ON THIS DAY IN 2026:
It was on this day in 1979 that the glorious Stephen Sondheim classic, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, opened on Broadway, starring Angela Lansbury (pictured) and Len Cariou. The show swept the Tony Awards, taking prizes for best musical, lead actor and lead actress, director (Harold Prince), book, score and also scenic and costume design, reports Playbill.
Popular singer Eric Carmen died in his sleep on this day in 2024, aged 74. He was the lead singer with the The Raspberries and, as a solo performer, had hits with All By Myself and Hungry Eyes.
Birthdays today? Pop star Justin Bieber turns 32, pop star Kesha turns 39, director Ron Howard turns 72, TV actor Alan Thicke (father of singer Robin Thicke) turns 78 and Dirk Benedict (of TV’s The A-Team) turns 81.
Roger Daltrey of hit band The Who turns 82 today and actor Javier Bardem turns 58. Singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte – who died (aged 96) on April 25, 2023 – was born in New York on this day in 1927. Did you know that Belafonte’s career breakthrough album, 1956’s Calypso, was the first million-selling elpee by a single artist?
Joey Molland, rock guitarist and last surviving member of British band Badfinger, died on this day in 2025. He was 77. Molland was born in Liverpool on June 21, 1947.
On this day in 1980, Babe by the band Styx rose to the top of South Africa’s Springbok Radio Top 20, where it spent one week. Just saying…
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