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Performing


1992 Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in "Man of LaMancha"

1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses

1971 John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington D.C.

1962 NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts

1938 Janet Hough Bryant, author/performing artist/educator

1938 Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing

1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, New York City (admission 1cent)



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