Opening night: Billy Elliot earns resounding cheers
When an audience leaps to their feet cheering in the middle of a show's second act, then you know something extraordinary is happening.
Today is Sunday, October 18, 2026 Opening: Other Desert Cities Broadway Baby Birthdays: Philipp Lee Carabuena Arliss Howard Wendy Wasserstein Ntozake Shange Joe Morton Roy Lozano Gary Geld Hillard Elkins George C. Scott Chuck Berry Anna Manahan Gabriel Dell Stanley Bell Gene Ashley Sidney Kingsley Barbara Brown Miriam Hopkins George Curzon Lotte Lenya Frederick Hollander Marie Burke Fannie Hurst Fay Tunis John B. Mason Wynton Marsalis Cynthia Weil Ronn Hansen Peter Boyle Inger Stevens Calvin Lockhart Bobby Troupe