. A farce\, Kraft and Mandel based their p lay on Ludwig Fulda's German-language comedy Jugendfreunde (1897).\n\nhttp s://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Wives_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Our Wives END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-sporting-thing-to-do-1923 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19230219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19230327 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ritz Theatre on February 19\, 1923.\nRan 40 perfo rmances\, to about March 1923.\n\nThe Sporting Thing To Do is a play by Th ompson Buchanan. The play premiered at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles\, California on September 4\, 1922. Produced by Oliver Morosco and directed by Fred J. Butler\, the original cast included Enid Bennett\, Ed ith Lyle\, Warner Baxter\, Adele Belgarde\, Boyd Irwin\, Roscoe Karns\, He nry Hail\, Innis Shearer\, Harry Manners\, Thomas Galloway\, and Chas A. S tevenson. After Morosco and Buchanan reworked the play\, the work premiere d on Broadway at the Ritz Theatre on February 19\, 1923. Co-directed by Mo rosco and Clifford Brooke\, the cast included James K. Applebee as Rev. Dr . Clegg\, Bertha Belmore as Mrs. Suzanne Clegg\, William Boyd as Jack Thor nton\, Walker Dennett as Colonel Thornton\, Mary Fisher as Miss Simpson\, Robert Hudson as Thomas Kennedy\, Clara Joel as Eleanor Ainsworth\, Della Johnson as Mandy\, Jack Raffael as Judge McLean\, H. Reeves Smith as Jim L oundsbury\, Emily Stevens as Jean Thornton\, and Ethel Winthrop as Mrs. Th ornton. In closed in March 1943 after 40 performances.\n\nhttps://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/The_Sporting_Thing_To_Do SUMMARY:🎭 The Sporting Thing To Do END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:chronicle-of-a-death-foretold-musical-1995 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19950615 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19950719 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Plymouth Theatre on June 15\, 1995.\nRan 37 perfo rmances\, to about July 1995.\n\nChronicle of a Death Foretold is a musica l with a book and lyrics by Graciela Daniele and Jim Lewis and music by Bo b Telson. It is based on Gabriel García Márquez's 1981 novella of the sa me name.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicle_of_a_Death_Foretold_%2 8musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Chronicle of a Death Foretold END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:coastwise-1931 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19311130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19320103 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 30\, 1931.\nRan 37 performances\, to about J anuary 1932.\n\nCoastwise is a play in three acts by Don Mullally and H. A . Archibald. The work premiered on Broadway at the Provincetown Playhouse on November 30\, 1931\, where it ran for a total of 37 performances. The p lay is set in a cabin in Northwestern Canada. The original production star red Shirley Booth as Annie Duvall\, Richard Stevenson as Alan Farquhar\, L ucia Moore as Mrs. Farquhar\, Thomas McQuillan as Marty\, Priscilla Knowle s as Minnie\, Charles Gibney as Alec MacDonald\, Alexander Campbell as Rob erts\, and Gordon Hamilton as Nelson.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coa stwise SUMMARY:🎭 Coastwise END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:calling-all-stars-1934-musical-1934 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19341123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19350113 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 23\, 1934.\nClosed January 12\, 1935 after 3 6 performances — 50 days.\n\nCalling All Stars is a 1934 musical revue w ith music by Harry Akst\, lyrics by Lew Brown\, and orchestrations by Hans Spialek and Conrad Salinger. Featuring separate segments of sketch comedy rather than a unified plot\, the dialogue of the musical was written by L ew Brown\, A. Dorian Otvos\, Alan Baxter\, Home Fickett\, William K. Wells and H.I. Philips. Al Goodman served as the original production's music di rector which was produced and directed by Lew Brown. Sara Mildred Strauss and Maurice L. Kussel choreographed the show\, Nat Karson designed the set s\, Billi Livingston designed the costumes\, and Abe Feder designed the li ghting.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling_All_Stars_%281934_musical %29 SUMMARY:🎵 Calling All Stars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-mandarin-operetta-1896 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18961102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18961205 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Herald Square Theatre on November 2\, 1896.\nRan 36 performances\, to about December 1896.\n\nThe Mandarin is an operetta o r comic opera in three acts with music by Reginald De Koven and a libretto by Harry B. Smith. Commissioned by Charles D. Evans and W. D. Mann\, it i s reminiscent in tone and style to Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. It p remiered at the Star Theatre in Buffalo\, New York on October 12\, 1896. I t transferred to Broadway where it opened at the Herald Square Theatre on November 2\, 1896\; running there for a total of 36 performances. The cast included Henry Norman as the Emperor of China\, George Honey as Mandarin of Foo-Chow\, Bertha Waltzinger as Jesso\, George B. Boniface Jr. as Fan-T an\, Adele Ritchie as Ting-Ling\, Joseph Sheehan as Hop-Sing\, Alice Barne tt as Sing-Lo\, Helen Redmond as Ping-Tee\, Claudia Carlstedt as Kwei-Tso\ , Mildred Meade as Jasmine\, Louise Harlowe as Lotos Lily\, Florence Pembe rton as Turnkey\, and Samuel Marion as Wun-Wing.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/The_Mandarin_%28operetta%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Mandarin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:my-favorite-year-musical-1992 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19921210 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19930111 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater on Decem ber 10\, 1992.\nClosed January 10\, 1993 after 36 performances — 31 days .\n\nMy Favorite Year is a musical with a book by Joseph Dougherty\, music by Stephen Flaherty\, and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. It is based on the 1982 film of the same name.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Favorite_Year_% 28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 My Favorite Year END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-grass-harp-play-1952 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19520327 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19520429 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Martin Beck Theatre on March 27\, 1952 .\nRan 36 performances\, to about April 1952.\n\nThe Grass Harp is a play written by Truman Capote based on his novel of the same name. Producer Sai nt Subber staged it on Broadway in 1952. It was Capote's first play.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grass_Harp_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Grass Harp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:coming-thro-the-rye-1906 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19060109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19060209 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Herald Square Theatre on January 9\, 1906.\nRan 3 4 performances\, to about February 1906.\n\nComing Thro' The Rye is a "sat iretta" or musical in two acts with both lyrics and book by George V. Hoba rt and music by A. Baldwin Sloane and J. Sebastian Hiller.\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_Thro%27_the_Rye SUMMARY:🎵 Coming Thro' the Rye END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-man-from-cook-s-1912 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19120325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19120421 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on March 25\, 1912.\nClosed April 20\, 1912 after 32 performances — 26 days.\n\nThe Man from Cook's is a musical with music by Raymond Hubbell and a book and lyrics by Henry Blossom. Based on a story by Maurice Ordonneau\, it is set in the cities of Paris and Naples. The work premiered on Broadway on March 25\, 1912\, a t the New Amsterdam Theatre. It closed April 20\, 1912 after 32 performanc es.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Cook%27s SUMMARY:🎵 The Man from Cook's END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-american-plan-1990 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19900123 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19900219 DESCRIPTION:Opened on January 23\, 1990.\nClosed February 18\, 1990 after 3 2 performances — 26 days.\n\nThe American Plan is a play by Richard Gree nberg\, which ran both Off-Broadway in 1990 and on Broadway in 2009.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Plan SUMMARY:🎭 The American Plan END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:chee-chee-musical-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19280925 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19281024 DESCRIPTION:Opened on September 25\, 1928.\nRan 31 performances\, to about October 1928.\n\nChee-Chee is a musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart based on the 1927 book\, The Son of the Grand Eunuch\, by Charles Pettit. Chee-Chee opened on Broadway September 25\, 1928\, and the show closed af ter 31 performances.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chee-Chee_%28musical %29 SUMMARY:🎵 Chee-Chee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:cinders-musical-1923 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19230403 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19230429 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Dresden Theatre on April 3\, 1923.\nClosed April 28\, 1923 after 31 performances — 25 days.\n\nCinders is a musical in tw o acts with music by Rudolf Friml and both book and lyrics by Edward Clark . It re-sets the Cinderella fairy tale in 1920s era New York City. It prem iered at the Garrick Theatre in Philadelphia on March 12\, 1923\, and late r that month toured to the National Theatre in Washington\, D.C. It moved to Broadway where it opened at the Dresden Theatre on April 3\, 1923. It r an for 31 performances\, and closed on April 28\, 1923.\n\nhttps://en.wiki pedia.org/wiki/Cinders_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Cinders END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:smiling-faces-1932 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19320830 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19320928 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on August 30\, 1932.\nRan 31 perf ormances\, to about September 1932.\n\nSmiling Faces is an American musica l with music by Harry Revel\, lyrics by Mack Gordon\, and a musical book b y Harry Clarke. Produced by Lee Shubert and Jacob J. Shubert\, the product ion opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre where it ran from August 30\ , 1932\, through September 24\, 1932\, for a total of 31 performances. The cast included Dorothy Stone as Peggy Post\, Roy Royston as Robert Bowingt on\, Fred Stone as Monument Spleen\, Adora Andrews as Cordonia Potts\, Cha rles Collins as Arthur Lawrence\, Hope Emerson as Amy Edwards\, Doris Pats ton as Mildred McKay\, Barbara Williams as Helen Sydney\, Eddie Garvey as Edward Richter\, Isabel O'Madigan as Sybilla Richter\, Ali Yousuff as Hora tio Dalrymple\, and Bradford Hatton as George Black.\n\nhttps://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Smiling_Faces SUMMARY:🎵 Smiling Faces END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:rainbow-musical-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19281121 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19281218 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 21\, 1928.\nRan 29 performances\, to about D ecember 1928.\n\nRainbow is a musical in two acts with music by Vincent Yo umans\, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II\, and a book co-authored by Laurenc e Stallings and Hammerstein. After flopping on Broadway in 1928\, it was a dapted by Warner Bros. into the 1930 Western musical film Song of the West .\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Rainbow END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:scandalous-the-life-and-trials-of-aimee-semple-mcpherson-2012 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121013 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121210 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Neil Simon Theatre on October 13\, 2012.\nClosed December 9\, 2012 after 29 performances — 57 days.\n\nScandalous: The Li fe and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson is a musical with a book and lyric s by Kathie Lee Gifford and music by David Pomeranz and David Friedman. Th e musical has had productions in 2005 at the White Plains\, New York Perfo rming Arts Center\, at the Signature Theatre in 2007\, in 2011 at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle and in 2012 on Broadway. The musical is based on the life of Aimee Semple McPherson.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scan dalous%3A_The_Life_and_Trials_of_Aimee_Semple_McPherson SUMMARY:🎵 Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-greatest-show-on-earth-play-1938 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19380105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19380201 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Playhouse Theatre on January 5\, 1938.\nRan 29 pe rformances\, to about January 1938.\n\n The Greatest Show on Earth is a co medy in three acts by Vincent Duffey and Irene Alexander. Set in a circus\ , the actors in this show portray animals longing to escape into the wild natural world. It premiered on Broadway at the Playhouse Theatre on Januar y 5\, 1938. It ran there for a total of 29 performances\; closing on Janua ry 29\, 1938. The cast included Edgar Stehli as Slimy the snake\, Margaret Perry as Kitty\, Dorothy Patten as Princess\, John Alexander as Rajah the elephant\, Anthony Ross as Leo the lion\, Frank Lovejoy as Laddie\, Alice Belmore Cliffe as Scheherazade the elephant\, and Alan Handley as Adonis. \nThe production was produced by Helen Bonfils and her husband George Somn es. Somnes also staged the production.