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.

* A Broadway musical version of the story, Destry Rides Again, opened in New York at the Imperial Theater on April 23, 1959, and played 472 performances.

" Together, they opened up the musical form, taking the film musical out of the studio and into real locations, with Donen taking responsibility for the staging and Kelly handling the choreography.

The first spade at the start of the Daimler-Benz development was turned by the Mayor of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen, on 11 October 1993, and the finished complex was officially opened by the Federal President of Germany, Roman Herzog, on 2 October 1998, in a glittering ceremony featuring large-scale celebrations and musical performances.

The musical opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on November 12, 1951, and closed on July 19, 1952, after 289 performances.

* March 7 – The Broadway musical version of Peter Pan, which had opened in 1954 starring Mary Martin, is presented on television for the first time by NBC-TV with its original cast, as an installment of Producers ' Showcase.

The novel was also adapted as a Broadway musical, called A Time for Singing, which opened at the Broadway Theatre, New York, on 21 May 1966.

The next Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Patience, opened at the Opera Comique in April 1881 and was another big success, usurping Pinafore's position as the longest running piece in the series with the second-longest run in musical theatre history.

The musical first opened Off-Broadway in 1990, and the 2004 Broadway production won five Tony Awards.

It opened on March 14, 1885, in London, where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672 performances, which was the second longest run for any work of musical theatre and one of the longest runs of any theatre piece up to that time.

It opened at the Opera Comique in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time.

Since the early stages of the nineties, Simon was fully involved on The Capeman, a musical that finally opened on January 29, 1998.

In 2004, the musical comedy Spamalot debuted in Chicago and opened in New York's Shubert Theatre on 14 February 2005.

Brent Carver portrayed Gandalf in the 2006 musical production of The Lord of the Rings, which opened in Toronto.

The musical opened on Broadway at the New Century Theatre, where it ran for nineteen months before transferring to the Shubert Theatre and running for a total of 1, 077 performances.

When the tour got to New York City, she stayed, getting radio singing jobs and then her Broadway theater debut in a musical called Top Speed, which opened on Christmas Day, 1929.

A musical based on the movie opened at Universal Studios Hollywood in late June 2009.

During 1972, a musical play based on the screenplay of the film, entitled Sugar, opened on Broadway, starring Elaine Joyce, Robert Morse, Tony Roberts and Cyril Ritchard, with book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Bob Merrill, and ( all-new ) music by Jule Styne.

Original Cast Album of the 2006 Revival of What Makes Sammy Run? On February 27, 1964, Steve Lawrence opened at the 54th Street Theatre in a Broadway musical version of What Makes Sammy Run?

A heavily-revised revival of the musical opened on January 19, 2006 at the West End Theatre in New York City.

The town remained relatively unknown until a musical called Plain and Fancy opened in New York in 1955.

A musical version, titled Mame, starring Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur, opened on Broadway in 1966.

* A 1970 Broadway musical adaptation entitled Gantry opened and closed on the same night, February 14, 1970.

In December 2010 a Dutch language version of the musical opened in Gent, Belgium, to be transferred at the end of the same month to Antwerp.

Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

With the approval of both Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, a musical version of the film was staged, enjoying a successful workshop in Toronto and performances at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal in 2004.

Hawkins's act was popular in and around Toronto and he had an effective way of eliminating his musical competition: When a promising band appeared, Hawkins would often hire their best musicians for his own group ; Robertson, Danko, and Manuel came under Hawkins ' tutelage this way.

* Victoria College Drama Society ( VCDS ), which runs at least four shows per year ( a fall show, a winter show, a submission to the University of Toronto Drama Festival, and a musical )

Shaffer began his music career in 1972 as the musical director for the Toronto production of Godspell, starring Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin.

In Toronto, Canada, the Yorkville district served as a kind of Haight-Ashbury North, serving as another major hippie and musical crossroads.

* Act III – The Way We Were – " Featuring Theresa Pitt, the lead in Toronto ’ s company of Cats ( the musical ).

He stopped playing drums at age 17 and in 1981, at age 18, he moved to Toronto to further his musical pursuits.

Following this, Routledge had roles in several more unsuccessful Broadway productions including a musical called Love Match, in which she played Queen Victoria ; the legendary 1976 Leonard Bernstein flop 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, in which she portrayed every First Lady from Abigail Adams to Edith Roosevelt ; and a 1981 musical called Say Hello to Harvey based on the Mary Coyle Chase play Harvey, which closed in Toronto before reaching New York.

It was announced in 2012 that a semi-biographical musical / concert film would be premièred at the Toronto film festival, utilising 22 songs from her back catalog and backed by Peaches ' band the Sweet Machine.

* The musical The House of Martin Guerre ( 1993 ) was based on the case and first produced in Toronto.

The Toronto production provided the first regular acting jobs for several notable performers, including Victor Garber, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Gilda Radner, Dave Thomas, and Martin Short, and the show's musical director Paul Shaffer.

Another group which falls more under Electronica / Drum & Bass is a musical duo from Parkdale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Toronto physician and composer Dr. Ian Pun ( 潘彥衡 b. 1965 ) uses erhu combined with funk guitar musical riff in the 2011 song " 加油, 加油, 加油!

Moore was born in Watford but received most of his musical education in Toronto, Canada, to which country his family emigrated when he was a child, and where he was an organist at St Thomas ' Church, Huron Street, in Toronto.

In 1972, she played the character of Robin in a Toronto production of Godspell, with a cast that included future comedy stars Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, singer and actor Victor Garber, and musical director Paul Shaffer.

IANA's musical ' TWEED: A New Canadian Musical ' is currently nominated for 20 BroadwayWorld. com awards for their 2011 production in Toronto.

When the Four Lads returned to Toronto for a homecoming concert, John Perkins and Maugeri ran into each other and decided that they could themselves have a musical future.

McDonald, along with six other directors, shot 20 short films about Toronto musicians and the places where their musical lives were transformed.

The name came from The Phantom of the Opera, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that played at the Canon Theatre ( then Pantages Theatre ) in Toronto for nine years.

In the summer of 1972 he joined the Vinnette Carroll musical Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope ensemble in Toronto, followed a month later in the American Conservatory Theater production at the Geary Theater.