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[0:05] Mark Peikert: Good morning, theater lover, and happy May 31st.

[0:08] Mark Peikert: I'm Mark Peikert, the editor-in-chief of Playbill, and you are listening to Today in Theatre History.

[0:16] Mark Peikert: Orson Welles circumnavigated the stage in Around the World, the 1946 musical he adapted from the Jules Verne novel, Around the World in Eighty Days.

[0:26] Mark Peikert: Cole Porter provided the music and lyrics for the production, mounted at the Adelphi Theater.

[0:33] Mark Peikert: Liv Ullmann wasn't to be forgotten when she headlined the musical I Remember Mama at the Majestic Theater in 1979.

[0:40] Mark Peikert: Seifure directed the adaptation of John Van Druten's 1944 play, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and book by Thomas Meehan.

[0:50] Mark Peikert: It played 108 performances.

[0:55] Mark Peikert: John Malkovich and Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater Company brought Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead to New York City at the Circle Repertory in 1984.

[1:04] Mark Peikert: Terry Kinney, Gary Sinise, and Glenn Headley starred in the play set in the Broadway coffee shop under the direction of Malkovich.

[1:14] Mark Peikert: The Light in the Piazza made its world premiere at Seattle's Intiman Theater in 2003.

[1:19] Mark Peikert: The cast at the time included Victoria Clark, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Stephen Pascal.

[1:25] Mark Peikert: The musical opened on Broadway in spring 2005 and won six Tony Awards, including Best Score and Best Actress in a Musical for Victoria Clark.

[1:45] Mark Peikert: Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, Robin De Jesús, Brian Hutchison, Charlie Carver, and Michael Benjamin Washington starred in the show about a group of gay men who gather in a New York City apartment for a friend's birthday.

[2:00] Mark Peikert: Joe Mantello directed the limited engagement, and the original Broadway cast reunited for a Netflix adaptation, set to drop later this year.

[2:12] Mark Peikert: For more theater history, visit Playbill.com.

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