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'Something Rotten!' opens on Broadway at the St. James Theatre

Something Rotten! is an original musical comedy with a book by John O'Farrell and Karey Kirkpatrick and music and lyrics by Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick. Something Rotten! opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, and starring Brian d'Arcy James, Christian Borle and John Cariani.

The Broadway premiere of 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch'

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask and a book by John Cameron Mitchell. The musical follows Hedwig Robinson, a transgender East German singer of a fictional rock and roll band. The show saw its first Broadway incarnation when it opened at the Belasco Theatre, starring Neil Patrick Harris.

'Gone Girl' by Gillian Flynn is published

Gone Girl is a thriller novel by the writer Gillian Flynn. It was published by Crown Publishing Group. The novel soon made the New York Times Best Seller list. The novel's suspense comes from the main character, Nick Dunne, and whether he is involved in the disappearance of his wife.

Broadway revival of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' opens

A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams which dramatises the life of Blanche DuBois. In 2012, Blair Underwood, Nicole Ari Parker, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Wood Harris starred in a multiracial adaptation at the Broadhurst Theatre.

'Sondheim on Sondheim' opens at Studio 54

Sondheim on Sondheim is a musical revue consisting of music and lyrics written by Stephen Sondheim for his many shows. It is conceived and directed by James Lapine. The original Broadway cast featured Barbara Cook, Vanessa L. Williams, Leslie Kritzer, Erin Mackey, Tom Wopat, Norm Lewis, Euan Morton and Matthew Scott.

'Gone with the Wind' opens at the West End's New London Theatre

Gone with the Wind is a musical based on the Margaret Mitchell's novel of the same name and its 1939 film adaptation. It officially opened at the New London Theatre in London's West End, directed by Sir Trevor Nunn. Darius Danesh and Jill Paice starred as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara respectively.

'Assassins' premieres on Broadway

Assassins is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by John Weidman, based on an idea by Charles Gilbert, Jr. The Broadway production, directed by Joe Mantello, with musical staging by Jonathan Butterell, Neil Patrick Harris starred in the roles of The Balladeer and Lee Harvey Oswald, with Marc Kudisch as The Proprietor.

Peter Townshend's musical 'Tommy' officially opens on Broadway

The Who's Tommy is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Pete Townshend and book by Townshend and Des McAnuff, based on The Who's rock opera Tommy. The Broadway theatre debut was at the St. James Theatre. The show then officially closed after 899 performances.

Novelist Vladimir Nabokov is born

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-American novelist, translator, and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose. Nabokov was an expert lepidopterist and composer of chess problems.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes his ballet 'Swan Lake'

Swan Lake Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular of all ballets. The scenario, initially in two acts, was fashioned from Russian and/or German folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse.

Strauss' waltz 'Wiener Blut' premieres

Wiener Blut Op. 354 is a waltz by Johann Strauss II first performed by the composer in April. The new dedication waltz was to celebrate the wedding of the Emperor Franz Joseph I's daughter Archduchess Gisela Louise Maria and Prince Leopold of Bavaria. However, the waltz was also chiefly noted by Strauss' biographers as the début of Strauss with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

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