1976 After two years of playing downtown at the Village Gate Theatre, Earl Wilson, Jr.'s play Let My People Come makes the move uptown to Broadway's Morosco Theatre. The show, which has been abandoned by its author because he doesn't agree with the way it is being staged, never has an official opening, essentially playing preview performances for its entire 128-performance Broadway run.

1988 Nathan Lane and Laila Robins star in The Film Society at Second Stage Theatre in New York City. The Jon Robin Baitz play about a South African teacher in a struggle with apartheid will play 31 performances under the direction of John Tillinger.

1999 Pan Asian Repertory's New York premiere of the stage adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, played earlier this year at the Theatre at St. Clement's but now reopens at Theatre Four. The production, based on Amy Tan's novel, had strong reviews but was forced to move when the theatre became a pure rental house. Adapted for the stage by Susan Kim, the play about Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters runs 80 performances.

Today's Birthdays: Gian-Carlo Menotti, 1911. Ruth Ford 1915. Joel Siegel 1943. Keith Reddin 1956.