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The musical fantasy Broadway To Tokio is playing at The New York Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 88 performances.
Musical comedy The Cadet Girl opens at The Herald Square Theatre, New York City, USA, where it will run for 48 performances. The show is advertised as including a chorus of 100 persons.
The musical comedy Chase's Musical Comedy Stock Company presents a revival of the musical comedy A Trip To Chinatown, at Chases's Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
Klaw And Erlanger's Troubadours present Harry B. Smith's musical comedy The Liberty Belles at The Madison Square Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
The Augustin Daly Musical Company presents "The Chinese-English Musical Comedy" San Toy, at The Columbia Theatre, Washington DC, USA.
Knute Erickson is starring in the musical entertainment Yon Yonson at The Bijou Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.Character singer Lizzie B. Raymond, minstrel act Lew Hawkins, singing and dancing duo Lavender And Tomsom, novelty instrumentalists Mallory Bros And Brooks and banjo and Xylophone Virtuoso Musical Thor are among the performers at The Columbia Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
The Singing Girl! with music by Victor Herbert, plays at The Tivoli Opera House, San Francisco, California, USA.Musical comedy The Show Girl is presented at Wallack's Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 64 performances.
The musical show The Toy-Maker is presented at The Tivoli Opera House, San Francisco, California, USA.The musical show The Toy-Maker is presented at The Tivoli Opera House, San Francisco, California, USA.
The Giffen Musical Comedy Company is presenting The Girl From Paris (aka The Gay Parisienne) at the Lafayette Square Opera House, Washington DC, USA.The musical comedy Little Johnny Jones, opens at the Liberty Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA. Written by Vaudeville songwriter George M. Cohan, it will change the face of American musical theatre.
The Belle Of New York, billed as 'The Greatest Musical Comedy Hit In Years', is playing at The Princess Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
Having run for 144 performances, Klaw And Erlanger's 'mirthful musical comedy masterpiece' The Little Cafe closes at The New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City, USA.
Jack Fascinato is born in Bevier, Missouri, USA. He will find success as a musical arranger, composer, bandleader and recording artist.
The musical revue Ned Wayburn's Town Topics opens at The Century Music Hall, New York City, USA.The musical review Chamberlain Brown's Scrap Book plays the third of eight days at The Ambassador Theatre, 219 West 49th Street, New York City, USA. The show features songs by Fats Waller, Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf and others.
The musical play Lulu Belle, produced by David Belasco, opens at The Belasco Theatre, New York City, USA, where it will run for 461 performances. In 1948 it will be re-made as a movie with songs including Lulu Belle, I'd Be Lost Without You, Sweetie Pie, Ace In the Hole, Sweetheart of the Blues and I Can't Tell Why I Love You.
The musical revue Artists And Models Of 1927, is playing at The Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 151 performances.
The musical comedy Great Day closes at the Cosmopolitan Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, after just 36 performances. It introduces the evergreen song More Than You Know written by Vincent Youmans, with lyrics by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu.
The stage musical Wake Up And
Dream opens at the Selwyn
Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 136
performances. The show features songs by Cole Porter, including What
Is This Thing Called Love?.
The musical comedy Sweet Adeline, with music by Jerome Kern, is playing at Hammerstein's Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 234 performances.
The musical comedy Ballyhoo Of 1930 is presented at Hammerstein's Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 68 performances.
The musical comedy Sweet Adeline, with music by Jerome Kern, is playing at Hammerstein's Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 234 performances.
The musical comedy Hold On To Your Hats, starring Al Jolson, is playing at The Shubert Theatre, Broadway, New York City, during a run of 158 performances.
The musical revue Meet The People is playing at The Grand Opera House, Chicago, Illinois, USA.The stage musical Carmen Jones, with music by Georges Bizet and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, opens at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 503 performances.
Gay's The Word, a musical comedy composed by Ivor Novello and Alan Melville, is playing at The Saville Theatre, London, UK, during a run of 504 performances. The show features songs including Vitality, It's Bound To Be Right On The Night, Sweet Thames, On Such A Night As This, Bees Are Buzzin' and Finder Please Return.
The MGM musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel, is released to cinemas in Austria, Europe. Ten songs in the film are composed by Irving Berlin.
On The Bing Crosby Show, on CBS Radio in the USA, Bing's guest is Judy Garland. She sings Mean To Me and When You're Smiling as solo numbers, plus When You Wore a Tulip and Sound Off for Chesterfield as duets with Bing. Musical accompaniment is by John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra.The musical Paint Your Wagon, with songs by Lerner and Loewe, closes at The Shubert Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, after a run of 289 performances.
The movie musical An American In Paris, starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant and Charles Guetary, opens at cinemas in Portugal, Europe.
Musical humourist Gerard Hoffnung gives a performance at The Oxford Union, Oxford, UK, which is recorded in co-operation with the BBC and will be released as the LP Hoffnung At The Oxford Union on Decca Records.
The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Inaugural Gala is held at the National Guard Armoury, Washington D.C., USA. The event is hosted, produced and directed by Frank Sinatra. Musical guest stars include Mahalia Jackson, Harry Belafonte, Jimmy Durante, Nat King Cole, and Ella Fitzgerald, with an orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
Judy Garland sings at the TaySachs Dinner honouring Tony Bennett as Man Of The Year in the Waldorf Hotel, New York City, USA.
Barbra Streisand signs a $5m deal with CBS Television to do up to ten musical specials.
Global earnings for EMI's record division for the year ended on this date are stated as $17,379,600, of which 62% was earned by the company's 32 subsidiaries operating outside of the UK.
Judy Garland becomes the first artist to play at the recently-opened Astrodome, Houston, Texas, USA. She is paid $43,000 for the show, at which her opening act is The Supremes.
The musical Hallelujah Baby!, starring Leslie Uggams, opens at The Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run for 293 performances and will win the Tony Award as Best Musical.
Al Martino is playing during a three-week stint at The Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Here's Where I Belong, a new musical produced by Columbia records A+R boss Mitch Miller opens on Broadway in New York City, USA. It will run for just one performance.
Louis Armstrong And The All Stars record Talk To The Animals and other tracks in New York City, USA, for Brunswick Records.
The Rolling Thunder Revue, a traveling cavalcade headed by Bob Dylan and featuring an ever-changing cast of his long-time musical comrades, continues its second leg at the Municipal Auditorium, Austin, Texas, USA.
Lady Gaga pays a backstage visit to the cast of Green Day's musical American Idiot at The St James Theatre, on Broadway in New York City, USA.
Katy Perry and her new boyfriend John Mayer attend a performance of A Christmas Story: The Musical on Broadway in New York City, USA. This marks the first time the pair have appeared in public as a romantically-linked couple.
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