On this day in 1944 the Leonard Bernstein-Betty Comden-Adolph Green musical On the Town premiered on Broadway

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Happy 57th birthday tenor Piotr Beczala

Birthday anniversaries of tenor Miguel Fleta (1893)
composer Roger Sessions (1896)
baritone Paolo Silveri (1913)
and soprano Rita Orlandi Malaspina (1937)