On this day in 1931 George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind's musical political satire "Of Thee I Sing" opened at the Music Box Theatre, NYC; ran for 441 performances, and became first musical to win Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The immortal Ella Fitzgerald sings the titular song.

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