January 17 - 25
(Starting next week, weeks will run Tuesday - Monday for this column.)
🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭
- January 17, 2008:David Mamet's political play, November, starring Nathan Laneopens its 205 performance run at the Barrymore Theatre.
- January 18, 1998:Ragtime, the epic musical starring Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie andJudy Kayeopens at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, where it will play 834 performances and win 4 Tony Awards.
- January 19, 2017: The final play in August Wilson's play cycle to arrive on Broadway,Jitney, opens at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater for a limited run of 62 performances. The play wins the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.
- January 20, 1954: Henry Fondastars in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martialwhich opens at the Plymouth Theatre.
- January 21, 1903: The very first Broadway adaptation of The Wizard of Oz opens with a book and lyrics by L. Frank Baum himself.
- January 22, 1953:Arthur Miller's The Cruciblemakes its Broadway debut at the Martin Beck Theatre.
- January 23, 2005: The musical adaptation of Little Women starringSutton Fosteras Jo March andMaureen McGovernas Marmee opens at the Virginia Theatre.
- January 25, 1968: Lillian Gish, Hal Holbrookand Tony-nominee Alan Webb opened in I Never Sang For My Fatherat the Longacre Theatre.
📰 BROADWAY HEADLINES📰
- January 18, 1974:Michael Bennettholds a meeting with Broadway ensemblists who share their stories. It is recorded and becomes the basis for A Chorus Line.
- January 20, 2003:Broadway artist, and later theater namesake, Al Hirschfeldpassed away at age 99.
- January 25, 1996: Many of history's great artists did not know success during their lifetimes. Jonathan Larson, who passed away on this date one day before the first preview of Rent was one such artist.
- January 25, 2003: The Michael CrawfordGothic musical Dance of the Vampires closed at an estimated loss of $12 million.
🎂HAPPY BIRTHDAY🎂
Jesse L. Martin Katie Finneran
Eartha Kitt James Earl Jones
January 17: legendary actor James Earl Jones, director and subject of Mack and Mabel Mack Sennett, legend Eartha Kitt, Tony-winning actor Denis O'Hare January 18: actor Danny Kaye, actor Mark Rylance, Rent actor Jesse L. Martin January 19: the original Phantom Michael Crawford, 9 to 5 composer Dolly Parton, actress Veanne Cox January 20: comedy icon George Burns January 22: two-time Tony-winner Katie Finneran January 23: designer Irene Sharaff, Broadway icon and legend Chita Rivera January 24: playwright Sarah Ruhl, actor Carrie Coon, Rony-winner Daveed Diggs January 25: Company's original Bobby Dean Jones
📆ON BROADWAY THIS WEEK IN 1991📆
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