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Musical comedy The Cadet Girl is playing at The Herald Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 48 performances. The show is advertised as including a chorus of 100 persons.
Klaw And Erlanger's Troubadours are appearing in The Liberty Belles at The Madison Square Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
Musical comedy The Little Duchess, with music and lyrics by Harry B. Smith and Reginald De Koven, is playing at The Casino Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 136 performances.
Musical comedy The Little Duchess, with music and lyrics by Harry B. Smith and Reginald De Koven, is playing at The Casino Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 136 performances. The show is advertised as "The greatest musical success ever offered in New York." It is also claimed to have "The handsomest chorus in existence".
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 musical extravaganza The Sleeping Beauty And The Beast is playing at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 241 performances.
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The musical comedy Foxy Grandpa, based on a popular newspaper cartoon strip, is playing at Haverley's 14th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 125 performances.The musical comedy Foxy Grandpa, based on a popular newspaper cartoon strip, is playing at Haverley's 14th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 125 performances.Musical Comedy The Slim Princess is presented at The Globe Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 104 performances.
The "musical comedy revue" Hands Up opens at The 44th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, with Maurice And Florence Wilton, Ralph Herz, Irene Franklin, Burton Green and "150 Pretty Girls".
The 3-act musical comedy The Girl Who Smiles is presented at The Longacre Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.The musical revue Around The Map, billed as "A Musical Globe Trot" is presented at The New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 104 performances.
A revival of the popular play In Old Kentucky, with "its original and genuine Pickaninny Band" is playing at The Lexington Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
The musical revue Frivolities of 1920 is presented at The 44th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 61 performances.
The musical revue Frivolities of 1920 is presented at The 44th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 61 performances.
The musical revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1924 is presented at The New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 295 performances.
The musical revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1924 is presented at The New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 295 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 revue Calling All Stars closes at The Hollywood Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, after a run of 36 performances.
The musical comedy Hellzapoppin', starring Olsen and Johnson is performed at The 46th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a total run of 1404 performances at three different theatres.The musical comedy Hellzapoppin', starring Olsen and Johnson is performed at The 46th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a total run of 1404 performances at three different theatres.
The musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun, by Irving Berlin, is presented during a run of 1,147 performances at The Imperial Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.Gillian Scalici is born in New York City, USA. She will find success as a singer and actor performing in several New York Broadway musicals during the 70s.
The musical Guys And Dolls is playing at The Shubert Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The original cast album of the hit Broadway musical Wonderful Town is released by Decca Records in the USA.The Modern Jazz Quartet records I'll Remember April, All Of You, and other material for Prestige Records at Van Gelder Studios, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA.
American music trade publication Billboard reports that doo-wop/r'n'b combo Sonny Til and the Orioles have been signed by Vee-Jay Records, who "will push the boys as a pop act."
A West End, London, UK, production of the hit Broadway musical The Bells Are Ringing opens at The Coliseum, where it will run for 292 performances. The cast includes Janet Blair as Ella Peterson, George Gaynes as Jeff Moss, Jean St. Clair as Sue Summers, Eddie Molloy as Sandor, and Allyn McLerie as Gwynne Smith.
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Judy Garland and her daughter Liza Minnelli, go to see the Broadway show The Unsinkable Molly Brown, starring Tammy Grimes and Harve Presnell, in New York City, USA. They are photographed leaving the theatre with an unidentified man.Elvis Presley celebrates his twenty seventh birthday at The Sahara Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, with a cake supplied by Milton Prell, the hotel's owner and a friend of Presley's manager Colonel Parker.
George Harrison, guitarist of The Beatles, rejoins the rest of the group in Hamburg, Germany, Europe, where they are shortly to start a residency at The Star Club.
Country singer Jimmy Dean spends the second of two days at Columbia Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, recording tracks for his album Portrait Of Jimmy Dean. On this day, with producer Don Law, he records Cajun Joe and other tracks. Musicians playing on the session are Grady Martin, Harold Bradley and Ray Edenton on guitars, Joe Zinkan on bass, Floyd Cramer on piano, Bill Pursell on organ, Charlie McCoy on harmonica and Buddy Harman on drums.
Mary Wells performs
You Beat Me To
The Punch on daily tv pop show AmericanBandstand, recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Frank Sinatra records I Won't Dance, Nice Work If You Can Get It and other tracks in Los Angeles, California, USA, for Reprise Records.
Thomas Lee Bass is born in Athens, Greece, Europe. He will find fame as Tommy Lee, drummer of Motley Crue, and occasional porn star.
Vocalist Nancy Harrow records Song For The Dreamer, Why Are You Blue? And other tracks for Atlantic Records in New York City, USA.
Brook Benton plays the thirteenth of fourteen nights at The 40 Thieves Club, Bermuda.
Jazz saxophonist Bill Barron records the Leonard Bernstein/Steven Sondheim compositions Cool, Somewhere and I Feel Pretty, in Gotham Studios, New York City for Dauntless Records.Jackie Trent, Tony Hatch and Karl Denver play the fourth night of a week at The Broad way, Manchester, England, UK, Europe.
Oasis begin recording Definitely Maybe, their debut album, at Monnow Valley Studios, Rockfield, near Monmouth, Wales.
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