What's the bigger thrill? Tony nod or first performance?
Broadway veteran Casey Nicholaw surprised himself when he choked up while describing the feeling of watching an audience see one of his productions for the first time.
Today is Saturday, June 6, 2026 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Paul Giamatti Max Casella Sandra Bernhard Harvey Fierstein David Dukes Judyth Burroughs John Alderman Gilbert Cates Billie Whitelaw George Zoritch Jimmie Lunceford Walter Abel Helen Ford Reine Davies Ted Lewis Annette Kellerman Beulah Poynter Frances Starr Dudley E. Oatman Steele MacKaye T. S. Arthur Aleksander Pushkin Clay Johns Michael Hadge James Dukas William Cottrell Gideon Glick Rodman Flender Lindsay Posner Peggy Hewett David Wiltse John Horn Theodore J. Flicker David Baker John Mehegan Harold J. Kennedy Mignon McLaughlin R. C. Sherriff Dorothy Heyward Thomas Mann