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th e_Greatest_Show_on_Earth_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Greatest Show on Earth END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:amen-corner-musical-1983 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19831110 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19831206 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Nederlander Theatre on November 10\, 1983.\nRan 2 8 performances\, to about December 1983.\n\nAmen Corner is a musical with a book by Philip Rose and Peter Udell\, lyrics by Udell\, music by Garry S herman\, orchestration by Garry Sherman & Dunn Pearson and dance arrangeme nts by Dunn Pearson & George Butcher\, based on the 1954 play of the same title by James Baldwin. The score consists of mostly gospel-inspired music .\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_Corner_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Amen Corner END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:a-million-dollars-1900 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19000927 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19001023 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the New York Theatre on September 27\, 1900.\nRan 28 performances\, to about October 1900.\n\nA Million Dollars is a musical in three acts with music by A. Baldwin Sloane\, lyrics by George V. Hobart\, and a book co-authored by Hobart and Louis Harrison. The musical's plot i s about a barber who comes into sudden wealth and rapidly spends his new f ortune. The work premiered on Broadway at the New York Theatre on Septembe r 27\, 1900. It ran there for 28 performances\; closing on October 20\, 19 00.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Dollars SUMMARY:🎵 A Million Dollars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:quo-vadis-play-1899 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18991212 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19000107 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the McVicker's Theater on December 12\, 1899.\nRan 28 performances\, to about January 1900.\n\nQuo Vadis\, sometimes given as Q uo Vadis?\, is a play in six acts by Stanislaus Stange that is based on He nryk Sienkiewicz's 19th century novel of the same name. It should not be c onfused with the play of the same name by Jeannette Leonard Gilder which a lso was staged on Broadway in the year 1900 during the same period of time .\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_Vadis_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Quo Vadis END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-mimic-world-1921 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19210817 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19210910 DESCRIPTION:Opened on August 17\, 1921.\nRan 26 performances\, to about Sep tember 1921.\n\nThe Mimic World is a musical revue in two acts and a prolo gue with music by Jean Schwartz\, Lew Pollack\, and Owen Murphy\; and both book and lyrics by Harold Atteridge\, Jimmy Hussey\, and Murphy. Produced by the Shubert family\, the revue premiered on Broadway at the Century Pr omenade on August 17\, 1921\; closing after 26 performances on September 1 0\, 1921.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mimic_World SUMMARY:🎵 The Mimic World END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:blackbirds-of-1933-1933 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19331202 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19331225 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Apollo Theater on December 2\, 1933.\nRan 25 perf ormances\, to about December 1933.\n\nBlackbirds of 1933 is a musical revu e with a book by Nat N. Dorfman\, Mann Holiner\, and Lew Leslie. It is a s equel to Blackbirds of 1928. The original production premiered on December 2\, 1933 at the Apollo Theatre in New York.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/Blackbirds_of_1933 SUMMARY:🎵 Blackbirds of 1933 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:look-to-the-lilies-1970 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19700329 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19700421 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on March 29\, 1970.\nRan 25 performances\, to about April 1970.\n\nLook to the Lilies is a stage musi cal with a book by Leonard Spigelgass\, lyrics by Sammy Cahn\, and music b y Jule Styne.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_to_the_Lilies SUMMARY:🎵 Look to the Lilies END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:dana-h-2021 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210124 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 2021.\nRan 25 performances\, to about January 2021.\n \nDana H. is a play written by Lucas Hnath\, based on the real-life experi ences of Hnath's mother Dana Higginbotham. It premiered on Broadway in 202 1\, winning two Tony Awards.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_H. SUMMARY:🎭 Dana H. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:little-red-riding-hood-musical-1900 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19000101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19000121 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Hollis Street Theatre in January 1900.\nClosed Ja nuary 20\, 1900 after 24 performances — 19 days.\n\nLittle Red Riding Ho od is a musical in two acts with lyrics by Harrison Ward and music by comp osers Edward E. Rice\, Fred J. Eustis\, Charles Dennée\, T. W. Connor\, a nd B. Gilbert. The musical's book was authored by playwright George T. Ric hardson and was loosely modeled after British pantomime versions of the cl assic European fairy tale of the same name. It also included characters fr om other classic fairy tales. It premiered on Christmas Eve 1899 at the Bo ston Museum\, and then ran for further performances in Boston in January 1 900 at the Hollis Street Theatre before transferring to Broadway.\n\nhttps ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Little Red Riding Hood END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:words-and-music-hitchcock-and-goetz-1917 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19170101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19170123 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Fulton Theatre in 1917.\nRan 24 performances\, to about January 1917.\n\nWords and Music is a musical revue in two acts and 10 scenes with a book by Raymond Hitchcock. The musical contained some or iginal music and lyrics by E. Ray Goetz\, but also contained music by Ludw ig van Beethoven and lyrics by William Shakespeare. It opened on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre on Christmas Eve of 1917. It ran for 24 performances \; closing on January 12\, 1918.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_an d_Music_%28Hitchcock_and_Goetz%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Words and Music (Hitchcock and Goetz) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003411Z UID:the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-musical-2001 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20010426 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20010514 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Minskoff Theater on April 26\, 2001.\nClosed May 13\, 2001 after 21 performances — 17 days.\n\nThe Adventures of Tom Sawy er is a musical comedy based on the 1876 novel by Mark Twain conceived and written by Ken Ludwig\, with music and lyrics by Don Schlitz.\nThe musica l is the story of a fourteen-year-old boy growing up in the heartland of A merica. This Broadway musical version of Mark Twain's novel is set in 1840 in St. Petersburg\, Missouri\, a bustling town on the banks of the Missis sippi River. In the course of the story\, Tom matches wits with his stern Aunt Polly\, falls in love with the beautiful\, feisty Becky Thatcher\, an d goes on the adventure of his life with Becky and Huckleberry Finn. Along the way he meets a terrifying villain named Injun Joe\, Tom's bratty half -brother Sid\, and all the other boys and girls in the village.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:maternity-play-1915 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19150106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19150126 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Princess Theatre on January 6\, 1915.\nRan 21 per formances\, to about January 1915.\n\nMaternity is a dramatic three act pl ay that opened January 6\, 1915\, at the Princess Theatre on Broadway star ring Richard Bennett.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity_%28play%2 9 SUMMARY:🎭 Maternity END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:the-creation-of-the-world-and-other-business-1972 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19721130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19721219 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Shubert Theatre on November 30\, 1972.\nRan 20 pe rformances\, to about December 1972.\n\nThe Creation of the World and Othe r Business is a play by Arthur Miller first performed in 1972.\n\nhttps:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_the_World_and_Other_Business SUMMARY:🎭 The Creation of the World and Other Business END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:charlie-and-algernon-1980 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19800914 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19800929 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre on September 14\, 1980.\nClos ed September 28\, 1980 after 17 performances — 14 days.\n\nCharlie and A lgernon is a musical with a book and lyrics by David Rogers and music by C harles Strouse. It is based on the 1966 novel Flowers for Algernon by Dani el Keyes. It received its premiere on December 21\, 1978\, at The Citadel Theater\, in Edmonton\, Canada.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_a nd_Algernon SUMMARY:🎵 Charlie and Algernon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:happy-new-year-musical-1980 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19800427 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19800511 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Morosco Theatre on April 27\, 1980.\nClosed May 1 0\, 1980 after 17 performances — 13 days.\n\nHappy New Year is a musical with a book by Burt Shevelove and music and lyrics by Cole Porter.\n\nhtt ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_New_Year_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Happy New Year END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:getting-away-with-murder-play-1996 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19960220 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19960307 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on February 20\, 1996.\nRan 17 performances\, to about March 1996.\n\nGetting Away with Murder is a play written by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth\, which ran for 17 performan ces on Broadway in 1996.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Away_wit h_Murder_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Getting Away with Murder END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:a-little-bit-of-fluff-play-1916 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19160801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19160817 DESCRIPTION:Opened in August 1916.\nRan 17 performances\, to about August 1 916.\n\nA Little Bit of Fluff is a British farce written by Walter W. Elli s which was first staged in 1915 and went on to have a long original run. Starring Ernest Thesiger\, it ran at the Criterion Theatre\, London\, betw een 1915–1918\, for a total of 1241 performances.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/A_Little_Bit_of_Fluff_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 A Little Bit of Fluff END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:anya-musical-1965 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19651129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19651214 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on November 29\, 1965.\nRan 16 p erformances\, to about December 1965.\n\nAnya is a musical with a book by George Abbott and Guy Bolton and music and lyrics by Robert Wright and Geo rge Forrest. As they had done with Song of Norway (1944) and Kismet (1953) \, Wright and Forrest developed the musical score using themes written by a classical composer\, in this case Sergei Rachmaninoff.\n\nhttps://en.wik ipedia.org/wiki/Anya_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Anya END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:don-t-step-on-my-olive-branch-1976 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19761101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19761115 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 1\, 1976.\nClosed November 14\, 1976 after 1 6 performances — 13 days.\n\nDon't Step on My Olive Branch is a musical conceived by Jonathan Karmon\, with music and lyrics by Ron Eliran and a b ook by Harvey Jacobs. It is an Israeli musical in English. It was original ly presented with no intermission in revue form with the numbers commentin g on international affairs.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Step_ on_My_Olive_Branch SUMMARY:🎵 Don't Step on My Olive Branch END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:dude-musical-1972 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19721009 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19721024 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the The Broadway Theatre on October 9\, 1972.\nRan 16 performances\, to about October 1972.