December is a big month for the musical.

On November 6, 1905, Peter Pan opened on Broadway.

It starred David Carroll, Judy Kuhn, Philip Casnoff and ran for just 68 performances.

The fairy-tale musical first opened on Broadway October 18, 1990, starring an up-and-comer named LaChanze.

The original 1935 production only ran for 124 performances.

Playbill gives a standing ovation to all the 2025 Tony nominees born in June, as well as other Broadway luminaries.

The Kander and Ebb musical turns 50. The original Broadway run won no Tony Awards but it's since made history.

If you think this past Broadway season was celebrity filled, look back on 2005–2006.

The George Abbott, Douglas Wallop, Jerry Ross, and Richard Adler musical opened May 5, 1955.

The Harvey Schmidt-Tom Jones musical would go on to play over 17,000 performances at the Sullivan Street Theatre.

The musical from the late William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin was a Best Musical nominee and an audience favorite.

McDonald now has 11 Tony nominations, more than any performer ever.

The musical starred Jim Dale and Glenn Close as the famed showman and his wife.

Scott co-wrote the musical and starred as a young woman going from a Mennonite upbringing to a career in show business.

Twenty years ago, the movie musical got a stage adaptation starring Raúl Esparza, Erin Dilly, and Marc Kudisch.

AIDS activist Larry Kramer's seminal work took 26 years to get to Broadway.

The Sondheim-George Furth musical turns 55.

The Roger Miller-William Hauptman musical is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Darko Tresnjak directed the Terrence McNally-Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty musical at the Broadhurst.

Playbill celebrates the 10th anniversary of the musical comedy.

The Martin Charnin-Charles Strouse-Thomas Meehan musical has become one of the most beloved and produced in the canon.

Michael Mayer directed the production based on the Grammy-winning rock album.

The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic turns 80 years old.

The romantic musical, which starred Victoria Clark and Kelli O'Hara, turns 20.

James Lapine adapted Hart's memoir.

The play is the fourth in playwright August Wilson's Century Cycle, which explores the Black experience in every decade of the 20th century.

The original production of the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theater on April 15, 1975.

Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's original musical follows a suburban family struggling with the effects of mental illness.

Celebrate the 65th anniversary of the classic, which starred Dick Van Dyke and Chita Rivera.

The Michael John LaChiusa musical was one of two stage musical adaptations of the Joseph Moncure March poem in the same season.

Christopher Wheeldon directed and choreographed the Gershwin musical at the Palace Theatre.

The show—dramatizing a night when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and others participated in a jam session—celebrates its 15th anniversary.

Chita Rivera and Jane Krakowski were among the cast in this very starry production.

Robert Morse and Tony Roberts took on the roles immortalized on film by Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis.

The Andrew Lippa-composed musical, starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, celebrates its 15th anniversary.

Steven Boyer, Sarah Stiles, Marc Kudisch, and Geneva Carr starred in the dark comedy that featured a demonic sock puppet.

Starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, the musical explored the complex relationship between cosmetics giants Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden.

It was the first Broadway revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical.

The legendary musical introduced such favorites as "Broadway Baby" and "Losing My Mind" and gave Michael Bennett his first directing credit.

The starry cast also included LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Anika Noni Rose.

Two-time Olivier winner Tracie Bennett portrayed the late entertainment icon.

From Shakespeare's Devil to an upcoming Modern Major-General, Playbill lights up the marquee for Broadway's brightest born in April.

James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, John Larroquette, Candice Bergen, and Eric McCormack were in the starry cast.

The beloved memory play, and Williams' most-revived work on Broadway, turns 80.

The "dance play" became one of the most unlikely Best Musical winners in Tony Award history.

The score introduced such favorites as "Getting to Know You," "Shall We Dance," "Something Wonderful," and "Hello, Young Lovers."

The Tony-winning Neil Simon play was the second in his autobiographical Eugene Trilogy.

The play is a part of Wilson's Century Cycle, which documents each decade in 20th century through various depictions of African-American life.

The musical and subsequent film would make an international star of Barbra Streisand.

Currently enjoying an all-star revival, the David Mamet play won the Pulitzer and the Tony when it debuted.