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The Chanel Shopping Center

The Chanel show, led by fashion designer Karel Lagerfeld on Paris fashion week, was created as a giant supermarket. The shelves were stacked with more than a hundred thousand items. The labels of at least five hundred everyday products had been re-coded in Chanelspeak.

'Mamma Mia!' celebrates its 1,000th performance

As of 2018, the show has productions in London's West End, where it is the seventh longest-running show in West End history, as well as various international productions. Its Broadway incarnation closed in 2015 after a 14-year run, making it the ninth longest-running show in Broadway history.

Opening night for 'Metamorphoses'

Metamorphoses is a play by the American playwright and director Mary Zimmerman, adapted from the classic Ovid poem Metamorphoses. The play premiered in 1996 as Six Myths at Northwestern University and later the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago. The play transferred to Broadway in 2002 at the Circle in the Square Theatre.

Revival of 'Annie Get Your Gun' opens on Broadway

This revival starred Bernadette Peters as Annie and Tom Wopat as Frank, and Ron Holgate as Buffalo Bill, with direction by Graciela Daniele, choreographey by Jeff Calhoun, and music arrangements by John McDaniel. Peters won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical and the production won the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical.

'The Goodbye Girl' opens at Broadway's Marquis Theatre

The musical, directed by Michael Kidd and choreographed by Graciela Daniele, opened on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre in 1993 and closed after 188 performances and 23 previews. The opening cast included Bernadette Peters as Paula McFadden and Martin Short as Elliot Garfield, with Carol Woods as Mrs. Crosby and Susann Fletcher as Donna Douglas.

Scotland's iconic Forth Bridge is opened

Forth Bridge is located west of Edinburgh City Centre. Prince of Wales opened the bridge when he drove in the last rivet. It was gold plated and inscribed. Several new railway connections were built that would use the bridge. By the time of opening, it had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world.

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