\n\nDude (The Highway Life) is a roc k musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDerm ot. It is an allegory about good and evil\, the conflict between mankind's creative and destructive urges\, the power of love\, and the joy to be fo und in simple pleasures. Dude is an everyman who loses his innocence and f ights to regain it.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Dude END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:juno-musical-1959 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19590101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19590116 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1959.\nRan 16 performances\, to about January 1959.\n \nJuno is a musical with music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by J oseph Stein\, based closely on the 1924 play Juno and the Paycock by Seán O'Casey. The story centers on the disintegration of an Irish family in Du blin in the early 1920s\, during the Irish War of Independence. Juno is a hardworking matriarch who strives to hold her family together in the face of war\, betrayal\, and her worthless husband's drinking.\n\nhttps://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/Juno_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Juno END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:via-galactica-1972 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19721128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19721213 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 28\, 1972.\nRan 16 performances\, to about D ecember 1972.\n\nVia Galactica is a rock musical with a book by Christophe r Gore and Judith Ross\, lyrics by Gore\, and music by Galt MacDermot. Ori ginally titled Up!\, the futuristic plot follows social outcasts living on an asteroid in outer space in the year 2972. Among them is Gabriel Finn\, a space sanitation man who collects trash in a clamshell-shaped garbage s hip called the Helen of Troy.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Galacti ca SUMMARY:🎵 Via Galactica END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:bonnie-scotland-play-1895 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18951216 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18951231 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Haverly's 14th Street Theatre on December 16\, 18 95.\nRan 16 performances\, to about December 1895.\n\nBonnie Scotland is a play in 4 acts by Sidney R. Ellis with music by Albert Anderson. Set in D unbartonshire\, Scotland\, the play is about the outlaw clan chief Walter McFarlane who has a price on his head. He witnesses an accident on a lake in which the girl Mary Culquhoun is drowning. He rescues her\, and risks b eing caught when he brings her back to her family. Mary's brother\, Humphr ey\, attempts to arrest Walter but is prevented by Mary who has fallen in love with Walter. Humphrey meets the girl Jean and falls in love with her\ ; unaware that Jean is Walter's sister. A duplicitous friend threatens to bring ruin to all the Scottish clan chiefs. War threatens to break forth\, but all eventually ends well.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Sco tland_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Bonnie Scotland END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:the-virginian-play-1904 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19040105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19040120 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Manhattan Theatre on January 5\, 1904.\nRan 16 pe rformances\, to about January 1904.\n\nThe Virginian is a 1903 stage produ ction based on the 1902 novel The Virginian by the American author Owen Wi ster (1860–1938) and set in Wyoming. The play was composed by Wister and playwright Kirke La Shelle\, who also produced it. The story describes th e life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch in northern Wyoming\, where he tends cattle\, identifies and hangs a rustler\, kills a notorious bad guy\, woos and finally marries a school teacher who had come to Wyoming from the Eas t.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virginian_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Virginian END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:sea-legs-1937 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19370518 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19370602 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Mansfield Theatre on May 18\, 1937.\nRan 15 perfo rmances\, to about June 1937.\n\nSea Legs is an American musical with musi c by Michael H. Cleary and lyrics by Arthur Swanstrom. The musical book by Swanstrom is based on the play The Cat Came Back by Laurence E. Johnson\, Beula King\, and Avery Hopwood. Produced by Albert Bannister and J. Edmun d Byrne\, the production opened on Broadway at the Mansfield Theatre where it ran from May 18\, 1937\, through May 29\, 1937 for a total of 15 perfo rmances.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Legs SUMMARY:🎵 Sea Legs END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:the-robber-bridegroom-musical-1975 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19751007 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19751021 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Harkness Theatre on October 7\, 1975.\nRan 14 per formances\, to about October 1975.\n\nThe Robber Bridegroom is a musical w ith a book and lyrics by Alfred Uhry and music by Robert Waldman. The stor y is based on the 1942 novella by Eudora Welty of the same name\, with a R obin Hood-like hero\; the adaptation placed it in a late 18th-century Amer ican setting. The musical ran on Broadway in 1975 and again in 1976.\n\nht tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robber_Bridegroom_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Robber Bridegroom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:judas-play-1929 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19290124 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19290205 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Longacre Theatre on January 24\, 1929.\nRan 12 pe rformances\, to about February 1929.\n\nJudas is a play in three acts co-a uthored by Walter Ferris and Basil Rathbone. It premiered on Broadway at t he Longacre Theatre on January 24\, 1929. It had a short run of only 12 pe rformances. It was staged by Richard Boleslavsky and starred Rathbone as J udas Iscariot. Boleslavsky also designed the costumes\; although they were made by the Helene Pons Studio. The show was produced by William A. Brady and Dwight Deere Wiman. Some of the others in the cast included Robert Ba rrat as Joseph of Arimathea\, William Challee as John the Apostle\, Charle s Halton as Matthew the Apostle and Akiba\, William Courtleigh as Simon Is cariot and Caiaphas\, Dorothy Cumming as Naomi\, and Jennie Eustace as Reb ekah among others.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Judas END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:something-about-a-soldier-1962 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19620104 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19620116 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Ambassador Theatre on January 4\, 1962.\nRan 12 p erformances\, to about January 1962.\n\nSomething About a Soldier\, subtit led "A Comedy-drama in Three Acts"\, was a play written by Emmy-winning wr iter Ernest Kinoy. It premiered on Broadway at the Ambassador Theatre in N ew York on January 4\, 1962\, after a preview the night before. In all\, t he show ran for 12 performances\, closing on January 13\, 1962.\n\nhttps:/ /en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_About_a_Soldier SUMMARY:🎭 Something About a Soldier END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:the-watch-on-the-rhine-1900 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19000101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19000110 DESCRIPTION:Opened in 1900.\nRan 9 performances\, to about January 1900.\n\ nThe Watch on the Rhine is a play with music in four acts by playwright Si dney R. Ellis. Ellis was also the lyricist for this work which used music by the actor and singer Al H. Wilson who was the star of this show. While technically a play\, the work has been covered in musical theatre sources. The play premiered in 1900 and had a long tour on the road which included a stop on Broadway in 1905. The show included 9 songs\; the best known of which was the yodeling song "In Tyrol" which was recorded by Wilson in 19 06 for the Victor Talking Machine Company and later included in the anthol ogy Music from the New York stage: 1890-1908.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/The_Watch_on_the_Rhine SUMMARY:🎵 The Watch on the Rhine END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:best-friend-play-1976 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19761019 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19761024 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Lyceum Theatre on October 19\, 1976.\nClosed Octo ber 23\, 1976 after 8 performances — 4 days.\n\nBest Friend was a 1976 B roadway play written by Michael Sawyer that premiered at the Lyceum Theatr e on October 19\, 1976 and closed on October 23\, 1976 after 8 performance s.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Friend_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Best Friend END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:beg-borrow-or-steal-musical-1960 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19600210 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19600214 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on February 10\, 1960.\nClose d February 13\, 1960 after 5 performances — 3 days.\n\nBeg\, Borrow or S teal is a musical with a book and lyrics by Bud Freeman\, music by Leon Po ber\, and is based on Steal–A Disc Jockey′s Handbook\, a story by Marv in Seiger and Bud Freeman. The musical is set in a run-down section of an American city in the 1950s. It ran for five performances on Broadway in 19 60.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beg%2C_Borrow_or_Steal_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Beg\, Borrow or Steal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:a-doll-s-life-1982 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19820923 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19820929 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on September 23\, 1982.\nR an 5 performances\, to about September 1982.\n\nA Doll's Life was a 1982 m usical with music by Larry Grossman\, and a book and lyrics by Betty Comde n and Adolph Green. A sequel to the 1879 Henrik Ibsen play A Doll's House\ , it told the story of what happened to the lead character\, Nora Helmer\, after she left her husband and her old life behind to face the world on h er own\; in doing so\, it examined several aspects of feminism and the way s in which women are treated.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Doll%27s_ Life SUMMARY:🎵 A Doll's Life END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:raggedy-ann-musical-1986 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19861016 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19861022 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Nederlander Theatre on October 16\, 1986.\nRan 5 performances\, to about October 1986.\n\nRaggedy Ann: The Musical Adventur e is a musical with book by William Gibson and songs by Joe Raposo. It is based on the children's stories by Johnny Gruelle and the 1977 feature fil m Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure. The story centers on Marcella\, a dying young girl whose toys come to life and take her on a magical adve nture to meet the Doll Doctor\, in hopes that he can mend her broken heart . Although the show failed on Broadway\, it developed a cult following thr ough bootleg recordings.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raggedy_Ann_%28m usical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Raggedy Ann END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:the-news-musical-1985 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19851107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19851112 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 7\, 1985.\nRan 4 performances\, to about Nov ember 1985.\n\nThe News is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Paul Sc hierhorn. It tells the story of the editor of a lurid tabloid newspaper an d a serial killer whose actions the paper reports on.\n\nhttps://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/The_News_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The News END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:prince-of-central-park-musical-1989 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19891024 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19891029 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Belasco Theatre on October 24\, 1989.\nRan 4 perf ormances\, to about October 1989.\n\nPrince of Central Park is a 1989 Broa dway musical with music by Don Sebesky\, lyrics by Gloria Nissenson and a book by Evan H. Rhodes. It is based on Rhodes' 1974 novel The Prince of Ce ntral Park and its 1977 television movie adaptation which starred Ruth Gor don and Brooke Shields. The musical was a notorious flop\, losing nearly $ 2 million and closing after only four performances. Today\, it is best rem embered for a humorously negative review by Frank Rich in The New York Tim es.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Central_Park_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Prince of Central Park END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:happy-town-musical-1959 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19591007 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19591011 DESCRIPTION:Opened on October 7\, 1959.\nClosed October 10\, 1959 — 3 day s.\n\nHappy Town is a musical comedy that opened on Broadway October 7\, 1 959 and closed October 10\, 1959 after only five performances. The music w as by Gordon Duffy\, lyrics by Harry Haldane\, and book by Max Hampton\, w ith additional songs by Paul Nassau.