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1906 <\/b>Britain’s first actor-MP, A.E.W. Mason, delivers his first speech. The theatre community sees this as a victory, hoping it will have an advocate in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n
1947<\/b> Hoping to keep their American Repertory Theatre subscription season alive, Eva Le Gallienne<\/a>, Margaret Webster<\/a>, and Cheryl Crawford<\/a> revive Alice in Wonderland<\/i><\/a>. It has an extended run of 100 performances.<\/p>\n 1956<\/b> London’s Phoenix Theatre hosts The Power and the Glory<\/i>. It is the second production of the Peter Brook<\/a>-staged, Paul Scofield<\/a>-starred season. There are 68 performances of Denis Cannan<\/a>‘s adaptation of the Graham Greene<\/a> story.<\/p>\n 1962<\/b> A Thousand Clowns<\/i><\/a> and Jason Robards<\/a> make for a run of 428 performances of the Herb Gardner<\/a> comedy. Robards plays a nonconformist caring for his nephew and fighting the Welfare Department.<\/p>\n 1998<\/b> Quentin Tarantino<\/a> and Marisa Tomei<\/a> open a Broadway revival of the 1966 thriller Wait Until Dark<\/i><\/a> by Frederick Knott<\/a>. Tarantino, director\/actor of cult classics Reservoir Dogs<\/i> and Pulp Fiction<\/i>, plays the psychotic stalker who preys on a blind woman, played by Tomei (Oscar winner for My Cousin Vinny<\/i>). Playwright Knott made revisions for the production at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. <\/p>\n 2001<\/b> A long-awaiting Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim<\/a> and James Goldman<\/a>‘s musical Follies<\/i><\/a> brings on those beautiful girls at the Belasco Theatre\u2014but runs into critical static, despite the presence of a cast that includes Blythe Danner<\/a>, Treat Williams<\/a>, Gregory Harrison<\/a>, Marge Champion<\/a>, and Joan Roberts<\/a> (the original Laurey in Oklahoma!<\/i><\/a>).<\/p>\n 2004<\/b> Leonard Reed, a tap dancer credited with co-creating the “Shim Sham Shimmy” dance routine, dies in California at age 97.<\/p>\n 2007<\/b> Alain Boublil<\/a> and Claude-Michel Schonberg<\/a>‘s windswept romantic epic The Pirate Queen<\/i><\/a> opens on Broadway at the Hilton Theatre. Stephanie J. Block<\/a> stars as Grace O’Malley, opposite Hadley Fraser<\/a> as Tiernan. The production lasts only 85 performances.<\/p>\n 2012<\/b> The first Broadway revival of Tim Rice<\/a> and Andrew Lloyd Webber<\/a>‘s Evita<\/i><\/a> opens at the Marquis Theatre. The cast is headed by Ricky Martin<\/a> as Che, Elena Roger<\/a> as Eva Per\u00f3n and Michael Cerveris<\/a> as Juan Per\u00f3n. The production closes after 337 performances, when the producers decide not to recast the three lead roles at the end of the original actors’ contracts.<\/p>\n 2017 <\/b>Kevin Kline<\/a> returns to Broadway after a ten-year absence to star in a revival of No\u00ebl Coward<\/a>‘s Present Laughter<\/i><\/a>, opening at the St. James Theatre. Kline’s performance as Garry Essendine, a self-obsessed actor in the midst of a mid-life crisis, wins him his third Tony Award.<\/p>\n Today’s Birthdays:<\/b> Spencer Tracy<\/a> 1900. Melvyn Douglas<\/a> 1901. Bette Davis<\/a> 1908. Goddard Lieberson<\/a> 1911. Gregory Peck<\/a> 1916. Christopher Hewett<\/a> 1922. Nigel Hawthorne<\/a> 1929. Frank Gorshin<\/a> 1933. Michael Moriarty<\/a> 1941.<\/p>\n Watch highlights from the 2012 Broadway revival of Evita<\/i>:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n