Monday, September 22, 2014
"This book is the ‘bang for your buck’ event of the year!”
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1921 The Music Box Revue of 1921 is the premiere performance at the new Music Box Theatre, which opened on 45th Street today. This is the first edition of the Revue, itself the first to exhi…
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1896 This day marks Florenz Ziegfeld's debut as a Broadway producer. The Parlor March opens at the Herald Square Theatre, starring Anna Held (his mistress and later wife). Ziegfeld's…
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1886 Birthday of writer/director John Murray Anderson (1886-1954), whose work for revues Ziegfeld Follies, Greenwich Village Follies and John Murray Anderson's Almanac helped launch…
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1904 Julian Eltinge, the famed female impersonator, makes his Broadway debut today in Mr. Wix of Wickham, the unsuccessful musical at the Bijou Theatre. The now legendary Jerome Kern, who wa…
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Part Two of Playbill.com’s spotlight on real-life New York locations featured in Broadway musicals.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]What does it take to write, create or star in a Broadway play? Hard work, talent and luck—all backed up by a good education. You have to supply the first three yourself, but Playbi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]1911 Disraeli, a new drama, opens tonight on Broadway at the Wallack's Theatre. It stars George Arliss as the British prime minister in this play by Louis N. Parker. Arliss' memorabl…
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1879 The Daly Theatre opens at Broadway and Thirtieth Street in New York.
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Applying to college is complicated enough for theatre, dance and music students with writing essays, soliciting recommendations and rehearsing material for auditions.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:16AM[SHARE]1892 Songwriter and producer Earl Carroll (1892-1948) is born today. His best-remembered contribution to the theatre was the eponymous revue The Earl Carroll Vanities, which had nine…
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1889 Robert Benchley, the acclaimed actor, critic, and humorist of the early Twentieth Century, is born today. Benchley will marry Gertrude Darling and make his stage debut in this month in …
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1910 Birthday of Lehman Engel (1910-1982), the Tony-winning Broadway conductor who will found the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. Among the shows he will conduct are original productio…
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1894 Birthday of British playwright J.B. Priestley (1894-1984), author of plays An Inspector Calls, When We Are Married, Laburnum Grove and A Severed Head.
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1866 The Broadway musical is born. The Black Crook opens at Niblo's Garden, a musical extravaganza featuring a melodramatic plot and scantily-dressed ballerinas who serve as chorus g…
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What does it take to write, create or star in an original Broadway play? Hard work, talent and luck—all backed up by a good education. You have to supply the first three yourself, …
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1915 Fanny Brice is reviewed in Variety for her performance at the Palace. Variety says that when she "learns to refrain from starting to disrobe before she is out of sight of the audie…
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1873 Birthday of influential director Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) in Austria-Hungary. He will stage innovative productions of The Eternal Road, Sumurun and A Midsummer Night's Drea…
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1914 A farce about selling soap called It Pays to Advertise, by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter Hackett, opens at the Cohan Theatre. It stars Grant Mitchell and Ruth Shepley.
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1909 Director Elia Kazan is born. Kazan would go on to direct the award-winning plays Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire. His success reached to the silver screen as well. …
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1881 Birthday of B. Iden Payne (1881-1976) a producer and playwright, who, as a professor at the University of Texas, inspired three generations of Broadway artists, including Tommy Tune…
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1895 Actor E. H. Sothern scores a personal triumph in the adventure melodrama The Prisoner of Zenda.
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Survival tips based on years of watching freshmen stumble–and succeed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Survival tips based on years of watching freshmen stumble–and succeed.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Survival tips based on years of watching freshmen stumble–and succeed.
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Student-made video shares hard-earned advice from outgoing freshmen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PM[SHARE]Student-made video shares hard-earned advice from outgoing freshmen.
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Where the principals of the Off-Broadway revival of King Lear pursued their college studies.
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A visitor's guide to real New York places mentioned in Broadway musicals.
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The Los Angeles-based scholarship program The Point Foundation helps members of the LGBTQ community pay for college–and get the emotional support they need to thrive there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:50PM[SHARE]The Los Angeles-based scholarship program The Point Foundation helps members of the LGBTQ community pay for college–and get the emotional support they need to thrive there.
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