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happ y_Town_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Happy Town END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:marilyn-an-american-fable-1983 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19831120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19831204 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Minskoff Theatre on November 20\, 1983.\nClosed D ecember 3\, 1983 — 13 days.\n\nMarilyn: An American Fable is a musical b ased on a book by Patricia Michaels with music and lyrics by Jeanne Napoli \, Doug Frank\, Gary Portnoy\, Beth Lawrence\, and Norman Thalheimer.\n\nh ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn%3A_An_American_Fable SUMMARY:🎵 Marilyn: An American Fable END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:somewhere-else-musical-1913 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19130120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19130126 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway Theatre on January 20\, 1913.\nClosed Ja nuary 25\, 1913 — 5 days.\n\nSomewhere Else is a musical in two acts wit h music by Gustav Luders and both book and lyrics by Avery Hopwood. It pre miered at the Broadway Theatre on January 20\, 1913. It was harshly review ed in the press and lasted only one week on Broadway. It was Luders' final stage work\, and he died of a heart attack on January 24\, 1913\, during this production's brief run\, an event which may have been precipitated by the stress of the public negative reaction to the work. The production cl osed on January 25\, 1913\, after just eight performances.\n\nhttps://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/Somewhere_Else_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 Somewhere Else END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:the-story-of-my-life-musical-2009 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090223 DESCRIPTION:Opened in February 2009.\nClosed February 22\, 2009 — 21 days .\n\nThe Story of My Life is a musical with music and lyrics by Neil Bartr am\, and a book by Brian Hill. The show follows two childhood friends from age six to 35 and has only two characters.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wi ki/The_Story_of_My_Life_%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 The Story of My Life END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:tambourines-to-glory-1963 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19631102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19631124 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Little Theatre on November 2\, 1963.\nClosed Nove mber 23\, 1963 — 21 days.\n\nTambourines to Glory is a gospel play with music by Langston Hughes and Jobe Huntley which tells the story of two fem ale street preachers who open a storefront church in Harlem. The play prem iered on Broadway in 1963.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambourines_to _Glory SUMMARY:🎵 Tambourines to Glory END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:that-s-entertainment-musical-1972 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19720414 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19720417 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Edison Theatre on April 14\, 1972.\nClosed April 16\, 1972 — 2 days.\n\nThat's Entertainment is a 1972 musical revue feat uring the music of songwriting team Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz that uses orchestrations and arrangements by Luther Henderson. The show's book was crafted by uncredited writers. Historian Howard Dietz stated that the show's authors "created character names for all the singers and utilized s natches of dialogue in an awkward attempt to place the songs in a fabricat ed story context."\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s_Entertainment _%28musical%29 SUMMARY:🎵 That's Entertainment END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:the-utter-glory-of-morrissey-hall-1979 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19790513 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19790514 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on May 13\, 1979.\nClosed May 13\, 1979 — 0 days.\n\nThe Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall is a musica l with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner and a book by Gesner and Nagle Jac kson. The production opened and closed on May 13\, 1979 at the Mark Hellin ger Theatre on Broadway after only seven previews and one regular performa nce.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Utter_Glory_of_Morrissey_Hall SUMMARY:🎵 The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:alias-jimmy-valentine-play-1910 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19100101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19100612 DESCRIPTION:Opened in January 1910.\nClosed June 11\, 1910 — 5 months.\n\ nAlias Jimmy Valentine is a 1909 play written by Paul Armstrong\, based on the 1903 short story A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry. It has four act s\, a large cast\, four settings\, and fast pacing. The story follows a fo rmer safecracker's attempt to go straight\, and the choice he must make be tween saving a child's life and exposing himself to arrest.\n\nhttps://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_Jimmy_Valentine_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Alias Jimmy Valentine END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:the-castro-complex-1970 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19701118 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19701123 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Stairway Theatre on November 18\, 1970.\nClosed N ovember 22\, 1970 — 4 days.\n\nThe Castro Complex is a 1970 play written by Mel Arrighi. It opened on Broadway on November 18\, 1970\, and closed on November 22\, 1970.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castro_Complex SUMMARY:🎭 The Castro Complex END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:the-cottage-play-2023 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230724 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231030 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Hayes Theater on July 24\, 2023.\nClosed October 29\, 2023 — 3 months.\n\nThe Cottage is a comedic play written by Americ an playwright Sandy Rustin. The play opened on Broadway on July 24\, 2023\ , at the Hayes Theater after first being produced by Astoria Performing Ar ts Center in 2013. Set in England in 1923\, the play has been described as a modern take on a Noël Coward comedy.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The_Cottage_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Cottage END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:the-family-upstairs-1925 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19250817 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19251017 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Apollo Theatre on August 17\, 1925.\nClosed Octob er 16\, 1925 — 2 months.\n\nThe Family Upstairs is a play in three acts by Harry Delf. It has a medium-sized cast\, one setting\, and quick pacing . It is a domestic comedy\, centered around the five-member apartment-dwel ling Heller family\, their endless bickering\, and the elder daughter's su itor.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_Upstairs SUMMARY:🎭 The Family Upstairs END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:hillary-and-clinton-2019 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190418 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190624 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the John Golden Theatre on April 18\, 2019.\nClosed J une 23\, 2019 — 2 months.\n\nHillary and Clinton is a stage play written by Lucas Hnath that premiered in 2016 at the Victory Gardens Theater in C hicago. The play is set in an alternate universe and tells a story centeri ng on Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Hillary_and_Clinton SUMMARY:🎭 Hillary and Clinton END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:the-inspector-play-1890 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18901113 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18901207 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Broadway's Park Theatre on November 13\, 1890.\nC losed December 6\, 1890 — 23 days.\n\nThe Inspector is a play by William Ranney Wilson. It opened at Broadway's Park Theatre on November 13\, 1890 . It closed on December 6\, 1890. It starred Frazer Coulter in the title r ole.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inspector_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Inspector END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:kennedy-s-children-1975 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19751103 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19760105 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 3\, 1975.\nClosed January 4\, 1976 — 2 mon ths.\n\nKennedy's Children is a 1973 play written by Robert Patrick. It or iginally opened on Broadway on November 3\, 1975\, and closed on January 4 \, 1976.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy%27s_Children SUMMARY:🎭 Kennedy's Children END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:mary-jane-s-pa-play-1908 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19081120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19090228 DESCRIPTION:Opened on November 20\, 1908.\nClosed February 27\, 1909 — 3 months.\n\nMary Jane's Pa is a 1906 American play by Edith Ellis. It is a comedy drama in three acts\, with three settings\, and fifteen principal c haracters. The story concerns a small town printer with wanderlust\, who d rops in on his wife and daughters after eleven years absence. The action o f the play takes place on three separate days\, spanning several weeks in September.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane%27s_Pa_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Mary Jane's Pa END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:over-night-1911 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19110102 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19110521 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Hackett Theatre on January 2\, 1911.\nClosed May 20\, 1911 — 5 months.\n\nOver Night is a 1910 American play by Philip Ba rtholomae. It is a farce in three acts\, with two settings\, and thirteen characters. The story concerns two mismatched newlywed couples who are com pelled to temporarily swap partners through circumstance while traveling. The action of the play takes place within 24 hours.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Over_Night SUMMARY:🎭 Over Night END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:pollyanna-play-1916 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19160901 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19161224 DESCRIPTION:Opened in September 1916.\nClosed December 23\, 1916 — 4 mont hs.\n\nPollyanna sometimes sub-titled The Glad Play or The Glad Girl\, is a 1915 play by Catherine Chisholm Cushing\, based on the 1913 novel by Ele anor H. Porter. It is a four-act comedy with two settings and eleven chara cters. The action of the play takes place in a New England village over a five year time period. The story concerns an orphan girl whose cheerful de meanor is infectious\, unlocking long frozen hearts.\n\nhttps://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Pollyanna_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Pollyanna END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:song-of-the-grasshopper-1967 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19670927 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19671001 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Anta Theatre on September 27\, 1967.\nClosed Sept ember 30\, 1967 — 3 days.\n\nSong of the Grasshopper is a 1967 comedy pl ay written by Alfonso Paso. The New York production starred Alfred Drake a s Aristobulo.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_the_Grasshopper SUMMARY:🎭 Song of the Grasshopper END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:strongheart-play-1905 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19050128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19050129 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Hudson Theatre on January 28\, 1905.\nClosed Janu ary 28\, 1905 — 0 days.\n\nStrongheart is a 1904 American play by Willia m C. deMille. It is a comedy drama in four acts\, with three settings and twenty characters. The story concerns the eponymous character\, a football -playing Native American at Columbia University\, who encounters fellowshi p\, racial prejudice\, and love. The action of the play takes place on thr ee separate days of the same week. The play was considered to be the first with an educated Native American as the leading character\, and a variati on on the theme expressed by James Fenimore Cooper in The Last of the Mohi cans.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongheart_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 Strongheart END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:the-woman-in-room-13-play-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19190114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19190429 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Booth Theatre on January 14\, 1919.\nClosed April 28\, 1919 — 3 months.\n\nThe Woman in Room 13 is a 1918 play by Samuel Shipman and Max Marcin\, with a prologue by Percival Wilde. It was a revis ed version of an earlier play by Samuel Shipman called The Target. A melod rama in four acts and a prologue\, it had five settings and a large cast. The action of the play spans six years time. The story concerns the murder of a seducer by an outraged husband.