1964 Leo Genn is the odd man out as Juror Number 8 as Reginald Rose's hit play 12 Angry Men makes its London debut tonight at the Queen's Theatre. Surprisingly, British audiences do not take to the play as well as American audiences did, and the Margaret Webster-directed production closes after only 99 performances.

1995 Ferene Molnar's The Play's the Thing sees the Broadway stage again, courtesy of Roundabout Theatre Company. Adapted by P.G. Wodehouse, the play features Joe Grifasi, Peter Frechette, Jay Goede, Paul Benedict, J. Smith Cameron, Jeff Weiss and Keith Reddin. The Gloria Muzio-helmed production plays 49 performances at the Criterion Theatre.

2000 The stripping ends at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre as the sold-out hit musical, The Full Monty, already extended past its original July 2 close date, will end its world premiere in Southern California. The show by book writer Terrence McNally and composer-lyricist David Yazbek will move to Broadway, where the lovable losers of The Full Monty will open at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Oct. 26.

2002 Ten months after the World Trade Center terrorist attack obliterated the downtown TKTS discount ticket booth, a new one opens in a new location: Manhattan's South Street Seaport.

Today's Birthdays: Dudley Digges 1879. Roxy Rothafel 1882. Brian Dennehy 1938. Timothy Nolen 1941. Mia Dillon 1955. Jimmy Smits 1955.