on this day
Born on this day in 1906 actress, singer, dancer and Résistance operative Josephine Baker.
Happy 72nd birthday actress and singer Joanna Gleason.
Happy 51st birthday to Broadway and soundtrack diva Idina Menzel.
Born on this day in 1894 actress and singer Beatrice Lillie.
On this day in 1940 Louisiana Purchase (a musical comedy with the unlikely subject matter of political corruption under the administration of Governor Huey Long) opened at the Imperial Theatre, to run 444 performances.
Born on this day in 1911 actor and bon vivant Vincent Price.
Born on this day singer and songwriter Peggy Lee.
Happy 79th birthday to songstress and actress Leslie Uggams.
On this day in 1966 Jerry Herman‘s Mame opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, to run 1,508 performances.
Happy birthday Dame Joan Collins, who is 89 years young today.
Happy 80th birthday to actress, photographer and activist Barbara Parkins.
On this day in 1959, Ethel Merman bellowed “Sing out, Louise!” into a Broadway theater for the first of 702 times, as the world’s greatest musical (per La Cieca) sprang forth.