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The _Woman_in_Room_13_%28play%29 SUMMARY:🎭 The Woman in Room 13 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:earl-carroll-s-sketch-book-1929 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19290701 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19300416 DESCRIPTION:Opened at the Earl Carroll Theatre on July 1\, 1929.\nRan 329 p erformances\, to about April 1930.\n\nEarl Carroll's Sketch Book\, sometim es given as Earl Carroll's Sketchbook\, was a musical revue produced and c onceived by Earl Carroll that ran in two separate iterations on Broadway\; one in 1929-1930 and the other in 1935.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Earl_Carroll%27s_Sketch_Book SUMMARY:🎵 Earl Carroll's Sketch Book END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1830 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18300601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18310601 DESCRIPTION:The 1830–31 season on Broadway\, June 1830 to May 1831.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: The Elephant of Siam and the Fire Fiend. SUMMARY:1830–31 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1833 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18330601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18340601 DESCRIPTION:The 1833–34 season on Broadway\, June 1833 to May 1834.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Mazeppa\, Or\, The Wild Horse of Ukraine. SUMMARY:1833–34 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1844 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18440601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18450601 DESCRIPTION:The 1844–45 season on Broadway\, June 1844 to May 1845.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Putnam\, the Iron Son of '76. SUMMARY:1844–45 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1849 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18490601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18500601 DESCRIPTION:The 1849–50 season on Broadway\, June 1849 to May 1850.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: The Drunkard. SUMMARY:1849–50 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1853 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18530601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18540601 DESCRIPTION:The 1853–54 season on Broadway\, June 1853 to May 1854.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Uncle Tom's Cabin (Aiken version). SUMMARY:1853–54 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1865 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18650601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18660601 DESCRIPTION:The 1865–66 season on Broadway\, June 1865 to May 1866.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Uncle Tom's Cabin (Aiken version). SUMMARY:1865–66 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1866 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18660601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18670601 DESCRIPTION:The 1866–67 season on Broadway\, June 1866 to May 1867.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Uncle Tom's Cabin (Aiken version). SUMMARY:1866–67 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1867 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18670601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18680601 DESCRIPTION:The 1867–68 season on Broadway\, June 1867 to May 1868.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Humpty Dumpty. SUMMARY:1867–68 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1879 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18790601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18800601 DESCRIPTION:The 1879–80 season on Broadway\, June 1879 to May 1880.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Humpty Dumpty. SUMMARY:1879–80 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1881 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18810601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18820601 DESCRIPTION:The 1881–82 season on Broadway\, June 1881 to May 1882.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Hazel Kirke. SUMMARY:1881–82 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1884 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18840601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18850601 DESCRIPTION:The 1884–85 season on Broadway\, June 1884 to May 1885.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Hazel Kirke. SUMMARY:1884–85 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1889 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18890601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18900601 DESCRIPTION:The 1889–90 season on Broadway\, June 1889 to May 1890.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Adonis. SUMMARY:1889–90 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1890 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18900601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18910601 DESCRIPTION:The 1890–91 season on Broadway\, June 1890 to May 1891.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Adonis. SUMMARY:1890–91 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1891 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18910601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18920601 DESCRIPTION:The 1891–92 season on Broadway\, June 1891 to May 1892.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Adonis. SUMMARY:1891–92 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1894 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18940601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18950601 DESCRIPTION:The 1894–95 season on Broadway\, June 1894 to May 1895.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1894–95 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1895 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18950601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18960601 DESCRIPTION:The 1895–96 season on Broadway\, June 1895 to May 1896.\n2 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1895–96 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1896 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18960601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18970601 DESCRIPTION:The 1896–97 season on Broadway\, June 1896 to May 1897.\n3 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1896–97 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1898 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18980601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:18990601 DESCRIPTION:The 1898–99 season on Broadway\, June 1898 to May 1899.\n2 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1898–99 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1899 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18990601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19000601 DESCRIPTION:The 1899–00 season on Broadway\, June 1899 to May 1900.\n9 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1899–00 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1900 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19000601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19010601 DESCRIPTION:The 1900–01 season on Broadway\, June 1900 to May 1901.\n5 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1900–01 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1901 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19010601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19020601 DESCRIPTION:The 1901–02 season on Broadway\, June 1901 to May 1902.\n6 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1901–02 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1902 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19020601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19030601 DESCRIPTION:The 1902–03 season on Broadway\, June 1902 to May 1903.\n2 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1902–03 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1903 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19030601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19040601 DESCRIPTION:The 1903–04 season on Broadway\, June 1903 to May 1904.\n7 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1903–04 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1904 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19040601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19050601 DESCRIPTION:The 1904–05 season on Broadway\, June 1904 to May 1905.\n3 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1904–05 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1905 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19050601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19060601 DESCRIPTION:The 1905–06 season on Broadway\, June 1905 to May 1906.\n10 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1905–06 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1906 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19060601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19070601 DESCRIPTION:The 1906–07 season on Broadway\, June 1906 to May 1907.\n2 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1906–07 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1907 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19070601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19080601 DESCRIPTION:The 1907–08 season on Broadway\, June 1907 to May 1908.\n4 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1907–08 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1908 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19080601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19090601 DESCRIPTION:The 1908–09 season on Broadway\, June 1908 to May 1909.\n7 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1908–09 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1909 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19090601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19100601 DESCRIPTION:The 1909–10 season on Broadway\, June 1909 to May 1910.\n6 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1909–10 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1910 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19100601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19110601 DESCRIPTION:The 1910–11 season on Broadway\, June 1910 to May 1911.\n6 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1910–11 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1911 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19110601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19120601 DESCRIPTION:The 1911–12 season on Broadway\, June 1911 to May 1912.\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1911–12 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1912 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19120601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19130601 DESCRIPTION:The 1912–13 season on Broadway\, June 1912 to May 1913.\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1912–13 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1913 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19130601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19140601 DESCRIPTION:The 1913–14 season on Broadway\, June 1913 to May 1914.\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1913–14 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1914 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19140601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19150601 DESCRIPTION:The 1914–15 season on Broadway\, June 1914 to May 1915.\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1914–15 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1915 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19150601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19160601 DESCRIPTION:The 1915–16 season on Broadway\, June 1915 to May 1916.\n5 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1915–16 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1916 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19160601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19170601 DESCRIPTION:The 1916–17 season on Broadway\, June 1916 to May 1917.\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1916–17 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1917 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19170601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19180601 DESCRIPTION:The 1917–18 season on Broadway\, June 1917 to May 1918.\n11 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1917–18 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1918 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19180601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19190601 DESCRIPTION:The 1918–19 season on Broadway\, June 1918 to May 1919.\n10 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Trip to Chinatown. SUMMARY:1918–19 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1919 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19190601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19200601 DESCRIPTION:The 1919–20 season on Broadway\, June 1919 to May 1920.\n13 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Lightnin'. SUMMARY:1919–20 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1920 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19200601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19210601 DESCRIPTION:The 1920–21 season on Broadway\, June 1920 to May 1921.\n10 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Lightnin'. SUMMARY:1920–21 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1921 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19210601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19220601 DESCRIPTION:The 1921–22 season on Broadway\, June 1921 to May 1922.\n15 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Lightnin'. SUMMARY:1921–22 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1922 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19220601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19230601 DESCRIPTION:The 1922–23 season on Broadway\, June 1922 to May 1923.