Television Finale
1951 "Victor Borge Show" last airs on NBC-TV
- 1956 Harry Warren, James Lawrence, Ribert E. Lee, and James Hilton's musical "Shangri-La", based on Hilton's novel "Lost Horizon", and featuring Jack Cassidy and Alice Ghostley, closes at Winter Garden Theater, NYC, after 21 performances
Pipe Dream
1956 Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "Pipe Dream", based on John Steinbeck's novel "Sweet Thursday", closes at Shubert Theater, NYC, after 245 performances, and a Tony Award for costume design
- 1979 "Good Times" single released by Chic (Billboard Song of the Year 1979)
TV Show Appearance
1979 British punk rocker Johnny Rotten and British actress Joan Collins appear together on BBC TV's "Juke Box Jury"
- 1979 Kenny Lehman, John Davis, Ray Chew, Nat Adderley, Jr., Thomas Jones, Wayne Morrison, Steve Boston, Eugene Narmore, Betty Rowland,and Jerry Powell's musical "Got Tu Go Disco", starring Irene Cara, closes at Minskoff Theater, NYC, after 8 performances
- 1982 "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" closes at Nederlander, NYC, after 333 performances
- 1985 Revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The King & I" closes at Broadway Theater, NYC, after 191 performances
Great Balls of Fire!
1989 "Great Balls of Fire!" a quasi-biographical drama film starring Dennis Quaid as rockabilly pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis premieres; Lewis hates the film and the book from which it is sourced, but praises Quaid's performance
- 1992 "End of the Road" single released by Boyz II Men (Grammy Award Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and Best R&B Song 1993, Billboard Song of the Year 1992)
- 1996 "Buried Child" closes at Brook Atkinson Theater NYC after 77 performances
- 1996 "Moon Over Buffalo" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 308 performances
- 1996 "State Fair" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 118 performances
- 2004 British rock guitarist Dave Davies (The Kinks) suffers a debilitating stroke, at 57; he recovers in 2006 to resume his music career
- 2006 Cirque du Soleil's musical-acrobatic extravaganza "The Beatles - LOVE" opens in a specially built theatre at The Mirage, Las Vegas, Nevada
Mamma Mia!, The Movie!
2008 "Mamma Mia!, The Movie!" starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth, premieres at Leicester Square, London
- 2014 Australian entertainer Rolf Harris is convicted of indecent assault in London, England
Music History
2015 Misty Copeland becomes the 1st African American principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre
Music History
2016 Performance of the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's musical "She Loves Me" is 1st Broadway show live stream (via BroadwayHD); later released as a film
- 2018 Kile Smith's a cappella choral musical work "The Arc in the Sky", settings of poems by Robert Lax, premieres at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, performed by The Crossing, led by Donald Nally
