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1856<\/b> Comedian Eddie Foy<\/a> is born. He stars in vaudeville and on Broadway, notably in Mr. Hamlet of Broadway, The Earl and the Girl<\/i>, and Piff! Paff!! Pouf!!!<\/i> His son, Eddie Foy Jr.<\/a>, also stars on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1922<\/b> Eugene O’Neill<\/a>‘s drama The Hairy Ape<\/i><\/a>, the story of a stoker brutalized by his work, opens at the Provincetown Playhouse.<\/p>\n 1959<\/b> Juno<\/i><\/a>, Marc Blitzstein<\/a>‘s musical adaptation of Juno and the Paycock<\/i>, opens at the Winter Garden Theatre with Shirley Booth<\/a> and Melvyn Douglas<\/a>. It runs only 16 performances.<\/p>\n 1961<\/b> Dore Schary<\/a> adapts and directs Morris West’s novel The Devil’s Advocate<\/i><\/a>. Leo Genn<\/a> stars in the drama that runs 116 performances at the Billy Rose Theatre.<\/p>\n 1966<\/b> The English Stage Company is served 18 summonses as a result of William Gaskill’s production of Edward Bond<\/a>‘s controversial play Saved<\/i>. Lord Chamberlain had demanded certain changes be made; the company did not comply. Bond and the company are forced to pay costs.<\/p>\n 1978<\/b> Moliere in Spite of Himself<\/i> plays at the Colonnades Theatre Lab in New York. The drama is adapted and staged by Michel Lessac and runs for 100 performances. <\/p>\n 1978<\/b> Encompass Theatre, an Off-Off-Broadway group, launches a series of plays titled Hear Their Voices: Women Founders of the American Theatre, 1910-1945<\/i>.<\/p>\n 1986<\/b> At the New York Shakespeare Festival<\/a>‘s production of Hamlet<\/i>, Kevin Kline<\/a> inhabits the “distracted globe” of the Bard’s immortal counterpart. The stageplay runs at Joseph Papp<\/a>‘s Public Theater through May 11.<\/p>\n 1989<\/b> Wendy Wasserstein<\/a>‘s The Heidi Chronicles<\/i><\/a> opens at the Plymouth Theatre. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama stars Joan Allen<\/a> and becomes something of a landmark in plays by and about modern American women.<\/p>\n 2002<\/b> Leonard Gershe<\/a>, author of the play Butterflies Are Free<\/i><\/a>, the 1969 Broadway comedy that launched the career of Blythe Danner<\/a>, dies at 79.<\/p>\n 2008<\/b> Following a 2007 Off-Broadway run at 37 Arts, In The Heights<\/i><\/a> opens at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/a> co-wrote and stars in the show about life among the Latino residents of Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, along with Mandy Gonzalez<\/a>, Karen Olivo<\/a>, and Priscilla Lopez<\/a>. The production wins four Tony Awards, including Best Musical.<\/p>\n 2009<\/b> 33 Variations<\/i><\/a>, writer-director Mois\u00e9s Kaufman<\/a>‘s music-infused play that lured Jane Fonda<\/a> back to Broadway after a 46-year absence, opens at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre.<\/p>\n 2010<\/b> Love Never Dies<\/i>, Andrew Lloyd Webber<\/a>‘s sequel to The Phantom of the Opera<\/i><\/a>, opens at the West End’s Adelphi Theatre. Set at the Coney Island fairgrounds 10 years after The Phantom disappeared from the Paris Opera House, the musical stars Ramin Karimloo<\/a> and Sierra Boggess<\/a> as The Phantom and Christine.<\/p>\n 2017 <\/b>Sally Field<\/a> and Joe Mantello<\/a> star in a revival of Tennessee Williams<\/a>‘ The Glass Menagerie<\/i><\/a>, opening at the Belasco Theatre. This is Field’s second time playing Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield, having previously played the role in a 2004 production at the Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n More of Today’s Birthdays:<\/b> Will Geer 1902. Taina Elg<\/a> 1930. Joyce Van Patten<\/a> 1934. Raul Julia<\/a> 1940. Beau Bridges<\/a> 1941. Lonny Price<\/a> 1959.<\/p>\n Watch highlights from the 2010 West End production of Love Never Dies, <\/i>starring Sierra Boggess and Ramin Karimloo:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n