\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Lightnin'. SUMMARY:1922–23 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1923 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19230601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19240601 DESCRIPTION:The 1923–24 season on Broadway\, June 1923 to May 1924.\n11 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Lightnin'. SUMMARY:1923–24 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1924 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19240601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19250601 DESCRIPTION:The 1924–25 season on Broadway\, June 1924 to May 1925.\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1924–25 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1925 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19250601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19260601 DESCRIPTION:The 1925–26 season on Broadway\, June 1925 to May 1926.\n11 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1925–26 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1926 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19260601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19270601 DESCRIPTION:The 1926–27 season on Broadway\, June 1926 to May 1927.\n11 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1926–27 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1927 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19270601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19280601 DESCRIPTION:The 1927–28 season on Broadway\, June 1927 to May 1928.\n11 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1927–28 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1928 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19280601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19290601 DESCRIPTION:The 1928–29 season on Broadway\, June 1928 to May 1929.\n13 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1928–29 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1929 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19290601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19300601 DESCRIPTION:The 1929–30 season on Broadway\, June 1929 to May 1930.\n10 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1929–30 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1930 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19300601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19310601 DESCRIPTION:The 1930–31 season on Broadway\, June 1930 to May 1931.\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1930–31 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1931 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19310601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19320601 DESCRIPTION:The 1931–32 season on Broadway\, June 1931 to May 1932.\n6 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1931–32 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1932 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19320601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19330601 DESCRIPTION:The 1932–33 season on Broadway\, June 1932 to May 1933.\n12 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1932–33 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1933 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19330601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19340601 DESCRIPTION:The 1933–34 season on Broadway\, June 1933 to May 1934.\n10 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1933–34 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1934 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19340601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19350601 DESCRIPTION:The 1934–35 season on Broadway\, June 1934 to May 1935.\n10 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1934–35 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1935 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19350601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19360601 DESCRIPTION:The 1935–36 season on Broadway\, June 1935 to May 1936.\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1935–36 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1936 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19360601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19370601 DESCRIPTION:The 1936–37 season on Broadway\, June 1936 to May 1937.\n5 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1936–37 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1937 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19370601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19380601 DESCRIPTION:The 1937–38 season on Broadway\, June 1937 to May 1938.\n11 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1937–38 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1938 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19380601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19390601 DESCRIPTION:The 1938–39 season on Broadway\, June 1938 to May 1939.\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Abie's Irish Rose. SUMMARY:1938–39 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1939 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19390601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19400601 DESCRIPTION:The 1939–40 season on Broadway\, June 1939 to May 1940.\n9 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Tobacco Road. SUMMARY:1939–40 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1940 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19400601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19410601 DESCRIPTION:The 1940–41 season on Broadway\, June 1940 to May 1941.\n6 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Tobacco Road. SUMMARY:1940–41 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1941 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19410601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19420601 DESCRIPTION:The 1941–42 season on Broadway\, June 1941 to May 1942.\n4 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Tobacco Road. SUMMARY:1941–42 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1942 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19420601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19430601 DESCRIPTION:The 1942–43 season on Broadway\, June 1942 to May 1943.\n5 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Tobacco Road. SUMMARY:1942–43 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1943 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19430601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19440601 DESCRIPTION:The 1943–44 season on Broadway\, June 1943 to May 1944.\n4 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Tobacco Road. SUMMARY:1943–44 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1944 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19440601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19450601 DESCRIPTION:The 1944–45 season on Broadway\, June 1944 to May 1945.\n6 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Tobacco Road. SUMMARY:1944–45 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1945 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19450601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19460601 DESCRIPTION:The 1945–46 season on Broadway\, June 1945 to May 1946.\n3 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Tobacco Road. SUMMARY:1945–46 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1946 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19460601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19470601 DESCRIPTION:The 1946–47 season on Broadway\, June 1946 to May 1947.\n2 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Tobacco Road. SUMMARY:1946–47 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1947 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19470601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19480601 DESCRIPTION:The 1947–48 season on Broadway\, June 1947 to May 1948.\nTony Awards: Mister Roberts.\n4 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nT he longest-running show then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1947–48 season · 🏆 Mister Roberts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1948 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19480601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19490601 DESCRIPTION:The 1948–49 season on Broadway\, June 1948 to May 1949.\nTony Awards: Kiss Me\, Kate (Best Musical) and Death of a Salesman (Best Play) .\n7 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1948–49 season · 🏆 Kiss Me\, Kate · Death of a Salesman END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1949 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19490601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19500601 DESCRIPTION:The 1949–50 season on Broadway\, June 1949 to May 1950.\nTony Awards: South Pacific (Best Musical) and The Cocktail Party (Best Play).\ n5 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show t hen: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1949–50 season · 🏆 South Pacific · The Cocktail Party END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1950 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19500601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19510601 DESCRIPTION:The 1950–51 season on Broadway\, June 1950 to May 1951.\nTony Awards: Guys and Dolls (Best Musical) and The Rose Tattoo (Best Play).\n6 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show the n: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1950–51 season · 🏆 Guys and Dolls · The Rose Tattoo END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1951 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19510601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19520601 DESCRIPTION:The 1951–52 season on Broadway\, June 1951 to May 1952.\nTony Awards: The King and I (Best Musical) and The Fourposter (Best Play).\n7 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then : Life with Father. SUMMARY:1951–52 season · 🏆 The King and I · The Fourposter END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1952 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19520601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19530601 DESCRIPTION:The 1952–53 season on Broadway\, June 1952 to May 1953.\nTony Awards: Wonderful Town (Best Musical) and The Crucible (Best Play).\n7 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1952–53 season · 🏆 Wonderful Town · The Crucible END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1953 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19530601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19540601 DESCRIPTION:The 1953–54 season on Broadway\, June 1953 to May 1954.\nTony Awards: Kismet (Best Musical) and The Teahouse of the August Moon (Best P lay).\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1953–54 season · 🏆 Kismet · The Teahouse of the August Moon END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1954 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19540601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19550601 DESCRIPTION:The 1954–55 season on Broadway\, June 1954 to May 1955.\nTony Awards: The Pajama Game (Best Musical) and The Desperate Hours (Best Play ).\n9 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running sho w then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1954–55 season · 🏆 The Pajama Game · The Desperate Hours END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1955 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19550601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19560601 DESCRIPTION:The 1955–56 season on Broadway\, June 1955 to May 1956.\nTony Awards: Damn Yankees (Best Musical) and The Diary of Anne Frank (Best Pla y).\n7 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running sh ow then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1955–56 season · 🏆 Damn Yankees · The Diary of Anne Frank END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1956 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19560601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19570601 DESCRIPTION:The 1956–57 season on Broadway\, June 1956 to May 1957.\nTony Awards: My Fair Lady (Best Musical) and Long Day's Journey into Night (Be st Play).\n7 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-runn ing show then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1956–57 season · 🏆 My Fair Lady · Long Day's Journey into Ni ght END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1957 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19570601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19580601 DESCRIPTION:The 1957–58 season on Broadway\, June 1957 to May 1958.\nTony Awards: The Music Man (Best Musical) and Sunrise at Campobello (Best Play ).\n5 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running sho w then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1957–58 season · 🏆 The Music Man · Sunrise at Campobello END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1958 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19580601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19590601 DESCRIPTION:The 1958–59 season on Broadway\, June 1958 to May 1959.\nTony Awards: Redhead (Best Musical) and J.B. (Best Play).\n7 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Life with Fathe r. SUMMARY:1958–59 season · 🏆 Redhead · J.B. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1959 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19590601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19600601 DESCRIPTION:The 1959–60 season on Broadway\, June 1959 to May 1960.\nTony Awards: Fiorello! / The Sound of Music (Best Musical) and The Miracle Wor ker (Best Play).\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longe st-running show then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1959–60 season · 🏆 Fiorello! / The Sound of Music · The Mira cle Worker END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1960 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19600601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19610601 DESCRIPTION:The 1960–61 season on Broadway\, June 1960 to May 1961.