…and soprano Jarmila Novotná

On this day in 1982 the Larry Grossman-Betty Comden- Adolph Green musical A Doll’s Life opened on Broadway and closed after 5 performances

Birthday anniversaries of librettists Carlos Fernández Shaw (1865) and Montagu Slater (1902), and tenors Sándor Kónya (1923) and Spas Wenkoff (1928)

Happy 72nd birthdays to soprano Kathryn Montgomery-Meissner and baritone/actor William Shimell