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Musical comedy The Rounders is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 36 performances.
Boston-born popular singer Andrew Mack is appearing in "His Greatest Success" Tom Moore, at The Herald Square Theatre, New York City, USA. The newspaper ad for the show urges "Hear Mack's sweet songs".
The musical comedy 
Sons Of Ham, a musical entertainment starring African-American song and dance duo Bert Williams And George Walker, is playing at The Grand Opera House, New York City, USA. A favourable review in The New York Times makes no mention of Williams And Walker's role in the show.
The musical comedy Miss Simplicity, featuring Helen Lord, is playing at The Casino Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 56 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.
The Original Eastern Burgomaster Players perform The Explorers at The Century Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The show is billed as "This season's musical sensation", featuring "All of the original girlie choristers".
The musical The Silver Slipper, starring Sam Bernard, Cyril Scott, Mai De Villiers and Edna Wallace-Hopper is playing during its sixth week at The Broad way Theatre, Broadway New York City, USA.
Billed as "The great Chinese-English musical play", San Toy is presented at Greene's Opera House, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.The musical comedy Tonight's The Night, with songs by Paul Rubens, is playing at The Shubert Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 112 performances.
Alexander Van Vliet Feldman is born in New York City, USA. He will become a respected musical arranger and bandleader under the name Van Alexander. His arrangement of A-Tisket A-Tasket, for example, will provide Ella Fitzgerald with one of her biggest hits.
The Ziegfeld Follies of 1915, aka The Blue Follies, is playing at The New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 104 performances.
The musical comedy Theodore And Co is presented at The Gaiety Theatre, London, UK, during a run of 503 performances.Chu Chin Chow, billed as 'a musical extravaganza of the Orient', is being presented at The Poli Theatre, Washington, CD, USA. According to the newspaper ads, with a company of 300 people, it is 'positively the biggest and most expensive show ever brought to Washington.'
The "farcical musical comedy" The Only Girl is playing at The Orpheum, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Stepping Stones, a musical comedy version of Little Red Riding Hood, with music byJerome Kern, is playing at The Globe Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 281 performances.
The Rodgers And Hart musical Betsy opens at
the New
Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway, New York
City, USA, where it will run for 39 performances. Although mostly a
Rodgers And Hart show Betsy also includes the Irving Berlin standard Blue
Skies.
Brazeal Dennard is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He will become a singer, educator, choral director, and musical arranger - a significant contributor in the preservation and revitalization of the spiritual musical form.
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 play Green
Grow The Lilacs, which features several folk songs performed by
future singing cowboy Tex Ritter, plays the third of six days at The National Theatre, Washington DC, USA. The play will subsequently provide the plot for the Rodgers
and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma.
The musical comedy Of Thee I Sing, with songs by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, opens at The Music Box Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 441 performances.
The musical revue The Show Is On opens at The Winter Garden, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 236 performances. The show features songs by Hoagy Carmichael, Arthur Schwartz, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Herman Hupfeld, Will Irwin and Richard Rodgers.
The musical comedy movie Mad About Music, starring Deanna Durbin, opens at cinemas in Sweden, Europe.
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 revue, Keep Off The Grass, with music by James McHugh and lyrics by Al Dubin and Howard Dietz, closes at The Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA. after 44 performances, despite a cast which includes Jimmy Durante, Larry Adler, Jackie Gleason, Ray Bolger and Jane Froman.
The first release of a reel of 'soundies' - short
promotional films of musical performances - is made to jukebox
owners in the USA, by the Soundies Distributing Corporation of
America. The precursors of the pop video were manufactured
specifically for use in the Mills Novelty Company presentation mechanism called the Mills
Panoram.
After having run for 418 performances, a revival of the Jerome Kern-composed musical Show Boat closes at The Ziegfeld Theatre, New York City, USA.
The Hollywood musical Annie Get Your Gun, starring Betty Hutton and Howard Keel, is released to cinemas in Australia.
The Broadway smash musical South Pacific opens at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, UK, where it will run for 802 performances. This production stars Mary Martin and Wilbur Evans, and also feature Larry Hagman.Garry Marshall Shider is born in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. He will find success as guitarist and musical arranger Garry Shider (also spelled Gary Shider), the right hand man to George Clinton on numerous P-Funk, Parliament and Funkadelic projects.
Marlene Dietrich plays the last of eight nights at The Shubert Theater, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Her musical director on these shows is Burt Bacharach.
Eden Kane, The Brook Brothers, The Avons, Jimmy Justice, Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers, Tommy Sanderson And The Sandmen, Arthur Greenslade And The Gee-Men and The Monty Sunshine Band with Beryl Bryden are the live musical guests on the BBC Light Programme radio show Saturday Club in London, England, UK, Europe.
In London, England, UK, Europe, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Frank Ifield and Judy Garland pre-record appearances for tv's Ed Sullivan Show in the USA.With his novelty hit song Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah rising up the Billboard Singles charts in the USA, comedian Allan Sherman stands in for host Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show on tv in the USA.
Wayne Newton is the musical guest on tonight's edition of The Jackie Gleason Show on CBS-tv in the USA.
Liza Minnelli and The Dillards are musical guests on The Judy Garland Show on CBS-tv in the USA.
Paul Anka plays the second night of a one-week run in the starring role of the musical play What Makes Sammy Run at the 54th Street Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
The stage musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Burton Lane, opens at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, USA, where it will run for 280 performances.
A new musical, Love And Let Love, opens at Sheridan Square Playhouse, off-Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run for just fourteen performances.
The Everly Brothers are the musical guests on tv show The Kraft Music Hall in the USA. They perform the John D. Loudermilk composition It's My Time.
Judy Garland is spending time with friends during a short break in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Sugar Babies - The Burlesque Musical, starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney, opens at The Mark Hellinger Theatre, Broadway, New York City, where it will run for 1208 performances.
The Heartbreakers (Johnny Thunders, Walter Lure, Billy Rath and Jerry Nolan) play together for the first time in six years in Nottingham, England, UK, Europe. (This New York City-based group should not be confused with Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers)
The stage show, Lennon - The Musical, opens at The Broadhurst Theater on Broadway in New York City, USA. Based on the post-Beatles life of John Lennon, the show will close after just six weeks.It is formally announced that the Universal Music Group has donated around 200,000 metal, glass and lacquer master discs from the period 1926 to 1948 to a Library of Congress site in Culpeper, Virginia, USA. The recordings, from Universal's vaults, include material by Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, The Mills Brothers, Fred Waring, Guy Lombardo, The Andrews Sisters, Ernest Tubb, Bill Monroe and many others.
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