\nTony Awards: Bye Bye Birdie (Best Musical) and Becket (Best Play).\n5 of the c alendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Life w ith Father. SUMMARY:1960–61 season · 🏆 Bye Bye Birdie · Becket END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1961 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19610601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19620601 DESCRIPTION:The 1961–62 season on Broadway\, June 1961 to May 1962.\nTony Awards: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Best Musical) a nd A Man for All Seasons (Best Play).\n9 of the calendar's shows opened th is season.\nThe longest-running show then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1961–62 season · 🏆 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying · A Man for All Seasons END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1962 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19620601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19630601 DESCRIPTION:The 1962–63 season on Broadway\, June 1962 to May 1963.\nTony Awards: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Best Musical) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Best Play).\n7 of the calendar's shows o pened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1962–63 season · 🏆 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the F orum · Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1963 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19630601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19640601 DESCRIPTION:The 1963–64 season on Broadway\, June 1963 to May 1964.\nTony Awards: Hello\, Dolly! (Best Musical) and Luther (Best Play).\n6 of the c alendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Life w ith Father. SUMMARY:1963–64 season · 🏆 Hello\, Dolly! · Luther END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1964 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19640601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19650601 DESCRIPTION:The 1964–65 season on Broadway\, June 1964 to May 1965.\nTony Awards: Fiddler on the Roof (Best Musical) and The Subject Was Roses (Bes t Play).\n9 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-runni ng show then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1964–65 season · 🏆 Fiddler on the Roof · The Subject Was Ros es END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1965 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19650601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19660601 DESCRIPTION:The 1965–66 season on Broadway\, June 1965 to May 1966.\nTony Awards: Man of La Mancha (Best Musical) and Marat/Sade (Best Play).\n11 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1965–66 season · 🏆 Man of La Mancha · Marat/Sade END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1966 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19660601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19670601 DESCRIPTION:The 1966–67 season on Broadway\, June 1966 to May 1967.\nTony Awards: Cabaret (Best Musical) and The Homecoming (Best Play).\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1966–67 season · 🏆 Cabaret · The Homecoming END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1967 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19670601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19680601 DESCRIPTION:The 1967–68 season on Broadway\, June 1967 to May 1968.\nTony Awards: Hallelujah\, Baby! (Best Musical) and Rosencrantz and Guildenster n Are Dead (Best Play).\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nTh e longest-running show then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1967–68 season · 🏆 Hallelujah\, Baby! · Rosencrantz and Guil denstern Are Dead END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1968 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19680601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19690601 DESCRIPTION:The 1968–69 season on Broadway\, June 1968 to May 1969.\nTony Awards: 1776 (Best Musical) and The Great White Hope (Best Play).\n4 of t he calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Li fe with Father. SUMMARY:1968–69 season · 🏆 1776 · The Great White Hope END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1969 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19690601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19700601 DESCRIPTION:The 1969–70 season on Broadway\, June 1969 to May 1970.\nTony Awards: Applause (Best Musical) and Borstal Boy (Best Play).\n5 of the ca lendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Life wi th Father. SUMMARY:1969–70 season · 🏆 Applause · Borstal Boy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1970 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19700601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19710601 DESCRIPTION:The 1970–71 season on Broadway\, June 1970 to May 1971.\nTony Awards: Company (Best Musical) and Sleuth (Best Play).\n6 of the calendar 's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Life with Fat her. SUMMARY:1970–71 season · 🏆 Company · Sleuth END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1971 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19710601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19720601 DESCRIPTION:The 1971–72 season on Broadway\, June 1971 to May 1972.\nTony Awards: Two Gentlemen of Verona (Best Musical) and Sticks and Bones (Best Play).\n5 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-runnin g show then: Life with Father. SUMMARY:1971–72 season · 🏆 Two Gentlemen of Verona · Sticks and Bone s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1972 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19720601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19730601 DESCRIPTION:The 1972–73 season on Broadway\, June 1972 to May 1973.\nTony Awards: A Little Night Music (Best Musical) and That Championship Season (Best Play).\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-r unning show then: Fiddler on the Roof. SUMMARY:1972–73 season · 🏆 A Little Night Music · That Championship Season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1973 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19730601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19740601 DESCRIPTION:The 1973–74 season on Broadway\, June 1973 to May 1974.\nTony Awards: Raisin (Best Musical) and The River Niger (Best Play).\n5 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Fiddl er on the Roof. SUMMARY:1973–74 season · 🏆 Raisin · The River Niger END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1974 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19740601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19750601 DESCRIPTION:The 1974–75 season on Broadway\, June 1974 to May 1975.\nTony Awards: The Wiz (Best Musical) and Equus (Best Play).\n10 of the calendar 's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Fiddler on th e Roof. SUMMARY:1974–75 season · 🏆 The Wiz · Equus END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1975 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19750601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19760601 DESCRIPTION:The 1975–76 season on Broadway\, June 1975 to May 1976.\nTony Awards: A Chorus Line (Best Musical) and Travesties (Best Play).\n7 of th e calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Fid dler on the Roof. SUMMARY:1975–76 season · 🏆 A Chorus Line · Travesties END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1976 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19760601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19770601 DESCRIPTION:The 1976–77 season on Broadway\, June 1976 to May 1977.\nTony Awards: Annie (Best Musical) and The Shadow Box (Best Play).\n8 of the ca lendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Fiddler on the Roof. SUMMARY:1976–77 season · 🏆 Annie · The Shadow Box END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1977 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19770601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19780601 DESCRIPTION:The 1977–78 season on Broadway\, June 1977 to May 1978.\nTony Awards: Ain't Misbehavin (Best Musical) and Da (Best Play).\n3 of the cal endar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Fiddler on the Roof. SUMMARY:1977–78 season · 🏆 Ain't Misbehavin · Da END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1978 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19780601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19790601 DESCRIPTION:The 1978–79 season on Broadway\, June 1978 to May 1979.\nTony Awards: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Best Musical) and The Elephant Man (Best Play).\n5 of the calendar's shows opened this seas on.\nThe longest-running show then: Fiddler on the Roof. SUMMARY:1978–79 season · 🏆 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet St reet · The Elephant Man END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1979 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19790601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19800601 DESCRIPTION:The 1979–80 season on Broadway\, June 1979 to May 1980.\nTony Awards: Evita (Best Musical) and Children of a Lesser God (Best Play).\n3 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show the n: Grease. SUMMARY:1979–80 season · 🏆 Evita · Children of a Lesser God END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1980 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19800601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19810601 DESCRIPTION:The 1980–81 season on Broadway\, June 1980 to May 1981.\nTony Awards: 42nd Street (Best Musical) and Amadeus (Best Play).\n4 of the cal endar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Grease. SUMMARY:1980–81 season · 🏆 42nd Street · Amadeus END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1981 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19810601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19820601 DESCRIPTION:The 1981–82 season on Broadway\, June 1981 to May 1982.\nTony Awards: Nine (Best Musical) and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickl eby (Best Play).\n3 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longe st-running show then: Grease. SUMMARY:1981–82 season · 🏆 Nine · The Life and Adventures of Nichola s Nickleby END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1982 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19820601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19830601 DESCRIPTION:The 1982–83 season on Broadway\, June 1982 to May 1983.\nTony Awards: Cats (Best Musical) and Torch Song Trilogy (Best Play).\n5 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Grea se. SUMMARY:1982–83 season · 🏆 Cats · Torch Song Trilogy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1983 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19830601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19840601 DESCRIPTION:The 1983–84 season on Broadway\, June 1983 to May 1984.\nTony Awards: La Cage aux Folles (Best Musical) and The Real Thing (Best Play). \n5 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Chorus Line. SUMMARY:1983–84 season · 🏆 La Cage aux Folles · The Real Thing END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1984 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19840601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19850601 DESCRIPTION:The 1984–85 season on Broadway\, June 1984 to May 1985.\nTony Awards: Big River (Best Musical) and Biloxi Blues (Best Play).\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Cho rus Line. SUMMARY:1984–85 season · 🏆 Big River · Biloxi Blues END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1985 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19850601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19860601 DESCRIPTION:The 1985–86 season on Broadway\, June 1985 to May 1986.\nTony Awards: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Best Musical) and I'm Not Rappaport ( Best Play).\n4 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-ru nning show then: A Chorus Line. SUMMARY:1985–86 season · 🏆 The Mystery of Edwin Drood · I'm Not Rapp aport END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1986 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19860601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19870601 DESCRIPTION:The 1986–87 season on Broadway\, June 1986 to May 1987.\nTony Awards: Les Misérables (Best Musical) and Fences (Best Play).\n5 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Cho rus Line. SUMMARY:1986–87 season · 🏆 Les Misérables · Fences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1987 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19870601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19880601 DESCRIPTION:The 1987–88 season on Broadway\, June 1987 to May 1988.\nTony Awards: The Phantom of the Opera (Best Musical) and M. Butterfly (Best Pl ay).\n4 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running s how then: A Chorus Line. SUMMARY:1987–88 season · 🏆 The Phantom of the Opera · M. Butterfly END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1988 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19880601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19890601 DESCRIPTION:The 1988–89 season on Broadway\, June 1988 to May 1989.\nTony Awards: Jerome Robbins' Broadway (Best Musical) and The Heidi Chronicles (Best Play).\n3 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-r unning show then: A Chorus Line. SUMMARY:1988–89 season · 🏆 Jerome Robbins' Broadway · The Heidi Chro nicles END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1989 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19890601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19900601 DESCRIPTION:The 1989–90 season on Broadway\, June 1989 to May 1990.\nTony Awards: City of Angels (Best Musical) and The Grapes of Wrath (Best Play) .