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The stage musical Man Of La Mancha is playing at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of almost two and a half years.
The musical Fiddler On The Roof, starring Zero Mostel, is performed at The Majestic Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA. It will run continuously (but at three different theatres) until 1972 notching up 3,242 performances.
The musical Hallelujah Baby!, starring Leslie Uggams, is presented at The Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 293 performances.
The rock musical Your Own Thing is presented at The Orpheum Theatre, New York City, USA, during a run of 937 performances.
The musical comedy The Happy Time is presented at The Broadway Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 286 performances. The show features music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.
The musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, is performed at The Village Gate, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA, during a run of 1,847 performances.
Pop duo Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme are starring in the musical Golden Rainbow, at The Shubert Theater in New York City, USA.
The stage musical Cabaret is presented at The Palace Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 336 performances.
The controversial hippy musical, Hair is playing at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, New York City, USA, during a run of 1750 performances.
Trini Lopez is playing during three weeks at The Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA.
Blood Sweat And Tears are playing during a season at The Cafe Au GoGo, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA.
Folk-rock duo Bunky And Jake are playing at The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. Headline act is Joni Mitchell.
The 5th Dimension are playing during eleven nights at The Cave, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The Everly Brothers are playing during a fourteen-night stint at The Latin Quarter, New York City, USA.
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Joni Mitchell is playing during eight nights at The Bitter End, Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. Her support acts change during this period, but include David Steinberg and Bunky And Jake.
Elvis Presley is spending a week on vacation in Palm Springs, California, USA.
Roy Orbison is playing during a three-week season at The Club Embassy, Toronto, Canada.
Rosemary Clooney is playing during an engagement at Harold's Club, Reno, Nevada, USA. However, she is seriously dependent on pills and will walk out of the club before many days have passed. At some point in this residency, she will also drive her white Cadillac Eldorado up the wrong side of a winding, two-lane mountain road, hoping in her deteriorating mental state, to test God's love. If He lets her survive after courting death from Reno to Lake Tahoe, it will mean that He loves her. She survives.
The MC5, Amboy Dukes, The Rationals, The Up and The Flock play at The Saugatuck Pop Festival, Saugatuck, Michigan, USA.
The Beatles continue working on Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da at EMI's Abbey Road Studios, London, England, UK, Europe.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience fly from the USA to the UK, and Jimi moves into 23 Brook Street with Kathy Etchingham.
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Iron Butterfly, Indian Head Band and The Collectors play the first of four nights at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA.
Canned Heat play the first of two nights at Kaleidoscope, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Tim Buckley and the Illinois Speed Press play the second of five nights at the Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Foundations play a live gig in Singapore, Asia.
Country Joe And The Fish play the second of two nights at The Kinetic Playground [aka The Electric Theater], 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Gary Puckett And The Union Gap and Lou Rawls play at the Summer Music Festival, JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Another in the series of Sound-Out Mini-festivals begins in Woodstock, New York State. Running over the Labor Day weekend, this one features Tim Hardin, Major Wiley, The Blues Magoos, Chrysalis and Happy And Artie Traum.
Esther And Abi Ofarim play at The City Hall, Sheffield, England, UK, Europe.
The Byrds arrive in London, England, UK, Europe, for a brief promotional visit.
A Rolls Royce Phantom V donated by Elvis Presley is auctioned in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, to raise funds for SHARE, a charity benefitting retarded children. It raises $35,000.
Spirit, Pyewacket and Stillborn Time play the first of two nights at The Sound Factory, Sacramento, California, USA, with lights by Jerry Abrams Head Lights.
Wayne Newton and Tony Martin open at The Flamingo, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Andy Williams, The Osmond Brothers (aka The Osmonds) and Peter Nero play the second of two nights at the HIC Arena, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Pink Floyd arrive in New York City, USA, expecting to begin a Tour of North America, but problems with visas and work permits oblige the band to travel to Montreal, Canada, and wait there while the documentation is procured.
The rock musical Hair (which includes a scene with a fully nude cast) is presented during a run of 1,997 performances at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe. The cast includes Marsha Hunt, Paul Nicholas, Sonja Kristina and Jimmy Winston.