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Vaudevillian and musical theatre star Eddie Foy appears at the Lexington Opera House, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
Comic vocalist George Lashwood (aka The Beau Brummel Of The Halls) and popular singer Mary Desmond play in the Palace Theatre of Varieties, Hull, UK.
Lew Dockstader's Minstrels are playing at The Victoria Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
The musical play The Time, The Place And The Girl is presented at The Princess Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA.
The musical revue Morris Gest's Midnight Whirl, with music by George Gershwin, opens at The Century Grove Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 68 performances.Oh! Baby, billed as 'Mike Sacks and a drove of dancing darlings in the musical revue deluxe', plays at The Crawford Theatre, El Paso, Texas, USA.
Mitzi is starring in the musical comedy hit Lady Billy at The
Liberty Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 188
performances.
The silent movie Clarence, based on a Booth Tarkington stage play about a 'mysterious hero who jazzes the flappers' hearts away with his moanin' saxophone', has its premiere in New York City, USA. The film stars Wallace Reid.
The 4,000 seat The Fox Theatre, Brooklyn, New York City, USA, opens for its first show, featuring George Jessel [aka Georgie Jessel] with Charles Previn conducting The Fox Theatre Grand Orchestra in a thunderous rendition of Wagner's Tannhauser Overture. Other entertainment includes The 16 'Fox-Tillerettes' dancing a tarantella. Generally known as The Brooklyn Fox, it will become one of the best-loved entertainment venues in the city, offering top flight musical entertainment through until 1970.
During a run of 509 performances, the stage musical, The New Moon, starring Evelyn Herbert and Robert Halliday, with music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, plays at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Singing trio The Gumm Sisters play the fourth of seven nights in 'The Big Stage Show' at the Million Dollar Theatre, Los Angeles, California, USA. One of the sisters, Frances Gumm, will find stardom after a name change to Judy Garland.
Variety magazine in the USA reports that, "John McCormack having retired and given up singing forever and a day, duly appeared on the Bing Crosby Kraft Music Hall hour and sang a couple of numbers. Numbers weren't important nor, for that matter, the fact that he'd come out of retirement at his very first moment after commencing it. What counted was that the Irishman was in rare good humour and had himself a royal good time all through the programme, clowning with Crosby, Bob Burns (sic) and Lionel Stander. It was good fun throughout and if McCormack really means it about quitting the concert stage but wants to shift to some other branch of the biz he might consider being an MC. He could get away with it."
The first Stage Door Canteen is opened in New York City, USA, as a nightspot where GIs can enjoy premium entertainment free of charge. Run by a volunteer organization called the American Theatre Wing, the canteen offers servicemen nights of dancing, entertainment, food and nonalcoholic drinks, and even opportunities to hobnob with celebrities. By November 1945, a chain of Stage Door Canteens will have entertained and fed 11 million Allied servicemen in eight US cities and London and Paris. Entertainers including Duke Ellington and Marlene Dietrich will provide music for dancing.
The stage musical My Darlin' Aida, a modern re-make of of the opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, plays at Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 89 performances.
Bluegrass star Bill Monroe is seriously injured in a late night car crash when a drunk driver hits the car in which he is travelling on Highway 31-W near White House, north of Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He will spend ninety days in a body cast, recuperating from nineteen broken bones.
While on leave from the US Army in Paris, France, Elvis Presley visits The Lido and does an impromptu stage performance.
A new musical, I Can Get It For You Wholesale opens at The Shubert Theatre, New York City, USA, where it will run for 300 performances. Star of the production is Barbra Streisand.
The Red Garland Trio record St James Infirmary Blues, I Ain't Got Nobody, My Blue Heaven and other tracks at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA, for Prestige Records.
Peter Robinson is born in Kingston, Jamaica. He will grow up to befriend Boy George, change his name to Marilyn and enjoy a 1983 UK hit with Calling Your Name.
Bob Dylan makes a guest appearance during a Joan Baez concert as part of Camden Music Fair, Camden, New Jersey, USA.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience hit the headlines when Jimi sets fire to his guitar on the first night of a Walker Brothers package tour at The Astoria, Finsbury Park, London, England, UK, Europe. Also on the bill are Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck.
