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1998 "Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 1,503 performance 1997 "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," opens at Royale New York City for 109 performance 1996 "Apple Doesn't Fall" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 1 performance 1996 "Apple Doesn't Fall" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 1 performance 1996 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line" 1994 "Cats" 5,000th Broadway performance (joins Chorus Line and Oh! Calcutta!) 1993 3,000th performance of "Nunsense" 1989 "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance 1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King and I" 1984 1st London performance of musical "Stepping Out" presented 1984 "Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair 1984 Weird Al Yankovic gives a live performance at Starlight Amphitheater 1983 "A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become longest running Bdwy show 1983 Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington D.C. 1981 Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs 1980 "Wonderful World of Disney," last performance on NBC-TV 1980 "Onward Victoria" opens/closes at Martin Beck New York City for 1 performance 1977 Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, last performance of his career 1976 Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at New York's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata" 1974 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville 1972 Smokey Robinson and Miracles final live performance 1972 "Heathen!" opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 1 performance 1971 "Johnny Johnson" opens/closes at Edison Theater New York City for 1 performance 1970 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" (record) 1970 Grateful Dead's in England, 1st performance outside of U.S. 1970 "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater New York City after 1 performance 1970 "Gantry" opens at George Abbott Theater New York City for 1 performance 1969 "La Strada" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne New York City for 1 performance 1969 Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko and Eric Clapton) 1st live performance 1969 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Fillmore East, New York) 1969 "Billy" opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 1 performance 1968 1st London performance of "Promises Promises" presented 1968 1st performance of Roger Sessions' 8th Symphony 1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance 1965 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony 1963 Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool 1962 Rolling Stones 1st performance, Marquee Club, London 1962 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit 1961 1st performance of Beach Boys 1961 Bob Dylan's 1st New York performance 1960 Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg) 1960 Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance 1960 1st performance of Ferde Grofe's "San Francisco Suite" 1959 Buddy Holly's last performance 1957 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony 1957 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston 1954 1st performance of Arnold Schonberg's "Moses und Aaron" 1952 1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music" 1947 1st performance of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8" 1947 Laurie Anderson, performance artist, O Superman, Excellent Birds 1946 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony 1946 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto" 1944 World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum and Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn) 1944 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony 1944 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony 1943 1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning" 1942 1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Choros 6/9/11 1941 1st U.S. radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers" 1941 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem" 1939 1st performance of Honegger/Claudel's "Jeanne d'Arc Ouch B-cher" 1939 1st performance of Bela Bartok's 2nd Concerto for violin 1938 NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony 1930 1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston) 1927 1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E 1926 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C 1925 1st London performance of operetta "Fasquita" staged 1923 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (New York City) 1920 Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (New York City) 1919 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets" 1917 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel" 1915 Dutch Opera's 1st performance 1911 Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance 1908 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole" 1906 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine" 1904 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)" 1902 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony 1901 1st complete performance of Debussy's "Nocturnes" 1901 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A 1899 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D 1897 1st performance of Debussy's "Pelleas et Melisande" 1895 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, New York City) 1895 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony 1894 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz 1893 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of "Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique" 1892 1st performance of Antonin Dvorak's overture "Carneval" 1888 1st performance of Cesar Franck's "Psyche" 1885 1st performance of Cesar Franck's "Lesson Djinns" 1884 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite 1883 1st performance of Cesar Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit" 1882 Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" 1868 1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem" 1865 Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany 1859 1st performance of John Brahms' 1st Serenade for orchestra 1858 1st performance of New York Symphony Orchestra 1849 1st performance by U.S. actor Edwin Booth (Richard III) 1842 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony 1841 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B 1824 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" 1819 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Schafers Klageleid" 1807 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B 1805 Opera "Thais" 1st American performance 1803 1st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D 1801 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten" 1800 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C 1794 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D 1713 1st performance of Georg F Handel's "To Deum" and "Jubilate" 1598 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)

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