Timeline by Alex Snyder

1894 Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles

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1922 A Doll's House

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472 BC The Persians

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1611 The Tooth Puller

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca is Born in 1600. He will go on to be one of the greatest play writters in Spains history.

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The temptest by William Shakespeare considered to be one of the last great playwrights is played for the first time in London

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1640 Aphra Behn is born she is the first female ever to be compensated for her dramatic canon she produced

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1716 the first Playhouse is established in British North America

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300 BC the first actors Union was formed in Greece in the 4th Century called the "Artists of Dionysus"

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1792 The oldest working Theatre still to this day in Scotland was opened the "Royal Dumfries"

1806

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1806 the man who is considered Americas first great theatre star is born Edwin Forrest.

1821

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The first red carpet was rolled out in Georgetown South Carolina for President James Monroe when he disembarked his River Boat

1837

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"Lime Light" was first invented by Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney. Today it means being the center of attention but back at this time "being in the limelight" actually meant being under the limelight.

1866

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What was known as the first book musical "the Black Crook" opened for the first time in Niblos Garden

1883

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Broadway was amongst the first to use Electric Bulb signs to capture fans attention

1894

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The American Academy of Dramatics Arts graduates its first 118 students

1903

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The original production of the Wizard of Oz premiered at the Majestic Theatre

1911

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The first striptease actress debuted Gypsy Rose Lee

1914

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The first Theatrical Degree was offered

1921

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The "Colored Actors Legion" is formed in Cincinnati

1926

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Harry Houdini dies after rupturing his Appendix 2 days after letting a student punch him in the stomach to show his strength, he died on Halloween.

1927

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The genre of Musical Play is born through the show "Showboat"

1934

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The "nutcracker" was first performed outside of Russia in England

1941

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Al Jolson is the first performer to entertain troops in WWII

1943

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Broads ways Golden Age begins with plays like "Oklahoma" which as a struggle to finance and produce at first.

1947

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The first Tony Awards took place, Tickets cost 7$

1985

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Phantom of the Opera debuts and revolutionizes the Theatrical world with stte o the art sound boards and lights that are computerized

1992

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The first website Woldwide Entertainment network went live on October 19th 1992.