At Otto's Grotto in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Jimi Hendrix jams with Good Earth. The audience includes Leonard Nimoy (Mr Spock in Star Trek).When Eric Burdon and The Blues Image play at The Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, they are joined onstage by Jim Morrison, vocalist of The Doors.
Chuck Berry plays the sixth of eight nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA, supported by Five-Man Electrical Theatre.
The Grateful Dead play the second of two nights at The Easttown Theatre, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
San Francisco hippy pioneers The Grateful Dead play the last of three nights at the Fox Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
On the fifth and final leg of their Worldwide Texas tour, ZZ Top play at The Hirsch Memorial Coliseum, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, supported by Jay Boy Adams. The tour features an onstage menagerie of typically Texan live animals such as a longhorn steer, a black buffalo, two vultures and two rattlesnakes. Various Texan plants, such as yucca, agave and cacti, also decorate the stage, which has been built in the shape of Texas.
For the second time in a week, Bob Dylan makes a guest appearance at a Grateful Dead concert, this time in RFK Stadium, Washington D.C., USA.
Bob Dylan, George Harrison and John Fogerty, former leader of Creedence Clearwater Revival, put in a guest appearance at a Taj Mahal gig in the Palomino Club, Hollywood, California, USA.On his Bad World Tour, Michael Jackson plays at Mungersdorfer Stadium, Cologne, Germany, to an audience of 70,000.
On his Bad
World Tour, Michael Jackson plays the first of five nights in this month at The Sports Arena,, Los Angeles, California.
When Elton John plays the third of six nights at the Omnisport, Bercy, Paris, France, Europe, he collapses from exhaustion on stage, but is soon revived and completes the show.The Beach Boys and Chicago play at Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, Michigan, USA.
While The Who are playing at Tacoma Dome, Washington, USA, Pete Townshend impales his hand on the tremolo arm of his guitar. To demonstrate to the audience what has happened, he lifts the guitar up by the offending tremolo arm while it is still stuck through his hand.
Oasis fan Bryn Daniel Thorpe is killed when a Peugot car hits him as he walks home along the M61 motorway in Manchester, UK, following a gig by the band at the city's Reebok stadium.
Good Vibrations, a stage musical based on the songs of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, closes after having run for 94 performances at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Jay-Z and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have a breakfast meeting at Gracie Mansion in New York City, USA, to discuss the Atlantic Yards stadium development.
In an interview with The Times Of London, Lady Gaga reveals that
she has been tested for the auto-immune disease lupus, which is known to exist in her family. There has been speculation about her health since she collapsed on stage at a live concert.
Gov't Mule play the first of two nights at The Beacon Theatre, New York City, USA.
A memorial concert for John Barry, composer of scores for eleven James Bond films, not to mention Midnight Cowboy, Dances With Wolves and many others, is held at The Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, with performances by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Dame Shirley Bassey, Rumer, David Arnold, Wynne Evans, Derek Watkins [trumpeter] and others. Sir George Martin, Michael Parkinson, Don Black, Timothy Dalton and others also contribute to the celebration.
On tour in support of their fourth LP Heart Of Nowhere, Noah And The Whale play the last show of their Month Of Sundays Residency at The Palace Theatre, London, UK.
Robbie Williams begins his Take The Crown Stadium Tour, at The Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland, Europe, supported by Olly Murs.
During an Enrique Iglesias concert at Plaza Monumental de Playas, Tijuana, Mexico, North America, the singer's hand is injured when he tries to fend off a flying drone camera. He requires treatement to stop the bleeding offstage, but returns to perform for another thirty minutes in his blood-spattered t-shirt.
A portion of the ceiling of famed nightclub First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, collapses injuring three fans during a show by Canadian band Theory Of A Deadman.
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Justin Bieber unexpectedly joins covers band Bonafide on drums during their show at The Venue, Angola, Indiana, USA.
When Chris Stapleton, Morgane Stapleton and Anderson East play at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, California, USA, they are unexpectedly joined by Miranda Lambert for their performance of My Girl.1900 |
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