A successful musical comedy adaptation of the strip opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater on November 15, 1956 and had a long run of 693 performances, followed by a nationwide tour.

Jazz Impressions of the USA ( 1956, Morello's debut with the group ), Jazz Impressions of Eurasia ( 1958 ), Jazz Impressions of Japan ( 1964 ), and Jazz Impressions of New York ( 1964 ) are less well-known albums, but all are brilliant examples of the quartet's studio work, and they produced Brubeck standards such as " Summer Song ," " Brandenburg Gate ," " Koto Song ," and " Theme From Mr. Broadway.

* 1956 – My Fair Lady premiered on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.

Porgy and Bess ( 1935 ), influenced by jazz styles, and Candide ( 1956 ), with its sweeping, lyrical passages and farcical parodies of opera, both opened on Broadway but became accepted as part of the opera repertory.

Falk made his Broadway debut also in 1956, appearing in Alexander Ostrovsky's Diary of a Scoundrel.

The Broadway production from 1954 was subsequently performed on NBC television in RCA's compatible color in 1955, 1956 and 1960.

The book also served as the basis for the unsuccessful 1956 Broadway musical Shangri-La.

A stage musical called Shangri-La was produced on Broadway in 1956, but closed after only 21 performances.

In 1956, Remarque wrote a drama for the stage, Full Circle ( Die letzte Station ), which played successfully in both Germany and on Broadway.

In 1956 Jurado debuted on Broadway, playing Filomena Marturano with Raf Vallone, which would later be filmed in Italy as Marriage Italian Style with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.

* Auntie Mame ( 1956 non-musical play starring Rosalind Russell ) at the Internet Broadway Database

* 1956 Major Barbara ( title role ), Broadway

In 1956 he was cast as the irresponsible Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady, a role that he played on Broadway, the West End and in the film version in 1964.

In 1956 Holloway created the role of Alfred P. Doolittle in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady.

" Holloway had a long association with the show, appearing in the original 1956 Broadway production at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, the 1958 London version at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the film version in 1964.

He also appeared on American TV and on Broadway, making his Broadway debut in 1955 in the play Island of Goats, a flop which closed after one week, though his performance won Harvey a 1956 Theatre World Award.

Richardson's Timon of Athens in his 1956 return to the Old Vic was well received, as was his Broadway appearance in The Waltz of the Toreadors for which he was nominated for a Tony Award in 1957.

Fox also produced Broadway musicals, including the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, beginning with the musical version of State Fair in 1945, and continuing years later with Carousel in 1956, The King and I, and The Sound of Music.

Her three minute Broadway appearance as the leggy " Stupefyin ' Jones " in the musical Li ' l Abner in 1956 led to a reprise in the 1959 film version.

In November 1956 she returned to Broadway starring in the musical Bells Are Ringing with book and lyrics by her Revuers friends, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and directed by Jerome Robbins, for which she won the 1957 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical.

The Broadway debut of Long Day's Journey Into Night took place at the Helen Hayes Theatre on 7 November 1956, shortly after its American premiere at New Haven's Shubert Theatre.

He wrote Treadmill to Oblivion ( 1954, reviewing his radio and television years ) and Much Ado About Me ( 1956, covering his childhood and his vaudeville and Broadway years, and detailing especially vaudeville at its height with surprising objectivity ); the former – which included many of his vintage radio scripts – was the best-selling book on radio's classic period for many years.

In the 1956 Broadway musical and 1959 film adaptation, Sam was perfectly played by rotund actor Stubby Kaye.

Statuesque actress Julie Newmar became famous overnight for playing the small role in the 1956 Li ' l Abner Broadway musical ( and the 1959 film adaptation ) without uttering a single line.

His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was the most successful and innovative star-driven independent production company in Hollywood of the 1950s, making movies such as Marty ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), and Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ).

After the industrial scale production of cadmium started in the 1930s and 1940s, the major application of cadmium was the coating of iron and steel to prevent corrosion ; in 1944, 62 % and in 1956, 59 % of the cadmium in the United States was for coating.

* Cessna 182 – high-wing, single piston engined, four-seat aircraft in production since 1996 ( was originally produced between 1956 and 1985 )

The F91 was in production from 1953 – 1955, and was replaced by the somewhat larger F93 in 1956.

In 1956, the very rare DKW Monza was put into small scale production on a private initiative.

The opening of the Dandenong, Victoria, production facility in 1956 brought further jobs ; by 1959 Holden employed 19, 000 workers country-wide.

She was portrayed by Helen Hayes in the London production of the play Anastasia and in the 1956 film based on the play.

His first New York stage role was in an Off-Broadway production of Molière's Dom Juan at the Fourth Street Theatre that closed after its only performance on January 3, 1956.

A critical and financial success, it earned Siodmak his only Oscar nomination for direction in Hollywood ( his German production The Devil Came at Night ( Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam ) would be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1956 ).

Hanford was at its peak production from 1956 to 1965.

In 1956 Gassman played the title role in a production of

Fonda next acted in Paramount Pictures's production of the Leo Tolstoy epic War and Peace ( 1956 ), in which he played Pierre Bezukhov opposite Audrey Hepburn ; it took two years to shoot.

Niven enjoyed success in 1956, when he starred as Phileas Fogg in Michael Todd's immensely successful production of Around the World in 80 Days.

The 1955 Citroën DS featuring powered inboard front disc brakes was the first French application of this technology, while the 1956 Triumph TR3 was the first English production car to feature modern disc brakes.

The Beetle had marked a significant trend led by Volkswagen, Fiat, and Renault whereby the rear-engine, rear-wheel drive layout had increased from 2. 6 percent of continental Western Europe's car production in 1946 to 26. 6 percent in 1956.

* 1956: Regular production of sarin ceased in the United States, though existing stocks of bulk sarin were re-distilled until 1970.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

In 1956 the company changed its name to BTR Limited, when it ceased production of tyres.

Basing his calculations on the peak of oil well discovery in 1948, Hubbert used his model in 1956 to create a curve which accurately predicted that oil production in the contiguous United States would peak around 1970.

Although Off-Broadway shows are not eligible for Tony Awards, an exception was made in 1956 ( before the rules were changed ), when Lotte Lenya won for " Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical ", for the Off-Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera.

The first production was staged as a live adaptation screened on 28 March 1956 by NBC TV and sponsored by Kraft Foods as part of the Kraft Television Theatre strand.

Notably, it was the retirement home of baseball legend Ty Cobb who was born nearby, and was a base of operation for production of the 1956 Disney film The Great Locomotive Chase that was filmed along the Tallulah Falls Railway that ran from Cornelia northward along the rim of Tallulah Gorge to Franklin, NC.

During the 1950s, American Decca released a number of soundtrack recordings of popular motion pictures, notably Mike Todd's production of Around the World in Eighty Days ( 1956 ) with the music of veteran film composer Victor Young.