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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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