1899 Noël Coward is born today. He authored plays such as Hay Fever, Design for Living and Private Lives, many of which he performed in; scripts for the films "Brief Encounter" and "This Happy Breed," and more than 500 songs, including "Mad Dogs and Englishmen." Coward made his Broadway debut in 1925 in his own The Vortex. A first-time Broadway mounting of Waiting in the Wings mar…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM on December 16, 2014