* Photos from the Shanghai exhibition opening

* Photos of the Windmill Girls on stage

* Photos of Gray's Inn Hall – the hall where the play was once performed

Hansen will engage in his first workout at Miami Stadium prior to the opening tomorrow night of a two-game weekend series with the New York Yankees.

The Living Room has another scoop: Jane Russell will make one of her rare night club singing appearances there, opening Jan. 22.

So the audience last night was all ears and eyes just after Act 2, got a rousing opening chorus, `` Where's Charley??

On opening night ( 10 December 1896 ), with traditionalists and the avant-garde in the audience, King Ubu ( played by Firmin Gémier ) stepped forward and intoned the opening word, " Merdre!

At the time, only the dress rehearsal and opening night performance were held, and the play was not revived until after Jarry's death.

Loewe retired to Palm Springs, California while Lerner went through a series of musicals, some successful, some not, with such composers as André Previn ( Coco ), John Barry ( Lolita, My Love ), Leonard Bernstein ( 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ), Burton Lane ( Carmelina ) and Charles Strouse ( Dance a Little Closer, based on the film, Idiot's Delight, nicknamed Close A Little Faster by Broadway wags because it closed on opening night ).

He gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice as long as it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long and poorly delivered.

This version created quite a buzz and was well-received on opening night.

He coined several phrases that would become clichés, especially " the great unwashed ", " pursuit of the almighty dollar ", " the pen is mightier than the sword ", as well as the famous opening line " It was a dark and stormy night ".

The opening was popularized by the Peanuts comic strip, in which Snoopy's sessions on the typewriter usually began with It was a dark and stormy night.

On opening night, he experienced stage fright and stumbled over his line.

Peter O ' Toole and Frances Tomelty took the leads in a production ( by Bryan Forbes ) that was publicly disowned by Timothy West, artistic director of the theatre, before opening night, despite being a sellout because of its notoriety.

The 2009 – 10 season season opened with a record of 83 international players on the opening night rosters, tying the record set in the 2006 – 07 season.

That same night, The Clash debuted, opening for the Sex Pistols in Sheffield.

The following night, The Damned played their first show, as a Pistols opening act in London.

As the opening attack of the British Operation Crossbow, the Operation Hydra air-raid attacked the HVP's " Sleeping & Living Quarters " ( to specifically target scientists ), then the " Factory Workshops ", and finally the " Experimental Station " on the night of August 17 / 18, 1943.

Before the success of the midnight screenings, the film was withdrawn from its eight opening cities due to very small audiences, and its planned New York opening ( on Halloween night ) was cancelled.

" On opening night, Orbison opted to go onstage first although he was the more established act.

Crow performed at the opening night of the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo, despite animal welfare experts urging her not to on account of alleged animal cruelty at the event.

Unsure of his material, on the opening night he improvised a great deal, treating the audience as part of the plot almost, and he continued in this manner for the rest of the run, and on tour as ' Son of Oblomov '.

The successful opening night marked the climax of Wilde's career but also heralded his downfall.

Yeats's play Cathleen Ní Houlihan and Lady Gregory's Spreading the News were featured on the opening night.

In New York, Laurents went to the opening night party for a new play by Ugo Betti, and there he met Sondheim, who had heard that East Side Story, now retitled West Side Story, was back on track.

Other examples of design for entertainment purposes include novels, comic books, DVD covers, opening credits and closing credits in filmmaking, and programs and props on stage.

* In biology, meconium describes the metabolic waste product from the pupal stage of an insect that is expelled through the anal opening of the adult upon eclosion from the pupa.

Lovering went on to become a magician and made occasional appearances as " The Scientific Phenomenalist ", performing experiments on stage and occasionally opening for Frank Black and The Breeders.

The audience milled about the open festival floor for a long 45 minutes / hour after opening act Oingo Boingo departed the stage, and then finally it was announced that XTC would not take the stage due to the " illness " of one of the band members ( later revealed as Andy Partridge's ongoing fight with stage fright in Chris Twomey's book XTC: Chalkhills and Children ).

Fritz became popular as a live act from 1968 until 1972, opening for popular musicians Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin-both of whom Nicks credits as inspiring her stage intensity in later years-among others, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A stage version, Round the Horne … Revisited, was first produced in October 2003 prior to opening in the West End in January 2004.

This final stage, preserved in then opening chapter of the Book of Genesis ( written c. 500 BCE ), forms the basis of belief regarding the creation in Judaism and Christianity.

At the opening of their set, Peter Murphy was lowered to the stage upside-down singing " Bela Lugosi's Dead ".

" ' N Sync and Usher, who performed as two of the opening acts for The Velvet Rope World Tour, credit her for teaching them how to develop stage show into theatrical performance.

Triffids are referenced in the opening number of the stage / film musical The Rocky Horror Show: " I really got hot when I saw Janette Scott fight a triffid that spits poison and kills.

Curtius wrote as follows in the opening pages of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages ( 1953 English translation ), following close on Toynbee, as he sets the stage for his vast study of medieval Latin literature.

In 2009 the prologue and opening stage of the Vuelta a España took place in Assen.

On March 1, 2006 The Israel Postal Authority became a Government-owned corporation, the Israel Postal Company, as a preceding stage to the opening of the mail market to competition.

After an opening set of Beach Boys classics, Wilson returned to the stage to perform SMiLE in its entirety.

Past neonatal stage, the diameter of the hymenal opening ( measured within the hymenal ring ) is widening by approximately 1 mm for each year of age.

" In addition, an exterior open-air stage was planned for an opening in 2011.

Laurence Olivier sets the opening scene of his 1944 film of Henry V in the tiring room of the old Globe Theatre as the actors prepare for their roles on stage.

B. Priestley, Murdoch adapted her book for the stage, opening at the Theatre Royal, Bristol, in May 1963 and successfully transferring to the Criterion Theatre in London in July 1963, directed by Val May, for a run of 1, 044 performances.

Reflecting in 2011 on the sustained topicality of Yes, Minister / Prime Minister, Jonathan Lynn noted that, since the opening of the stage show in Chichester, " all we've added is a couple of jokes about hacking and an extra joke about the Greeks at the time to a debt crisis.

This work was completed in 1965, and the diversion came into use on 3 October 1965, three years before the opening of the first stage of the Victoria line.

Snyder's Tomorrow re-runs continued until Thursday, January 28, 1982 and four days later on Monday, February 1, Late Night premiered with a cold opening featuring Larry " Bud " Melman delivering lines as an homage to the prologue of Boris Karloff's Frankenstein, followed by Letterman coming out on stage behind a group of female dancers – the peacock girls.