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jmslsu01
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From:
northern VA | posted: 6/5/2005 at 10:13:59 AM ET
Here's a fun little feature I found while browsing the Internet Broadway Database. You can select the month and date, and it will pull up a list of shows that opened on that date.
Show Openings search
Here's my list (Sept 16):
The Widow Jones 09/16/1895
The Dairy Farm 09/16/1899
The Only Way 09/16/1899
Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines 09/16/1901
Up York State 09/16/1901
Aunt Jeannie 09/16/1902
The Man from Blankley's 09/16/1903
The Darling of the Gods 09/16/1903
The Spell 09/16/1907
Virginius 09/16/1907
Modern Marriage 09/16/1911
Honest Jim Blunt 09/16/1912
Fanny's First Play 09/16/1912
He Comes Up Smiling 09/16/1914
An Ideal Husband 09/16/1918
Humpty Dumpty 09/16/1918
The Girl Behind the Gun 09/16/1918
Izzy 09/16/1924
The Greenwich Village Follies [1924] 09/16/1924
The Vortex 09/16/1925
No, No, Nanette 09/16/1925
Broadway 09/16/1926
The Seagull 09/16/1929
A Strong Man's House 09/16/1929
Hawk Island 09/16/1929
Philadelphia 09/16/1929
Symphony in Two Flats 09/16/1930
Night of January 16 09/16/1935
Cuckoos on the Hearth 09/16/1941
Show Time 09/16/1942
Bright Lights of 1944 09/16/1943
Heaven on Earth 09/16/1948
Dancers of Bali 09/16/1952
Pictures in the Hallway 09/16/1956
The Committee. 09/16/1964
Debbie 09/16/1976
Not too many musicals, but some really good--classic--plays.
Your turn.
Jenn
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Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 6/5/2005 at 10:33:54 AM ET
Wow. Waiting for Godot opened the day I was born. I never knew that.
Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines? Sorry I missed that one.
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 Sister Rose
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5/4/2004
From:
NYC | posted: 6/5/2005 at 1:02:07 PM ET
This is fun. Not too many on my bday though:
Shows which opened on July 02:
George White's Scandals [1928] 07/02/1928
Wanted 07/02/1928
Show Girl 07/02/1929
Stars on Ice 07/02/1942
Tartuffe 07/02/1968
Singin' in the Rain 07/02/1985
And Stars on Ice? What the???
"Anyone who stays home is DEAD!"
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jmslsu01
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northern VA | posted: 6/5/2005 at 4:18:23 PM ET
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Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines? Sorry I missed that one.
Not *half* as much as I am. I say it's time for a revival.
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This is fun. Not too many on my bday though
Summers are for summer stock and the Catskills (well, the Hamptons now), dahling.
(She said, sounding like someone from 1930.)
Jenn
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Sister Rose
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Oh, of course, see you in the Hamptons, Jenn Dahling!
"Anyone who stays home is DEAD!"
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 PA Fan
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11/6/2003 | posted: 6/12/2005 at 10:13:24 PM ET
Oh great! One play opened on my b-day ....in 1750!
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Sister Rose
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Wow - you look pretty good for being born in 1750...and we thought Bernadette looks good!
"Anyone who stays home is DEAD!"
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demeter
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From:
PA | posted: 6/15/2005 at 2:26:42 PM ET
Shows which opened on January 26:
The Moth and the Flame 01/26/1893
Unleavened Bread 01/26/1901
The Younger Mrs. Parling 01/26/1904
Twelfth Night 01/26/1910
The Dear Fool 01/26/1914
Marie-Odile 01/26/1915
The Fear Market 01/26/1916
The Stork 01/26/1925
Hell's Bells 01/26/1925
Beyond 01/26/1925
A Weak Woman 01/26/1926
Hedda Gabler 01/26/1926
Magda 01/26/1926
Not Herbert 01/26/1926
Saturday's Children 01/26/1927
Honor Be Damned! 01/26/1927
The Mystery Man 01/26/1927
57 Bowery 01/26/1928
Green Grow the Lilacs 01/26/1931
Camille 01/26/1931
She Means Business 01/26/1931
East of Broadway 01/26/1932
Lady Windermere's Fan 01/26/1932
Shadow and Substance 01/26/1938
Lily of the Valley 01/26/1942
Wallflower 01/26/1944
The Gondoliers 01/26/1948
As You Like It 01/26/1950
The Grand Prize 01/26/1955
Come Live With Me 01/26/1967
Red, White and Maddox 01/26/1969
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window 01/26/1972
Seascape 01/26/1975
A Memory of Two Mondays / 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
- 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
- A Memory of Two Mondays 01/26/1976
Black and Blue 01/26/1989
A Little Hotel on the Side 01/26/1992
I love my birthday.
*Future Broadway Actress*
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demeter
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PA | posted: 6/15/2005 at 2:28:35 PM ET
However none of them are on the year i was born.
*Future Broadway Actress*
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 Carmen
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Boston | posted: 8/5/2005 at 12:02:14 PM ET
OMG! Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical 'CATS' opened on Oct. 7th, 1982!!!!!! I was born in 1984. Sister Rose, was it yours that 'Singin' in the Rain' opened on your B-day? AMAZING! I love that show!!!!!!
~Carmen~
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Jenny
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Nevada | posted: 8/8/2005 at 11:27:04 AM ET
Cool! Thanks!
Miss Helyett 11/03/1891
The Whirlwind 11/03/1911
A Connecticut Yankee 11/03/1927
Margin for Error 11/03/1939
Original Ballet Russe, Colonel de Basil's 11/03/1940
New Opera Co.: Ballet Imperial / The Fair at Sorochinsk
- Ballet Imperial
- The Fair at Sorochinsk 11/03/1942
Outrageous Fortune 11/03/1943
Trial Honeymoon 11/03/1947
This Time Tomorrow 11/03/1947
Set My People Free 11/03/1948
Trial by Jury & H.M.S. Pinafore
- H.M.S. Pinafore
- Trial by Jury 11/03/1952
The Trip to Bountiful 11/03/1953
Quadrille 11/03/1954
The Unsinkable Molly Brown 11/03/1960
Mating Dance 11/03/1965
The President's Daughter 11/03/1970
Kennedy's Children 11/03/1975
And Sweeny Todd will open on my birthday, too!
"Mapping out the sky. What you feel like planning a sky. What you feel when voices that come from the window go until they distance and die. Until there's nothing but sky." Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George
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Jenny
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Nevada | posted: 8/8/2005 at 11:29:23 AM ET
Not many in June or July after the Tony Awards.
"Mapping out the sky. What you feel like planning a sky. What you feel when voices that come from the window go until they distance and die. Until there's nothing but sky." Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George
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futuremamarose87
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5/3/2004 | posted: 8/9/2005 at 3:24:57 PM ET
LAMBCHOP ON BROADWAY opened on my 7th birthday. I wish I was living around here then. I loved Lambchop. hehe.
"It was like being high when you reach those high notes."
~Bernadette Peters
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