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UPDATED April 11, 2007
CHRONOLOGICAL_HISTORY
*Notes from Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack For A Century
1890 - Columbia begins commercial music recording with John Philip Sousa
1903 - The Wizard of Oz is Broadway hit
1904 - Little Johnny Jones is George M. Cohan's first Broadway hit
1905 - Variety begins publication
1907 - First installment (of 21) of the Ziegfeld Follies
1908 - Ford introduces Model T automobile
1914 - Irving Berlin's first Broadway score (of 21), Watch Your Step
1914 - Start of World War I
1915 - Shubert revue features Cole Porter's first Broadway song. "Esmeralda"
1917 - Fred Astaire's Broadway debut
1918 - World War I ends
1919 - La, La Lucille opens, with George Gershwin's first complete Broadway score
1920 - 18th Amendment bans alcohol in the United States
1921 - Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's Shuffle Along is first Broadway musical created by African-Americans
1924 - Walter Winchell debuts as Broadway columnist
- Lady, Be Good is first George and Ira Gershwin stage collaboration
1927 - Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat opens - first dramatic musical hit
- Charles Lindbergh makes first solo transatlantic flight
- The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, first talking picture
1929 - Wall Street crashes October 24, ushering in the Great Depression
1930 - Ethel Merman's Broadway debut in the Gershwin's Girl Crazy
1931 - Columbia Broadcasting System makes first experimental TV transmission
1932 - Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama
1933 - Repeal of Prohibition
1934 - Cole Porter's Anything Goes triumphs on Broadway
1935 - Porgy and Bess, Gershwin's great opera, opens
1939 - Start of World War II
1940 - Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey ushers in adult musicals
1943 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's first collaboration, Oklahoma, becomes first original-cast album
1944 - On The Town introduces Bernstein, Comden, Green and Robbins to Broadway
1945 - World War II ends
1946 - RCA's 10" TV set ($375) marks real start of TV era
1947 - Finian's Rainbow ran for 725 performances
1948 - Columbia introduces first successful long-playing record
- Finian's Rainbow is Columbia's first Broadway original-cast LP
- First Tony Awards
- Kiss Me Kate reestablishes Cole Porter on Broadway runs 1,077 performances and was first musical to win the Tony Award
- Ed Sullivan starts his television run
1949 - South Pacific opens and runs 1,925 performances
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 740 performances
1950 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama and runs for 1,925 performances
- Wonderful Town
1952 - Pal Joey - 542 performances
1953 - Kismet opens 583 performances
1954 - The Boy Friend brings Julie Andrews to Broadway
- Revival of Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera becomes off-Broadway classic
- The Pajama Game 1,063 performances and the Tony Award
1956 - Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady transforms Pygmalion into a musical hit - 2,717 performances
- The Most Happy Fella - 676 performances
- Bells Are Ringing -924 performances
1957 - West Side Story enters Broadway legend, introducing lyricist Stephen Sondheim - 981 performances
1958 - Columbia and RCA Victor release first commercial U.S. stereo recordings
- Flower Drum Song - 600 performances
1959 - Ethel Merman, Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim make Gypsy a modern classic - 702 performances
- The Sound of Music is the last Rodgers and Hammerstein musical - 1,443 performances
1960 - Bye Bye Birdie - 607 performances
- Camelot opens at O'Keefe Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto pre-Broadway where it chalked up 873 performances
1962 - I Can Get It For You Wholesale brings Barbra Streisand to Broadway
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads civil rights March on Washington
- JFK assassinated in Dallas
1964 - Decade's two biggest musical hits: Hello Dolly and Fiddler on the Roof
- Funny Girl makes Barbra Streisand a Broadway headliner
- Anyone Can Whistle - only 9 performances
- Do I Hear a Waltz - 220 performances
1966 - Kander and Ebb's Cabaret hints at new direction for Broadway - 1,166 performances
- Sweet Charity (608 performances), and Mame (1,508 performances) opens
1968 - Anti-Vietnam War protests lead to bloody riots outside Democratic National Convention in Chicago
1968 - Hair puts Broadway back on the Billboard charts
1970 - Stephen Sondheim's Company reignites his career on Broadway - 690 performances
1971 - No No Nanette - 861 performances
1973 - A Little Night Music - 601 performances
1975 - A Chorus Line, with Marvin Hamlisch score, sweeps Tonys -6,137 performances
1977 - Annie - 2,377 performances
1981 - Unknown virus, later named HIV, seems to target gay men
1982 - Cats establishes Britain's Andrew Lloyd Webber as Broadway force
- Nine - 729 performances
1983 - Sony and Phillips introduce the compact disc-which will spark revival of Broadway cast recordings
1984 - Sondheim's Sunday in the Park With George wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama
1988 - Phantom of the Opera enshrines pop opera on Broadway
1990 - Nelson Mandela freed in South Africa
1991 - Collapse of Communist regime; breakup of Soviet Union begins
1996 - Rent reinvents La Boheme on the Lower East Side
- The Life - 460 performances
1997 - Disney's The Lion King heralds 42nd Street revival...new era for Broadway? Followed by "Aida"
2001 - Abba's Mamma Mia opens at the Palace
2003 - Long running hits "Hairspray," and "Wicked" open