\n8 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Chorus Line. SUMMARY:1989–90 season · 🏆 City of Angels · The Grapes of Wrath END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1990 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19900601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19910601 DESCRIPTION:The 1990–91 season on Broadway\, June 1990 to May 1991.\nTony Awards: The Will Rogers Follies (Best Musical) and Lost in Yonkers (Best Play).\n6 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Chorus Line. SUMMARY:1990–91 season · 🏆 The Will Rogers Follies · Lost in Yonkers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1991 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19910601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19920601 DESCRIPTION:The 1991–92 season on Broadway\, June 1991 to May 1992.\nTony Awards: Crazy for You (Best Musical) and Dancing at Lughnasa (Best Play). \n4 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Chorus Line. SUMMARY:1991–92 season · 🏆 Crazy for You · Dancing at Lughnasa END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1992 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19920601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19930601 DESCRIPTION:The 1992–93 season on Broadway\, June 1992 to May 1993.\nTony Awards: Kiss of the Spider Woman (Best Musical) and Angels in America: Mi llennium Approaches (Best Play).\n5 of the calendar's shows opened this se ason.\nThe longest-running show then: A Chorus Line. SUMMARY:1992–93 season · 🏆 Kiss of the Spider Woman · Angels in Amer ica: Millennium Approaches END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1993 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19930601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19940601 DESCRIPTION:The 1993–94 season on Broadway\, June 1993 to May 1994.\nTony Awards: Passion (Best Musical) and Angels in America: Perestroika (Best P lay).\n5 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Chorus Line. SUMMARY:1993–94 season · 🏆 Passion · Angels in America: Perestroika END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1994 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19940601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19950601 DESCRIPTION:The 1994–95 season on Broadway\, June 1994 to May 1995.\nTony Awards: Sunset Boulevard (Best Musical) and Love! Valour! Compassion! (Be st Play).\n2 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-runn ing show then: A Chorus Line. SUMMARY:1994–95 season · 🏆 Sunset Boulevard · Love! Valour! Compassi on! END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003412Z UID:broadway-season-1995 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19950601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19960601 DESCRIPTION:The 1995–96 season on Broadway\, June 1995 to May 1996.\nTony Awards: Rent (Best Musical) and Master Class (Best Play).\n6 of the calen dar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Chorus L ine. SUMMARY:1995–96 season · 🏆 Rent · Master Class END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-1996 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19960601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19970601 DESCRIPTION:The 1996–97 season on Broadway\, June 1996 to May 1997.\nTony Awards: Titanic (Best Musical) and The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Best Play) .\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: A Chorus Line. SUMMARY:1996–97 season · 🏆 Titanic · The Last Night of Ballyhoo END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-1997 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19970601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19980601 DESCRIPTION:The 1997–98 season on Broadway\, June 1997 to May 1998.\nTony Awards: The Lion King (Best Musical) and Art (Best Play).\n2 of the calen dar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Cats. SUMMARY:1997–98 season · 🏆 The Lion King · Art END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-1999 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19990601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20000601 DESCRIPTION:The 1999–00 season on Broadway\, June 1999 to May 2000.\nTony Awards: Contact (Best Musical) and Copenhagen (Best Play).\n1 of the cale ndar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Cats. SUMMARY:1999–00 season · 🏆 Contact · Copenhagen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2000 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20000601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20010601 DESCRIPTION:The 2000–01 season on Broadway\, June 2000 to May 2001.\nTony Awards: The Producers (Best Musical) and Proof (Best Play).\n3 of the cal endar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Cats. SUMMARY:2000–01 season · 🏆 The Producers · Proof END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2001 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20010601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20020601 DESCRIPTION:The 2001–02 season on Broadway\, June 2001 to May 2002.\nTony Awards: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Best Musical) and The Goat\, or Who Is Sylvia? (Best Play).\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe l ongest-running show then: Cats. SUMMARY:2001–02 season · 🏆 Thoroughly Modern Millie · The Goat\, or Who Is Sylvia? END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2003 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20030601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20040601 DESCRIPTION:The 2003–04 season on Broadway\, June 2003 to May 2004.\nTony Awards: Avenue Q (Best Musical) and I Am My Own Wife (Best Play).\n1 of t he calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: Ca ts. SUMMARY:2003–04 season · 🏆 Avenue Q · I Am My Own Wife END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2004 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20040601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20050601 DESCRIPTION:The 2004–05 season on Broadway\, June 2004 to May 2005.\nTony Awards: Monty Python's Spamalot (Best Musical) and Doubt (Best Play).\n3 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then : Cats. SUMMARY:2004–05 season · 🏆 Monty Python's Spamalot · Doubt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2005 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20050601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20060601 DESCRIPTION:The 2005–06 season on Broadway\, June 2005 to May 2006.\nTony Awards: Jersey Boys (Best Musical) and The History Boys (Best Play).\n1 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: The Phantom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2005–06 season · 🏆 Jersey Boys · The History Boys END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2006 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20060601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070601 DESCRIPTION:The 2006–07 season on Broadway\, June 2006 to May 2007.\nTony Awards: Spring Awakening (Best Musical) and The Coast of Utopia (Best Pla y).\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running sh ow then: The Phantom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2006–07 season · 🏆 Spring Awakening · The Coast of Utopia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2007 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080601 DESCRIPTION:The 2007–08 season on Broadway\, June 2007 to May 2008.\nTony Awards: In the Heights (Best Musical) and August: Osage County (Best Play ).\n2 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running sho w then: The Phantom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2007–08 season · 🏆 In the Heights · August: Osage County END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2008 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090601 DESCRIPTION:The 2008–09 season on Broadway\, June 2008 to May 2009.\nTony Awards: Billy Elliot the Musical (Best Musical) and God of Carnage (Best Play).\n5 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: The Phantom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2008–09 season · 🏆 Billy Elliot the Musical · God of Carnage END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2009 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100601 DESCRIPTION:The 2009–10 season on Broadway\, June 2009 to May 2010.\nTony Awards: Memphis (Best Musical) and Red (Best Play).\n2 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: The Phantom of t he Opera. SUMMARY:2009–10 season · 🏆 Memphis · Red END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2010 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110601 DESCRIPTION:The 2010–11 season on Broadway\, June 2010 to May 2011.\nTony Awards: The Book of Mormon (Best Musical) and War Horse (Best Play).\n2 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: The Phantom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2010–11 season · 🏆 The Book of Mormon · War Horse END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2011 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120601 DESCRIPTION:The 2011–12 season on Broadway\, June 2011 to May 2012.\nTony Awards: Once (Best Musical) and Clybourne Park (Best Play).\n3 of the cal endar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: The Phan tom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2011–12 season · 🏆 Once · Clybourne Park END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2012 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130601 DESCRIPTION:The 2012–13 season on Broadway\, June 2012 to May 2013.\nTony Awards: Kinky Boots (Best Musical) and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spik e (Best Play).\n5 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest -running show then: The Phantom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2012–13 season · 🏆 Kinky Boots · Vanya and Sonia and Masha a nd Spike END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2013 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140601 DESCRIPTION:The 2013–14 season on Broadway\, June 2013 to May 2014.\nTony Awards: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Best Musical) and All the Way (Best Play).\n3 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe long est-running show then: The Phantom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2013–14 season · 🏆 A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder · All the Way END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2014 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150601 DESCRIPTION:The 2014–15 season on Broadway\, June 2014 to May 2015.\nTony Awards: Fun Home (Best Musical) and The Curious Incident of the Dog in th e Night-Time (Best Play).\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\n The longest-running show then: The Phantom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2014–15 season · 🏆 Fun Home · The Curious Incident of the Do g in the Night-Time END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2015 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160601 DESCRIPTION:The 2015–16 season on Broadway\, June 2015 to May 2016.\nTony Awards: Hamilton (Best Musical) and The Humans (Best Play).\n4 of the cal endar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: The Phan tom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2015–16 season · 🏆 Hamilton · The Humans END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2016 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170601 DESCRIPTION:The 2016–17 season on Broadway\, June 2016 to May 2017.\nTony Awards: Dear Evan Hansen (Best Musical) and Oslo (Best Play).\n4 of the c alendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: The Ph antom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2016–17 season · 🏆 Dear Evan Hansen · Oslo END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2018 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190601 DESCRIPTION:The 2018–19 season on Broadway\, June 2018 to May 2019.\nTony Awards: Hadestown (Best Musical) and The Ferryman (Best Play).\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: The P hantom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2018–19 season · 🏆 Hadestown · The Ferryman END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2019 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200601 DESCRIPTION:The 2019–20 season on Broadway\, June 2019 to May 2020.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: The Phantom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2019–20 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2020 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210601 DESCRIPTION:The 2020–21 season on Broadway\, June 2020 to May 2021.\n1 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: The Phantom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2020–21 season END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2021 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220601 DESCRIPTION:The 2021–22 season on Broadway\, June 2021 to May 2022.\nTony Awards: A Strange Loop (Best Musical) and The Lehman Trilogy (Best Play). \n3 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: The Phantom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2021–22 season · 🏆 A Strange Loop · The Lehman Trilogy END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2022 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230601 DESCRIPTION:The 2022–23 season on Broadway\, June 2022 to May 2023.\nTony Awards: Kimberly Akimbo (Best Musical) and Leopoldstadt (Best Play).\n4 o f the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: The Phantom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2022–23 season · 🏆 Kimberly Akimbo · Leopoldstadt END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261017T003413Z UID:broadway-season-2023 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240601 DESCRIPTION:The 2023–24 season on Broadway\, June 2023 to May 2024.\nTony Awards: The Outsiders (Best Musical) and Stereophonic (Best Play).\n4 of the calendar's shows opened this season.\nThe longest-running show then: T he Phantom of the Opera. SUMMARY:2023–24 season · 🏆 The Outsiders · Stereophonic END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR