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<h2><span class="btn-primary">The Philadelphia Story</span></h2>
<h3><span class="btn-secondary">Posted on March 13, 2023</span></h3>
<h5>On this day in 1939, <em>The Philadelphia Story</em> starring Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord, began its pre-Broadway tryout at the Colonial.<br /><br />The new comedy by Philip Barry completed a two-week run before immediately opening on Broadway. The play was a great success and was Hepburn's first great triumph after a number of Hollywood failures. Hepburn starred as Tracy Lord once again in the film adaptation of the play that was released in 1940, alongside Cary Grant and James Stewart.<br /><br />Hepburn returned to the Colonial in 1975 for the tryout of <em>A Matter of Gravity</em> by Enid Bagnold.</h5>